BAD AXE

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Drama | 100 MIN | US

A real-time portrait of 2020 unfolds as an Asian-Mexican American family in Trump’s rural America fights to keep their restaurant and American dream alive in the face of a pandemic, Neo-Nazis, and generational scars from the Killing Fields.

FESTIVALS | AWARDS: SXSW Festival 2022: Audience Award, Documentary Feature; Special Jury Recognition for Exceptional Intimacy in Storytelling; Mountain Film Festival 2022: Grand Prize, Best Feature Documentary; Traverse City Film Festival 2022: Audience Award, Best Feature Film
DIRECTOR: David Sieve

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