Jasmin's Two Homes
Inka Achté, Hanna Karpinen / Finland / 0 / 13 min
<p class="PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer" data-start="0" data-end="209">When Jasmine’s parents decide to move back to Somaliland, her father’s home country, the girl faces the biggest change of her life: she has to say goodbye to her life in Finland and to her best friend, Maryam.</p> <p data-start="211" data-end="460">When she arrives, Jasmin is overwhelmed by a real culture shock: the streets are unpaved, people speak so loudly that it sounds as if they are arguing, there are no playgrounds, people eat without cutlery, and camels roam freely through the streets.</p> <p data-start="462" data-end="652">Gradually, as she gets over the initial shock, Jasmin begins to notice familiar things too: here, no one looks at her strangely because she looks different, as sometimes happened in Finland.</p> <p data-start="654" data-end="730" data-is-last-node="" data-is-only-node="">Maybe having two “homes” in such different countries isn’t so bad after all.</p>
About the film
<p class="PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer" data-start="0" data-end="209">When Jasmine’s parents decide to move back to Somaliland, her father’s home country, the girl faces the biggest change of her life: she has to say goodbye to her life in Finland and to her best friend, Maryam.</p> <p data-start="211" data-end="460">When she arrives, Jasmin is overwhelmed by a real culture shock: the streets are unpaved, people speak so loudly that it sounds as if they are arguing, there are no playgrounds, people eat without cutlery, and camels roam freely through the streets.</p> <p data-start="462" data-end="652">Gradually, as she gets over the initial shock, Jasmin begins to notice familiar things too: here, no one looks at her strangely because she looks different, as sometimes happened in Finland.</p> <p data-start="654" data-end="730" data-is-last-node="" data-is-only-node="">Maybe having two “homes” in such different countries isn’t so bad after all.</p>
