

Pure Unknown
Who will fight for their names?
Every night nameless bodies land in Dr. Cristina Cattaneo’s autopsy room. She calls them the Pure Unknown. These Pure Unknown often belong to the fringes of society. They are homeless, sex workers, runaway teenagers. Lately, they have mostly been migrants, rejected by the Mediterranean Sea onto the shores of Italy. If all rights belong to the living, nothing is left to the dead. So what happens when the dead have lost their identity? In the face of this growing multitude, no one seems concerned about their right to dignity.No one but Cristina.
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Italy, Sweden, Switzerland
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United KingdomGB
- PremiereItalian Doc Season27 Jan 2024
AustraliaAU
- PremiereAntenna Documentary Film Festival10 Feb 2024
CanadaCA
- PremiereHot Docs Festival29 Apr 2023
CzechiaCZ
- PremiereKarlovy Vary International Film Festival1 Jul 2023
ItalyIT
- PremiereBiografilm Festival 202316 Jun 2023
South KoreaKR
- Premiere12DMZ International Documentary Film Festival16 Sept 2023
SwitzerlandCH
- PremiereVisions du Réel20 Apr 2023
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Pure Unknown was released on 20 April 2023.
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