The Human Rights Film Festival, a collaboration of Human Rights Studies, Cinema and Digital Media, Global Affairs and the College of Letters and Science at UC Davis, will share a screening of Borderland: The Line Within on Feb. 27.

The screening begins at 7 p.m. in 1002 Cruess Hall and is free and open to all.

The festival’s screenings are part of a larger academic series, The UC Confronts Hate, Violence and Mass Atrocity: Conversations about Human Rights, Humanity and PeaceMaking administered by Human Rights Studies at UC Davis with funding from the UC Office of the President to develop educational programs to “combat antisemitism, Islamophobia and other forms of bias, bigotry and discrimination.”

There is a war on immigrants. A massive surveillance, militarized and carceral apparatus has been built to capture, imprison and deport millions. But in the shadow of this border industrial-complex, immigrants are building a rights movement envisioning a future rooted in human connection and the sanctity of life.

The United States border is not just a geographic location. The border is everywhere. It lies within every undocumented immigrant family with the threat that at any moment they can be captured, incarcerated, deported; their lives destroyed. Borderland l The Line Within not only exposes the profitable business of immigration and its human cost, but weaves together the stories of immigrant heroines and heroes resisting and showing a way forward, intent on building a movement in the shadow of the border industrial complex, recognizing the human rights of all.