Helping Mihaela Trailer (2011)

Trailer for the documentary Helping Mihaela.

A beggar in a praying position raises a lot of extreme emotions: guilt, rage, sympathy, frustration. The majority of people just walk by, but there is always someone who wants to help. In the film, director Hanna Maylett follows the confrontation between Romani beggars and well-meaning Finnish helpers and has to question her ideas about helping over and over again. Helping Mihaela is a film about the challenges of giving a hand and the meeting of two different worlds.