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And the Crescent City Harbor District said in a statement that the dock “functioned as designed — sacrificing itself to protect other infrastructure.”

Trnopolje functioned less as a killing camp and more as a transit site, used to detain civilians before expelling them or redistributing their homes.

“So its sacrificial role in the overall design appears to have functioned as intended, absorbing the brunt of the surge, and helping to protect the more interior docks.”

For more than five decades now, the prison has functioned as a museum under the management of the National Park Service.

Though Arango hesitated to take on the film, given that he is not queer, his personal history as an immigrant functioned as an entry point into this tale of shifting, complex identities.