Sunday at 12:30 PM, at Haga 2 theatre, took place the last of the three screenings at the 34th Göteborg International Film Festival. I went there to introduce the film and have a pre-screening conversation with the audience since I had to leave for the airport and could not be there for a Q&A afterwards. Among the 50+ people in attendance there were two young men from Sololá, Guatemala! I asked all to write to me with their impressions and also asked if I could take a moving picture of them. Here it is:
My driver today was a young woman named Alice who works as a translator during the rest of the year. She has been volunteering at the festival for the last 15 years and has been to the US. I promissed to send her the link to Erik Camayd-Freixas essay. "You have made an important film," she said as she dropped me off at the airport.
Presents the devastating effects of US Enforcement Immigration policies on communities, families and children. The film tells the gripping personal stories of the individuals, the families and the town that survived the most brutal, most expensive and largest immigration raid in the history of the United States and serves as a cautionary tale of government abuses.