Idrissa transcends the limits of documentary to become a tool for collective reparation and denunciation. The film reconstructs the life and death of Idrissa Diallo, a 21-year-old young man from Guinea Conakry who died under strange circumstances at the Immigration Detention Center (CIE) in Barcelona in 2012. His identity remained hidden for years, turning him into a nameless dead person within an opaque and racist system.
Through exhaustive investigation and community counter-archival work, the documentary traces Idrissa's biography and accompanies efforts to repatriate his body to his native village. This gesture, apparently intimate and human, becomes a political act of symbolic and real reparation, challenging institutional oblivion and the systematic dehumanization strategy toward migrants.
IDRISSA is structured as a choral chronicle where the voice of anti-racist activism—especially that of the African community in Barcelona—occupies a central place. The project breaks with the classical representation of the victim and foregrounds the political subjects who resist, revealing the dynamics of postcolonial violence embedded in European migration policies.
The documentary also unfolds as a transmedia project with multiple complementary actions: awareness campaigns, presentations in educational centers, collaborations with social organizations, and the creation of a virtual memory space. All of this forms part of a political apparatus that understands audiovisual media as a tool for advocacy and transformation.
With IDRISSA, Metromuster proposes a model of engaged cinema that not only denounces but acts. A cinema that, from memory, sets in motion processes of justice and collective organization to combat impunity and vindicate the dignity of the voiceless.
