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Bella Vista

Directed by Vera Brunner-Sung

Missoula • 2013 • 83 mins. • In English

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Having recently moved to Missoula, Montana to teach English to a group of international students, thirty-something Doris finds herself alone. She wanders listlessly, but her students possess courage, purpose, and grounding and understand what it takes to belong. Inspired in part by director Brenner-Sung’s experience moving to Montana in 2011, BELLA VISTA is a meditation on displacement and adaptation in the contemporary American West exploring both the perils of rootlessness as well as the optimism of new beginnings.

Genres: Northwest Filmmaker, Drama

Appears in: 41st Northwest Filmmakers’ Festival