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