While accommodating on a technical level, they meet the foreign students with typical condescension: signs for “English-only common spaces,” classes that begin with “so where are you from” conversations, that whole routine.
CIFF CAPSULE: “MAINELAND”
Maineland
SPECIAL PREVIEW: INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL BOSTON 2017
The nonprofit film series is entering its 15th year, and its 2017 iteration is spread across more than three screening locations, with programming that includes features, short films, fiction and nonfiction, panels and parties, innumerable filmmakers in person, all the works.
