The Face of a City

Name: The Face of a City
Director: Farhad Pakdel
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2021-08-10
Duration: 11 min

202111m

★ 0.0

Documentary

The stories of four Iranian families who emigrate to Canada and the city they leave behind. As departure time approaches, social spaces become places of memory, fading into the distance.

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