Synopsis
The Golden Dream (La jaula de oro, 2013) is a migration drama by Diego Quemada-Díez you can watch online on iFILM. Three teenagers leave the slums of Guatemala City for the United States: Juan, Sara and Samuel. Along the way they pick up Chauk, a Tzotzil boy with no papers who speaks no Spanish, only his own language.
What follows is the migrant route in raw form — freight-train roofs packed with travelers, shakedowns, raids, the long grind toward a border that may hand them nothing. The dream of California cracks well before they reach it. Quemada-Díez, a former cinematographer, cast non-actors and films without melodrama, which is exactly why it lands. At Cannes 2013 the film picked up the Un Certain Regard ensemble prize. Stream The Golden Dream (2013) online on iFILM.
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