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Next Section A Long Way Home Summary How To Cite in MLA Format Barbour, Polly, et al. Will review the submission and either publish your submission or provide feedback. Andie MacDowell as Delilah 'Del' Landry, 4 Katherines mother and Alices. Chyler Leigh as Katherine 'Kat' Landry Dhawan, Alices mother. You can help us out by revising, improving and updatingĪfter you claim a section you’ll have 24 hours to send in a draft. Sadie Laflamme-Snow as Alice 'Ali' Dhawan, a 15-year-old girl who accidentally discovers she can time travel after falling into the pond on the family property. Lion premiered at the 2016 International Film Festival and starred Nicole Kidman, Dev Patel and Rooney Mara, earning Patel an Academy Award nomination in the Best Supporting Actor category.īrierly announced in 2019 that he was searching for his birth father, a man of unknown whereabouts, who had left the family when he was an infant. In 2016, Garth Davis directed the big screen adaptation of the book. He begins his search by finding his hometown on Google Earth.Īs well as being an autobiographical work, the book also touches on subjects such as Third World poverty, survival and the struggle to find one's true identity. Twenty five years later, he begins to search for his Indian family, wanting to find out once and for all who he really was and where it was that he had come from. Have you ever been a child lost in a department store, looking for your mother, panicking and wondering how you are ever going to get home again? This feeling of rising fear inside a child who does not know where they are but finds themselves horribly and interminably alone is magnified one hundred fold in Saroo Brierly's autobiography, A Long Way Home it tells the story of a five year old Brerly lost in rural India, wondering where he was, and where he was going to end up, before he was adopted by a wealthy Australian family. Written by Polly Barbour and other people who wish to remain anonymous We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. The film has been the recipient of numerous awards at international film festivals.These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. The film takes an in-depth look at how most of the world was either indifferent or unwilling to deal with the plight of the Jewish refugees, but at the same time acknowledges the efforts of those who did support the survivors in their attempt to make new lives for themselves.Īfter its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, The Long Way Home was screened theatrically throughout the United States and was acquired for broadcast by the Showtime Cable Networks. With thousands of Jewish refugees still languishing in DP camps, Jewish resistance groups in Palestine unite to form a resistance movement to oppose the British. Those who try to return home are met with antisemitism and threats of physical violence.Īmerican and British authorities set up 'Displaced Persons Camps' to house the refugees, often on the same sites as former concentration and death camps. The majority have lost most, if not all of their families members. Thousands of starving, half-dead Jewish survivors are freed from Nazi persecution. American, British, and Russian soldiers have liberated Nazi death camps in Central and Eastern Europe, uncovering to the world the horror and tragedy of the Holocaust. Germany has been defeated by the Allies and the war in Europe is officially over. “Staggeringly powerful.” – The New York Timesįeaturing the voices of Edward Asner, Sean Astin, Martin Landau, David Paymer, and Nina Siemasko, the film combines rare archival films and stills with new interviews, and interweaves historical narrative with stories, anecdotes, and recollections of Jewish refugees. Narrated by Academy Award-winner Morgan Freeman American forces occupying Iraq are ambushed in a Baghdad neighborhood. With Michael Kelly, Jason Ritter, Kate Bosworth, E.J. Winner of the 1997 Academy Award® for Best Feature Documentary The Long Road Home: Created by Mikko Alanne. Watch Now TheArchive Kanopy Xumo GooglePlay Amazon Purchase DVD

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