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If Dreams Were Lightning

10.0202325mMovieDocumentary

Ramin Bahrani explores a precarious community ill-equipped to handle catastrophe, and in so doing captures the human cost of inequality, a moral failure in the richest nation in the world.

DirectorRamin Bahrani
ProducersBrooke Devine·Pamela Ryan

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