A Way to Be Together, an eighteen-minute documentary about the community of Lambertville residents who hail from the Oaxaca region of Mexico, took top honors at the Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Madrid in June, winning the 2026 Sancho Panza Best Documentary Award. “I feel it resonates with immigrant stories all over the world,” says Trina Bardusco, the film’s director and a Lambertville resident.
In a statement, the festival said the award “recognizes a documentary that exemplifies the power of cinema to foster understanding, empathy, and social awareness.” The film grew out of the years Bardusco has spent engaging with the local Oaxacan community, the subject of a feature story in the Winter 2025 issue of River Towns.
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