asalto al sueño | mobile cinema

More than 100 public screenings of asalto al suenño with mobile cinema in in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico and the United States. Cinema going to the people, a free cultural and political event. Direct meeting between the filmmaker, crew and the audience. Cordiality in the comunities, opportunity to see and believe, to know, to learn... Questions, opinions, mutual learning, consciousness and identities. Sometimes anger, sadness, desperation...also hope, solidarity, notions to change. Cultural, political, economical, human, woman... migrant rights. Censorship in Chiapas and Oaxaca by local political authorities. Courageous (Arriaga, Ixtepeque) and poor spirited priests (Tecun Uman). Reunion with the film protagonists Roberto in Tecun Uman and Eduardo (one of the Nicaraguan migrants at the end of the film) in San Francisco. Direct Cinema, direct screening, 20.000 people, hundreds of DVD, hundreds of contacts. A migrating film.

The Migrant Cinema Crew: Kathrin Zeiske (Migrant hostal for injured migrants in Tapachula/ Mexico www.alberguebuenpastor.org.mx), Alfonso Porres, Henry Sipaque (Luciernaga/ Guatemala), Marguery (Honduras), Uli and is daugter Ximena (ISKA/ Germany/Guatemala) and occasionally Xavi (Cataluña) Sponsored by the Heinrich Böll Foundation (offices in Berlin, Mexico, Salvador, Washington www.boell-latinoamerica.org and www.boell.org). Article and fotos Migrant Cinema Tour (german) at: www.umbruch-bildarchiv.de.

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