Novena Hopes is a documentary-poetic film built around nine hopes, offered in place of certainties. Shot on a Nokia N95 and rooted in the logic of ontological publishing, the film blends archival family footage, intimate recordings, and structured dialogue to explore intergenerational bonds across care, distance, and belief. With a documentary quality that resists spectacle, it captures the texture of memory as lived and spoken in quiet, stubborn spaces between generations.What emerges is a confrontation with what cannot be passed down: dignity, resilience, a language for aging. At the center lies a question: What did you hope I would find when I got out into the world? It is not only the young who ask it. Perhaps we all do.
