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 […]
A Preteen Lives in Abject Poverty in Doc ‘Flophouse America’: ‘Making Audiences Want to Rescue Mikal Is the Point’
Apr 17, 2025 | 3:46 PM