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March 2021

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ABC

  • Director: Madli Lääne
  • Type: Shorts
  • Year: 2013
  • Language: Loma, Liberian, English with English subtitles
  • Length: 12 minutes

All 17-year old Vele wants is to learn how to read and write – to keep up with her seven-year-old daughter. After endless years of the Liberian civil war, her ability to sign her own name is her next big step towards independence — away from the painful past, into a brighter future.

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