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Tell Us the Truth Josephine: A Bitter Immigrant Story

Directed by Valerie Buhagiar
Canada / Malte, 2006 (experimental, 15 minutes, colour, English)

Film Description:
"Tell Us the Truth Josephine is a 15 minute experimental drama about a Maltese woman's search for 'Home'. Josephine struts across Canada on stilts. And for Josephine to find home she must accept the Truth. And once she does she can come off her stilts and land. Her journey is haunted by fragmented voices and images of her bloodline—bitter immigrant stories."
-- valeriebuhagiar.com (source)

Film Credits (partial):
Written by: Valerie Buhagiar
Produced by: Valerie Buhagiar
Principal Cast: Valerie Buhagiar, Oksana Sokalowski, Elaine Kolinas, Leo Jenkins, Gerald Jenkins, Vasily Grigorovsky, Benjamin Snetsinger, Nazareno Buhagiar, Magdalena Prucha, Pius Agius, Laura Drury, Agatha Agius Grace, Boyd Bonitzke, Clinton Butler, Gary Fluxgold, Julia Atkins, Mary Paiva, Scolastics Cutajar, Nadia Hassan, Nadia Habib, Page Parker, Sierra Clifton, Willa Milchem-Bourne
Cinematography: Justin Lovell
Film Editing: Tiffany Beaudin
Music: Richard Feren
(sources)

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