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And as always, email us with any questions or feedback at food at markbitman.com. Historically, I haven't paid much attention to movie shorts.

I don't know why exactly.

I think maybe I thought it would be difficult

to tell a poignant story in such a short amount of time. I realize now that, of course,

I shouldn't have prejudged. My dad heard about the short Daily City from Matt Wexler, a producer

he's worked with a lot. He watched Daily City, my dad did,

and immediately texted it to me, telling me to watch, and when predictably I didn't, he nudged

me, which is unusual for him, so I knew he must have really liked it. I don't know if my dad

knew just how much I'd like Daily City, though. It's long for a short,

at 15 minutes, and I can say honestly that it's one of the best things I've watched in a long time.

That includes TV, feature-length movies, all of it. Told through the eyes of a young boy, probably

around my son's age, which is nine, daily city is a brief look into one family's

experience of being immigrants in america told mostly through food although there are other parts of the story too i don't want to

give anything away simply put this movie is magic it's bittersweet and beautiful, and it's autobiographical.

The movie was made by the filmmaker Nick Hartanto, who immigrated with his family from Surabaya, Indonesia when he was four.

Nick's done a bunch of commercial work for clients like Kandai Nas and Netflix, and he worked in restaurants, too.

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