Before Your Eyes (Children of Diyarbakir)
Miraz Bezar / Germany , Turkey / 2009 / 102 min, Canadian Premiere With Senay Orak, Muhammed Al and Hakan Karsak In Kurdish and Turkish with English Subtitles Winner: Golden Poznan Goat – Best Film, Children’s Jury Award – Best Film, Ale Kino! International Young Audience Film Festival, 2010 – Poznan, Poland; Behlül Dal Special...
Lesson for Zaffirah
http://youtu.be/tAinwJ05XCw Carolina Rivas & Daoud Sarhandi / Mexico / 2011 / 75 min, Canadian Premiere In Spanish with English subtitles Winner: Best Film Prize – Mexico Today, Festival Internacional de Cine UNAM (FICUNAM), 2011 – Mexico A metaphor of the Flood in our epoch. ‘The Flood’...
On the Run with Abdul
David Lale, James Newton / UK, France / 2010 / 23 mins, Canadian Premiere In English, French, Pashtu with English Subtitles Winner, Press Award, Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, 2010; Main Award, 8th International Festival Signes de Nuit, 2010, Official Selection: Telluride...
My Name is Mohammed
Ahmed Al-Daradj, Nadia Eliewat, Hayder Helo / Iraq, UK, Jordan / 2010 / 11 min, Canadian Premiere In Arabic with English Subtitles Nine year old Iraqi refugee Mohamed dreams of being a regular kid and going to school. Instead he is a reluctant shoe shiner working the busy...
Checkpoint
Ruben Amar, France, 2011, 19’, Canadian Premiere In Arabic and Hebrew with English Subtitles Suleiman, an eleven year old Palestinian boy, lives in a small village in the Gaza strip. Every month, he goes with his father to the ruins of a destroyed village. Though he doesn’t understand the weird ritual in which his father...
