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April 25, 2018 6:30 pm

Rising Voices

Film + Panel Discussion

Guest Panelists

The filmmakers and young people featured in the film

The documentary is a raw insight into the lives of young people across Canada, from Whitehorse to St. John鈥檚, to Arviat, to Montreal, and in between. It looks at the past, present and future of these communities, and comments on topics including mental health, indigenous rights, systemic discrimination, expression through the arts, cultural reintegration, environmental sustainability young love, and refugees.

March 21, 2018

Nise

1940鈥檚, Brazil 鈥� Dr. Nise da Silveira is at work in a psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro and refuses to employ the new and violent electroshock for the treatment of schizophrenics. Ridiculed by doctors, she is forced to take the abandoned Sector for Occupational Therapy, where she starts a revolution through paints, dogs and love.

February 28, 2018

You鈥檙e Looking at me Like I Live Here and I Don鈥檛

In Danville, California, Lee Gorewitz wanders on a soul-searching odyssey through her Alzheimer鈥檚 & Dementia care unit. Confined by the limits of her physical boundaries, she scavenges for reminders of her life in the outside world. Yet her search is for more than a word, or a memory, or a familiar face. It is a quest for understanding.

January 26, 2018

Love Boat

A film by Ma鈥檃n Mouslli

A short presentation and discussion to follow with:

• Mr. Adnan Mahameed, MSW, first Syrian fellow of International Community Action Network鈥檚 (ICAN) program, 成人VR视频
• Dr. Vitor Pordeus, Founder of Popular University for Art and Science, Madness Hotel and Spa, Nise da Silveira Mental Health Institute

A short film that covers the Syrian director Nawar Bulbul鈥檚 theatrical experience with refugees and injured persons from Syria in Amman, Jordan. The script draws on a variety of universally known play scripts like 鈥淭he Knights鈥� by Aristophanes, 鈥淪ervant of Two Masters鈥� by Carlo Goldoni, 鈥淒on Quixote鈥� by Miguel de Cervantes, 鈥淭artuffe鈥� by Moli猫re, and Goethe鈥檚 鈥淔aust鈥�. This short film captures the details of a theatrical experience, which talks about a theatre group sailing towards Europe. These refugees talk about their suffering from war injuries, detention, rape inside de Syrian regime鈥檚 detention centers, hunger in besieged areas, and finally the moment they drown in the sea.

March 29, 2017

Sounds of Torture

A film by Keren Shayo

Discussion to follow with

• Maya Fenning
  Jean Sauv茅 fellow & PhD student, 成人VR视频 School of Social Work
• Yohannes Ferdinando Dar
  Former refugee from Eritrea & Mental Health Social Worker, Royal Ottawa Hospital

Since Europe closed its borders in 2006, thousands of Eritrean refugees fled their military dictator-ruled country towards Israel. The only way out is across the Sinai desert in Egypt. There, many are kidnapped by Bedouin smugglers and taken to camps where they are tortured and raped as they are forced to call their relatives begging for ransom for their release. We follow Meron Estefanos, an Eritrean journalist-activist living in Sweden. On her radio program she talks to hostages in the camps while recording their pleas for help as well as their family members raising money for their release. We also follow two refugees that made it into Israel in their attempt to save their loved ones鈥� lives.

February, 21, 2017

Continuous Journey

A film by Ali Kazimi

Discussion to follow with聽Dr. Jaswant Guzder, Professor in Psychiatry, Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry, 成人VR视频

On May 23, 1914, a Japanese ship vessel arrived in Vancouver with 376 passengers: 340 Sikhs, 24 Muslims, and 12 Hindus. The Komagata Maru became the first ship carrying migrants to be turned away by Canada. Continuous Journey in an inquiry into the largely ignore history of Canada鈥檚 exclusion of migrants by a little known immigration policy called the Continuous Journey Regulation of 1908. This film is a story of immigration and injustice, about equal rights for all citizens. Extremely beautifully crafted and told, this is a film that shows historical footage in a way never seen before.

January 25, 2017

Bethel: Community and Schizophrenia in Northern Japan

A film by Karen Nakamura

Discussion to follow with聽Professor Karen Nakamura, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

Located in a small fishing town on the northern island of Hokkaido in Japan is a small but vibrant group of people with schizophrenia and other psychosocial disabilities. Bethel House was founded in 1984 to support people with these types of disabilities living in the community. The film explores how the members of Bethel struggle with their lives, their problems, and the meaning of community.

April 20, 2016

Haunted Land

Directed by Mary Ellen Davis

Discussion to follow with Mary Ellen Davis and Mateo Pablo

Two paths cross on a descent into Guatemala鈥檚 past: that of Mateo Pablo, a Maya survivor of one of many massacres committed by local government troops, and Daniel Hern谩ndez-Salazar, a concerned Guatemalan artist and photographer. Together they travel to a remote site in the highlands where the community of Petanac once stood. The bones found there by archaeologists tell a mute story of agony.

Winner of the Lanza de Amaru Siona Award 2001, IV Festival de la Serpiente (Ecuador)

鈥淎 moving work, and a great testimony to break the silence about the genocide in Guatemala.鈥�

鈥擱igoberta Mench煤 Tum, Nobel Peace Prize Winner

March 30, 2016

Autism in Love

Directed by Matt Fuller

Discussion to follow with:

• Dr. Miranda D鈥橝mico
  Associate Dean of Student Academic Services, Arts and Sciences & Co-Directors of Research at the Centre for the Arts in Human Development, Concordia University
• Dr. Jaswant Guzder
  Psychoanalyst and Professor in the 成人VR视频 Department of Psychiatry, Head of Child Psychiatry and Director of Childhood Disorders Day Hospital at the Jewish General Hospital

What happens when children with autism become adults with autism and want to have romantic relationships? With beautiful cinematography and remarkable compassion, Autism In love captures the everyday realities of autistic adulthood, showing hot the members of this often-misunderstood community cope with the challenge of keeping romance alive over the years. Capturing both the joys and heartbreak of love, Fuller emphasizes struggles that are only too familiar, creating in Autism in Love a relatable and winning celebration of accepting the differences in others and in ourselves.

February 17, 2016

Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change

Directed by Zacharias Kunuk & Dr. Ian Mauro

Discussions to follow with:

• 成人VR视频 Department of Geography: Dylan Clark, Sarah MacVicar, Ellie Stephenson & Dr. Carol Zavaleta
• Universit茅 de Montr茅al, 脡cole de psycho茅ducation: Dr. R茅my Rouillard

Nunavut-based director Zacharias Kunuk (Atanarjuat The Fast Runner) and researcher and filmmaker Dr. Ian Mauro (Seeds of Change) have teamed up with Inuit communities to document their knowledge and experience regarding climate change. This new documentary, the world鈥檚 first Inuktitut language film on the topic, takes the viewer 鈥渙n the land鈥� with elders and hunters to explore the social and ecological impacts of a warming Arctic. This unforgettable film helps us to appreciate Inuit culture and expertise regarding environmental change and indigenous ways of adapting to it.

January 20, 2016

Queens of Syria

Directed by Yasmin Fedda

Discussion to follow with Dr. Jaswant Guzder

Almost four million people have fled Syria since the civil war began, and more than 600,000 of them have settled in Jordan. But despite such vast numbers, it can be a lonely, isolating experience. Queens of Syria is a moving portrait of fifty Syrian women living in exile in Jordan, who come together to create and perform their own version of Euripides鈥� Ancient Greek drama 鈥淭he Trojan Women.鈥� The play鈥檚 narrative provides a vivid mirror of their own experiences in the stories of a queen, princesses and ordinary women like them from another time, uprooted, enslaved, and bereaved by the Trojan War.