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Small Country: An African Childhood

20201h 52mFrenchFR

Original title: Petit Pays

Ten-year-old Gabriel enjoys a carefree childhood with his friends and little sister in a comfortable expatriate neighborhood in Burundi, the small country he calls home. In 1993, tensions from neighboring Rwanda reach his community, placing his family and his innocence under threat.

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Drama
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Family saga

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