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My 90 Miles: Tony and Iliana (Clip 3 of 3)

Tony and Iliana talk about what is lost when one moves from Cuba to America.

My 90 Miles: Yolanda and Marita (Clip 2 of 3)

Yolanda and her daughter Marita talk about what being Cuban means to them.

My 90 Miles: Domingo (Clip 1 of 3)

Domingo Sevallos from Key West, Florida, came to the U.S. in 1961, and talks about missing Cuba despite barely knowing the land.

  • Updated on August 31, 2009

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Juan Carlos Zaldívar

Juan Carlos Zaldívar

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Critical Acclaim

By avoiding the contentious politics that usually overwhelms most films on the subject, 90 Miles succeeds as a touching meditation on family, forgiveness and reconciliation.”

— Kevin McDonough,
United Features
July 29, 2003

“. . . a point of view and careful treatment . . . offer a very specific view of a country that has been so mythologized . . . and the controversial experience of the Cuban exile. . . . In every moment, Zaldívar attempts to understand the reasoning of those who left the country as well as . . . those who stayed behind.”

— Juan Fernando Merino,
El Diario/La Prensa (New York)
July 29, 2003

“One of the most interesting aspects of the documentary . . . is the identity crisis that Zaldívar’s father undergoes on both sides of the Florida Straits. . . . As Juan Carlos and his father negotiate their perceptions of the past and carve out their relationship in the present, we are reminded that choosing exile is not simply a finite act of traveling 90 miles to freedom.”

— Mia Leonin,
Miami New Times
July 24, 2003

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