FOCUS Screening Date: Friday, January 13th, 2023

Release Year: 2022

Category: FOCUS on Impact Program

Genre: Human Rights/ Social Impact Issues (Immigration)
Boarder Issues

Director: Alejandra Vasquez, Sam Osborn

Synopsis: Folk Frontera is a magical-realist portrait of life in the borderlands. The film follows two fronteriza women as they struggle to find their place in the vast Chihuahuan Desert, a region whose culture is thousands of years old, but which is bisected by the U.S.-Mexico border.