Editor's note: This guest post originally appeared on Hunger Notes and was written by Steve Hansch, a Hunger Notes editor and a member of the World Hunger Education Service Board of Directors with more than 20 years of experience in monitoring and evaluation of aid programs, particularly humanitarian mitigation, relief and recovery.
The Good Lie is not merely a great movie, it's also a beautiful movie. What can you say about a movie where the scenes depicted in the closing credits are more powerful than most whole movies from the last decade?
The Good Lie, released in October 2014 in the United States, eloquently shows the story of children of different ages fleeing violent conflict in Sudan and finding safety in a refugee camp in Kenya, and thereafter in the United States. Impressively, though a big-budget, polished film, the key actors are actually all Sudanese refugees who lived the experience.
The second half of the film focuses on the real challenges of resettlement in the U.S., acclimation hurdles both amusing and harsh. Four refugees in particular are tracked over journey of discovery to the prospective homes in the mysterious U.S. mid-west. Each of these protagonists struggles with their own demons in merging old and new work and life styles. Mamere and Abital are unforgettable.
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