Genre			Documentary
Length			1:22
Director			Anne Makepeace
Writer			Mary Lampson
Links			Official Web Site

Rain in a Dry Land is a film about time travel, culture shock, a leap from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century as two devout Muslim families find new homes in urban America. We meet these families in their cultural orientation class' in a refugee camp in Kenya, where they are preparing for their new lives. In the classroom they discover ice, a refrigerator, a bathtub, and learn about elevators, stairs, and buildings taller than one story. As their awe and excitement grow, we fear for them. How will these illiterate Muslim farmers who speak no English manage to survive in American cities?