Gael Garcia Bernal heads to Sundance to share tragic border story with ‘Dayani Cristal’

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This undated publicity photo released by the Sundance Institute shows a scene from the film, "Who is Dayani Cristal," included in the World Cinema Documentary Competition at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. (AP Photo/Sundance Institute, Marc Silver)

PARK CITY, Utah – Gael Garcia Bernal has journeyed north to the Sundance Film Festival in Utah to share the tragic story of another traveller.

The Mexican actor is a producer on the immigration documentary “Who Is Dayani Cristal?” in which Bernal also appears on-screen to dramatize the path that the film’s subject took to the U.S.

Bernal and director Marc Silver sought to unravel the mystery of a body found rotting in the Arizona desert in August 2010. The man bore the tattoo “Dayani Cristal” across its chest.

The film reveals the circumstances that led the man on a 2,000-mile trek that ended in the desert. And it provides a tearful answer for its title when it reveals the identity of Dayani Cristal.

The film premiered as part of Sundance’s day-one lineup Thursday.

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