Thursday, August 05, 2010

Stranded in the Strait

One of the saddest videos I've seen in a long time about a group of Sikh youth stuck on the north tip of Africa desperately trying to make it to a new life in Europe. From a documentary entitled Stranded in the Strait by Alberto G. Ortiz:

In the densely forested hills above Ceuta, a Spanish enclave on the Moroccan coast, 57 young Indian immigrants await their fate in a shanty community they’ve built to avoid deportation. With lush visual style, the film accompanies them in their daily trials as they scramble to survive, waiting to cross the last 14 km that separate them from Europe. Will they make it there?


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