Flowers of Evil (Fleurs de mal)
http://youtu.be/fQH6xWyxSSY David Dusa / France / 2010 / 99 min, Canadian Premiere With Rachid Youcef, Alice Belaidi In French and Farsi with English Subtitles Official Selection: Tribeca Film Festival 2011 Pa
Amin
Shahin Parhami / Canada, Iran, South Korea, Ukraine / 2010 / 120 mins, Toronto Premiere With Amin Aghaie In Farsi, Turkish, “Qashqai” and Russian Winner: Asian Vision Award, Taiwan International Documentary Festival; Special Distinction, Dubai International Film Festival; Official Select
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 A
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 sh
Checkpoint
http://youtu.be/jo5FQv_SHW4 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 doe
David
Joel Fendelman, U.S.A., 2011, 80 min, Toronto Premiere With Maz Jobrani, Mautasem Mishal, Binyomin Shtaynberger In English/Arabic/Hebrew with English Subtitles Winner: Audience Award, Brooklyn Film Festival 2011; Ecumenical Prize, Montreal Film Festival 2011 As the son of the Imam of the loca
If You Die, I’ll Kill You
Hiner Saleemi , France , 2010, 90 min, North American Premiere With Golshifteh Farahani, Jonathan Zaccai, Jane Birkin, Mylene Demangoet In French and Kurdish with English Subtitles Philippe, who is just out of prison, encounters Avdal, a Kurd who is looking for an Iraqi criminal. A friendship forms