Documentary | 54' | 1993 | color | 4/3 | Digi Beta, Blu-ray
Original version: Spanish
Subtitles: English, French

SYNOPSIS

In the 1950s and 1960s, the Swiss economy boomed like never before. In order to meet the demand for workers, it went looking for almost a million foreign workers in southern Europe, attracting Italians, Portuguese and Spanish in particular. This film tells the story of the emigration of a family whose story is special because it is so similar to that of thousands of other Spanish families that came to Switzerland in the hope of building new lives for themselves.

AWARDS AND FESTIVALS

NORTH-SOUTH MEDIA FESTIVAL Geneva 1994
Award for Best Film on social justice by the International Labor Organization

FIDMARSEILLE Marseille, 14-18 june 1994

VISIONS DU REEL Nyon, 18-24 april 2005
Special Event 20 years of Climage

DOCUMENTA MADRID Madrid, 30 april-11 may 2014
Restrospective Fernand Melgar