A MONTH IN MINNESOTA & THEY’RE HERE
SAT, 12/5, 3:30pm, 64 min program
SAG HARBOR CINEMA
Two profound and powerful films, each with a unique approach to the subject matter, A Month In Minnesota and They’re Here, use the force of cinéma vérité footage and the courage of neighbors protecting neighbors to chronicle the violence wrought by ICE’s paramilitary occupation in Minnesota and the reaction of ordinary citizens in the winter of 2025–2026.
A MONTH IN MINNESOTA
39min
Director: Anne Sundberg
Producers: Brian Lucas, Anne Sundberg
Editor: Zara Serabian-Arthur
Cinematographers: Ben Garvin, Jimmy Gildea, Brennan Vance
Director Anne Sundberg in attendance for Q&A
A Month In Minnesota circles out from the fatal shootings in Minneapolis by ICE agents to explore the spontaneous and powerful show of resistance by unlikely heroes across Minnesota. The film offers a moving exploration of moral citizenry, courage, and responsibility during this defining moment in our country’s history as neighbors try to protect neighbors from ICE in the Twin Cities area.
A Minnesotan herself, Anne Sundberg is known for The Devil Came on Horseback, The Trials of Darryl Hunt, Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, and Surviving Jeffrey Epstein, among others.
THEY’RE HERE
25min
Directors: Laura Poitras, Rachel Lauren Mueller
Producers: Rachel Lauren Mueller, Laura Poitras, Yoni Golijov
The title, They’re Here, may remind you of a horror film - and rightfully so. The upclose, urgent journalistic style of the filmmakers follows Edén Villa (a pseudonym), a man trying to get to work amidst the chaos that ICE brings to the city. Behind the scenes, anonymous local residents and community volunteers establish a resistance and surveillance network to track, document, and evade and resist masked federal agents. The film premiered at this year’s Venice International Film Festival.
Laura Poitras is an Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker, producer, and journalist known for her political films, such as Citizenfour, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, and Cover-Up. Rachel Lauren Mueller is a founding partner of Haven Entertainment in Los Angeles. She produced the documentary Under the Electric Sky.