My Small Land

What does it mean for someone to flee, start anew, adopt a new culture, and have to fear losing everything all over again? These are the issues addressed in this moving and honest film.

The teenage Sarya lives with her family in Japan. She is a good student, popular in her class, responsible and helpful. Even a tender first love seems possible. However, Japan is not her home country and Japanese is not her mother tongue. Even her friends don’t know that she is a Kurdish refugee. And when her father is denied refugee status by the Japanese authorities, it triggers an avalanche of problems. Her future in the new country is now completely up in the air. ›My Small Land‹ is a moving and topical film that portrays the harsh realities of its characters’ lives and at the same time inspires hope.



After the screening in Heidelberg on November 23, together with our cooperation partner Mosaik Deutschland e.V., we are hosting a discussion on the topic of flight and displacement. Never have so many people been on the run as today. ›My Small Land‹ show us that behind the bare statistics there are always individual fates. The workshop is about politics and our coexistence, but also about emotions.

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