Forced Migration from Central America Project

If you haven't yet had a chance to listen to the 15-episode we created for my Forced from Central America Project, you can now find it on .

The testimonies shed light on why people flee .

https://on.soundcloud.com/Bi6EV

agents let nearly 40 die in a fire in a center in Ciudad Juárez, .

A study of the INM conducted 10 years ago identified the same problem: migrants locked in cells without a fire exit.

Read the full study (in Spanish only) here https://bit.ly/40pVDBg and the executive summary (in English) here https://bit.ly/40Fv2jq

The Vertical Border won "Best Feature Documentary" in the Summer 2022 competition of the Toronto Women Film Festival.

The film explores forced migration and hostile migration policies in the Americas and was written and directed by Sonja Wolf.

14th edition of Toronto Women Film Festival The 14th edition of the Toronto Women Film festival recently announced its winners. The festival committee has been promoting, screening and recognizing talented female artists from all over the globe through its seasonal and annual program. The festival also invites the award winners to vote as mem...

The Vertical Border, our about forced from Central America, has been nominated for the seasonal competition of the Toronto Women Film Festival 2022!

The film was written and directed by Sonja Wolf.

Watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KVMR2l0Qoc

Our feature The Vertical Border, produced in collaboration with The Habesha Project, has won "Best Human Rights" in the Summer 2022 Montreal Independent Film Festival!

"The Vertical Border" shows that involves not only and ; lets cross its porous southern and accepts that they are likely to get extorted, assaulted or kidnapped in the interior of the country.

In this still from the , Adrián Meléndez of The Habesha Project shows a former detention centre that has been converted into a student residence.

The Habesha Project, which manages this residence, is an organisation in Aguascalientes that offers higher opportunities to young .