Film

Destierros

2017 · 1h 25m · Documentary

We watch from behind as a person with a sling bag walks through the night, before melting among her peers in a refuge, in Mexico, welcoming those women and men who are fleeing a political situation, an economic impasse enriching organised crime. It is of little matter where these migrants come from, as it is, above all, a matter of staying alive and avoiding the gangs that keep an eye on the long path to exile. However, everyone knows the goal: to get into the north of the continent, the United States or Canada, at all costs, aboard goods trains, which they hang onto dangerously. In complete immersion, Hubert Caron-Guay filmed this last chance voyage in which waiting contends with anguish, even though solidarity is tangible at times, like in the sequence where a man enjoins his companions in misfortune to “run at the same speed as the train”, otherwise, death is certain.

• Hubert Caron-GuayDirector · Producer
• Étienne RoussyDirector of Photography
• Ariane Pétel-DespotsEditor

Release date

April 26, 2017

Status

Released

Original language

Spanish

Runtime

1h 25m

Rated

PG

Genres

Documentary