Sanctuary (2021)
Sanctuary
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It is well known throughout the world the xenophobic discourse that President Donald Trump kept during his entire campaign for the Presidency of the United States, and during his entire administration. "Sanctuary", the first feature film by Mexican documentarian Andrea Cordoba, is an intimate look at one of the first cases of open resistance to Trump's immigration policy. Here we follow an illegal Guatemalan immigrant, Amanda, who is the mother of three children born in the United States, so she is at risk of losing them when a deportation order is issued against her. So, she decides to seek sanctuary in a New York church, as this is one of the few spaces that the Migration Control Service recognizes as protected. The documentary provides a candid and close look at the family's life, with the protagonist confined indefinitely in a church while her case is resolved, one of many during the aggressive policy of the then President of the United States.
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Amanda Morales walked into a church in New York City not knowing when she would step outside again. The Guatemalan mother of three U.S.-born children is the first immigrant since President Trump took office to claim sanctuary in New York, publicly resisting her deportation within a space that ICE recognizes as protected. Sanctuary gains rare and intimate access to Amanda and her family as they fight to remain together and adapt to daily life inside a church.
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