Mexican film review:
“7 Soles” (“Seven Suns”)
Directed by Mexican writer and journalist, Pedro Ultreras, “7 Soles” is a harrowing tale of crossing the Mexican-U.S. border through the Sonoran Desert. This film, based upon cases that Ultreras investigated and wrote about, humanizes the illegal immigrants who, with the help of coyotes, try to reach family members on the other side. I found it to be an extremely-difficult film to watch, as I knew what was going to happen. In a the video after the jump, Ultreras explains (in Spanish) that he was moved to make this film when he saw that an illegal immigrant had written on a piece of cardboard, “My name is… I am from… The coyotes mistreated us. They cheated us. They abandoned us. They left us here to die.”
