The two films in this session explore oppression and servitude: stories of two young boys from different centuries and continents as they find their respective avenues to freedom. These are simple stories dealing with important chapters in each nation’s history, made as intimate portraits which fill the small screen with beauty and power.
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From UPF
Holl spends “beautiful days” on his father’s farm where his mother and stepfather have sent him and where he is welcomed as a cheap labor. The farm is… -
From UPF
Set in the rural American South in 1865-66, during the final stages of the Civil War and its immediate aftermath, this drama focuses on a nine year-old black slave boy,…