SILVER

After concluding her Guatemalan resistance trilogy in 2017 with 500 YEARS, celebrated filmmaker Pamela Yates returns with a spiritual follow-up, exposing the corrupt U.S. immigration system. While the media and politicians focus their attention on our southern border, Yates shines a light on three digital humanists, all immigrants themselves, whose work exposes that the border is now everywhere. This border industrial complex puts immigrants at risk with an endless cycle of surveillance, detention and expulsion that rakes in millions of dollars. Within a cruel and faceless system, Yates finds two people fighting for their basic human rights. After receiving death threats, Mayan activist Kaxh Mura'l, also featured in 500 YEARS, decides his only option is to flee to the United States, while Gabriela Castañeda, a DACA recipient, starts community organizing after her husband gets deported, leaving her a single mother. The documentary deftly weaves these personal stories into the larger narrative, crafting a rallying cry for immigration reform in the face of an uncertain future. DIR Pamela Yates; PROD Paco de Onís. U.S., 2024, color, 110 min. In English and Spanish with English subtitles. NOT RATED