"ONE MONTH IN MINNESOTA" - TCFF MINI-REVIEW

“A MONTH IN MINNESOTA” - MINI-REVIEW

Documentary filmmaker Anne Sundberg (THE DEVIL CAME ON HORSEBACK, JOAN RIVERS: A PIECE OF WORK) turns her journalistic lens on a Minnesota scene just nine months ago, chronicling the harrowing injustice against our neighbors at the hands of ICE during Operation Metro Surge, and the courageous, nonviolent resilience of our citizens. Much of the film is comprised of viral videos of atrocities, but the film attempts, as much as a film that only runs 40 minutes can, to introduce us to a few of the real folks on the ground, like those helping with mutual aid, or those tracking ICE vehicles as they exit the detention center at the Whipple building, or those giving their voices to the healing music of the Singing Resistance. It also weaves in and ends with the sobering reality that this still affects the lives of black and brown people long after the tear gas has cleared; folks who just want to go to work and raise their children in peace.

It’s tough to revisit such a painful experience so soon after it happened, but A MONTH IN MINNESOTA ultimately serves as a hopeful reminder of what happened, how Minnesotans responded, and how much further there is to go. As remarked by a mother in Chicago, whose teenage sons went to Minneapolis to join the resistance, “you need to use the little power that you have well,” and in the case of the film, Sundberg and company have done just that.

A MONTH IN MINNESOTA premieres at this year’s Twin Cities Film Fest, and will run three sold out showings. For more information, please visit twincitiesfilmfest.org.

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