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A Preteen Lives in Abject Poverty in Doc ‘Flophouse America’: ‘Making Audiences Want to Rescue Mikal Is the Point’

Norwegian director Monica Strømdahl spent years traveling across the United States, documenting life in cheap hotels also known as flophouses. Then in 2017, she met 11-year-old Mikal in a hotel lobby. Strømdahl had met many children in flophouses, but Mikal was the only child whom she had met born into the situation. Eventually, after building […]

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