• Director(s):

    GOHARI (Alex), MATTEI (LEO)

  • Producer(s):

    ARTE GEIE

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2018

  • Language(s):

    German, English, French

  • Rights:

    TV, NON-THEATRICAL, INTERNET

These refugees are Honduran, Guatemalan or Salvadoran. Every year, 400.000 of them go through Mexico to try and reach the north of the country and illegally cross the border into the United States. Their journey spans across 2.500 kilometers.

The fastest yet most dangerous route to the border involves secretly boarding the freight train that connects the south to the north of the country. Migrants have called it “La Bestia” – the beast. Each year it takes thousands of candidates to exile on its back and devours thousands of others among them. The slightest distraction can make them fall – often on the train rails. And migrants cannot avoid the drug cartels’ violence on “La Bestia” either: they are often either forced to work for them or kidnapped to obtain a ransom from their family back home. Those who resist or cannot pay are executed.