Plot Summary:The plastic artist-director César Aréchiga recreates the living room and studio of his house inside the maximum security prison of Puente Grande Jalisco, Mexico. Fifteen interns, by learning the techniques of paper production, clay modeling, sculpture and painting, reveal an aspect of their nature through this creative interaction, sharing their personal experiences and how they fell into the world of drug trafficking.
Taking flight from its central creative process, 45 Days in Harvar expands into something much more nuanced: an examination of the prison system through first-person testimony and collective reflections. As Aréchiga’s debut documentary, it stands out as a work of empathetic humanism, and emblematizes the principle that art is never created in a vacuum.