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Reunited

2020 · 77 min

A quiet, sobering watch that sits with a family's ache across borders and bureaucracy, moving slowly and leaving a heavy, helpless sadness.

Directed by
Mira Jargil
Genres
Documentary
Overview
Having fled from Syria, two doctors and their children become separated. The kids bravely live on their own in Turkey, while their parents make it to Canada and Denmark. Now they're stuck in a Kafkaesque system that reduces their family life to Skype calls. Will they manage to reunite? The film follows a family divided by war and invites the audience to experience the consequences of choices made under huge pressure.

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Directed by
Mira Jargil
Genres
Documentary
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Tone
    Pacing
    slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • family
    • isolation
    • survival
    • immigration
    • parenthood
    Places
    None
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • documentary
    • true story
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence none
    • Sex none
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    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action0
    Horror0
    Humour1
    Realism10
    Romance0
    Tension5
    Darkness6
    Complexity5
    Emotional weight8

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    Details

    Genres
    documentary
    Directed by
    Mira Jargil
    Runtime
    77 min
    Country
    Denmark
    Languages
    Danish, English, Arabic

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