Thank You for Your Interest, Thank God Anyway
2024 · 26m · Drama
Chronicling the last few months in the first year of the Palestinian Genocide, a woman in Palestine forms a friendship with a man in America who she reaches out to for help. Contrasting the harrowing details of daily life in Gaza against unshaken life in America, even small gestures by small people can go a long way.
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