A filmmaker looks back at the Detroit he called home and questions the social forces that made him move far away.
Director: Jeremy Xido
Runtime: 104
Fest Year: 2026
Jeremy Xido grew up in Detroit—the only white kid in his neighborhood, almost adopted by African American neighbors, growing up with his best friend and “cousin” Boo. When Xido’s family, like many white families in Detroit, moved to the suburbs, he too moved on. Decades later, when he stops by the city he once called home, he goes looking for Boo and is forced to reckon with the bedrock of racism that has defined the social fabric of Detroit and the country. He interrogates his racial privilege and questions why his parents moved. In an extremely self-aware reckoning, Xido uses this film to cut through the years of racist social forces that have shaped both his and Boo’s lives—lives that, even when starting off from the same neighborhood block, grew to inhabit starkly different realities. (BC)