Regent Park Film Festival: “The Tower”
SCREENING
Toronto Arab Film is proud to co-present Mats Grorud’s “The Tower” at Regent Park Film Festival’s Under the Stars (UTS) series, co-screening with Timeea Mohamed Ahmed’s “Is It War?”
Pre-show kicking off at 7:30 pm, movie at sundown.
A pillar event in Regent Park since 2014, Regent Park Film Festival’s annual summer film series, Under the Stars (UTS) brings people of all ages, cultures and communities together for nights of free film, food and performances in the heart of our neighbourhood, the Big Park, every summer.
The Tower
Based on interviews that the filmmaker conducted with Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, The Tower follows Wardi, an 11-year-old Palestinian girl, who lives with her family in a refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon. Through the oral histories shared by three generations of her family, Wardi learns about the 1948 Nakba and how it violently displaced her family from their ancestral lands, suppressed their cultural identity, and dispossessed them of their political rights. Motivated by her great-grandfather’s now waning hopes of one day returning to their family home in Galilee, Wardi traces the memories, losses, and resilience of those in her community.
Is It War?
In a surreal journey through a forest, an artist disconnected from his Sudanese roots grapples with the horrors of war and his fragmented identity, conveying a message of unity and despair to his scattered people. Set against the backdrop of a forest, an artist clad in traditional “Aragy” attire navigates the chaos of his inner world and the war-torn reality of Sudan. As a member of the Sudanese diaspora, he mentally escapes the brutal truths of his homeland’s conflict. Through a series of visually striking and symbolic scenes, he expresses his inner turmoil and the profound impacts of war on all Sudanese people, regardless of their ethnicities and affiliations.
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