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Leaving November 1
Directed by Miko Revereza | 5 mins | 2017
As timely now as it was upon first release, this intimate essay film—a patchwork of self-portraiture and home-movie footage overlaid with the filmmaker’s voice-over—finds Revereza reflecting upon his childhood relocation from the Philippines to California, expanding upon his own sense of displacement to consider post-colonial history and the obstacles facing undocumented immigrants in the United States.
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