Letter to Father

Letter to Father

Letter to Father

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Letter to Father

2023

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Carta ao Pai is an experimental film that tells the raw and sensitive story of a daughter who lost her father in a traumatic way and who sees the need to bury the past by telling him everything she didn't have time to say.

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