Talking Pictures: Surviving Home (Review) Official Selection DTLA Film Festival

Host Paul Booth reviews the Documentary SURVIVING HOME.

SYNOPSIS 
Surviving Home is an intimate documentary that follows four U.S. military veterans from different generations over an eight year period as they rebuild their lives after war. Interwoven with veterans’ voices from across the country, their unique paths of healing and transformation shed light on long-term consequences of war and raise questions about the roots of war and societal cycles of violence.

A severely injured Iraq War veteran (Bobby Henline) discovers a new voice that helps heal his wounds of war, as he and his wife struggle to keep their marriage alive. A Vietnam War veteran becomes a Buddhist monk (Claude AnShin Thomas) in an effort to come to terms with the carnage and dehumanization of combat. A female Iraq War veteran (Tracey Cooper-Harris) fights through the effects of Military Sexual Trauma to take on the U.S. government in a class-action lawsuit that could improve the lives of the next wave of men and women in uniform. A World War II veteran (Richard Green), who waited years to receive military benefits, spends time helping others with the support of a young, civically-minded Marine Corps veteran (Jeff Prutz) looking out for him.

Through perseverance, humor, inner reflection, courage, and the determination to help others, they cannot foresee each bend in the road that lies ahead.