Distancing
201910 min21+
Synopsis
“My ticket is one way,” the filmmaker explains this to his grandmother as she suddenly realizes he isn’t coming back. Is a film about this personal realization; to leave and thus become exiled from the country he was raised.
Credits
Director
Miko Revereza
Born in Manila in 1998, Miko Revereza is an experimental filmmaker and undocumented immigrant. Since relocating from Manila as a child, he has lived illegally in the United States for over 25 years. This life long struggle with documentation, assimilation, and statelessness informs his films Drug! (2014), Disintegration 93-96 (2017), and his debut feature, No Data Plan (2018).
