Year in Exile

Doc Shorts: Immigrants & Refugees

122 minutes 6 Films

Harrowing stories of coming and going — by choice, by force, or by necessity.
In this program
Ale Libre

Ale Libre

Directed by
Maya Micaela Cueva
2021
16 minutes
English & Spanish
As she prepares for one of the biggest moments of her life — her deportation case — Alejandra is forced to reckon with a past mistake and a system that could tear her apart from her family and the only home she has ever known.
Eagles

Eagles

Directed by
Kristy Guevara-Flanagan & Maite Zubiaurre
2021
14 minutes
English & Spanish
The Aguilas del Desierto (Desert Eagles), themselves largely immigrant Latinos, search along the scorching southern border in Arizona, where it is estimated that only one out of every five missing migrants is ever found.
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Since You Arrived, My Heart Stopped Belonging to Me

Directed by
Erin Semine Kökdil
2021
21 minutes
Spanish
Central American mothers journey by bus through Mexico, searching for their children who migrated north toward the United States but disappeared en route.
Yulisa

Yulisa

Directed by
Joshua Echevarria & Jonathan Schienberg
2020
14 minutes
English & Spanish
A young pregnant woman, fleeing for safety, finds herself trapped in dire conditions in a dangerous Mexican-U.S. border town just weeks before she's supposed to give birth.