
Hotel 22
In the heart of Silicon Valley, a public bus line running around the clock has become an unofficial overnight shelter for people with nowhere else to go. The number 22 loops between San Jose and Palo Alto, and this short film rides along after dark, watching the same passengers return night after night to sleep sitting up, bags at their feet, as the bus rattles past the offices of the world's wealthiest tech companies. There is no narrator explaining the situation; the camera simply stays close to faces, hands, and quiet conversations between riders who have learned each other's routines. A driver keeps the peace without much comment, treating the arrangement as ordinary because for the regulars it now is. The film never states its point outright, letting the contrast between the tech industry's glass towers outside the windows and the exhaustion inside the bus do the work instead. It ends without resolution, because for the people on board, none is coming tomorrow either.