giving my small land a few days before reviewing made me realize how much it lingers beyond its runtime. the tender coming of age drama follows joyful sarya as she tries to navigate being 17 year old in a new home county that wants to send her away, „back“ as they say. emma kawawada softly narrates sarya being torn between her father‘s culture and her home for the past 10 years, while being left immobile to actually get to write her own life. my small land is the story of kurdish refugees in japan but overwhelmingly captures human displacement, exposing the stately measures in place and the mriad of human emotions it brings forth.