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ICE crackdown laid bare at Venice festival documentary
- On Monday, Oscar-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras premiered her 25-minute documentary "They're Here" at the Venice Film Festival, co-directed with Rachel Lauren Mueller and chronicling Minneapolis resistance to ICE operations.
- Shot in dystopian style, the film follows residents tracking unmarked ICE cars and masked agents on snow-covered streets, documenting both the scope of the anti-migrant sweep and the community response it provoked.
- Poitras stated she hopes the film will help "denormalise" violence under President Donald Trump's mass deportation campaign. "We believe very strongly in the power of cinema to denormalise this violence," she told a news conference.
- Resistance efforts focused on documentation to keep neighbors safe, according to Poitras, who claimed community action succeeded: "ICE removed 80% of its agents" in response to residents tracking their movements.
- Mainstream media normalizes such violence, Poitras argues, describing the situation as a "nightmare." The film serves as visceral counter-narrative to the $70 billion agency's operations, aiming to shake audiences from intellectualizing the crisis.
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