Day nine. Snow collecting on fake pansies. A week of documentary films at a Budapest festival — culminating in 20 Days in Mariupol and the 13-year portrait Apollonia, Apollonia — cracks something open about storytelling, craft, and what it means to tell stories from the heart. Also: big heavy snowflakes, and what they meant when you were a kid.

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