Sundance 2011 Shorts Program III

Of the three shorts programs I saw on Saturday the 22nd, this was my least favorite overall.
I did like "Stopover," however, and think it is the best of the eight shorts in this program.
This is a story of a Romanian woman on her way to Miami who has her wallet stolen from her purse at the airport in either Italy or Spain (sorry, my Romance languages aren't good and it was a week ago). Her boarding pass and passport are both gone, but she has her phone. She does not want to go to security for help, despite her husband's urgings.
A man approaches her at the gate where she is calling her father and husband to have them cancel her credit cards and try to get her new documents as quickly as possible. He comments on her being Romanian and offers to help, she does not accept his offer but he helps her anyway. He returns her wallet with her passport and boarding pass but not her money and cards.
This little story, 14 minutes, isn't about the loss of documents and problems that can cause, but about how a common language in a foreign country makes strangers decide that someone is interested and familiar. It begins on the plane with an older woman talking our subjects ear off, the man in the airport helps her because she is Romanian, when she is finally on the plane another woman starts talking to her in Romanian, again because she overheard her on the phone. Our hero is from Romania, but she is not interested in this community of linguistic exile, all she wants to do is get to Miami.