Balseros
NEW DOCS
In 1994, thousands of Cubans attempted to float to Miami on flimsy homemade boats. In Balseros, seven of them are accompanied by camera crews who follow their particular stories for several years. Find out what happens after immigrants disappear into the American Dream. This film features intimate access to the lives of its subjects, so much so that the documentarians become part of the story in a möbius-strip segment: the viewer watches the families of the rafters, lacking other ways to find out what happened after the boats left Havana, view footage of their loves ones in captivity at Guantanamo naval base. NK
Directors
Carles Bosch, Josep Maria Domènech
Producers
Loris Omedes, Televisió de Catalunya, Bausan Films
Release Year
2002
Festival Year
2004
Country
Spain
Run Time
120 minutes