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A Preteen Lives in Abject Poverty in Doc ‘Flophouse America’: ‘Making Audiences Want to Rescue Mikal Is the Point’
The documentary 'Flophouse America' looks at an American family living below the poverty line in a cheap hotel.
Teaching Students, Schooling America: Robert Reich Documentary ‘The Last Class’ Acquired By Abramorama
EXCLUSIVE: Abramorama has acquired North American theatrical distribution rights to The Last Class, a documentary about ...
This woman once worked as a maid, then became an actress, left her husband and children, survived in poverty, slept in ashram, she is…
This actress got married at 19, and soon she ran out of work. Out of frustration she left her husband and children. She was ...
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A Star Is Born In ‘Flophouse America’: Captivating Mikal Navigates Poverty And His Parents’ Drinking In CPH:DOX World Premiere
The film begins with a statistic read by Mikal: “The official poverty rate in the U.S. is ... Mikal caressed by his mom Tonya in ‘Flophouse America’ CPH:DOX The family portrait that emerges ...
A Star Is Born In ‘Flophouse America’: Captivating Mikal Navigates Poverty And His Parents’ Drinking In CPH:DOX World Premiere
Who spilled vodka on the cat?” are words that, to my knowledge, have never been spoken in a movie before. Until now. They are uttered by 12-year-old Mikal in the documentary Flophouse America, which ...
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‘Flophouse America' Review: A Profoundly Realistic Portrait of a Preteen Living in Abject Poverty
Director Monica Strømdahl's "Flophouse America" provides a visceral documentation of poverty in America. Flophouses are cheap, run-down motels where many people are forced to live when they cannot ...
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Three in 10 children living in poverty, ‘shameful’ record figures show
Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary ... At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground.
FRANK COTTRELL-BOYCE: Some leaders divide us with extreme opinions, Pope Francis united us
Children's Laureate, award-winning screenwriter and proud Catholic Boyce reveals the true impact of Pope Francis's death and ...
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Controversial two-child benefit cap ‘plunges extra 30,000 children into poverty since Labour came to power’
Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary ... At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground.
Beijing Film Festival Turns to the Classics in Celebration of 120 Years of Chinese Cinema
It all began with a wooden-bodied, hand-cranked camera, a Peking Opera star, and a man with a vision named Ren Qingtai.
Post-war melancholia meets female liberation in 'There's Still Tomorrow'
Paola Cortellesi’s film highlights a period of history not often viewed through the lens of American historical realism.