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A Mexican-American teenage farmworker dreams of graduating high school. When ICE raids her California community, it threatens to separate her family and forces her to become her family's breadwinner. Fruits of Labor is a lyrical, coming-of-age documentary feature about adolescence, nature and how ancestors paved the way. Director Emily Cohen Ibáñez documents life guided by the spirit world through her hardships and joys in modern America. Rotten Tomatoes rating of 100%. 

"It's not surprising that Oakland-born director Ibañez of Colombian heritage has a history in anthropology. She shows an obvious flare in observing the Solis family, sometimes in uncomfortable close-up." - Glenn Dunks, The Film Experience

NR, 76 min., 2021. Closed captions (CC) in English