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Sweet, Sweet Country
Season 5 Episode 26 | 19m 50sVideo has Closed Captions
A young refugee in the U.S. receives unexpected guests.
Young Somalian refugee Ndizeye is navigating new her new life and love (played by Gbenga Akinnagbe) in the U.S. until unexpected visitors come knocking at her door. A film by Dehanza Rogers.
Film School Shorts is made possible by a grant from Maurice Kanbar, celebrating the vitality and power of the moving image, and by the members of KQED.
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Sweet, Sweet Country
Season 5 Episode 26 | 19m 50sVideo has Closed Captions
Young Somalian refugee Ndizeye is navigating new her new life and love (played by Gbenga Akinnagbe) in the U.S. until unexpected visitors come knocking at her door. A film by Dehanza Rogers.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(title whooshes) (title cracks) (film beeps) (people chatter) - [Karen] We have a few forms for you to fill out, and there are a few specific classes for those seeking asylum here in Clarkston, Georgia.
Now, you will receive a bill for your IMO travel here to the states, and this will help in establishing credit.
Now, we can also help finding temporary housing for a few months, funds willing.
- No housing, we have a daughter.
- [Karen] Do you have a telephone number for her?
- [Danai] It no longer works.
She lives here.
She came to America, she made a home for us.
We have a home.
(twangy music) (singing in foreign language) Ooh, I cry, sing the blues Oh, she laughed at you (sings in foreign language) (drawer rustles) - [Ernesto] Damn, girl, slow down.
(drawer squeaks) (creaking) I missed you.
(creaking) So you gonna act like you mad?
(creaking) - What's wrong?
(laughs) Never bothered you before.
(clattering) (sultry music) - I'm not going anywhere.
I'm just telling you.
(sultry music) (creaking) Be nice.
I knew you missed me.
(scoffs) I ain't got room to miss nobody else, man.
(creaking) - You miss em.
- Yeah.
- You wanna talk on it?
- I keep thinking about when I was small, before the camps, before we left Somalia.
There was a garden in the back of our house.
Mother would work in the garden.
I sat with Baba, and he would tell, (speaks in foreign language) - Uh ... - Um, once upon a time.
- [Ernesto] Fairy tale.
- Moral tales.
- Fables.
- Yes, fables.
He told fables.
- When was the last time you talked with them?
- I don't remember the last time I talked with them.
A year, maybe?
(children yelling) There was an explosion at the Dadaab camp a few weeks ago.
They were on an asylum list, but it is a long list.
I don't know if they're still there, or another camp, or ... (shushing) (creaking) - Same arrangement?
- You are the man with the money.
(creaking) (body thumps) - Just me.
- You can have whatever you want.
- Mm.
- I can afford it.
(Ernesto scoffs) (bills flick) (apple crunches) (papers rustle) (keys jangle) (energetic music) (singing in foreign language) (Ndizeye gasps) Sabera, look at you!
(laughs) - [Fakhta] A woman.
- (speaks in foreign language) - (speaks in foreign language) - Hey, hey.
(door creaks) (door thumps) (cabinet thumps) - Too thin.
- What?
- How will you ever find the husband?
(Ndizeye scoffs) (twangy music) - A little pepper.
Worth every penny, every penny.
Enjoy, eh?
(lock clicks) (children scream) - Who are you?
- [Ernesto] Uh ... - He's my friend.
- He has a key.
Why does he have a key?
- Your family.
- Yes.
Ndizeye's told me a lot about you.
It's an honor to meet you, sir.
All of you.
- Who are you to know about us?
- Right, um ... - I know.
(door creaks) - I left my ring.
(Ndizeye grunts) - In the camps, they say the Devil comes dressed as a respectable man.
It happens here as well.
- Look, I'm just a friend, alright?
I just came to ... - To use my daughter?
(Ernesto and Danai shuffle) - Hey.
- Here.
(speaks in foreign language) - Men at your door?
Men?
- No, not men!
- Liar!
You come into this country ...
I'd rather you were dead!
It's been wasted on you.
- Wasted?
You really think this is the (speaks foreign language).
This is how it works.
I know who I am, and I know what I have.
How do you think you were able to live a little bit better than most?
He's paid for our lives for years.
(skin slaps) (door creaks and slams) (twangy music) (Ndizeye sobs) ("EX-itrance" by Blitz the Ambassador)
Film School Shorts is made possible by a grant from Maurice Kanbar, celebrating the vitality and power of the moving image, and by the members of KQED.