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Unbeknownst to him, a change was in the horizon for
Zaldivar and his family. One of his uncles who had fled to the U.S. in the 1960s offered to arrange the family's boatlift to Florida — on the condition that all or none of the family go. The family was reluctant to interrupt the lives of their
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himself, headed with the rest of his family for a new life in Miami. Now a U.S.-based filmmaker, ZaldĂvar recounts the strange twist of fate that took him across one of the world's most treacherous stretches of water in 90 Miles.
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children — ZaldĂvar and his two sisters — if the siblings were not willing. So the decision fell, for all practical purposes, on the young ones.
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became a filmmaker and came out as a gender activist. Similarly, his two sisters made happy lives, marrying and having children.
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Miles was filmed over eight years, as the filmmaker returned to Cuba for the first time in 1998 to visit his hometown of
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