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Title: Prisoner of War
Runtime: 12 min
Country: USA
Director: Porter Justus
Placement: Award of Excellence
Competition: September 30, 2017
Synopsis: Lieutenant Paul Jacobs is drugged and tortured behind the Korean lines. His only friend is Warren Grant, an airman, who fights for Paul and is taken away. When Paul is finally rescued he returns to a home he’s not quite sure of. Just before dinner with his family, he receives a triggering postcard, and later that evening, he attacks his own wife. He finds himself restrained again, this time by his own people. Warren once again returns to break him out. Just before he leaves, the voice of his wife stops him in his tracks.
