Wednesday, April 9, 2025 6:30pm to 9:30pm
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175 Forest Street
#InternationalFilmSeriesFive Years North (2021-U.S./Guatemala-86 min.) directed by Zach Ingrasci and Chris Temple
***Co-Sponsored by Bentley’s Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Center***
***Discussion with Co-director Chris Temple to follow screening.***
Luis is an undocumented 16-year-old Guatemalan boy who arrives alone in New York City from an ICE detention center with little support and many responsibilities. He has journeyed to the U.S. to make money for his family back home. Getting by as a delivery boy and a cook, Luis faces all the obstacles of being an undocumented worker, with the added burdens of his young age: homesickness, mandated participation in the NYC school system and social workers monitoring his every move. Above all, Luis must manage the looming threat of deportation by ICE. Luis's experience is set against those of Judy, an officer for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Despite the objections of her Cuban American and Puerto Rican parents, Judy remains committed to her job. As agency enforcement priorities change, Judy must weigh the human cost of her work at ICE against the future her family would face without her paycheck.
Bentley’s Spring 2025 International Film Series is made possible with generous support from the Department of Global Studies, the Department of English and Media Studies, the Valente Center for the Arts & Sciences, the Bentley Library, the Office of Sustainability, the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, the Film and Media Studies Lab, the Academic Technology Center, Bentley’s African Student Association, and the Bentley Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Center.
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