In collaboration with Telegraph Hill Centre, Deptford Cinema presents THE GOLDEN DREAM (La Jaula de Oro) as part of our #BreakingBorder season.

Three young Guatemalans and a native Mayan traverse Mexico towards the border with the USA. On foot, or on train carriage roofs along with dozens of other migrants hoping to reach the United States. La Jaula de Oro (The Golden Dream) is the narrative film debut of documentary maker Diego Quemada-Díez, and follows their bittersweet and sometime tragic progress.  Whilst a fictionalised tale of endurance and hope under duress, the film is based on real life stories and experience.

 Whilst at the point of being unimaginably difficult and potentially life threatening now, migration from Central America via Mexico to the USA has always been intensely fraught and challenging as the 2013 film La Jaula de Oro (The Golden Dream) chronicles deftly, poetically and with humanity.  A highly evocative account of three young Guatemalans and a native Mayan as they journey through stunning central American landscapes, the railway a metaphor for both the excitement of a voyage into an unknown future, but also the iron certainty of disillusion and the inevitability of dreams derailed.  This award winning film by Diego Quemada-Diez shows the human side to the age old impulse to migrate far removed from the brutal and barbaric rhetoric against migration now so prevalent in the present day USA. ( In Spanish with English subtitles).

Director: Diego Quemada-Díez

Cast: Brandon López, Rodolfo Domínguez, Carlos Chajon, Karen Noemí Martínez

Running time: 102 min

BBFC: 12

Pay as you can tickets are available using the ticket button.. Some tickets may be available at the door. Doors open at 6.00pm. Film at 7.00pm.