Opening Night | City Cultures
wednesday june 6 | 20.00 hrs | Dutch premiere

Rain in a Dry Land
This film is a verité feature documentary chronicling two years in the lives of two Somali Bantu families as they journey from Africa to America. It is a story of time travel and culture shock, as these subsistence farmers find themselves in a mysterious and confusing land. Still, they managed to keep their spirits intact through years of mayhem and deprivation, and whose astonishing, open-hearted resilience enables them to make a new life. As Aden Kabir, the head of one of our featured families, says while boarding the plane for America, “Who knows how we survived there [in the refugee camp]. But we are human beings. We make a home wherever we are.”

Anne Makepeace (USA) | USA/Kenya | 2006 | 83 min | English subtitles

camera: Joan Churchill, Barney Broomfield
sound: Alan Barkereditor: Mary Lampson
producer: Anne Makepeace
awards: Winner Working Films Award, Full Frame Documentary Film Festival 2006 | Winner Women in Film Award, Atlanta Film Festival 2006 | Winner Golden Wagon Award, Fire Island Golden Wagon Film Festival | Official Selection, Margaret Mead Film Festival 2006 | Official Selection, Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2006 | Official Selection, Vancouver International Film Festival 2006

contact: Anne Makepeace Productions, Inc.
t: +1 917 6741933
e: info@makepeaceproductions.com
w: www.makepeaceproductions.com

Anne Makepeace has been making award-winning independent films for twenty years, among others Robert Capa in Love and War, Baby It’s You, and Coming to Light. With her new feature documentary, Rain in a dry land, she became winner of three film festivals. Currently she is working on an American Masters documentary about Jane Fonda, and is also producing the first 90-minute episode of a five part series on Native Americans for the American Experience/WGBH.