Every year, thousands of people coming from Africa try to reach Spain in desperate and dangerous journeys across the Mediterranean. Tariq is a young Moroccan who works for a mafia that organises these illegal journeys. His job is to carry immigrants in a dinghy across the strait and not getting caught. But every trip might be the last one.
Direction
Cortés makes eleven minutes feel like drowning.
Acting
Chatiby's eyes carry the weight of impossible choices.
Cinematography
The strait becomes a character — beautiful, deadly, indifferent.
Director
Gerard Vidal Cortés
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Spain's Strait of Gibraltar crossing has killed over 20,000 migrants since 1988; this film puts a human face on statistics Western media ignores.
Cortés cast actual Moroccan immigrants in Barcelona, including Chatiby who had made the real journey years earlier.
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