The American (La Americana)
Director: Nicholas Bruckman, Co-director: John Matiuzzi, USA/Bolivia/Mexico, 2008, 58min
Venue: Renoir Cinema
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October 2000, Cochabamba, Bolivia. Carmen, a young single mother, faces a life-changing catastrophe when her nine-year-old daughter is badly injured in a bus accident.
Unable to pay the hospital bills and for specialized care, Carmen makes the dangerous journey to the US to work illegally, staying for 6 years to raise what she believes will be enough money to support her daughter for life.
But when she returns home to Bolivia she discovers the money she has raised is nowhere near enough. Should she stay with her ailing daughter, or make the perilous journey back to the US for a second time?
A portrait of the human side of the current immigration crisis in America.
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