Screening times:
Friday, November 14, 6:00 PM - FREE ENTRY!

Trisha Ziff | USA | 2021 | 84m
English and Spanish with English subtitles

Sedice Spanish Heritage Language and Culture School present the Latin American & Spanish Film Festival (LASFF)! LASFF runs from November 12-15! Free entry to all films! Screening venues include Dalhousie Art Centre and Carbon Arc Cinema.

Director's Statement: The Mejía family crossed the border as undocumented immigrants more than forty years ago. I met them during their vacation in Oaxaca when they returned to their village with their three children, who had recently been documented as U.S. citizens in 1993. A year later, we made a 55-minute documentary for television: it was a portrait of a family; Mexican parents and children born in the United States.

We filmed in Fresno, California, and in Jaltepec, Oaxaca, a town that at the time suffered from water scarcity and extreme erosion; a place without hope, where those who could left, the very old or very young were left behind. A familiar story that is common in the towns of Mexico. The Mejía family settled in California's Central Valley, where the water shortage continued.

In Oaxacalifornia: The Return, we meet the current generation of the Mejía family. How have their lives changed?

A film about family: identity, assimilation, contradictions, aspirations, and the passage of time.

FREE ENTRY
Admissions are granted on a first come first serve basis from when doors open, 30 minutes before the film screening
If you are certain you would like to come and want to assure your seat but you feel you may run a little late, please email movies@carbonarc.ca

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