Film Series

Detained inside an infamous American detention center as the pandemic spreads, a group of immigrants organize in protest and demand protection and their release. Separated from their families, and fearing for their lives, they take bold action. But officials who run the detention center are intent on keeping these men and women silent and keeping them locked up. Filmed using the cameras attached to tablets installed inside the detention center's cellblocks, the film is a unique, real-time chronicle of a life in an immigration detention facility, and of a struggle for freedom and accountability.  (Field of Vision)

A lyrical portrait of two Haitian migrants, Robens and James, who find themselves stranded at the US-Mexico border with no way forward and no one to depend on but each other.  The quiet, unexpected tenderness of their friendship shines in the eye of an incomprehensible geopolitical storm, even as the two men drift towards drastically different futures… and a new wall rises on the horizon.

A screening of the Short Esperança in French with English subtitles. Esperança follows the story of a fifteen-year-old girl and her mother that arrive in France from Angola, the short film shows the adversity that is encountered upon initial arrival into a foreign country.  

Home is Somewhere Else is a Mexican American animated documentary depicting the stories of three migrant families tackling inter-generational struggles, traumas, fears, hopes and dreams while living in the United States undocumented. 

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