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One in a Million review – deeply moving film about displacement, freedom and the upheaval of starting again
Following a Syrian mother and daughter over a decade, Itab Azzam and Jack MacInnes capture a family transformedThere’s a startling moment in this BBC refugee documentary when Syrian mother Nisreen – in the apparently miserable situation of hiking across the Balkans towards Germany, four kids in tow – suddenly explodes with joy. “This is the best holiday I’ve ever had! It’s an amazing adventure. Now I have the chance to walk in the rain – I love it!” Shunted off early into an arranged marriage, never having left Syria until forced out of Aleppo by the civil war, for Nisreen this running jump in