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Small Country: An African Childhood
When The Innocence Of Childhood Faces History
2020·1h 52m·★ 7.2
French original
Gabriel, aged 10, lives in a comfortable ex-pat neighborhood in Burundi, his ‘small country’. Gabriel is a normal kid, happy, carefree and having adventures with his friends and little sister. Then in 1993, tensions in neighboring Rwanda spill over, threatening his family and his innocence.
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Standard sit-down · 1h 52m
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