Edge of the Valley
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Edge of the Valley

The hardest thing is the sun

10.0 / 10 2021 8mNR English
Documentary

Storyline

A nine-year-old Syrian refugee girl contemplates her increasingly bleak future after being forced to drop out of school in the midst of Lebanon’s unprecedented economic collapse and battle with Covid-19.

What People Are Saying

5.0
A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Daniel Benjamin Wheeler's vision lands with breathtaking precision.
Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
5.0
Every frame feels alive. Edge of the Valley is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker