"Only the uprooted long for home."
Sandra, a Syrian refugee, accepts a prestigious but unpaid internship with the UN, but cannot afford to live in Geneva so she chooses to live in a tent by the lake while trying to compete for a permanent position.
Cait Castle
Kate
Bryon Azoulay
Eduardo
Nathaniel Edwards
UN Respresentative
Maria Granberg
UN Intern
David S. Robinson Hicks
UN Intern
Jamie Morrow
UN Intern
Elmira Rahim
Maya
Jennifer Yun
Reporter
Jacklyn Robinson
UN Intern
Sandra, a Syrian refugee, accepts a prestigious but unpaid internship with the UN, but cannot afford to live in Geneva so she chooses to live in a tent by the lake while trying to compete for a permanent position.
Struggling to provide her daughters with a safe, happy home, Sandra decides to build one - from scratch. Using all her ingenuity to make her ambitious dream a reality, Sandra draws together a community to lend a helping hand to build her house and ultimately recover her own sense of self.
A young woman lives a life filled with bad choices. At a young age she marries and has a child--with an abusive thief who quickly ends up in prison. Left alone, she takes up with the guy's mate, another thief, who seems to give her some happiness but who also ends up locked up. She then takes up with a series of seedy types who offer nothing but momentary pleasure--if that.
Short film made with the help of the Sundance Film Institute and serving as a proof-of-concept for the subsequent feature film.
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