Completed - ENGLISH, SPANISH - Social issues, Drama - 27 minutes
Oscar, a young boy from Honduras, is caught crossing the US border and sent to a juvenile immigrant processing facility. Trapped inside the 'Icebox' Oscar fights to regain control of his fate within the rigid machine of the immigration system.
Year of production : 2015 Director(s) : Daniel SAWKA Writer(s) : Daniel SAWKA Cast : Anthony GONZALEZ, Lane GARRISON, Jose ALVAREZ Producer(s) : Camille CORNUEL
Fleeing gang violence Oscar, an 11-year-old boy from Honduras, crosses the US, to Arizonawith a group of migrants. However, after falling out with the group’s leader Oscar soonfinds himself all alone in the desert under the blazing sun. Dehydrated and exhausted, Oscartries to makes his way toward his uncle in Phoenix when he is apprehended by borderpatrol and taken to an immigration processing facility for unaccompanied minors.In constant defiance Oscar struggles against the constraint of life in the “Icebox”. In thisnew microcosm Oscar meets other boys, all with different ideas of what it takes to avoiddeportation. While awaiting the trial, which will determine whether or not he will be allowedto stay in the US, Oscar is dealt another blow as a secret about his past is revealed by theofficers. A secret that further jeopardizes his chances of asylum.Through the wire fence Oscar watches as one of his friends is dragged out of his cellfollowing a failed escape attempt. Not knowing who to trust or what to believe, Oscarfights to regain control of his fate inside the rigid machine of the immigration process.
Country(ies) : USA
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