WINNER of the Best Foreign Language Film Award at this year's Oscars, Nowhere in Africa is a love story of epic proportions.
Directed by Caroline Link, the subtitled German offering tells the true tale of a Jewish family who flee the Nazi regime at the very last moment and start a new life on a remote Kenyan farm.
Torn from her comfortable life in Germany, shy five-year-old Regina embraces her new life, discovering the magic in the wilderness of the sun-burnt African plains and the at first strange-seeming people who live there.
Her parents, however, find it harder to leave their European roots behind and adjust to the poverty and isolation of their new home.
Focusing the family and their sense of estrangement, the film has won widespread acclaim for the sweeping, wide screen photography of Gernot Toll and Niki Reiser's symphonic score.
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