Hoar(2022)

Hoar is a drama following a phone sex operator who receives acceptance to a PhD program abroad. Facing this life-changing opportunity, she must return home and confront her devout Catholic mother—a woman struggling with hoarding and codependency—to navigate the fallout of her difficult choice. The film explores the tension between personal ambition and family obligation, examining how shame, faith, and unresolved trauma shape the relationship between mother and daughter. As the protagonist prepares to leave, she's forced to reckon with the emotional weight of abandoning her mother and the complicated love that binds them together. Hoar is an intimate character study that doesn't shy away from the messy realities of family dynamics and the price of independence.