Letter from a Filmmaker to His Daughter
2000 · 47m · N/A
Documentary
Directed by
Eric Pauwels
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.
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