Immersion

Directed by Richard Levien · Starring Gerardo Acevedo, Nabor Acevedo, Antonio Acosta, Michelle Alvarez · 2009

Ten-year-old Moises, newly arrived in an American school, is good at math but struggles to show it when everything, including a big test, is in English.

A tender, sharply observed look at how schools can fail bright kids who simply don't speak the language yet.

Moises, a ten-year-old student, struggles to communicate in his new school with limited access to his native language.

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