Empatia

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One More Day

June 2024 •Danish

Dimi really needs to use the bathroom. But the city isn't built for homeless people like himself, and toilets are only for paying customers.

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A Star for Rose

October 2013 •English

Small town girl Marcy comes to LA with stars in her eyes, thinking she can make it big on Search for a Star. Instead, with little money and no friends, she finds herself sleeping in her car. Things dramatically change when she meets Rose, living in a cardboard box, and Mort, a wheelchair-bound Gulf War veteran. After first fighting over territory, these three lost souls bond in friendship, protecting and supporting each other in a story that is at once profoundly funny, heart-warming and poignant.

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Wanderers

June 2019 •Spanish

La Negra and Vicenta are two homeless women. After losing their place and belongings, they meet Pola, a younger woman who is starting out in a previously unknown reality. The three women accompany each other revealing the complexities of being a woman, being older and living on the street.

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The Volunteer

June 2013 •English

After quitting her stable but soul-crushing job, Leigh passes her days in an apathetic fog until she decides to volunteer at a soup kitchen. There she meets Ethan, a homeless man with whom she begins an electric, but turbulent affair.

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Feral

April 2019 •English

A homeless woman living in the tunnels below New York City survives on her own terms in the days leading up to a blizzard.

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A Simple Story

April 1959 •French

A woman arrives in Paris with her little girl to look for work. With limited funds and no luck, they end up penniless, homeless and dependent on the rare kindness of strangers.

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Distant Thunder

November 1988 •English

A troubled Vietnam war vet deserts his wife and child shortly after he returns from the war. He returns after 10 years, where he's been living like an animal in the forest. He finds himself unprepared for the changes that he will have to cope with, and when the vet tries to contact his son, he realizes that he has caused more damage than he had imagined.

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No Longer Human

June 2022 •English

‘No Longer Human’ follows the life of a newly homeless man who has fallen deep into the pits of loneliness. We all need someone, or something, to make sense of everything. That could take the shape of God, a partner, a best friend, but in this case... a dog.

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The Bench

Invalid date •English

Adapted from the critically acclaimed Off-Broadway show by actor-writer Robert Galinsky, The Bench is an exploration of the often-unheard stories of people living on the streets of Los Angeles.

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Marvin & Tige

March 1985 •English

Marvin, a heavy-drinking widower meets Tige, an 11-year-old orphan. With nowhere else to go, Tige moves in with Marvin and they develop a close friendship. Marvin wants to adopt Tige but knows that he is too poor to give him a good home. Then he discovers who Tige's father is a rich suburbanite who doesn't even know Tige exists. Should Marvin, and can he, give up the boy he loves, and who loves him, in favor of a stranger with the right genes and bank balance?

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Wendy and Lucy

December 2008 •English

A near-penniless drifter's journey to Alaska in search of work is interrupted when she loses her dog while attempting to shoplift food for it.

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96 Souls

June 2016 •English

A university research scientist, about to lose funding and status, has a lab accident and discovers he can see people's true intentions -- making his situation even worse.

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Lady D

Invalid date •Albanian

Rejected by their family, school and society, three teenagers wind up defenseless on the mean streets of Tirana.

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Eden

March 2019 •English

EDEN deals with what could possible be a future for most people caught up in the current economic climate in Ireland and how we have taken a bite of the financial apple and borrowed beyond our means. We follow Adam who has been left unemployed and homeless throughout one of his days on the streets and the people and situations he finds himself in on a daily basis.

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Pursuit of Freedom

September 2022 •English

Inspired by the incredible true story of a woman who was abducted in the night, torn from her children, and sold into trafficking after her husband lost her in a night of gambling.

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Two and a Half Angels

January 1958 •Spanish

A babysitter takes the son of a wealthy family for a walk in the park. After a carelessness of the babysitter, the child follows two children from the street, who before returning him with her, will be responsible for giving him the best day of his life.

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Homelessness

June 2019 •English

Mac and Steve, two immature college kids, are going out on a Friday night when they encounter a controversial homeless man that leaves them questioning their values and society.

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The Pursuit of Happyness

December 2006 •English

A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career.

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Midnight Cowboy

May 1969 •English

Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.

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Some Happy Day

November 2021 •English

Lives change when a homeless woman, in desperate search of a better life, meets a social worker with troubles of her own.