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Ice Merchants (Country: Portugal, UK, France; Year: 2022; Director: João Gonzalez; Writer: João Gonzalez)
Every day, a father and his son jump with a parachute from their vertiginous cold house, attached to a cliff, to go to the village on the ground, far away where they sell the ice they produce daily.
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