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Small Country: An African Childhood (2020)

Small Country: An African Childhood poster
Original title
Petit Pays
Directed by
Éric Barbier
Genre
drama film
Country
France, Belgium
Runtime
1h 51m
Rated
12
Rating
7.1 of 10 from 164 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A boy grows up in Burundi in the 1990s. His comfortable life is disrupted by the civil war.

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What happens

Small Country: An African Childhood (French: Petit Pays) is a 2020 film written and directed by Éric Barbier. It is a co-production between France and Belgium. It is an adaptation of Gaël Faye's 2016 novel Small Country. It was theatrically released in France on 28 August 2020. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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