Cultural events

Autor/es: Gerardo Olivares

14 Kilometers

film screening

Fourteen kilometres is not only the distance separating Africa from Europe, it is also the boundary separating the dreams of millions of Africans who see the West as their only escape route from hunger and misery. Along with three young Africans – Violeta, Buba and Mukela- we make a long, dangerous journey through the Sahara to find out about things the media never show us. We have seen the television pictures of boats arriving on the Canary Island coast so often that we have grown hardened to a drama that is only the tip of the iceberg. These pictures of exhausted faces are ample proof of the gruelling journey that begins thousands of kilometres away and may last for years.