Producer Niels Boel

'Migranterne'

Niels Boel shows his documentary 'The Migrants'. After the film, Niels Boel will discuss aspects of the film and will take questions. The discussion will be in English but it will be possible to ask questions in Spanish. The film is in Spanish with English subtitles.

About the film:

The Migrants (2009, in Spanish and a little Aymara and Quechua, with English subtitles)

Three migrants from the Bolivian rural districts have migrated to the urban environment in search of a better life. Here they experience the harsh realities of a globalised world. They live in different countries but they all long to be back in their village. Florencio is an illegal immigrant in Spain. His brother, Gregorio, works hard as a seamstress in Argentina. He will spend all his savings on paying for the annual fête in the village back home in Bolivia. Young Sonia works as a domestic help in the capital of Bolivia. She dreams of quitting the monotonous domestic work and getting an education as a village nurse.

50 min. (there is also a version of 28 min.) Procuder: Niels Boel; photo: Steen Møller Rasmussen; cut: Birger Møller Jensen; music: Eduardo Agni og Abraham Bojorquez; sound: Jeppe Jungersen and Lars Halvorsen; drawings: Antonieta Medeiros