What Walaa Wants
Film screening and discussion with director Christy Garland
Sunday, February 17 (3:00 pm)
Metro Cinema, 8712 109 St NW
Purchase Tickets ($13 adult | $8 student/child/senior)
Raised in a refugee camp in the West Bank while her mother was in an Israeli prison, Walaa is determined to become one of the few women in the Palestinian Security Forces—not easy for a girl who breaks all the rules. Following Walaa from the ages of 15 to 21 with an intimate POV, What Walaa Wants tells the compelling story of a defiant young girl who navigates formidable obstacles, disproving the negative predictions from her surroundings and the world at large.
Join director Christy Garland for a Q&A and Skype session with Walaa after the screening.
What Walaa Wants has been hailed as one of the best films of 2018 by Canada’s Top Ten as chosen by the Toronto International Film Festival. It has screened at the Berlin Int’l Film Festival, the Montreal Int’l Documentary Festival and IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam), and received the Special Jury Prize for Canadian Feature at Hot Docs in 2018. It has just been nominated for Canadian Screen Awards in Editing and Cinematography, and is also up for the prestigious Ted Rogers Best Feature-Length Documentary Award.
Canada/Denmark 2018, 89 min, Dir: Christy Garland
Arabic with subtitles
PALESTINE SOLIDARITY NETWORK 