RiverRun 2019: Santuario

Dir. Pilar Timpane and Christine Delp, USA, 2018, 26 min.Juana Luz Tobar Ortega crochets with olive-green yarn, her hands moving deftly as she manipulates the string between her fingers.“This is what I do to make the time go faster,” she says in the translated subtitles. “It takes away the stress.”The short documentary “Santuario” follows Ortega’s day-to-day life at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Greensboro, where she has taken sanctuary to avoid depor