The Hotel of Waifs

The Hotel of Waifs

2019 · 71 min · ★ 7.5 · Documentary

Waifs, homeless, derelicts, almsmen, others, forgettens, outcasts, unwanteds. The Hotel of Waifs; a temporary resting place far from home, an amusement in a pale fun fair, an enthusiastic trip on roundabout ways of soul.

Directed by Rıdvan Karaman

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