{"id":2249230,"date":"2026-01-25T03:48:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T03:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2249230"},"modified":"2026-01-25T03:48:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T03:48:03","slug":"one-in-a-million-review-a-poignant-decade-spanning-portrait-of-a-syrian-refugee-caught-between-two-ideas-of-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/one-in-a-million-review-a-poignant-decade-spanning-portrait-of-a-syrian-refugee-caught-between-two-ideas-of-home\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018One in a Million\u2019 Review: A Poignant, Decade-Spanning Portrait of a Syrian Refugee Caught Between Two Ideas of Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">When you\u2019ve 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 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm4599812\/\">Itab Azzam<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3035790\/\">Jack MacInnes<\/a> maintain both those perspectives in their film \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt38908749\/\">One in a Million<\/a>,\u201d 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 \u2014 and in the present, growing up faster than her similarly unmoored parents can process. 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