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A Friendship (2021)

A Friendship poster
Directed by
Abu Nizam
Genre
drama, romance
Runtime
1h 23m
Rated
NR
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A lonely middle-aged man in Toronto house-sits for a divorced woman he has never met. Over phone calls, they form a friendship and support each other through the cultural challenges of being Bangladeshi immigrants in Canada.

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