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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Why this pick
Like The Good Lie, it finds hope and dignity in an African community facing devastating hardship, using an intimate, compassionate journey rather than sentimentality.
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MOVIE2014 2h 0m KEN
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
During the Second Sudanese Civil War, siblings Mamere, Paul, Jeremiah, Theo, Daniel, and Abital escape after their families and village are massacred. After numerous days of walking in the wilderness, they join a group of refugees but leave after they are caught by enemy soldiers and many people are killed. After sleeping in the grassland, Theo wakes up and spots two enemy soldiers approaching them. Theo hides the rest of the siblings in the grass and lies to the soldiers that he is alone. He is taken in custody with the soldiers. The group eventually arrives at a Sudanese refugee camp in Nairobi, Kenya, where Daniel succumbs to disease and dies. Thirteen years later, among the thousands in the camp, the siblings win for relocation to the United States.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Corey Stoll
Jack
Thad Luckinbill
Matt
Maria Howell
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Joshua Mikel
Dave
Femi Oguns
Theo
Michael H. Cole
Reverend Trutner
Brian Kurlander
Frank
Vince Pisani
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