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Cuban Rafters (2002)

Cuban Rafters

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2h

Documentary

September 9th, 2004

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Balseros is a 2002 Spanish documentary co-directed by Carlos Bosch and Josep Maria Domènech about Cubans leaving during the Período Especial.

As a consequence of the widespread poverty that came with the end of economic support from the former USSR, 37,191 Cubans left Cuba in 1994, unimpeded by the Cuban government, using anything they could find or build to get to Florida in the USA. Most left with improvised rafts, which were often not seaworthy, and some even hijacked a ferry.

The documentary consists largely of interviews with the rafters, over the course of seven years the lives of seven of those refugees, from the building of their rafts to their attempts at building new lives in America, giving insight into daily life in Cuba and the USA in those days.

The documentary is 2 hours long. The first half is filmed in Cuba, with in the end some scenes of the rafters' months long detention in Guantanamo Bay, where lotteries were used to decide who would be allowed to go to the US. All the while, their families didn't know their whereabouts. The last hour is about the lives of those who managed to get to the USA. These people were filmed again five years later, showing their difficulties adapting to a new type of society and the resulting homesickness, a "human adventure of people who are shipwrecked between two worlds".

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Cast

Guillermo Armas
Self
Maria Celeste Arraras
Self
Rafael Cano
Self
Fidel Castro
Self
Bill Clinton
Self
Oscar Del Valle
Self
Mericys Gonzalez
Self
Misclaida Gonzalez
Self
Miriam Hernández
Self
Juan Carlos Subiza
Self
Full cast & crew

Directors

Carles Bosch
(as Carlos Bosch)
Josep Maria Domènech
Full cast & crew

Producers

Loris Omedes
producer
(as Marcos Loris Omedes Regas)
Tom Roca
executive producer
Danielle Schleif
associate producer
Full cast & crew

Writers

Carles Bosch
(as Carlos Bosch)
David Trueba
Full cast & crew

Keywords

escape
rafting
diaspora
All Keywords

Country of Origin

Spain

Languages

English
Spanish

Release Dates

September 9th, 2004 (Argentina)
March 9th, 2003 (Argentina) (Mar del Plata Film Festival)
September 7th, 2002 (Canada) (Toronto International Film Festival)
All Release Dates

Alternative Titles

Balseros (original title)
Cuban Rafters (Canada) (English title)
Πάνω σε μια σχεδία (Greece)
All Alternative Titles

Locations

Cuba
USA

Running Times

120 min

Sound Mixes

Stereo

Aspect Ratios

1.66 : 1

Production Companies

Bausan Films
Buenavida Producciones S.L.
Televisió de Catalunya (TV3) (Spain)

Distribution Companies

Laurenfilm (Spain)
Seventh Art Releasing (United States of America) (subtitled)

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