The Fishing Boats of Kayar

Álvaro Hernández Blanco

Documentary,

29'

2025

Tickets

29/03

Sat.

12:00

Cinemes Girona, BCN

Synopsis

After 15 years in Spain as a migrant, Thimbo visits his Senegalese fishing village, where he is overwhelmed by mixed feelings of nostalgia and uprooting, yearning and resentment. He also grapples with the dangerous influence he exerts on the local youth.

Migration and RefugePoverty and Dignified Life

Festivals

– Best Documentary Short Film at the Madrid Film Festival 2024, Spain
– Audience Award at the Festival Cine Solidario Guadalajara 2024, Spain
– Best Short Film at the Spanish Film Festival Marseille- Cinehorizontes 2024, France

Festivals

Migration and RefugePoverty and Dignified Life

Credits

Original title

Los cayucos de Kayar

Genre

Documentary

Director

Álvaro Hernández Blanco

Country

USA, Spain

Year

2024

Runtime

29'

Production

Orbe Cinema, De La Reina, AMMA Productions

Idioma

Spanish

Subtitles

Spanish

Álvaro Hernández Blanco

Filmography

– Still Here (2022)

Álvaro Hernández Blanco is a director and screenwriter from Madrid with international experience in both digital content and documentary filmmaking. In Los Angeles, he began his journey in documentaries as an editor. In 2022, he directed “Still Here,” a short documentary film about the last speakers of the indigenous language ku’ahl in Mexico. In 2023, he released his first book, “Migrantes,” about the US-Mexico border. In 2024, he produced “The Fishing Boats of Kayar,” a documentary about the migratory phenomenon in a small fishing village in Senegal.

Filmography

– Still Here (2022)

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