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Conflict Migration Family Dynamics

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Torn By War

202415 minTV-PGdoc-short

Caught between her Crimean roots and a new life in Gelendzhik, a woman's identity is shattered by war.

Conflict Migration Family Dynamics

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Torn By War

2024• 15 minTV-PG

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Caught between her Crimean roots and a new life in Gelendzhik, a woman's identity is shattered by war.

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Marina, born in Crimea, faces isolation in Gelendzhik amid Ukraine-Russia tensions. Torn between loyalty to her birthplace and her new home, war tests her marriage and identity.

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