BLOCK 2: MIGRATIONS

16th November

13:25, 29 min

The Fishing Boats of Kayar

Los Cayucos de Kayar

agency/ migration / in-between

production: Álvaro Hernández Blanco

year and country: 2024 | United States, Spain

original language: Spanish

After 15 years in Spain, Thimbo returns to his Senegalese fishing village, where he is overwhelmed by sensations of nostalgia and uprooting, yearning and resentment. He also grapples with the influence he exerts on the local youth, who see him as a role model and seek to emulate him through a perilous journey to Europe by boat.


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.