‘One in a Million’ Review: An Epic Syrian Refugee Documentary Offers a Vivid, Nuanced Portrait of Exile

Orientul Mijlociu

Following a Syrian family for more than 10 years as they flee civil war and resettle in Germany, Itab Azzam and Jack MacInnes' film offers rare insight into the complexities of finding a place to call home. One night in 2015, filmmakers Itab Azzam and Jack MacInnes met a young girl selling cigarettes on a street corner in Turkey . Her name was Israa, she was 11 years old, and like so many of the other refugees in the neighborhood her family had recently fled to the port city of Izmir in order