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9 Star Hotel

by Ido Haar

Premiere: July 22, 2008

A group of young Palestinian men work illegally as construction laborers in the Israeli city of Modi'in. Caught between Israeli security laws and a Palestinian Authority they see as having failed them, they work for Israeli contractors by day while hiding from police by night.

The Ballad of Esequiel Hernández

by Kieran Fitzgerald

Premiere: July 8, 2008

In 1997, U.S. Marines patrolling the Texas-Mexico border as part of the War on Drugs shot and killed Esequiel Hernández Jr.

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(Available now through October 30, 2009)

Al Otro Lado

by Natalia Almada

Premiere: August 1, 2006

The proud Mexican tradition of corrido music provides both heartbeat and backbone to this rich examination of songs, drugs and dreams along the U.S./Mexico border.

The Sixth Section

by Alex Rivera

Premiere: September 2, 2003

The Sixth Section captures the dynamic form of cross-border organizing through the story of 'Grupo Union,' a small band of Mexican immigrants in upstate New York who devote themselves to raising money in order to rebuild the town they left behind.

Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary

by Laura Simon

Premiere: July 1, 1997

Teacher/filmmaker Laura Simon takes us inside her school's classrooms and faculty lounge, where a California law will deny public education to the children of undocumented immigrants.