The refrain of one of Mexican composer Jose Alfredo Jimenez’ greatest love songs advises, ‘When they ask about your past, you must tell a lie. Say you come from a strange world where you’ve never known love or sorrow.’ Un Mundo Raro/A Strange World is an experimental short documentary filmed on both sides of the US-Mexico border. As a rhythmic indie rock song lulls, ‘It’s alright, baby, it’s alright. Form a line into the night…’, fast paced scenes explore family life, immigration, ecology, the brutality of poverty and the drug trade. Socially loaded, violent and tender, this is a visual poem about a place where love and sorrow are constants, a human crisis in which we are all implicated.