Death of a Bureaucrat

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (Memories of Underdevelopment, Strawberries and Chocolate) follows a young man’s increasingly surreal battle with bureaucracy, after his recently deceased uncle is buried with his labour card. Without it, the man’s widow is unable to collect her benefits. What begins as a simple request to exhume the body spirals into a nightmarish, Kafka-esque loop of administrative hell. This 60th anniversary screening of Alea’s powerful film marks the BFI’s first collaboration with the London Latino Film Festival.