Totem
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| Free with general admission |
*General museum admission is FREE for residents of Macomb, Oakland and Wayne counties.
Directed by Sander Burger / 2022
Eleven-year-old Ama is a top student and aspiring professional swimmer who thinks of herself unequivocally as Dutch, but her parents are Senegalese asylum seekers, and the world she aspires to create for herself is thrown into turmoil after her mother and brother are arrested.
Winner of 2023 New York International Children’s Film Festival Audience Award, Grand Prize for Live Action Feature. Recommended for ages 8 and up. In Dutch and French with English subtitles. (95 min.)
Directed by Sander Burger / 2022
Eleven-year-old Ama is a top student and aspiring professional swimmer who thinks of herself unequivocally as Dutch, but her parents are Senegalese asylum seekers, and the world she aspires to create for herself is thrown into turmoil after her mother and brother are arrested.
Winner of 2023 New York International Children’s Film Festival Audience Award, Grand Prize for Live Action Feature. Recommended for ages 8 and up. In Dutch and French with English subtitles. (95 min.)