Voices of the Sea

In Cajio Beach, Cuba, there is the reality - hunger, no drinking water, little hope for tomorrow - and there is the dream. The American Dream. Mariela looks 90 miles north, to the Florida shore, imagining a brighter future, but her husband, Pita, a struggling fisherman, feels anchored to their home. Director Kim Hopkins offers a portrait of a family caught in a Cuba often hidden from view, a Cuba hampered by the broken promises of revolution. Many in Caijo Beach hold on to the desperate hopes that America, no matter the brutal realities, is the solution. Pita and Mariela's story, told with empathy and without judgment, reveals how nations so often fail their citizens. And the sea, filled with danger and promise, relentlessly rolls upon the shore. (True/False Film Festival)