Summary
The unlikely and wildly inspirational story of intrepid social entrepreneur, Mariam Shaar – a generational refugee who has spent her entire life in the Burj El Barajneh refugee camp just south of Beirut, Lebanon.
Good for
- Date night
- Family movie night
- Friends night
Skip it if
- You want something to laugh at
- You want dark or edgy material
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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
Critics a little warmer than audiences (+7)
Critics 89Audiences 82GoodWatch 74
Tomatometer100%
Metascore77
Audience score90%
IMDb7.4
Running time
1 h 13 min
Shorter than 9 in 10 documentaries, −23 min on the typical 96
typical 9673Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 139 countries
+129Released
2017
December 15, 2017
9 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
Arabic
Original language
Made in
Lebanon- United States
Directing · 1
- Thomas A. Morgan Director, Writer
Production · 1
- Susan Sarandon Executive Producer
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