Foreign Letters

A story of friendships without borders

A bittersweet coming-of-age film, Foreign Letters is itself a love letter to the unshakeable bond between friends. Set in the pre-email era of the 1980s, young Ellie, newly arrived to the US from Israel, anxiously waits for letters from her best friend back home. Suffering from homesickness, language difficulties and rejection at school, life brightens when she meets Thuy, a Vietnamese refugee her age. As the two bond and become inseparable, they eventually hurt each other, and Ellie must find a way to restore their trust. Based on director Ela Thier's personal immigration experience, Foreign Letters is a film about poverty, prejudice, shame, and the healing power of friendship.

Ela Thier

Director

Ela Thier

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22-04-2012

Release Date

US

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6.1

Rating

9

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100 min

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English, Vietnamese, Hebrew

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Ela Thier

Ela Thier

Ela Thier's features films are: FOREIGN LETTERS (writer-director-producer), sponsored by B&H Photo and distributed by Film Movement (2012). PUNCTURE (co-writer), a legal drama starring Chris Evans (Fantastic Four, Captain America). The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and was released by Millenium Films (2011). THE WEDDING COW (writer), is a romantic comedy produced and released by Sudwestrundfunk, a major German TV network. The film won eighteen international awards including four Best Feature and four Audience Choice awards (2000). She is currently in post-production on THE GREAT DESPAIR, a science fiction comedy sponsored by B&H Photo, to be released later this year.   Thier wrote, produced and directed over a dozen short films winning numerous Best Short awards and recognitions world-wide. She was one of the ten nominees for the White House Project Emerging Artist Award (2010), is a NYFA fellowship receipient in screenwriting/playwrighting (2008), and her scripts were selected four consecutive times by the IFP's Independent Film Week (2005-2009). -- from Ela Thier's website
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