Nowhere Near is a poetic essay film through the lens of an undocumented immigrant becoming disillusioned by their future in the United States, and deciding to return to an estranged homeland. The film tracks down the origin of a family curse backtracking through the post-9/11 era, the US occupation of the Philippines, and the spiritual conquest of the Philippines by the Spanish empire. Nowhere Near, is a years-long diary towards understanding the causes of migration to the United States, though ultimately this odyssey deviates far from the expected course.
A Q&A with Miko Revereza will follow the screening.
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Miko Revereza (b. 1988, Manila) has made a series of personal documentaries informed by his experiences with migration and exile: DROGA! (2014), Disintegration 93-96 (2017), No Data Plan (2018), Distancing (2019), El Lado Quieto (2021), and Nowhere Near (2023). These works have been screened at multiple festivals worldwide. Nowhere Near was one of Film Comment magazine’s Best Undistributed Films of 2023 and CNN Philippines’ Best Filipino Films of 2023. Revereza was included in Filmmaker magazine’s New Faces of Independent Cinema, is a Flaherty Seminar featured filmmaker, and holds an MFA from Bard College.
