Laura Poitras' New Doc Treats ICE Raids Like a Thriller — Because They Are

Laura Poitras and Rachel Lauren Mueller just made a documentary that reads like a horror flick — except it's real. They're Here chronicles how Minneapolis residents fought back against ICE operations in their city, capturing the fear and resistance that followed two fatal police shootings during immigration enforcement actions.

Poitras, who's already won an Oscar for her work on surveillance and state power, knows how to build tension and expose what institutions want hidden. Pairing her with Mueller, a journalist embedded in Minneapolis, gives the film both the cinematic eye and the ground-level reporting it needs.

The doc doesn't shy away from the violence or the community's response. It's framed deliberately — like a thriller, not a news report — because that's what it feels like when federal agents roll through your neighborhood. The stakes are life and death, and the filmmakers treat it that way.

This isn't agitprop dressed up as documentary. It's a straight look at what happens when a community pushes back against paramilitary policing. Poitras has built her whole career on this: taking complicated, dangerous stories and making them unavoidable.

Read the full story at The Hollywood Reporter → https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/laura-poitras-rachel-lauren-mueller-ice-doc-theyre-here-1236693668/