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Fell in Love with a Girl

Fell in Love with a Girl

2017 · 119 min · ★ 6.3 · Documentary

A film about longstanding relationships, family, and the deep consequences of falling in love. While exploring themes of love in music, poetry and art, the filmmaker reflects on his life and the journeys on which love has taken him. Now, a new journey will test him again, an intercontinental exodus to keep his family together. A real and intimate portrait about the complexity of love.

Directed by Kaleo La Belle · Written by Kaleo La Belle

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