Summary
Eight Rwandan children leave their families behind to embark on a life-or-death journey seeking high-risk heart surgery in Sudan. Their hearts ravaged by a treatable disease from childhood strep throat, they have only months left to live.
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- Family movie night
- Friends night
- Teens
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- You want something to laugh at
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Audiences 71GoodWatch 66
IMDb7.1
Audience score71%
Running time
40 min
Shorter than 9 in 10 documentaries, −56 min on the typical 96
typical 9640Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Released
2013
January 15, 2013
13 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
English
Original language
Academy Awards2013
- Documentary Short Film2013Nominated
Directing · 1
- Kief Davidson Director
Production · 6
- Rick Rosenthal Executive Producer
- Nancy Stephens Executive Producer
- Geralyn White Dreyfous Executive Producer
- Eric Dobkin Executive Producer
- Cori Shepherd Stern Producer
- Abigail Disney Co-Executive Producer
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