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APART
Directed by Jennifer Redfearn

Against the backdrop of a Midwestern state battling industrial decline, an opioid epidemic, and rising incarceration rates, APART offers an intimate portrait of three women who return home from prison and rebuild their lives after being separated from their children for years.

Since the beginning of the War on Drugs, the number of women in U.S. prisons has increased 800%. The majority are mothers. Against the backdrop of a Midwestern state battling industrial decline and an opioid epidemic, APART (dir. Jennifer Redfearn) offers an intimate portrait of three women facing the challenge of mothering their children from prison and upon release. With the help of a unique re-entry program run by Malika, an advocate formerly incarcerated in the same prison, the women lean on each other to find the tools and resiliency needed to rebuild their lives and relationships with their children. Counselors and teachers impart skills necessary to secure jobs upon release and help to unpack the traumas of living in the wake of addiction with profound longing for distant loved ones. By highlighting the women's investment in their own futures and in one another, Apart also offers a wider indictment of incarceration in America, illuminating punitive systems that all too often prioritize discipline over healing and fail to support individuals who are determined to overcome the hardships of their pasts.
DVD (Color, Closed Captioned)
86 minutes
2020
USD 395.00
 
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