Daydreamers (2023) on Netflix
The green card lottery opens at the US embassy, and Assad hands in stories of invented families fleeing the war. Kamal, a repatriated Somali-American, helps him find people for the interviews.
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Somali refugees dream of a life in the United States, and the green card lottery at the US embassy is a route they hope for. Assad takes another route: he writes stories, hundreds of them, about imaginary families running from the war, and he submits them. One of his stories is accepted, and the family in it needs people who can appear at the embassy interviews. Kamal, a repatriated Somali-American, helps him find the right people to play those characters, and between the two of them they have already put hundreds of made-up families through the process.
