40 Nickels (2021)

Based her grandfathers boyhood in St Louis Yasmin Gorenberg tells a story of the pain passed from refugee parents to their children and the hope that can overcome it 40 Nickels captures the image of a generation of immigrants to the United States in the 1920s and 1930s and through that spotlights the effects of the 1919 pogroms in Eastern Europe This is a film about parents and children how trauma never leaves a family and how hope and resilience is also passed down It asks the question Can a new generation look at the world with wonder rather than fear