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201624 minPGdocumentary

It's Not That Cold Siberia

201624 minPGdocumentary

A box containing photographs of a lifetime is handed to Spanish filmmaker Isabel Coixet by an unknown man at a Siberian film festival.

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A box containing photographs of a lifetime is handed to Spanish filmmaker Isabel Coixet by an unknown man at a Siberian film festival.

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Isabel Coixet attends a film festival in Siberia. At the event, an unknown man gives her a box filled with photographs. The images remind her of her father but their significance is unclear. Back in Barcelona, she attempts to sort the photographs and piece together their story. The film runs for 24 minutes and was released in 2016.

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