Award Winning Documentary - Lessons for Zafirah

'Lessons for Zafirah', is an award winning documentary dealing with the plights of migrants who enter the US from the Mexican side. Lessons For Zafirah records the faces and gestures that congregate around the train"The Beast", which represents the symbolic vechile of escape for thousands of migrants who travel to the United States. Through testimonies, the film captures the participation of people in Mexico who voluntarily provide assistance to migrants: the women of la Patrona and father Solalinde. The film's images are shared with the director's three-year-old daughter-called Zafirah- as a tale about the era in which we live. With a critical and joyful touch, the director paints a bleak, but also a universal, portrait of human greatness - inviting the viewer to transform his or her view of migrants
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