Problemista (2023)

In this surrealistic film writer-director Julio Torres provides an unusual twist the story of an immigrant struggling mightily to stay in this country but is harrassed by a soulless immigration bureacracy. The film is surrealistic in that its eager hero Alejandro (played by Torres himself) doesn’t just walk but prances about. As a child in El Salvador …

200 Meters (2021)

Palestinian-Jordanian Ameen Nayfeh director/writer shows us the effect that the Israeli wall dividing the West Bank from Israel has on a Palestinian family. It is an effective tool for a better understanding of “the Palestinian situation” than an abstract discussion of the issues because it never preaches, but rather tells a story of an ordinary …