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 There's an extraordinarily blunt title card that appears about five minutes into “Mediha,” by which time you've already met the 15-year-old Iraqi girl of the title who now lives in a refugee camp with her younger brothers Ghazwan and Adnan and their uncle Omar, who saved them.  A credit reports that filmmaking responsibilities were split between Mediha Ibrahim Alhamad and director Hasan Oswald, although you'd know it from the first-person camera work on the ground as Mediha explores her surroundings and from the sky, Oswald deploys drones to capture shots of the lush green hills from above where sheep roam - both views are unlikely to be the kind of images you've seen before in the west, and although Mediha dances around the horrors that have led her to resettle in the region, her parents absent , who she can only assume are dead, there is no way to escape a bold warning, in capital letters, that her entire heritage has been systematically destroyed as a member of the ...