The American Sector
Filmmakers Courtney Stephens (Terra Femme) and Pacho Velez (Manakamana) travel across the United States seeking out the traveling fragments of the Berlin Wall. The people they talk to along the way (at a Chicago subway station, at a Seattle food court, at a Los Angeles lookout) offer different versions of the Wall's history through their own experiences. "For each person, the wall means something explicit about freedom, democracy, and patriotism, but implicit in these descriptions are ideas about propaganda, indoctrination, our intergenerational relationships with history, and the broken promises of capitalism," writes The Nation.