India, Jan. 31 -- Israa, the subject of the new documentary One in a Million, faces the camera for over 10 years as she recounts her life story: fleeing Syria during the civil war, settling in Germany, and then deciding to return home. Co-directors Itab Azzam and Jack MacInnes first met her as she was selling cigarettes on the streets of Turkey, and decided to listen to her story. Unflinchingly honest from the very first frame, One in a Million is a masterful document of a family trying to find a place to call home. (Also read: Documentary on a polar bear's journey might be this year's most essential piece of filmmaking | Review)

One in a Million wastes no time in following Israa's journey as a girl who tags along with her family in Alep...