When I Get Home
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Documentary, Short Films, 13-Nov-2025
A young couple discuss being new parents and their own mortality. In “When I Get Home,” Nuala Sanchez compiles the audio-visual journal entries of her own parents, forming an intimate and expressive reflection on parenthood. Electronic hums hiss at a low frequency. DV footage comes into focus. On a rainy morning at the breakfast table, a young father reads, and a young mother quietly observes her toddler fumbling with a fork. Video snippets ebb and flow—some of their child and much of each other. We begin to hear voice-memos, mostly recorded in 2003. While the father asks his daughter about being two years old, the mother reflects on being a mom and once having one herself. Sanchez crafts the film with tender empathy as she draws from rich source material. -JM. Director: Nuala Sanchez. Cast: Mary Trunk, Paul Sanchez, Nuala Sanchez. DP: Mary Trunk, Paul Sanchez. Editor: Nuala Sanchez. Composer: Garrett Winston.
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