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Dear Nanay

Directed by Frances Grace Mortel
  • Subtitled
  • 2021
  • 3 mins
  • Bay Area premiere

A love letter to her grandmother, this experimental documentary explores the filmmaker’s early memories in the Philippines and her search for refuge from pandemic anxiety and domestic claustrophobia.

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