Joanne & Jacob

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Joanne & Jacob

2015

0h 6m

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Documentary

Drama

Overview

A short, poetic documentary of an old woman and the loneliness that surrounds her after her husband was sent to a nursing home.

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1 member

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Joanne van Gils

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