Forced Migration from Central America Project

01/12/2023

If you haven't yet had a chance to listen to the 15-episode we created for my Forced from Central America Project, you can now find it on .

The testimonies shed light on why people flee .

https://on.soundcloud.com/Bi6EV

29/03/2023

Dr Sonja Wolf will be speaking about visual and her The Vertical Border at , .

Join us in person or online!

📅 31 May 2023
🕒 16:00 (Oxford, UK)

28/03/2023

agents let nearly 40 die in a fire in a center in Ciudad Juárez, .

A study of the INM conducted 10 years ago identified the same problem: migrants locked in cells without a fire exit.

Read the full study (in Spanish only) here https://bit.ly/40pVDBg and the executive summary (in English) here https://bit.ly/40Fv2jq

13/03/2023

Please join us on March 24 at noon CT for our second CAPC Virtual Conversation on state responses to and criminal in featuring José Miguel Cruz, Michael Paarlberg and Sonja Wolf.

You can register for the webinar at: https://oklahoma.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_J5sK0_HGSfalZ2QKACd-ig

08/02/2023

| The Vertical Border will be screened at the upcoming ¡Viva! Spanish & Latin American () in .

Don't miss this opportunity to find out more about the current crisis in the !

🛈 https://homemcr.org/film/the-vertical-border/

14/10/2022

The Vertical Border has won "Best Feature Documentary" in the Scandinavian Innternational Film Festival 2022.

You can watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KVMR2l0Qoc

If you would like to host screenings, please contact us ([email protected]) for more information.

06/10/2022

¿Qué es la ? ¿Cómo debería responder ante esta problemática de ?

El Programa de Política de Dr**as (Programa de Política de Dr**as del CIDE) y Habesha Media (Proyecto Habesha) invitan a una serie de estrenos del The Vertical Border (The Vertical Border).

23/09/2022

The Vertical Border won "Best Feature Documentary" in the Summer 2022 competition of the Toronto Women Film Festival.

The film explores forced migration and hostile migration policies in the Americas and was written and directed by Sonja Wolf.

The 14th edition of the Toronto Women Film festival recently announced its winners. The festival committee has been promoting, screening and recognizing talented female artists from all over the globe through its seasonal and annual program. The festival also invites the award winners to vote as mem...

15/09/2022

The Vertical Border, our about forced from Central America, has been nominated for the seasonal competition of the Toronto Women Film Festival 2022!

The film was written and directed by Sonja Wolf.

Watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KVMR2l0Qoc

22/08/2022

Our feature The Vertical Border, produced in collaboration with The Habesha Project, has won "Best Human Rights" in the Summer 2022 Montreal Independent Film Festival!

25/07/2022

"The Vertical Border" shows that involves not only and ; lets cross its porous southern and accepts that they are likely to get extorted, assaulted or kidnapped in the interior of the country.

In this still from the , Adrián Meléndez of The Habesha Project shows a former detention centre that has been converted into a student residence.

The Habesha Project, which manages this residence, is an organisation in Aguascalientes that offers higher opportunities to young .