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Film · 2015

Las lagrimas de África

Original titleLas lágrimas de África

Directed by Amparo Climent

  • 1 h 10 min
  • Documentary · Drama
  • Spain
  • 4.0 Users1 vote

Synopsis

Amparo Ciiment the versatile artist, known for her work as an actress in film and television, delves into the bowels of the problem of immigration and gives voice to the Saharan refugees from a perspective that avoids sensationalism. Climent makes a visit to Mount Gurugú, a known meeting point for immigrants trying to cross the border with Melilla, and there are hundreds of people, "escaping " from their country of origin, they are preparing to cross the Mediterranean. During his visit, the director received some drawings and letters from people who tried to understand, whose desires and circumstances conceal a complexity that prevents external judgments. In those letters, they illustrated their desire to find a home and asked for help "to Europe and the world."

The essentials

Runtime
70 min1 hour and 10 minutes
How long is Las lagrimas de África?
1 hour and 10 minutes (70 minutes).
Who directed Las lagrimas de África?
Amparo Climent.
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Director
Amparo Climent
Writers
Amparo Climent
Producers
Amparo Climent

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Reviews

4.0 1 vote

Trivia

  • Self-production

    All the research work, travel, filming, creating facebook, twitter... only has personal effort and investment savings own project manager. Behind there is no group or organization to fund the work.

  • Locations

    Mount Gurugú and Bolingo in Morocco are populated by camps where they live hundreds of clandestine African and African, as they call themselves, supporting an untenable situation in physical and emotional subhuman conditions.

  • Rewards

    Copies of the documentary, editing and DVD authoring, printing photographs, cards and drawings among those who participated in the campaign were distributed crowdfunding.

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