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Home: The Country of Illusion
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Home: The Country of Illusion

Mar 4, 2016
1h 25m
★ 8.0

Overview

Lilia, a Colombian citizen, has lived in eight countries around the world. Now, at the age of 67, she grows old alone in Portugal, caring for an Alzheimer's patient. The filmmaker asks her mother Lilia if she has found home and if she will ever return to Colombia, her native country she hasn't visited for the past 40 years. HOME is a personal-approach documentary about loneliness and the sense of belonging.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Red Desert Films
Global Eyes Production

Home: The Country of Illusion Trailers

Cast

Lilia Forero Arenas

Self

Lilia Forero Arenas

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