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Valentina follows a young woman battling poverty and an oppressive system

Tatti Ribeiro directs this tale of Valentina (Keyla Monterroso Mejia), a young woman living on the El Paso-Juarez border whose life is a shambles. She’s broke, has unpaid parking tickets, and is caught in the OmniBase program—a failure to appear/failure to pay system that allows parking fees to compound, potentially leading to arrest and jail. […]

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