Great Photo, Lovely Life
Mar 10, 2023 | IMDB 7.9
112 min Watch NowDocumentary
A photojournalist turns her lens on the decades of sexual abuse her family and community experienced at the hands of her grandfather in this unflinching portrait of intergenerational trauma, family secrets, and redemption.
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