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Missed Call

Victoria Mapplebeck · UK · Documentary / Drama · 19 min · 597K views

Directed by Victoria Mapplebeck · Starring Jim Mapplebeck, Victoria Mapplebeck · 2018

Filmmaker Victoria Mapplebeck turns her iPhone on her own family as her son tries to reconnect with the father who has been absent for most of his life, in this follow-up to her short '160 Characters'.

An intimate, iPhone-shot family documentary about trying to bridge years of a father's absence, one call and message at a time.

How do you reconnect with a father who’s been gone for most of your life… what do you say, what do you write? Victoria Mapplebeck returns to S/W with the follow-up to her deeply personal short film '160 Characters'

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