NATIVES Latino Cinema: Latino Short Films U.S.A.

Refugees is a powerful portrait of Salvadoran refugees in the U.S., most of whom are ordinary working class people forced to flee their country. Natives, an unusual documentary with an eye toward the absurd, shows another view of this human tragedy by following middle class, mostly white Americans involved in the San Diego anti-immigration movement. An adolescent’s addiction to guns is the focus of The Atidict, a stark domestic drama about the effects of violence in America today. -Pearl Fisher