Raudel works at a boat scrap yard in western Cuba. With his colleagues, he lives inside the jagged metal and the smoke of the oil when it burns. He talks about spirits, about stories that await him somewhere. In his eyes hope is opposed to that space where the line that separates the living from the dead is almost invisible.

Dir. Alejandro Alonso - 30min - 2021 - France, Cuba

"Abyssal tells of what attracts human beings to the void and of the mystery that divides the world of the living and that of the dead." - Visions du Réel

"Amidst the skeletons of ships lying in a Cuban junkyard, where the line separating the living from the dead is nearly invisible, some human beings go about their work. An exemplary and powerful film about ghosts who still hold out hope in the back of their minds." - Documenta Madrid, **Winner** Audience Award.

"gives a sense of the ghost in the machine of these old but still present technologies creating a beautiful and haunting world within the film." - **Winner*, The John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Award – Full Frame Documentary Film Festival

"This fascinating and visually mesmerising film explores the question of progress through the lens of contemporary Cuban society" - **Winner**, Golden Dove for Best Short Doc – DOK Leipzig