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Cuban Rafters documentary
- Original title
- Balseros
- Year
- 2002
- Running time
- 120 min.
- Country
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- Genre
- Documentary. Drama | Immigration
- Synopsis
- The story of Cuban refugees who risked their lives in homemade rafts to reach the United States, and what life is like for those who succeed.
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- Awards
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2003: Nominated for Oscar: Best Documentary2002: Nominated for Goya: Best Documentary2002: Forqué Awards: Best Documentary or Animated Film2003: Forqué Awards: Best Documentary or Animated Film.
- Critics' reviews
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"A heart-rending account of people trying to dodge the hurdles that politics puts in front of them. By the end of this humanist epic, some are ennobled by their struggle. Most are exhausted."
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"The results, for the most part, aren't pretty. The newly expanded Balseros, which adds an hour of footage to the previous film, is an even more compelling, if grimmer, work than the original."
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"What's fresh for these people is, frankly, old news for anyone who has seen even one or two documentaries on similar subject matter."
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"Becalmed or bobbing along, they remain balseros -- but then, as this engrossing documentary suggests, so are we all."
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"Achieves a rare depth and intimacy in its portrait of dreams fulfilled and shattered."
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