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December 03, 2004
Film: _A Great Wonder_
A Great Wonder: A new documentary about the "Lost Boys and Girls
of Sudan" (Kim Shelton)(3 pm in Gifford)
Orphans from the longest running civil war in Africa who have recently
resettled in America, and this film traces the extraordinary journey of
three young Sudanese orphans who have spent the majority of their lives
either in flight from war or in a refugee camp. Having navigated the
hazards of warfare, disease and starvation, and having survived a
children's exodus of Biblical proportions, their arrival and settlement
in America is not your average immigration story. The film follows two
boys and one girl for 18 months as they struggle to not only assimilate
into the American culture but cope with the memories of a life of war.
Posted by mryonker at December 3, 2004 04:20 PM