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Baba Luba

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1995-96
56 min.Documentary
Executive Producer: Amit Breuer
Director: Julie Shles
Co-Production with Amythos, IBA - Israel, The New Foundation for Cinema and TV - Israel.

• Israeli Academy Award for Best Documentary Film 1995

Synopsis

This documentary follows one man's journey back to Brazil 36 years after his father abandons both him and his mother and disappears. The story unfolds in the form of a detective feature following the developing drama, examining ideas of fatherhood and family, as well as depicting very intimate and revealing moments of one man's search for love.