Nine minutes. One street corner. Two strangers who almost don't meet.
Acting
May Calamawy's eyes do entire conversations.
Direction
Chia turns a bodega into a whole universe.
Sound
Headphones as both barrier and bridge.
Director
Shao Min Chew Chia
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in NYC's actual immigrant corridors with non-actors from the neighborhood, blurring documentary and fiction.
The Chinese-Arabic language gap was intentional—Chia wanted two immigrants equally lost in America, finding each other anyway.
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