Above and Below

NAME OF FILM: ABOVE AND BELOW

DIRECTOR(S): Nicolas Steiner

GENRE: Documentary Film

SYNOPSIS: Swiss Filmmaker Nicolas Steiner documents the exploits of three homeless people living in a maze of underground Las Vegas storm sewers; a man who lives in a military bunker in the California desert and a woman at a Utah research station that simulates life on Mars. Through the hustle, the pain and the laughs, we are whisked away to an unfamiliar world, yet quickly discover the souls we encounter are perhaps not that different from our own.

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