Option Zero (2021)
• April 29th, 2021 • 1h 20min
Documentary
Overview
There are countless stories of Cubans reaching their dream destination of Florida as boat refugees. A lesser known route to the United States starts with a flight in a ramshackle plane to Guyana. Then the refugees travel to Colombia where they cross the jungle to arrive in Central America, from where they hope to reach the promised land of America—a hard and dangerous journey. Cuban filmmaker Marcel Beltrán visits them in a refugee camp in Panama, where one of the residents gives him an idea. Many people here have filmed their journey, she says, and these videos tell their real story. These jerky, shocking videos are interspersed with Beltrán’s footage of the camp, tangibly illustrating the difference between the hectic pace of the journey and the insecure life at the reception center.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Zombies: When the Dead Walk
Released on: 2008-04-01
Documentary
Zombies are part of pop culture, but what are they? Where do they come from? To find real zombies we...
Gift of the Game
Released on: 2002-08-01
Documentary
Acclaimed Florida novelist Randy Wayne White travels to Cuba with former pitchers Bill "Spaceman" Le...
Caos de tránsito
Released on: 2018-10-09
Documentary
Through testimonies and images, the crude reality of human rights in Argentina in democracy is portr...
Jewelry Of India
Released on:
Documentary, History
Mother India is home to many castes, tribes and religions and one common factor that brings this div...
Chauka, Please Tell Us The Time
Released on: 2017-06-16
Documentary
An urgent and powerful documentary, shot in a detention centre where asylum seekers trying to reach ...
Torn
Released on: 2011-05-13
Documentary
A Catholic priest discovers that he was born to Jewish parents
Crazy Money
Released on: 2021-09-03
Documentary
What is possible when we have guaranteed money to meet our basic needs? No requirements. No stipulat...
Michael Lost and Found
Released on: 2017-05-27
Documentary
When a feature film is made about them seven years after their break-up, Benjie Nycum visits his ex-...
The Prostitutes of Lyon Speak
Released on: 1975-01-01
Documentary
Documentary about the Lyon sex workers who occupied the church of St. Nizier on June 3, 1975.
Seeing Through the Darkness
Released on: 2025-05-30
Documentary, War
The film follows five people who lost their sight in armed conflicts, gathering fragments of their p...
The Satanic Verses Affair
Released on: 2009-03-07
Documentary
Twenty years ago, novelist Salman Rushdie was a wanted man with a million pound bounty on his head. ...
Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping
Released on: 2002-08-01
Documentary
Reverend Billy, a.k.a. Bill Talen, is an actor/performance artist and a leading figure within the an...
Death Metal Murders
Released on: 2005-11-24
Documentary, Music
Murder, rape, satanism and necrophilia is the staple diet of millions of teenagers who listen to the...
Countdown to Eternity
Released on: 1999-01-01
Documentary
Bible expert Bill Gallatin explores biblical prophecies from the Book of Revelation that have transp...
Motherland Memories
Released on: 2022-11-19
Documentary
Ompung Putra Boru, a sixties indigenous Batak woman from Humbang Hasundutan, North Sumatra, retraces...