Born in the Maelstrom

5.0 (1 votes)• 2017• 28m•Released

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Rebecca is an eighteen-year-old biracial girl bound in an imaginary world shaped by her black mother’s painful past. She searches for liberation from a world where she does not belong.

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Languages: English

Director: Meryam Joobeur

Starring Cast: Sasha Lane, Karen Glave, Sam Ashe Arnold, Hasani Freeman, Rose Langlois, Dawn Ford

Cast

Sasha Lane

Rebecca

Karen Glave

Venus

Sam Ashe Arnold

Tobey

Hasani Freeman

Tom

Rose Langlois

Sarah

Dawn Ford

Choir Leader

Nadine Jean

Piano player

Marie-Ève Frenière

Sarah's Mom

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