This July, as the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary, the Quad Cinema invites you to see our nation from a different perspective: through the work of four filmmakers who came from other countries.

Spanning deserts, institutions, small towns, and the open roads, these films explore some of the central myths and contradictions of American life. Individual freedom and stifling conformity, boundless opportunities and profound alienation, community and exclusion.

These films offer a portrait of a nation viewed through foreign eyes. Not as a fixed ideal, but as a place of restless dreams, enduring tensions, and continual self-examination. Portraits of rebels whose hopes and dreams are crushed by the establishment and law & order.