ICE Crackdown Laid Bare at Venice Festival Documentary
The 25-minute film follows volunteers tracking ICE raids and shows community resistance, as Poitras says 80% of agents were removed after unrest.
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ICE crackdown laid bare at Venice festival documentary - Regional Media News
By Crispian Balmer VENICE, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Oscar-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras said on Monday she hopes a new documentary about U.S. immigration raids will help "denormalise" violence under President Donald Trump's mass deportation campaign. Premiering at the Venice Film Festival, the 25-minute documentary "They're [...]
ICE crackdown laid bare at Venice festival documentary
By Crispian Balmer VENICE, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Oscar-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras said on Monday she hopes a new documentary about U.S. immigration raids will help "denormalise" violence under President Donald Trump's mass deportation campaign. Premi...
Laura Poitras Shares the Desperate Vision Behind Her ICE Documentary ‘They’re Here’: “What’s Happening in the United States Is a Nightmare”
Speaking in Venice ahead of the film's world premiere, the Oscar-winning filmmaker and co-director Rachel Lauren Mueller described how their doc uses the language of horror and dystopian cinema to challenge the normalization of ICE violence in Minneapolis.
Laura Poitras tells us that she decided to make her new film after watching a 10-second video on the Internet in which an idyllic winter print composed of snowy trees appeared juxtaposed with the sound of the screams: “Stay inside! Close the doors! They are here!” Faced with those images, she recalls, the acclaimed filmmaker felt that “the monsters were invisible, but the voices described a very real horror.”
Roma, 7 set. (askanews) . "The actions of the ICE become a horror in the short film "They"re Here" presented at the Venice Exhibition. The director Laura Poitras, who four years ago had won the Golden Lion with "All beauty and pain" on the abuse of opiates in the USA, arrived at the Lido with a t-shirt [...]
Laura Poitras’s ICE Documentary Is Essential Viewing At Venice
‘They’re Here’, a portrait of Minneapolis occupied by ICE from Laura Poitras, which just premiered at the Venice Film Festival 2026, is a terrifying and urgent must-see. Here’s the Vogue review of ‘They’re Here’ in full.
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