The short film Lily &lt;3 will play before Fruits of Labor. El cortometraje Lily &lt;3 se proyectará antes de Fruits of Labor.

Lily, a five-year-old Mexican-American girl, is cared for by her cousin Teo while her mother leaves for a few days to work. Together they play and prepare a party for Lily's father, who has not yet been granted a visa to visit her from Mexico. A tender portrait of paternal love and absence, as experienced through the eyes of a fiercely individualistic small woman. Lily, una niña mexicana-americana de cinco años, se queda al cuidado de su primo Teo mientras su madre sale por unos días a trabajar. Juntos juegan y preparan una fiesta para el padre de Lily, quien espera su visa para visitarla desde México. Un retrato tierno del amor y la ausencia paternal, a través de los ojos de una pequeña mujer con tremenda individualidad. Paired with Fruits of Labor (USA)

Lily <3

Ashley Solis is a Mexican-American teenager who dreams of graduating from high school, but when increased ICE raids in her community threaten to separate her family, she is forced to become their breadwinner. She works long days in the strawberry fields and the night shift at a food processing factory. “Fruits of Labor” is a coming of age story about an American teenager traversing the seen and unseen forces that keep her family trapped in poverty, and a lyrical meditation on nature and ancestral forces. Ashley Solís es una adolescente mexicoamericana que sueña con graduarse de la secundaria, pero cuando el aumento en las redadas de ICE en su comunidad amenazan con separar a su familia, ella no tiene otra opción que convertirse en su único sostén. Ella ahora trabaja largas jornadas en los campos de fresas y el turno de noche en una fábrica de procesamiento de alimentos. “Fruits of Labor” es, en fin, sobre una adolescente estadounidense que atraviesa las fuerzas visibles e invisibles que mantienen a su familia atrapada en la pobreza y una meditación lírica sobre la naturaleza y las fuerzas ancestrales.

Fruits of Labor

Emily Cohen Ibañez, director of Fruits of Labor, and Ashley Solis, protagonist and co-writer, in conversation with independent Chicago programmer Raul Benitez Emily Cohen Ibañez, directora de Fruits of Labor, y Ashley Solis, protagonista y co-escritora, en conversación con programador independiente de Chicago Raul Benitez

Exclusive interview with the team of Fruits of Labor

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