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016: Defining the Decade
In 2017, the #metoo movement shook the world. But what laid the foundation for its rapid spread took place five years earlier in a small-town Ohio high school, where news of an unspeakable crime spread through social media.
When a multinational gas drilling company destroys your community, what do you do? Fight it, of course.
When the Arab Spring emerged in the early 2010s, hope took root across the Middle East. Over four years, this film captures that initial optimism through the eyes of a group of young Syrian friends.
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