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It is night and Ayan is exhausted. A Somali immigrant who has spent five years struggling to build a life in the West, she wearily boards a bus that will bring her back to the cramped and dingy motel room she and her two daughters call home. Until recently, Ayan had earned enough working two cleaning jobs to rent an inner-city apartment and raise her girls with a taste of western comfort. What little she had left over, she sent to her husband and two sons still struggling to get out of Africa. But when a family crisis overseas requires her to send more money, she falls behind on her rent. The eviction is swift and shocking. The result is her family's frightening downward spiral into the perilous world of Family Motel.

Canada - 2007 - 1 h 27 mn - HD - Colour

Director Hélène Klodawsky Script Hélène Klodawsky Camera German Gutiérrez Sound Esther Auger Sets Colleen Marchand Editing Tony Asimakopoulos Music Bertrand Chénier Cast Nargis, Asha Jibril, Sagal Jibril, Zainab Saleh, Abdirizak M. Gabanov, Llwad Abdulwali, Yassin Abdulwali, Lou Malouf

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