First Time Home

When they learn their grandfather is gravely ill, four cousins travel from their Indigenous Triqui immigrant community in California to their ancestral village in Mexico for the first time. The teenagers record videos to share with their family members, who are farmworkers in the U.S. and have not seen their relatives in their home town in more than a decade. Through a mixture of Spanish, Triqui, and English, they get to know their grandparents, aunts and uncles. In the midst of border politics and violence, the group of cousins forge a link across thousands of miles, with a newfound pride in their indigenous immigrant identity and understanding of the meaning of family.