march, 2023
Event Details
META HOUSE PHNOM PPENHSIMA Festival 2023All screenings start 7.30PM SIMA FESTIVAL (DAY 5: IMMIGRATION)We invite you to the “Social Impact and Media Awards Festival” (SIMA), showcasing the best documentaries about human
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Event Details
META HOUSE PHNOM PPENH
SIMA Festival 2023
All screenings start 7.30PM
SIMA FESTIVAL (DAY 5: IMMIGRATION)
We invite you to the “Social Impact and Media Awards Festival” (SIMA), showcasing the best documentaries about human rights in our world today. Free Entrance. All films with English subtitles.
AGUILAS (USA, 15 min): Along the scorching southern border in Arizona, only an estimated one out of every five missing migrants is ever found. Águilas is the story of one group of searchers–the Águilas del Desierto–who volunteer monthly to recover the missing.
SANSÓN AND ME (Mexico, 83 min): During his day job as a Spanish criminal interpreter in a small town in California, filmmaker Rodrigo Reyes met a young man named Sansón, an undocumented Mexican immigrant who was sentenced to life in prison without parole. With no permission to interview him, Sansón and Reyes worked together over a decade, using hundreds of letters as inspiration for recreations of Sansón’s childhood—featuring members of Sansón’s own family. The result is a vibrant portrait of a friendship navigating immigration and the depths of the criminal justice system, and pushing the boundaries of cinematic imagination to rescue a young migrant’s story from oblivion.
Time
(Saturday) 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm