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Review: ‘Birth of a Family’

by Pat Mullen
April 27, 2017November 6, 2021
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Birth of a Family (Canada, 79 min.) Dir. Tasha Hubbard Programme: Canadian Spectrum (World Premiere)   A revelatory documentary, Birth of a Family is a family-reunion doc unlike any you’ve seen before.

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