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Edge of the Valley

Edge of the Valley

The hardest thing is the sun

2021•8m•10.0/10
Documentary

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10.0/10(1)

A nine-year-old Syrian refugee girl contemplates her increasingly bleak future after being forced to drop out of school in the midst of Lebanon’s unprecedented economic collapse and battle with Covid-19.

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