Lucas Cardona

A 1948 comedy-drama starring DIANA LENSKA as Hollywood Screen Playwright, Laura Chandler, who returns to her hometown of Wilmington, NC for a bit of revenge which reveal secrets,plot twists and some shocking surprises.

Based her grandfather’s boyhood in St. Louis, Yasmin Gorenberg tells a story of the pain passed from refugee parents to their children and the hope that can overcome it. “40 Nickels” captures the image of a generation of immigrants to the United States in the 1920’s and 1930’s and through that spotlights the effects of the 1919 pogroms in Eastern Europe. This is a film about parents and children: how trauma never leaves a family, and how hope and resilience is also passed down. It asks the question: Can a new generation look at the world with wonder rather than fear?