2023 | USA | Documentary

Home Is a Hotel

  • English, Cantonese, Spanish - 92 mins
  • Director | Todd Sills, Kevin Duncan Wong, Kar Yin Tham
  • Writer | -
  • Producer | Kevin Duncan Wong, Kar Yin Tham, Todd Sills

STATUS: Released

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Across America, cities are struggling with homelessness and housing affordability. How does one decades old solution — cramped Single Room Occupancy units — impact the lives of those who live in them? Home Is a Hotel takes you inside San Francisco's SRO housing through intimate portraits of their residents filmed over five years. This character-driven, verité documentary immerses viewers in what it means to call a single room home in the heart of one of America’s richest cities. It's the story of an immigrant single mom in Chinatown, a blind Latina librettist fighting harassment and eviction, a divorced couple in recovery co-parenting a six-year-old son, a graffiti artist who paints murals for the tech companies gentrifying his neighborhood, and a determined mother on a quest to find her runaway daughter — all of them trying to better their lives within the four walls of rentals as tiny as 80 square feet.

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