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The World
CHINA · 2004

The World

Wang Xiaoshuai
cultural conflict immigrant experience racial prejudice sexual awakening cross-cultural friendship
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Synopsis

The year is 1968. To a small town in the south of Israel, mostly inhabited by Moroccan immigrants, a few families from India arrive, searching for a better life in the west. The instinct driven Moroccans patronize the "black" Indians, while the quiet Indians see the Moroccans as Ignorant and coarse. In this cultural war two girls, Moroccan and Indian, discover the sexual revolution of the 60's.

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