Rain in a Dry Land (2006)

Directed by

Ruth Lingford

Country

United States

Elsewhere

IMDb

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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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