Documentary Films in Competition 2002 / Balseros / Spain 2002
In 1994 a television news crew witnessed a risky attempt made by seven Cubans to make it to the Florida coast in improvised craft. Seven years later we discover how far our heroes have travelled on their way toward finding the American Dream.
In 1994 a television news crew filmed seven Cubans and their relatives several days before a risky adventure. They planned to sail in improvised craft to Miami in order to escape the economic troubles which have afflicted Cuba since the dissolution of the Soviet empire. Soon afterward, the camera catches up with the castaways at a refugee camp at the Guantanamo Bay US naval installation. Seven years later we meet up again with the immigrants, who have to a greater or lesser extent found the long-desired American Dream. The strongest element of this powerful, journalistic film is the precisely delineated structure of the seven mutually interlocking lines which “set out” from the shores of Cuba only to meet again – though in different locations in the States – in a final reckoning of gains and losses.
120 min / Black & white, 35 mm
Director Carlos Bosch, Josep M. Domenech
/ Screenplay Carlos Bosch, David Trueba
/ Dir. of Photography Josep M. Domenech
/ Music Lucrecia
/ Editor Ernest Blasi
/ Producer Loris Omedes
/ Production Bausan Films, ve spolupráci s / in co-production with: Televisio de Catalunya
Carlos Bosch is a TV columnist and reporter for the programme 30 Minutes. He has also produced and directed many broadcasts and documentaries focusing on military conflicts (Persian Gulf, Kosovo etc.), and has made a five-part documentary series History of the Caribbean (Historias del Caribe). On top of his news activities, he served as an activist for a humanitarian organization in Sarajevo. Josep M. Domenech (worked as Carles Bosch’s cameraman on the series History of the Caribbean. He, too, works as a TV columnist and reporter for the programme 30 Minutes.
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