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Love, Dad (2022)

<p>A young woman finds in a box the letters sent by her father from prison 15 years earlier. She decides to write back in the hope of reconnecting with him.</p>

European Short Film Award 2022

A young woman finds in a box the letters sent by her father from prison 15 years earlier. She decides to write back in the hope of reconnecting with him.

Nikita likes techno and dreams of going to Berlin and visiting Berghain, the legendary club there. But Irena, his abusive mother, has confiscated his passport. Their different perspectives  come to a head in a final confrontation.

Nikita likes techno and dreams of going to Berlin and visiting Berghain, the legendary club there. But Irena, his abusive mother, has confiscated his passport. 

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