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Where is Elle Kari and what happened to Noriko-san? (2014)

Where is Elle Kari and what happened to Noriko-san? poster
Directed by
Dvorit Shargal
Genre
documentary film
Country
Israel
Elsewhere
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How it feels

A documentary filmmaker searches for two girls who were photographed decades ago in children's books. She travels to their home countries to find out what became of them.

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What happens

Where Is Elle Kari and What Happened to Noriko-san? (Hebrew: איפה אלה קרי ומה קרה לנוריקו-סאן?) is an Israeli documentary by Dvorit Shargal from 2014. It deals with the photo books from the series Children's Everywhere by Anna Riwkin-Brick, Astrid Lindgren, Leah Goldberg and Elly Jannes. Where Is Elle Kari and What Happened to Noriko-san? is the first part of a film trilogy. The follow-up films, which also deal with the photo books from the series Children's Everywhere, were filmed in 2016 (Africa! Sia Lives on Kilimanjaro) and 2017 (Where Is Lilibet the Circus Child and What Happened in Honolulu?). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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