Lessons In Seeing - Yehuda Sharim - Trailer

When the elderly math teacher, Sibhatleab, ventures alone from a refugee camp in Ethiopia, he finds himself at the bottom rung of the social ladder in a vast, faceless Texan metropolis in the summer before a contentious election amid growing anti-refugee rhetoric. The prospects are daunting, as he still copes with his unthinkable twenty-five-year history of imprisonment and torture. The film tells his story of disillusionment and resilience, questioning our understanding of the immigrant experience in contemporary America.