Javier Zamora was nine years-old when he made the journey from El Salvador to the U.S.-Mexico border. Now, nearly 20 years later, he is forced to return to the country where he was born, to apply for a visa to maintain the life he has  in the U.S. We follow Javier's return in his own words: through audio diaries, archival family tape, and interviews. "The Return" is an intimate portrait of what gets left behind when we immigrate and what we can gain when we return. 

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The Return is the winner of the Third Coast/RHDF 2019 Best Documentary: Gold Award  and was nominated for Best Audio Documentary 2019 from the International Documentary Association.

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