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Jasmin’s Two Homes

dir. Inka Achté, Hanna Karppinen, Finland 2022, 14 min., 12+, film with Polish voiceover

Jasmin gazes with delight at the laptop screen, which she uses to talk to her father in distant Somaliland. She asks him if there are hedgehogs there – an important question because soon she, her brother, and sisters will be living there. Her father once fled from war in their native Somaliland. In Finland, he found a second home, where his four children were born. But he missed Somaliland and was tired of racism in Helsinki, so he decided to return with his family. This life-changing process is shown from Jasmin’s perspective, a lively girl who must say goodbye to everything she knows. How will she find herself in her new home?