Farmingville

In some ways, it’s a familiar American story: an influx of illegal immigrants crossing the border from Mexico to do work the locals won’t, a flourishing “low-wage” labor market that depends on them, rising tensions with the resident Anglo-Saxon population, charges and countercharges of lawlessness and racism, organizing and counter-organizing — then a violent hate crime that tears a community apart. But this isn’t the story of a California, Texas or other Southwestern town. It’s the story of Farmingville, New York, on Long Island. (Morelia International Film Festival)