Screen/Society--Refugee Film Series--"The Good Lie"

This film screening is part of the Middle East Refugees Awareness Week (April 8-17): "The Good Lie" (Philippe Falardeau, 2014, 110 min, Kenya/India/USA, in English, Nuer and Dinka with English subtitles, Color, Blu-Ray) / "The Good Lie", by Philippe Falardeau (writer and director of the Oscar-nominated Foreign Language film "Monsieur Lazhar"), tells the story of four Sudanese children who are orphaned after their village is massacred in the Second Sudanese Civil War. Consequently, they make an arduous and dangerous trek through the plains, enduring hardship and sacrifices all the way until they reach safety in a refugee camp in Ethiopia. Years later, these youths are among 3600 selected for resettlement in America, only to have the one girl among them sent to Boston, while the three boys must make a new life in Kansas City. Together, these young men must adjust to an alien culture even as the emotional baggage of their past haunts them. However, these newcomers, and their new friends like employment counselor Carrie Davis (Reese Witherspoon), strive to understand each other in this new home, as they make peace with their histories in a challenge that will change all their lives. / Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygG9Xh_EhMQ / Co-sponsored by the Duke-UNC Consortium in Middle East Studies and the Undergraduate Council.