My Small Land

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VERDICT: Japanese filmmaker Emma Kawawada takes the humanist cue from her mentor, Hirokazu Kore-eda, and adapt it to her warm and engaging directorial debut, in which a Kurdish-born Japanese teenager struggles to keep her life and dreams afloat when the authorities threaten to deport her family from the country.

Clarence Tsui

February 13th, 2022

Probably one of the most prominent ethnic groups without a country to call its own, the Kurds and th
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