Apart

[Plays Oct. 28 at 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. at the Twin Cities Film Festival; for more information, log on to twincitiesfilmfest.org.] Jennifer Redlearn's educational, poignant, enlightening, heart-wrenching, moving, candid, 86-minute, 2021 documentary that focuses on three inmates Amanda, Tomika, and Lydia in their last few years in a Ohio prison who have been separated from their children for a long time and get a chance to improve their lives by participating in a reentry program, which is run by former inmate and advocate Malika, designed to help them adjust to their lives once outside of the prison walls and cope with the struggles that they will face from judgmental employers, potential landlords, family, and society in general while openly discussing their feelings and the drug-related convictions that landed them behind bars.
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