Produced by J.A. Bayona, Netflix Documentary Series ‘Beyond Society’ Examines What Happens After the Survivors of the 1972 Andes Plane Crash Return to Uruguay — SkimNews
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- Beyond Society (Más Allá de la Sociedad), a three-part Netflix documentary from J.A. Bayona and Carlos Torres, world-premiered at the San Sebastián International Film Festival on September 23.
- The series picks up where Bayona's 2023 film Society of the Snow — the most-watched film on streaming across all of Europe — leaves off, examining the 50-plus years following the 1972 Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crash that killed 29 of 45 onboard.
- Filmed in Carrasco, Uruguay, the docuseries interviews survivors, relatives of the deceased, and journalists, exploring how fiction and cinema gradually bridged the rift between families of the living and the dead.
- Carlos Torres said the series is about "how cinema can end up changing memory and how fiction can impact reality," while Bayona framed it as exploring "another kind of survival" — returning home and living with grief decades later.
- The series is directed by Torres and produced by Bayona alongside Belén Atienza and Sandra Hermida, and will debut on Netflix on December 18.
Why it matters: For Netflix, attaching a three-part docuseries to its most-watched European streaming film ever locks in a built-in audience for the December 18 launch, while delivering a 54-year emotional arc that turns a survival cannibalism story into a meditation on grief and reconciliation.
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