REELWORLD SHORTS PROGRAM | REELWORLD & MSF | Saturday, October 14
Famous Players Canada Square Cinemas
2190 Yonge St.
ON
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Description
Saturday, October 14th | Reelworld Film Festival | 5:00 (Doors open at 4:30pm)
Reelworld Shorts Program | 90 Minutes | PG | English | Famous Players Canada Square Cinema
Discover the world’s untold stories through a series of seven (7) short films that span the globe, highlighting the refugee experience, identity, displacement, and racism. From Syria to India and even local Toronto, we’re all on the frontline in today’s world.
FANTASSÚT / Rain on the borders
11,000 refugees have been stranded for months in the Idomeni refugee camp on the Greek/Macedonian border. This short documentary is a glimpse of their lives in a forgotten twilight zone, as they wait for the European borders to open.
LESSONS INJUSTICE
Danardo jones sets out on a car ride with his teenage son in hopes of having a conversation that some parents dread and others are unaware of.
As a lawyer, Jones is well aware that the law can do little to protect his son against the anti-racism and discrimination that has become a part of his complicated Canadian identity.
ROJ MEANS SUN
Rojin, a Kurdish-Canadian girl battles both her mother and her mother tongue, as she grieves the recent death of her father, killed in a battle in the Shingal Mountains, Iraqi Kurdistan.
SORRY, I DROWNED
The world has catastrophically failed millions of people fleeing war, persecution and despair. Calculating politics won out over moral and legal obligations to offer protection and assistance to those in need. Like a contagious disease, walls, fences and restrictive border measures rampantly spread causing countless thousands of people to die on land or at sea.
STATELESS
In a case that may set a global precedent, “Stateless” illustrates the life of Canadian-born Deepan Budlakoti as he faces deportation to India – a country he has never set foot in. Stateless is an examination of citizenship, identity, and belonging – if being born and bred in one place for an entire lifetime is not enough, then what is?
THE CONSTANT REFUGEE
From the escape of the Armenian Genocide by Saifan's Grandfather, to Saifan's own displacement due to the Iraq War and the Syrian Civil War, to his harrowing experience with Turkey's current refugee crisis, it would seem that Saifan's family legacy is that of discrimination, war, and flight.
YARA'S HOME
Forced to leave Syria in 2011, Yara longs for her country, destroyed by war. Time passing raises the fear of forgetting the familiar places of her life, left hanging. In her Munich apartment, Yara starts to understand she will have to build a new home.
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Start:
2017-10-14T17:00:00-04:00
End:
2017-10-14T19:00:00-04:00
Category
Film
Tickets
General Admission
13.19
CAD
280