Film: El Norte

El Norte   

Directed by Gregory Nava, USA/Mexico, 1983. Rated R.  

Sunday, October 6. 3pm.   

Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico to the United States, with the dream of starting a new life. It’s a story that happens every day, but until Gregory Nava’s groundbreaking El Norte (The North), the personal travails of immigrants crossing the border to America had never been shown in the movies with such urgent humanism.