This unconventional Amtrak journey from Los Angeles to New York starts with director Miko Revereza (“Disintegration 93-96,” T/F 2018) describing how his undocumented mother has two phones. The one with “no data plan” is only used for calls about immigration. With this premise, Revereza builds mystery, combining his own journey with his discovery of his mother’s affair with a much younger man. His trip floats through dream states and into a fugitive state of mind, weaving together an ingenious mix of captions, subtitles, interviews with friends and family, and kinetic observational footage shot on and in between trains. Even as it travels cross country, the film dismisses false promises of freedom and movement and evocatively conveys the particularities of Revereza and his family’s precarious existence, especially after a close encounter with Border Patrol. No data plan is a poignant and furious expression of the cinema of resistance from a notable first-time feature director. Plays with “I Signed the Petition” (dir. Mahdi Fleifel, 10 min), in which the director agonizes over his act of signing a petition asking Radiohead not to play in Tel Aviv in support of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement against Israel, calling an acerbic and honest friend for advice. (AS)