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Calling Home

For most Londoners home is both in the city and somewhere else at the other end of a phone line. This short documentary, entirely shot inside phone booths in cheap international call centres, is a gripping, emotional portrait of long distance relationships between immigrants and their families in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and South America.

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For most Londoners home is both in the city and somewhere else at the other end of a phone line. This short documentary, entirely shot inside phone booths in cheap international call centres, is a gripping, emotional portrait of long distance relationships between immigrants and their families in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and South America.

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