Fare Short Film | Chris & Dana

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MAGAN'S FARE

A driver (Barkhad Abdi) takes an older woman back to her nursing home, but they have given up her bed.

The driver must figure out what to do next.

DIRECTORS STATEMENT

Magan’s Fare explores the compartmentalization of our compassion for others.

The film is a“conversation”examining how we distinguish who receives our kindness and who does not. The film revolves around Magan, a reluctant hero who is thrust into an unexpected difficulty, only to discover that his choices will have a consequential impact on the life of a stranger.

With Magan’s Fare, we wanted to explore the idea of individual moral responsibility; the challenge of true empathy towards those in need outside our familiar “box”. The story centers around two first generation immigrants and former refugees; Magan, a pragmatic, family man, ride-share driver from Somalia, and Jorani, an older nursing home patient from Cambodia with mild dementia. When Magan drives Jorani back to her nursing home only to find that they are kicking her out, he must now make a choice about what to do next for a stranger in need.

..... Through this story, we also wanted to illuminate the detrimental effects that our for-profit healthcare system here in America puts upon the marginalized and vulnerable. Jorani, a woman who came to America decades ago escaping the horrors of a war torn Cambodia is now living a horrific nightmare here in the US. As we the audience identify more and more with Magan’s increasingly difficult situation, we question our communal responsibilities to one another. And through Magan, we are inspired to look more closely at our own capacity for compassion.