Friday, September 29, 2023, 7:30 p.m., Dryden Theatre
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Bad Axe (2022)
(David Siev, US 2022, 100 min., DCP)
In 2020, young Filmmaker David Siev returned with a camera to his rural hometown of Bad Axe, Michigan to be with his parents and sisters during the Covid-19 lockdown. The result is this award-winning intimate documentary of his multi-racial family’s struggles to sustain their “classy casual” restaurant and remain safe during the pandemic, a wave of anti-Asian hatred, and local backlash against Black Lives Matter protests. Headed by a Mexican-American mother and a Cambodian father who escaped the Khmer Rouge, the Siev family experienced the fragility of the American dream in the time of Trump.