Grit
Award-Winning Films
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1h 21m
At six, Dian escaped a tsunami of boiling mud from a Lapindo drilling disaster that submerged 16 villages. Shot over six years, GRIT follows her transformation into an activist teen as she and her mother confront the corporate perpetrators of this ongoing catastrophe.
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