Production Design
Após 17 anos longe, a esposa e filha adolescente do imigrante angolano Walter finalmente se juntam a ele nos Estados Unidos. Agora completos estranhos, eles dividem um pequeno apartamento. Felizmente, descobrem um amor comum pela dança que pode ajudar a superar a distância emocional entre a família.
Production Design
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.
Production Design
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.
ESL Teacher
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.
