Wednesday, November 09, 2005

The Refugee All Stars

In The Refugee All Stars, documentary filmmakers Zach Niles and Banker White show how artists, in this case musicians from Sierra Leone, keep culture alive and in the process begin to heal their own wounds as they bring moments of joy to their fellow refugee camp inhabitants and plan their return home to Sierra Leone. Like Back To Bosnia, the journey of those returning home is arduous and bittersweet: filled with extreme joy and extreme pain.

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