La Caminata
Fed up with the mass migration of their community, the small Mexican town of Alberto creates a one-of-a-kind tourist attraction they call La Caminata, a simulated nighttime border crossing, complete with fake border patrol chasing balaclava-clad coyotes. The experience is a cross between adventure tourism and a way for participants, largely middle class Mexican tourists, to experience firsthand the hardships of the border crossing. La Caminata details the story of this unlikely attempt to save a small community, offering a powerful look at the effect of migration in home communities, and opening a view to the immigration debate on the other side.
Recommendations
view all
Carmen
The Mexican
Radical
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
The Dawn Wall
His Kind of Woman
No One Gets Out Alive
¡Three Amigos!
Night Crossing
Frontera
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Touch of Evil
Güeros
The Ruins
The Mark of Zorro
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
Georgetown
Cry Macho
The American