Banned by the government for many years, El Grito is an urgent, on-the-ground account of the growing student movement that gripped Mexico City in the days leading up to the 1968 Summer Olympics. Student-led protests against the government’s lavish spending on the Olympics and repression of the media, unions, and public dissent, began to swell during the summer months of 1968. The student movement came to an abrupt and violent end on October 2 when government troops fired upon protesters, killing up to 400 people and wounding many more, just ten days before the opening of the Olympics. The student movement and the “Tlatelolco massacre” were documented by university students led by Leobardo Lopez Arretche, a film student who was deeply involved in the student movement. Their film is a permanent record of an atrocity the government would not acknowledge for many years.
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