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EL GRAN VIAJE AL PAÍS PEQUEÑO

A GREAT TRIP TO A SMALL COUNTRY

By Mariana VIÑOLES

Social issues - Completed 2019

The film follows the life of two Syrian families from the first meeting between filmmaker and main characters in a refugee camp in Lebanon, as they leave their land behind to start anew in a small, faraway country called Uruguay.

- Year of production
- 2019
- Genres
- Social issues, Documentary
- Countries
- URUGUAY
- Languages
- ARABIC, SPANISH
- Budget
- 0 - 0.3 M$
- Duration
- 106 mn
- Director(s)
- Mariana VIÑOLES
- Cast
- Sanaa ALMOHAMMED, Ibrahim ALMOHAMMED, Meri ALSHEBLI
- Producer(s)
- Micaela SOLÉ (CORDON FILMS)
- Synopsis
- In 2014, in response to a humanitarian emergency, Uruguayan President José Mujica launched a government program to host Syrian war refugees settled in Lebanon.
  
  This film follows the lengthy adaptation process of two Syrian families from the very first meeting between filmmaker and main characters in a refugee camp in Lebanon, as they leave their landscape and traditions behind, in order to begin life anew, in a small, faraway country about which they knew nothing, called Uruguay.