An Uncertain Future
2017 · 11m
Directed by Chelsea Hernandez, Iliana Sosa
Genres: documentary
Tones: contemplative, tender
In Austin, Texas, two expectant mothers—one undocumented and one US citizen—must contend with increased ICE raids and mounting hostility towards immigrants under President Trump. _____ Our 100 Days is a partnership between Firelight Media and Field of Vision that aims to tell stories from the perspective of vulnerable communities and explore threats to U.S.
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Documentary about immigrant mothers under Trump should be a cudgel, but Hernandez and Sosa trust tenderness over outrage—that refusal to perform righteous anger is actually the more radical move.
Situated firmly in the Field of Vision lineage of intimate political portraiture, the film's formal restraint and observational rigor recall the best of contemporary documentary cinema that privileges presence over polemic.
The decision to hold on the faces and bodies of these two women in their most vulnerable moments—pregnant, uncertain, waiting—becomes the entire argument; that visual patience transforms a timely subject into something timelessly human.