"L'Été de Jahia" by Olivier Meys: chronicle of a friendship between two teenage refugees
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Between hope and resignation, two 16-year-old girls share their daily lives in an asylum seeker center in Belgium. Olivier Meys' film subtly captures this suspended and painful time of waiting.
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I subscribeEverything contrasts Jahia and Mila, two 16-year-old teenagers whose paths cross in a reception center for asylum seekers in the Belgian countryside. The former, who came from a sub-Saharan country with her mother, must manage the latter's anxiety attacks, inherited from the traumas of a country at war. Reserved and mute, neglecting the benches of the nearby school to take care of meals and administrative procedures, Jahia lives in perpetual fear of deportation.
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