10 · 22 · 17 Eugenio Polgovsky was honored at the 15th FICM Share with twitter Share with facebook Share with mail Copy to clipboard Gustavo R. Gallardo "An exceptional and generous human being," is how the director of the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM), Daniela Michel, described Eugenio Polgovsky, whose documentary Trópico de Cáncer (2004) was screened as a posthumous tribute in the fifteenth edition of the festival. In the words of his sister, Mara Polgovsky, present at the homage, the director's documentary work critically explored the life and pain of children, but also "of old age, trees, with a generous look." Eugenio Polgovsky. Thanks to documentaries like Trópico de Cáncer, Eugenio Polgovsky was recognized as a filmmaker capable of exposing the innards of a society, the flesh and the pain of the unprotected, to an audience accustomed to more commercial languages.
