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As Mediterranean Claims More Migrant Lives, Oscar-Shortlisted ‘Until He’s Back’ Trains Lens On Distraught Families Of The Missing


The migrant crisis is examined in a new way in the Oscar-shortlisted documentary 'Until He's Back,' directed by Jacqueline Baylon.

En route, disaster strikes, as it does for so many packed onto crowded and unsafe vessels bobbing on the waves, and Yahya joins the long list of the missing and presumed dead. In Málaga, she followed another person who exudes deep humanity, mortician Martín Zamora, who for more than two decades has been helping to recover bodies that wash ashore and give those left unidentified a proper burial. In Yahya’s case, after DNA tests proved his identity and the legal process was completed to permit repatriation, Zamora prepared the body for return to Morocco, carefully following Islamic practice.

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