The Internationalist

The Internationalist

2024 · 90 min · Drama

A disillusioned Australian photographer who once dreamed of glory as a documentarian of the human condition discovers his real grandfather was a heroic war correspondent who disappeared during the Spanish Civil War and, alongside a rebel journalist, goes on a quest to find him (and himself) before his nurse turned resistance fighter grandmother passes away to ultimately redeem himself.

Directed by Yolanda Torres

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