Letter from a Filmmaker to His Daughter

Nov 20, 2000

0h 47m

★ 6.0

Overview

A playful, free, and personal film in the form of a letter, a film interwoven with a thousand stories knit together with different textures, a book of images where a filmmaker shows the images and the stories he wants to share.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Ulrike CBA Carré Noir

CBA

RTBF

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6.1

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6.5

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0.0

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0.0

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