Familia
Sweden 2010 | 82 Min. | DigiBeta, OmeU
“Do you love me?” Daniel asks his wife Nati, who is busy packing her suitcases. They have lived together for 34 years. Soon they will be separated by a seemingly endless ocean. Nati is leaving Peru to go to Spain to earn money for her family. Although Daniel goes to Lima every day to make a living with his mototaxi, this is not enough to send their little boy to school. FAMILIA is the third and last part of Mikael Wiström’s documentary film project devoted to the Barrientos family from Lima, Peru’s capital. Wiström met Daniel Barrientos in 1974. At the time, Daniel was working with his wife in a rubbish dump in the slums, collecting whatever could be recycled. In FAMILIA, Wiström focuses on Nati, who is struggling to get her family ahead as a chambermaid in a hotel in Spain, thousands of kilometres away from her husband, daughter and son. With intimacy and empathy, FAMILIA tells a private family story full of emotions, difficulties and struggles that is also a global story about migration.