Although Afrin's story is primarily a coming-of-age story, looking a little deeper one notices that the young girl is a symbol for millions of children and young people who live in this corner of the planet and in a field of dramatic inequalities with serious problems. Survival, sheer destitution and poverty on the streets of Dhaka but also on the banks of the Brahmaputra, which by silting up vast areas of land leads to displacement and a very intense wave of climate migration millions of people in the nearby unorganised urban centres. However, despite the objective dramatic difficulties, Angelos Rallis approaches Afrin with special affection and without melodramatise, giving through its history (a harsh bio-war story) the alternation of ugliness and beauty, the comic and the dramatic element - just as it happens in life in general. It is on this that Rallis presents a visually delightful film, with stunning photography (and it is admirable as most of what has been done in this documentary in terms of cinematography is entirely through his own hands), which highlights the majesty of nature (but also the destruction of climate change) in contrast to the concrete, noisy city of garbage and poverty (where his heroine finds refuge). Mighty Afrin is a truly admirable feat that comfortably beats out multi-million Hollywood productions.
