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19 January 2022

Berlinale 2022: Akuol de Mabior: No Simple Way Home

Akuol de Mabior's No Simple Way Home premieres at the Berlinale - Berlin International Film Festival (10 - 20 February 2022)
 
Akuol de Mabior
No Simple Way Home
Documentary - South Sudan | Kenya - 2022

Synopsis
As South Sudan hangs in the balance of a peace agreement, a mother and her two daughters return from exile. While the mother becomes central to a new government, her daughters struggle to come to terms with what it means to call South Sudan home. 

…an intergenerational conversation between my mother and me. In the opening scene, she [sits], alone, on the edge of her bed in a nightgown. Since my father passed away in 2005, she has been sharing her dreams and nightmares with me — her hopes and fears for our family, our people and our country. It’s always in the early hours of the morning when her heart is heaviest. This part of the film uncovers her greatest fear, which is that my father along with millions of South Sudanese people died in vain, and her deepest yearning, which is for her children to lead meaningful and fulfilling lives at home in South Sudan. (Source: https://goodpitch.org/project/nyandeng/)

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