Rain in a Dry Land Cultural Orientation

RAIN IN A DRY LAND 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, culture shock, a leap from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century as these subsistence farmers find themselves in a mysterious and confusing land. More importantly, it is an intimate, human story about two extraordinary families who somehow 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.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Anne
• Makepeace
• documentary
• PBS
• POV
• Somali
• Bantu
• refugee
• immigration

[AbrahamFoxman]

Instructor: "In America, all forced sex is rape."

(cut to closeups of African men looking surprised and disappointed)

[profit1]

lol

[haydaro]

this r my paople i wish we could be living in somalia in peace ...

[khalaf2007]

if watch Witness series at al jazira you will wonder how somalia or somalis are alike a sinking ship. I wonder what the future holds for them walahi. scatered all over the world. i have seen a somali man who owns a small shop in souther Vietnam on T.V. May allah guide them into the right path and re unite them with you..

[SMPLYDBST]

these are my peeps. They love pittsburgh and the steelers

[ILoveSomalia]

this is impressive mashallah keep up the good work

[waaraa]

Great Video. It reminded me a previous documentary by PBS"The new American" The life of 4 family from Mexico, Palastine,Nigeria and India. Still remember when the guy from Nigeira said he would advice his new comers not to have high hopes. I was undergoing the same ...at the time. It really touched me.