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Released
2003 · FILM

So Close to Home

It takes a stranger to show you what it means to belong

Directed by
Runtime
52 min
Drama

Synopsis

Maggie, a professional woman dutifully paying a visit to her overbearing mother in Sydney, encounters a 14-year-old Kosovan girl on the train. Strangely propelled by the girl's isolation, she embarks on a mission to reunite her with her mother in a refugee detention centre, but gradually discovers that it is in fact the young stranger who is showing her how to reconcile with her own mother.

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Principal cast & crew: 15

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Craft leads on file

Edited by Denise HaratzisShot by Cordelia BeresfordScored by Alan JohnDesigned by Pete Baxter

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