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This shorts collection contains immigration stories. One immigration story does not represent all. The story of how one might come to live in place in which they were not born might be very different from another's story. What’s important is that we are willing and able to learn about the life journeys of other young people so we can remove the walls to empathy and understanding and find just and humane solutions beyond borders.
For Ages 11-14 | 67 minutes | Presented in English, nonverbal, and original languages with English subtitles
Themes: Understanding differences, inclusion, immigration/immigration process, hopes and dreams, identity, first generation experiences
This program contains: Content Warning: Separation/loss, physical and/or emotional conflict
Burros
Six-year-old Elsa is a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation and lives in southern Arizona, twenty miles from the Mexico border with her dad. One day she discovers and instantly befriends a young girl named Ena hiding behind the cactus. Elsa tries to speak to her in O’odham and English. Ena understands neither and replies in Spanish that she was crossing the border with her father and got lost. Elsa does not speak or understands Spanish but that does not stop the two from spending the day together, playing and sharing burros. They are unaware that their future and the fate of their friendship may soon be in the hands of adults, who only see a migrant child, lost in the desert.
- Year2021
- Runtime15 minutes
- LanguageEnglish, Spanish
- CountryUnited States
- NoteTHEMES: Friendship, Immigration/Immigration Process, Indigenous People
- DirectorJefferson Stein
- ScreenwriterJefferson Stein
- ProducerLiz Cardenas, Russell Sheaffer
For Group Tickets CLICK HERE
This shorts collection contains immigration stories. One immigration story does not represent all. The story of how one might come to live in place in which they were not born might be very different from another's story. What’s important is that we are willing and able to learn about the life journeys of other young people so we can remove the walls to empathy and understanding and find just and humane solutions beyond borders.
For Ages 11-14 | 67 minutes | Presented in English, nonverbal, and original languages with English subtitles
Themes: Understanding differences, inclusion, immigration/immigration process, hopes and dreams, identity, first generation experiences
This program contains: Content Warning: Separation/loss, physical and/or emotional conflict
Burros
Six-year-old Elsa is a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation and lives in southern Arizona, twenty miles from the Mexico border with her dad. One day she discovers and instantly befriends a young girl named Ena hiding behind the cactus. Elsa tries to speak to her in O’odham and English. Ena understands neither and replies in Spanish that she was crossing the border with her father and got lost. Elsa does not speak or understands Spanish but that does not stop the two from spending the day together, playing and sharing burros. They are unaware that their future and the fate of their friendship may soon be in the hands of adults, who only see a migrant child, lost in the desert.
- Year2021
- Runtime15 minutes
- LanguageEnglish, Spanish
- CountryUnited States
- NoteTHEMES: Friendship, Immigration/Immigration Process, Indigenous People
- DirectorJefferson Stein
- ScreenwriterJefferson Stein
- ProducerLiz Cardenas, Russell Sheaffer