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Raise Your Hand [Plays 5/6 at 7:10 p.m. and 5/8 at 7 p.m. as part of the MSPIFF41 Film Festival running May 5-19; for more information, log on to MSPfilm.org for full schedule.] Jessica Rae's powerful, factually based, poignant, raw, well-acted, realistic, 94-minute, 2021 film in which a rebellious, creative high school student (Jearnest Corchado), whose father is in prison and lives with her mother (Fenix Lazzaroni), stepfather, and siblings (Gilbert Duran and Imrani Duran) in the Midwest, writes her turbulent, gut-wrenching feelings in her journal as she struggles with life, school, and a brutal rape by another Black student (Hackett-Little) in the mid-1990s while her longtime, promiscuous best friend (Hanani Taylor), who lives with elderly grandmother after her mom's horrific murder, deals with her own problems, racism, and corrupt cops (Gregory Scott Cummins, Pat Skipper, and Jeffrey Larson) as the school counselor (Joel Steingold) and theater teacher (Jess Nurse) try to motivate and help.
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