Destierros
Border mechanisms that act on migrants are many. Moving from shelter to shelter and hopping on trains, migrants head up north across Mexico to reach the United States and Canada. During the U.S election, migrants are more than aware that it could be their last chance to cross the border. Following their trajectory, \_Destierros\_ draws a path of reclusion. A path where time remains the longest road between two places.
| Director | Hubert Caron-Guay |
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Destierros expresses a social and cinematographic engagement not unlike the one animating works by the Épopée collective, an artistic and human project with exceptional relevance, of which the filmmaker was a part. This début work by Hubert Caron-Guay reveals the complexity and danger of exile in a veritable immersion into the perilous migratory journey of people fleeing diverse threats and social inequality in their home countries. With its finely crafted aesthetic, this documentary succeeds in creating memorable images. It also lets us hear from multiple voices, each expressing the collective scope of an unjust and plural tragedy. The film lays bare the violence of our world’s borders where, deplorably, consumer products circulate more freely than many human beings and where walls, both invented and real, are proudly erected as obstacles to solidarity.
Hubert Sabino-Brunette
Programmer and teacher
- Année 2017
- Pays Québec
- Durée 92
- Producteur Les Films de l'Autre
- Langue Espagnol, Anglais
- Sous-titres Français, Anglais
Destierros expresses a social and cinematographic engagement not unlike the one animating works by the Épopée collective, an artistic and human project with exceptional relevance, of which the filmmaker was a part. This début work by Hubert Caron-Guay reveals the complexity and danger of exile in a veritable immersion into the perilous migratory journey of people fleeing diverse threats and social inequality in their home countries. With its finely crafted aesthetic, this documentary succeeds in creating memorable images. It also lets us hear from multiple voices, each expressing the collective scope of an unjust and plural tragedy. The film lays bare the violence of our world’s borders where, deplorably, consumer products circulate more freely than many human beings and where walls, both invented and real, are proudly erected as obstacles to solidarity.
Hubert Sabino-Brunette
Programmer and teacher
- Année 2017
- Pays Québec
- Durée 92
- Producteur Les Films de l'Autre
- Langue Espagnol, Anglais
- Sous-titres Français, Anglais
