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90 Miles (NY Premiere)
Juan Carlos Zaldivar - US - 2001 - 79m - video - documentary
In English and Spanish with English subtitles
In 1980, filmmaker Juan Carlos Zaldivar was a thirteen-year-old communist demonstrating against thousands of people who were deserting Cuba in the Muriel boat lift. Ironically, just one week later, Juan Carlos' father demanded that he and his older sister decide whether their family should join the overcrowded boat lifts and immigrate to the United States, to rejoin their relatives in Miami, leaving behind, possibly forever, their homeland Cuba. In 1998, Juan Carlos is the only one of his family who is willing to visit Cuba. Shot over a period of five years, 90 MILES looks at issues of trust, pride and responsibility and how the complexity of these issues shape the attitudes of Cubans towards the world and the people that they love. This film puts a face to a politically charged topic and serves as a testament to the Cuban and Cuban-American experience.
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