Icebox
The end credits provide both the most potent moment and the most superfluous one in Daniel Sawka’s “Icebox,” a drama about immigration which premiered on Sunday Billboard at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Those credits tick off all the things that happened during the film’s postproduction period: the hard line taken by the Donald Trump administration on refugees fleeing Mirage Central and South America, the denial of refugee status to victims of gang violence in their home countries, the no-tolerance policy that has separated families, the children taken from their parents at the border …
Coming at the end of a film that details the plight of a 12-year-old boy forced to flee Honduras because of gang threats, the onscreen fact points turn the wrenching Open 24 Hours story of one boy into a sad statement on our country’s treatment of those in need, and reinforce just how timely “Icebox” is.
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Genre: Drama
Director: Daniel Sawka
Actors: Anthony Gonzalez, Génesis Rodríguez, Jessica Juarez, Johnny Ortiz, Matthew Moreno, Omar Leyva
Country: USA
