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Balseros
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1 Nomination
Year 2003
Director Carles Bosch, Josep Maria Domènech
Writer Carles Bosch, David Trueba
Starring Guillermo Armas, Maria Celeste Arraras, Rafael Cano
76th Academy Awards

Balseros is a 2003 Spanish documentary co-directed by Carles Bosch and Josep Maria Domènech about Cubans leaving during the Período Especial. The documentary consists largely of interviews with the rafters ("Balseros"), over the course of seven years.

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In the summer of 1994, a crew of television reporters filmed and interviewed seven Cubans with their relatives a few days before their risky adventure. Setting out to sea in home-made rafts they attempt to flee from the economic difficulties that are devastating their country to reach the coast of the Unites States... The crew then catches-up with survivors rescued at high sea, who are later sent to Guantánamo - a North American Base and Refugee Camp. Seven years later we discover the outcome of their new lives in the United States. This is a true story about some of the authentic survivors of our times. The epic adventure of castaways caught between two worlds.

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