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앙골라내전을 피해 미국으로 이민 온 월터는 17년 만에 비자가 통과된 아내 에스더, 딸 실비아와 재회한다. 그토록 원했던 순간이지만, 월터가 사는 브루클린의 작은 아파트는 서로 떨어져 있던 시간을 단숨에 좁히기엔 너무나 비좁은 공간이다.
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Shaina lives 600 years in the future. War, greed, prejudice, poverty, pollution, violence, loneliness, depression – these are things that she’s read about in history books. When an accident in a physics experiment sends her on a time-travel journey to our times, she assumes that everyone around her is honest, generous and caring, as she recruits the help that she needs to get back home.
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An immigrant's story about the love that is lost when a man's wife and son finally receive visas to join him in the USA.
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A bittersweet coming-of-age film, Foreign Letters is itself a love letter to the unshakeable bond between friends. Set in the pre-email era of the 1980s, young Ellie, newly arrived to the US from Israel, anxiously waits for letters from her best friend back home. Suffering from homesickness, language difficulties and rejection at school, life brightens when she meets Thuy, a Vietnamese refugee her age. As the two bond and become inseparable, they eventually hurt each other, and Ellie must find a way to restore their trust. Based on director Ela Thier's personal immigration experience, Foreign Letters is a film about poverty, prejudice, shame, and the healing power of friendship.
