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green card

short film - 8.23 min - 2016

A film by: Quentin Clausin
Screenplay: Quentin Clausin
Photography: Quentin Clausin

Tezera wins the green card in the lottery and decides to immigrate to the United States.

He returns to his village to announce it to his family and friends and say his goodbyes.

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Green Card aired on the Ethiopian national channel EBC

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Quentin Clausin's films share a single thread: the invisible line between comfort and freedom, security and alienation. It is the ground on which all his stories are built. It is also what draws him — as a filmmaker who lives and works nomadically — to other cultures: not out of exoticism, but because each culture draws that line differently. And in that difference, something essential about the human condition becomes visible.    

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