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This documentary film takes us to an in-depth look at the asylum process of the federal U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)... more | add synopsis
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1 win & 2 nominations more
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Stunning, excellent, even-handed view of the very human asylum process more


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Stunning, excellent, even-handed view of the very human asylum process, 8 June 2000
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Author: bridges-4 from Tucson, AZ

Well-founded fear, a documentary showing a a revealing look inside the INS's political asylum process. The film-makers were given unprecedented access to the process, including cameras in normally closed asylum interviews, along with interviews of the people seeking asylum, the asylum officers who hear the cases and make the decisions, and their supervisors. The film shows the truly human process of deciding who gets asylum and who does not, and shows both the officers and the applicants in a revealing light. At times the officers look jaded, sometimes compassionate, and sometimes frustrated at the process they have to administer. The individual stories range from the frustrating ones of people who have obviously suffered, but may not meet the US's asylum standard even if their stories are true, to truly inspiring stories, like one of a tortured Chinese poet. Not easy movie to watch, but *definitely* worth watching.

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