WHAT WALAA WANTS

'WHAT WALAA WANTS’ WITH MORE FESTIVAL SELECTIONS by Maria Kristensen

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Christy Garland's WHAT WALAA WANTS continues to travel around the world, and next stop will be DocsBarcelona that runs 15th - 25th of May.


In April WHAT WALAA WANTS was screened at Magnificent 7 festival in Belgrade, Serbia. The festival has a very exclusive programme of only seven carefully selected films, and screening only one film per day, in a cinema with 1300 seat. Each screening is followed by a masterclass the following day.


In March, WHAT WALAA WANTS was at at One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival in Prague, and at Tempo Documentary Festival in Stockholm, the largest documentary festival in Sweden.

'WHAT WALAA WANTS' WINS SPECIAL JURY PRIZE AT HOT DOCS by Maria Kristensen

We're so proud that What Walaa Wants, directed by Christy Garland, won the Special Jury Prize at Hot Docs 2018.

The jury said the following about the film: “We award the DGC Special Jury Prize - Canadian Feature Documentary to What Walaa Wants for displaying an extraordinary bond between filmmaker and subject which then carries over to the audience. Christy Garland creates an exceptional emotional arc by focusing on Walaa’s growth and transformation.”

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THREE FILMS SCREENING AT HOT DOCS 2018 by Maria Kristensen

We are proud to announce that we are presenting no less than three films at the Hot Docs festival in Toronto this year: The Distant Barking of Dogs, What Walaa Wants and Dreaming Murakami.

Following the lives of a 10-year old Ukrainian boy caught in a raging conflict, a young girl fighting for her right to train as a policewoman in Palestine, and a 60-year old Danish translator immersing herself in the surreal world of Haruki Murakami, the films speak to the heterogeneity of our output, and in each their own way, offer gripping and poetic stories about personal struggle and perseverance.

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