29 minutes that'll wreck your whole understanding of 'progress.'
Afro-Antillean workers hired for the construction of the Panama Canal are brought from their homes to work in conditions that were not those promised. They, the descendants of African slaves and domesticated from England, manage to raise their voices against American injustices.
Direction
Holder's patient, dignified framing of exhausted faces.
Writing
Testimony that builds like a crescendo you can't stop.
Production
Zero budget, maximum urgency—Caribbean filmmaking at its rawest.
Director
Reinaldo Holder
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