from here to home

The NYTimes Op-Docs piece "From Here to Home" highlights five films on immigration and belonging.

Writer Viet Thanh Nguyen, herself an immigrant, introduces the works with these heart piercing words:

[T]hings happened not necessarily because we were refugees or Southeast Asian, but because we were human and did some of the same things that other Americans did. Our failures — and our successes — were due to our complicated humanity, not because of our ethnic or national origins.