 | Remigrationby Barry Jenkins In a future San Francisco that is entirely upper-class, the city starts a program to bring working-class families back to the city that pushed them out. When one such family returns, it must decide whether to stay. FUTURESTATES |
 | The Waiting Roomby Peter Nicks and Linda Davis The Waiting Room is a cinema verité portrait of a California city's public safety-net hospital as it struggles to handle patient overload in a swooning economy and a constantly shifting landscape of health care policy. Independent Lens |
 | Weaving Worldsby Trickster Films An intimate portrait of Navajo weavers that explores the complex relationship with reservation traders and a weaver's role within the global market economy. |
 | Xmas Without Chinaby Alicia Dwyer and Tom Xia Tom Xia emigrated from mainland China to California at age eight. A series of Chinese toy recalls forces Tom's neighbors, the Joneses, to have their son tested for lead poisoning. With China's assent to world superpower status heating up American fears, Tom challenges the Joneses to make it through the Christmas season without any Chinese products, beginning a journey to find American identity amongst all the American media hype, Chinese nationalist propaganda, and cultural misunderstandings. |
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