MARINE
Director Haliam Pérez
Countries Spain
Duration 67 min
Synopsis
13 years after my way out of Cuba I come back where I was grown. Here, my father’s family waits for me. Those who remain. During my years of abscence most of them have emigrated. My grandmother Marina is 85. She was born a month before Fidel Castro, her admired leader. There are living three of her sons and two grandsons today. My uncle Jacinto was a member of the army and he hasn’t seen her daughter Katia for 14 years, who emigrated to the USA. My uncle Arturo is an alcoholic man. My relatives say that he was never the same when he came back from his trips to the eastern Germany during the 80’s. My aunt Odalys is my granmother’s support and her sons give illusion and happiness to that home. Marina accepts with resignation the scattering of her sons. She is the heart of a humble family. A family used to big sacrifices who survived to poverty, wars, lots of adverse circumstances. Nevertheless, Marina still resists, solving the conflicts with patience and optimism, in the country where they where chosen to be the main characters of its own uthopy. And I wonder: How much are we ready to sacrifice to get our dreams? Where have all those heroes gone when they have lost their faith?
13 years after my way out of Cuba I come back where I was grown. Here, my father’s family waits for me. Those who remain. During my years of abscence most of them have emigrated. My grandmother Marina is 85. She was born a month before Fidel Castro, her admired leader. There are living three of her sons and two grandsons today. My uncle Jacinto was a member of the army and he hasn’t seen her daughter Katia for 14 years, who emigrated to the USA. My uncle Arturo is an alcoholic man. My relatives say that he was never the same when he came back from his trips to the eastern Germany during the 80’s. My aunt Odalys is my granmother’s support and her sons give illusion and happiness to that home. Marina accepts with resignation the scattering of her sons. She is the heart of a humble family. A family used to big sacrifices who survived to poverty, wars, lots of adverse circumstances. Nevertheless, Marina still resists, solving the conflicts with patience and optimism, in the country where they where chosen to be the main characters of its own uthopy. And I wonder: How much are we ready to sacrifice to get our dreams? Where have all those heroes gone when they have lost their faith?