Arid Cut

Arid Cut

2019 · 116 min · Drama

Sky-high housing costs, rents no one can pay, urban development, and street crime make life difficult for RV dwellers in Berkeley, California. City bureaucrats collaborate with real estate agents to gentrify neighborhoods forcing out already marginalized people living in cars, trucks, and RVs. With no more West to escape to, they contemplate turning back East.

Directed by Rob Nilsson · Written by Rob Nilsson

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