When you’ve only lived for a decade, the next one stretches ahead of you like an apparent eternity. To the elders raising you, it goes by in the blink of an eye. Docmakers Itab Azzam and Jack MacInnes maintain both those perspectives in their film “One in a Million,” charting changes at once vast and disorientingly swift in the life of a young Syrian refugee estranged from her past and unsure of her future — and in the present, growing up faster than her similarly unmoored parents can process. First encountering their 11-year-old protagonist Israa in 2015, when she and her family have been newly displaced from their home in Aleppo, Azzam and MacInnes spend ten full years following her through several stages of cultural alienation and adaptation, alongside the more universal trials of adolesecence.
The resulting film is both a stirring addition to the veritable library of documentaries on the…
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