The central figure of the ESPN documentary Kassim the Dream, directed by Kief Davidson (who co-directed The Devil's Miner), is a light middleweight boxer, Kassim Ouma, who was born in Uganda in 1978 and forced into army service when he was six years old. At eighteen, he escaped and made his way to the United States, where he discovered a gym ans started honing the skills he had developed on the army boxing team, as well as picking up the skills he'd need to get by in America--his new buddies at the gym didn't find out that he was homeless until he'd mastered enough of the English language to tell them. Like some of the other documentaries that ESPN lugged to the festival, it's a movie about a clash of cultures. When Kassim, who has one small son in Uganda and another smaller one in the States, holds the toddler in his arms and asks him, "Are you a Ugandan baby or an American baby?", the kid seems to answer by sticking his Mickey Mouse doll in the camera lens.
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