The heart wrenching short film 'Stranger at the Gate,' set in Muncie, Indiana is nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film.
The heart wrenching short film"Stranger at the Gate," set in Muncie, Indiana is nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film.Bahrami, an Afghan refugee, had just come out of a coma in 2020, when she was asked by Seftel to appear in the documentary about an experience she lived through in 2009.
The 30-minute film tells the story of Bahrami and the members of her mosque in Muncie, who encounter U.S Marine Mac McKinney, who has a secret plan to bomb their community center. "People can learn a lot from this message. And it's a simple act. That every human being can do it... and it's nothing costly, not gonna be difficult task. Just a simple act of kindess," Bahrami said.
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