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The Birds Changed Names And The World Turned Into Ice

The Birds Changed Names And The World Turned Into Ice

2022 · 10 min · Documentary

Migrant families experience violence, but they also keep beautiful memories when they arrive in new lands. Fantastic and intimate stories, recalled from childhood, travel across time and space, magically intermingling with the help of the four elements and breaking the boundaries of cinema.

Directed by Mauricio Monterrubio · Written by My Anh Nguyen

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