What would you pack in the suitcase of a loved one, if they were going…
Landfall

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As the United States currently reels over the consequences of separating parents and their children at the border, this film explores the lingering effects of this trauma on the relationship between a mother and her son who migrated from Colombia.
Citation
Main credits
Schiavenato, Stephanie (film director)
Other credits
Cinematography, Teresa Martinez Chavez; music, Shawn Onsgard, August Davidson-Onsgard.
Distributor subjects
Short Films, Women, Youth, International Relations, Migration Studies, Mental Health, Family, Political Science, LatinxKeywords
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You aren\'t thinking. Something happens where you can\'t think.
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The only thing you want is to get to where you are going.
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Feeling horrible hunger...with the experience
of almost being raped in the Bahamas.
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You have to go through all these terrible things.
The only thing you want, is to get to where you are going.
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I had Martin when I was 16.
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He was my friend, my partner. We would go dancing
and to the pool on Sundays.
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He took care of me. He would tell me jokes.
We were very similar.
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He was always worried about me. And I of him.
We were like stuck together.
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When I left him with my mother,
I told him that he had to think about coming.
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And once I was there, I would tell him what it was like.
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I told him that it was on a boat and that
he would have to pass through everything I did.
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I went to Miami to look for a lawyer
and to see what I could do.
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I went to see him but I couldn\'t get out (of the car)
because I wasn\'t legal.
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They drove the car close and they told him,
your mother is behind the window of that car.
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And she says she loves you very much.
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And he said, \"Tell my mother that I love her
even if I return to Colombia. Don\'t worry.\"
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And right at the moment when
he was going to be deported...
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He said he was in a cage because they
have them in these cages in the courtroom.
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So they told him \"The plane is ready for you to go.\"
But he said, \"Wait, I have to explain some things.\"
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He told me he was procrastinating
because the lawyer had not shown up.
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And right at the last moment the lawyer appeared,
and I was able to have Martin with me.
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But he was really traumatized
when we came to New York.
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At night he would wake up screaming.
Because he was in a prison!
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I didn\'t talk to him about it.
I didn\'t ask about it
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From the very first night he was out,
he had a lot of nightmares.
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He would wake up screaming and crying,
\"the gates! the gates!\"
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So I didn\'t go into the details because I
didn\'t want him to remember those things.
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So Martin never told you what happened?
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Never.
We never touched the subject.
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And you didn\'t want to know?
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I did not want to know.
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What can you do with something
that cannot be resolved?
Distributor: Pragda Films
Length: 10 minutes
Date: 2018
Genre: Expository
Language: Spanish
Grade: High School, College, Adults
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Closed Captioning: Available
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