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Just Like My Son (2018)

Just Like My Son poster
Original title
Sembra mio figlio
Directed by
Costanza Quatriglio
Genre
drama
Country
Croatia, Italy, Belgium
Runtime
1h 43m
Rating
4.7 of 10 from 9 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young man who fled as a child returns from Italy to his homeland in Afghanistan to find his mother. His brother stays behind in Trieste with physical and psychological scars from the Taliban. The journey reveals the larger suffering of the Hazara people.

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What happens

Sembra mio figlio è un film del 2018 diretto da Costanza Quatriglio. Dopo essere fuggito Kabul da bambino, Ismail vive a Trieste con il fratello Hassan, che ancora risente fisicamente e psicologicamente delle angherie subite dai Talebani. La madre, rimasta in Afghanistan, rifiuta di rispondere alle sue domande, ma forse ne è impedita dall'uomo che dice di essere il suo nuovo marito. Ismail decide allora di tornare nei suoi luoghi di origine per cercarla. Il viaggio, in Pakistan prima e poi in Afghanistan, apre la storia personale alla tragedia del popolo hazara. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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