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One solution may be 
partnerships. At Cinema 
Lamont, Gardner collabo-
rated with Dearborn’
s Arab 
American National Museum 
and Detroit’
s Mexican con-
sulate. He expresses similar 
hope for extending the Film 
Lab’
s reach.
“It’
s something we’
re still 
working on, and 
perhaps people 
aren’
t necessar-
ily used to the 
opportunity to 
see films like 
that or used to 
coming to places 
like this,” he said. “I think 
there’
s still a lot of work to 
be done. We certainly hav-
en’
t reached our goals.”
Gardner describes engag-
ing the broader community 
— not just in Hamtramck 
or Detroit, but across coun-
ties — as a welcome chal-
lenge and a chance to give 
others the same feeling of 
recognizing their identity 
through film that he saw in 
his parents early on.
“(There’
s) the importance 
of seeing yourself represent-
ed on-screen and how that 

can mean something to you 
when you saw, like, some-
one saying a Hebrew prayer 
and you recognized yourself 
in it. And it seemed kind of 
weird and special,” he said. 
“And that’
s kind of imparted 
on me that other people 
might feel the same way.”
A project like the Film 
Lab takes a 
leap of faith to 
try. But both 
Gardner and 
Sfire express a 
faith, too, that 
world cinema 
can touch people 
— and that taking the time 
to showcase what Gardner 
calls “divergent experiences” 
is valuable and worth the 
risk.
 “People had told me that 
there wasn’
t such an audi-
ence for foreign-language 
cinema, perhaps outside of 
the DIA,” he said. As the 
Film Lab’
s audience grows, 
Gardner reasons, so, too, 
will their trust in its pro-
gramming.
“If they see something,” 
he said, “they’
ll take a 
chance on it.” 

Housed in a former Polish Legion of American Veterans hall, the exterior 
offers little indication of the world cinema inside.

The Film 
Lab
3105 Holbrook Ave.,
Hamtramck
thefilmlab.org

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