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Leaving June 1

Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho | 16 mins | 2005
Carried across the seas by signals between chunky cell phones, yearning suffuses this sweet and slender, vérité-style story of lovers divided by geography—he in Recife, she in Kyiv.

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