Saturday, August 23, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Vidiots, Los Angeles
**Producer**: Emily Cohen Ibañez Join us in our microcinema for Emily Cohen Ibañez’s *Fruits of Labor*, a lyrical, coming-of-age documentary feature about adolescence, nature and the ancestors that has never been more timely. A Mexican-American teenager dreams of graduating high school, when increased ICE raids in her community threaten to separate her family and force her to become the breadwinner for her family. Ashley Solis is a high school senior who must divide her time between school and supporting her family as a second-generation Mexican American. Located in a California working class town, the harshness of agricultural labor in the strawberry fields shares a stark contrast with the beautiful nature and relationship to her spiritual ancestral upbringing. Director Emily Cohen Ibáñez documents Ashley’s life guided by the spirit world through her hardships and joys in modern America.