I saw this at International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2019.
I stumbled onto this stone cold classic by accident, glad i did.
It is the migration story / bromance of two Haitians who separately migrated to Brazil and then to Tijuana, trying to get into USA
It is a heavy film but also meditative and occasionally sad. it took me places and i like that feeling.
When one of the two got into the us only to be imprisoned in the ICE system before being deported back to Haiti, i had to think of some of the stories recounted in 'Black Britain', a book about the English slave trade. somehow some people were forcibly migrated from the Horn of Africa to the american confederacy as slaves, became freemen, emigrated to England and then returned to Africa several decades later.
It would be hard not to be defined by this sort of life event, but both james and Robens seem to be keeping on in the pursuit of their dreams.
This line teared me up at the end: i smile because i know what it is to be destroyed
I stumbled onto this stone cold classic by accident, glad i did.
It is the migration story / bromance of two Haitians who separately migrated to Brazil and then to Tijuana, trying to get into USA
It is a heavy film but also meditative and occasionally sad. it took me places and i like that feeling.
When one of the two got into the us only to be imprisoned in the ICE system before being deported back to Haiti, i had to think of some of the stories recounted in 'Black Britain', a book about the English slave trade. somehow some people were forcibly migrated from the Horn of Africa to the american confederacy as slaves, became freemen, emigrated to England and then returned to Africa several decades later.
It would be hard not to be defined by this sort of life event, but both james and Robens seem to be keeping on in the pursuit of their dreams.
This line teared me up at the end: i smile because i know what it is to be destroyed
