Boiling Pot

Boiling Pot

Everyone is guilty

2015 · 95 min · ★ 5.2 · Crime, History, Drama

On a college campus in modern America, ideas that have long been neglected as "issues of the past" emerge as racial tensions and frictions grow between different student groups.

Directed by Omar Ashmawey · Written by Ibrahim Ashmawey

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