🎬 Documentary

Letters from the Motherland

2017 17m Dir. He Shuming

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Featuring actual correspondence between the filmmaker's father and the caretaker of his ancestral home on Hainan Island over the past 30 years, we take a glimpse into the life of a 65-year-old Hainan-born Singaporean retiree living in the bustling cityscape of Singapore, and the caretaker living in the tropical village of Qionghai, Hainan.

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Year
2017
Runtime
17m
Genre
Documentary
Director
He Shuming
Language
ZH

Cast

👤
He Yuting
Self
👤
Ho Soo Hoon
Self
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Letters from the Motherland has a runtime of 17m ( and 17 minutes).
Letters from the Motherland was directed by He Shuming and released in 2017.
Letters from the Motherland is a Documentary film (2017).
The cast of Letters from the Motherland includes He Yuting, Ho Soo Hoon.

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