Based on true events, Entre nos delivers a touching narrative marked by sympathetic characters, reflective cinematography, and solid performances. Mariana (Paola Mendoza, playing a part based on her own mother) brings her children, Gabriel, 10, and Andrea, 6, to reunite with their father Antonio in New York City after many years of separation.

But the reunion doesn’t last long. Soon, Antonio announces he has found work in Miami and will be moving there…alone. He will send for the family when he is settled. Days go by and Mariana does not hear from him. The rent is due, there is no food on the table and she has only fifty dollars to her name. With no one to turn to, she must find a way, in a strange city where she barely speaks the language, to provide for her family, financially and emotionally.

Co-writer-directors Mendoza and La Morte bring a certain newness to the now-familiar immigrant story. What shines through most is the graceful ferocity with which mother and children fight for their right to create a foundation, however shaky, from which to begin the promise of the American Dream. Awards winner at 2009 Newport and Tribeca Film Festivals.