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Un Día Normal (A Normal Day)
When she is confronted with the threat of deportation by ICE officers, a distressed young woman must fight through a panic attack to prove her valid DACA status without revealing she has an undocumented mother.
The Translator
Roya left her job to care for her Alzheimer’s-stricken father-in-law and works from home as a translator. One day, he leaves the house due to her negligence. When her husband returns, Roya pretends he’s asleep in his room.
Sunday Mornings at the Beach
When heading to the oceanside, one might expect to see surfers, joggers, and sunbathers—but not this. Each Sunday, a quiet yet powerful ritual unfolds as worshippers in Tijuana and San Diego gather on opposite sides of the border wall. Through song, prayer, and fellowship shared across rusty steel bars, an unexpected act of unity, faith, […]
Place under the sun
A talented pianist and his 8-year-old son struggle to find a place to sell vegetables at the biggest market in Moldova’s 2000′. When the father seems to give up under the burden of his precarious existence, a gesture from his son brings new hope.
If You Die I’ll Kill You
In the midst of the 1970 Student Strike, a Mother fights to stop her Daughter from attending increasingly dangerous protests.
Cinco
Ruby is a young man from a working-class neighborhood in Madrid, tired of the violence and distrust that define his group of friends’ daily lives. Together with Nélson, Daniela, and Alexis, he spends the eve of Saint John’s Night, where every plan and every action turn into a competition among the boys to validate their […]
Branching Narratives: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of the Tappan Oak
This film represents both singular and collective stories. A lone undergraduate student communes with a tree to help him feel connected to a college campus from which he felt alienated. A professor collaborates with students to create a sense of belonging to Michigan’s natural environment. A society of students fosters belonging by performing a ritual […]
The Palestine Exception
As students across the country organize protests against Israel’s war on Gaza, decades-long taboos in academia around criticism of Israel–the “Palestine exception”–are shattered. This film features professors and students as they join calls for a ceasefire and divestment from companies that do business with Israel and face waves of crackdown from administrators, the media, the […]
Power Lines
Redistricting isn’t about lines. Redistricting is about power. Who controls that power? That’s up to you. “Power Lines,” created with the support of The Carter Center, is a non-partisan blueprint for a more perfect democracy. In 2018, Michiganders voted to amend the state constitution, ending a system where redistricting was controlled behind closed doors. The […]