Children's Film Festival - Foreign Letters[festivals]
For ages 9+. The movie is described as, "A love letter to the unshakable bond between friends, Foreign Letters is set in the pre-email era of the 1980s. Young Ellie, newly arrived to the US from Israel, waits for letters from her best friend back home as she suffers from homesickness, language difficulties and rejection at school. Her life brightens when she meets Thuy, a Vietnamese refugee her age.
The two bond and become inseparable, but they eventually hurt each other, and Ellie must find a way to restore their trust. Based on director Ela Thier’s personal immigration experience, this is a film about the healing power of friendship between girls."
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