Rain in a Dry Land (2006)
- Directed by
- Ruth Lingford
- Country
- United States
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
Two Bantu families leave Kenyan refugee camps and move to cities in the United States. The documentary follows their challenges and adjustments as they start new lives.
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What happens
Rain in a Dry Land is a 2006 documentary film directed by Anne Makepeace and filmed by Joan Churchill & Barney Broomfield that chronicles the experiences of two Bantu as they are transported by relief organizations from Kenyan refugee camps to Atlanta, Georgia and then Springfield, Massachusetts. Rain in a Dry Land Makepeace also wrote and produced the documentary and was broadcast as part of PBS's Point of View series. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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