Sequel to DOUNIA & THE PRINCESS OF ALEPPO which played last year’s NYICFF. That film followed Dounia’s flight from Syria to safety in Canada. She and her grandparents made it to safety but her father was still stuck in the worn torn country.
As the film opens Dounia and her grand parents are trying to assimilate in a town in the frozen north. She has made friends with Rosalie a French-Canadian girl and Miguizou who is a member of the First Nations. We watch as Dounia navigates her life with her friends and family while her father tries to get to his daughter.
While not as tense as the first film this film is a nice film that takes us through the next steps of a refugee. It’s a film that has a lot to say about the refugee experience as well some important things about the people of the First Nation.
If you liked the first film and wanted to know what happened next this film is for you.
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