Someone Like Me (2021)
After 11 strangers unite to help a gay youth escape life-threatening violence in Uganda, the unexpected pandemic and conflicting opinions over his best interests test the limits of their commitment and jeopardize his fresh start in Canada.
- Date of release
- 2021-04-29
- TMDB
- 1.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 20m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Steve J. Adams, Sean Horlor
Interesting facts
Someone Like Me is a 2021 Canadian documentary film, directed by Steve J. Adams and Sean Horlor. The film centres on Drake, a gay man from Uganda who moves to Vancouver, British Columbia as a refugee, and the group of Canadians who have agreed to sponsor him through Rainbow Refugee; it documents his arrival in Vancouver and his adaptation to Canadian life, including friction among his sponsors when all he wants to do is celebrate his new freedom by partying, and the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic as a complicating factor.
Read on Wikipedia · Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Data from Wikidata.
Recommended
- Welcome to Chechnya 2020 · ★ 7.0
- Come See Me in the Good Light 2025 · ★ 7.1
- A Toxic Love Story 2026 · ★ 6.4
- Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski 2018 · ★ 7.5
- Fuck 2006 · ★ 6.4
- My Mom Jayne 2025 · ★ 7.9
- Pray Away 2021 · ★ 6.7
- Disclosure 2020 · ★ 7.8
- Voyeur 2017 · ★ 5.9
- Gilbert 2017 · ★ 6.7
- Shawn Mendes: In Wonder 2020 · ★ 8.1
- The Curse of the Dragon 1993 · ★ 7.2