Refuge

[Opens March 24 in theaters and available on various digital and VOD platforms.] Erin Levin Bernhardt and Din Blankenship's moving, award-winning, educational, insightful, inspirational, 78-minute documentary that focuses on diverse and conservative Clarkston, Ga., and former KKK leader and Army veteran Chris Buckley who learned to set aside his hatred of Muslims after meeting Syrian Kurd cardiologist Heval Kelli and other Muslim refugees (Farzana Barati, Khadija Barati, Khaty Barati, Andrea Cervone, Mang Oo Cin, Chuck Cochran, et al.) and consists of commentary by vet Chris Buckley and family (wife Melissa Buckley, son C.J., and daughter Miera), Clarkston mayor Ted Terry, Syrian Kurd cardiologist Heval Kelli, Muslim grandmother Amina Osman, New American Pathways resettlement manager Safia Jama, Congregation Bet Haverim rabbi Joshua Lesser, Good Samaritan Lutheran Ministry pastor Crispin Ilombe Wilondja, extremism interventionist Arno Michaelis, and Heval's mother Saadia Kelli and fiancée Kazeen Abdullah.
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