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Brief Tender Light(2024)
Status: Released
Date: 2024-01-05
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Time: 1h 33m
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At America's elite MIT, a Ghanaian alum follows four African students as they strive to graduate and become agents of change for their home countries Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. Over an intimate, nearly decade-long journey, all must decide how much of America to absorb, how much of Africa to hold on to, and how to reconcile teenage ideals with the truths they discover about the world and themselves.
Languages: English, French, Hausa, Shona, Swahili.
Countries:
United States of America
ProductionCompanies: 
One Day I Too Go Fly Inc
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