THE RAFT (12A)

BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVAL

Director: Marcus Lindeen

Starring: Daniel Giménez Cacho, Maria Björnstam, Mary Gidley

Sweden/Denmark/US/Germany, 2018

In the summer of 1973, five men and six women of mixed religion and nationality embarked on a 101-day scientific sea-adventure across the Atlantic on the raft ‘Acali’. The experiment initiated by Mexican anthropologist Santiago Genovés set out to explore the origins of violence and the dynamics of sexual attraction. Irritatingly dubbed ‘The Sex Raft’ by the press, Genovés had anticipated extreme friction, orgies and violent conflict. It seems that the outcome was very different. More than forty years later, the surviving members of the expedition reunite, board a reconstruction of the raft and tell the hidden story behind ‘one of the strangest group experiments of all time.’

Running time: 1hr 37mins

Cert: 12A