EXCLUSIVE: The Sundance award-winning One in a Million, a longitudinal film about a Syrian girl caught between life as a refugee in Germany and memories of her homeland, has just made its European premiere at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival in Greece. The Newcomers Competition entry also screens today at the Pavlos Zannas venue.
On Saturday (March 14), the documentary directed by Itab Azzam and Jack MacInnes plays at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen, with additional screenings set there for March 16, 17, and 18.
Azzam and MacInnes won the directing award for World Cinema Documentary at Sundance for their story that follows a young woman named Israa “from childhood to adulthood on an extraordinary journey from Syria to Germany.” The film was shot over a 10-year period beginning when Israa was 11, “as she and her family are preparing to cross the Aegean Sea, risking everything in search of safety
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