What Brings You Here

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What Brings You Here, is a 2022 Yemeni movie, directed by Saber Wasel. with a runtime of 8 minutes.

Overview

What Brings You Here is a documentary that follows Jamme'a, a Somali man who emigrated to the Yemeni port city of Aden in the 1980s in search of a better life. Decades on, he continues to work every day at cultivating a sense of love and belonging for his adopted land. The film gently probes questions of displacement, identity, and the immigrant's eternal search for home, asking whether the alternative life Jamme'a sought across the waters ever truly materialized — and what it means to belong somewhere that was never originally yours.

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