Voices From Cuba is a documentary film exploring one of the most fascinating and turbulent immigrations in U.S.history - as told through the stories of the people who lived it.

Twelve-year old Lizbet Martinez steps off the dock and onto the rickety raft her father had fashioned from innertubes, rope and scrap lumber. She clutches her only remaining possessions - a small bag of clothes, and a tattered violin. Three swimmers push them through the battering waves towards the open sea. One begs to join them. He would make the thirteenth person crowded onto this eight foot craft, but they can't leave him behind. Together they paddle through the night, but the progress is painfully slow. By morning the outline of Havana has just begun to finally fade. As Lizbet turns towards the black ocean, she thinks of the sharks and the storms and the journey that faces her, and wonders if she'll ever see Cuba again...

While this is a new and terrifying experience for her, Lizbet and her raftmates are following a well-worn path - a journey that began on New Year's Day 1959...(more)