2018 CALGARY JUSTICE FILM FESTIVAL
Free Justice Film Festival
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- DirectorEric LinerWildlife cinematographer, Neil Rettig, embarks on what could be the most challenging assignment of his career: to find and film the rarest eagle on the planet. Bird of Prey explores the vanishing world of the Great Philippine Eagle and reveals the courageous heroes that are determined to save it.
- DirectorChristy GarlandRaised in a refugee camp in the West Bank, while her mother was in prison, Walaa is determined to survive basic training to become one of the few women on the Palestinian Security Forces - not easy for a girl who breaks all the rules. Following Walaa from 15 to 21, with an intimate POV and the exuberant energy of its subject, this is the story of a young woman navigating formidable obstacles, learning which rules to break and follow, and disproving the negative predictions from her surroundings and the world at large.
- DirectorNova AmiVelcrow RipperStarsSue HalpernRobert Jay LiftonJoshua RubensteinA look at the current global climate crisis and adaptation to this profound change.
- DirectorTodd McGrainAgainst a backdrop of luminous natural beauty, pierced by callous human violence, an American biologist, a Bayaka tracker, a Bantu eco-guard, and an Israeli security contractor form an unlikely alliance. As their lives converge on the paths of the last wild herd of forest elephants in the Central African Republic, each will be tested by the realities of war and the limits of hope for the majestic animals they have committed their lives to study and protect.
- DirectorStefanie BrockhausAndreas WolffStarsHissa HilalMastoura Al-AhmadiZiad BatalThis is the story of a Saudi woman who grabs the opportunity to speak against religious extremism and stands up for a peaceful Islam. This is Hissa's story.
- DirectorBrianna BrentlyAaron KohnHannah MattnerStarsKeith AckerEmily CallahanAmber JacksonAn exploration of the controversy behind the "Rigs to Reefs" program, which allows decommissioned oil platforms to stay in the marine environment to act as artificial reefs.
- DirectorLia BeltramiMarianna Beltrami'I didn't believe it until I saw it'. A sign on a wall says this, as a hundred Eritrean refugees arrive in Endabaguna collection centre in the Tigray region in Ethiopia, after traveling in an airless truck for four days. Why do people run away? What happens before the infamous images we are shown in the West of refugees crossing the sea? An intense journey through four refugee camps for Eritreans in Ethiopia, amongst unaccompanied children, persecuted Kunamas, people who have been there for as long as 17 years. This journey will follow Dr Alganesh Fessah's work, and her commitment in securing refugee's rights and liberating kidnapped and tortured prisoners in the Sinai desert. Three protagonists: refugees; Ethiopia, a welcoming land; and Alganesh who, among despair, will tell us her hopes on the horizon.
- DirectorGiselle PortenierStarsRhobi SamwellyFloraSijali NyambucheTerrified of stories of girls bleeding to death, young Tanzanian children face a terrible choice: whether to submit to female genital mutilation and child marriage, or risk their lives and run away from home. Rhobi Samwelly, a brave local hero, stands up to her community and provides a Safe House to protect the courageous girls. Although female genital mutilation (FGM) is harmful and illegal, in Northern Tanzania it is widely believed that girls' clitorises must be cut off to reduce promiscuity. Mutilated girls also demand twice the bride price as uncut girls. The chillingly named 'cutting season' runs through the school holidays in December. Now, some of the most courageous girls in the world, some as young as eight, are leaving everyone they love behind to run to a Safe House, not knowing if they'll ever see their families again. We follow the feisty and courageous 12-year-old Rosie Makore, one of the brave girls who flees from female genital mutilation (FGM) and the child marriage that her parents had planned for her. We meet the charismatic Rhobi Samwelly who protects the girls and fights the thousands-year-old practice. But ancient traditions die hard. In cooperation with the Safe House, Police officer Sijali and her team start cracking down on FGM, arresting parents and cutters while rescuing girls at risk. As the year's cutting season winds down, in heartbreaking reconciliation meetings, parents must decide if they'll spare their daughters and take them back.
- DirectorHanna HögstedtStarsRamla AbdullahShahab AhmadianFatima DoubakilIn 2011, France introduced a ban on the full veil in public. Hanna Högstedt received money to make a film where she would wear a burqa in Paris, singing the French national anthem until she was arrested by the police.
- DirectorLewis WilcoxAutomation will replace 47% of current U.S. jobs within the next 20 years. Can humans find purpose in an automated world?
- DirectorAlex GohariLeo MatteiStarsRuben FigueroaRuben Figueroa is an ex illegal immigrant. He has found a new life goal: to find the missing migrants who have disappeared during their long journey to the United States - as they are fleeing Latin American poverty in search for a better life. Ruben wants to give some of these tens of thousands of illegals their name back - Alas, sometimes the disappeared are dead and he can only find their grave. In the Honduran villages, their mothers desperately wait for any kind of news - they often have for years. Ruben looks for them in the Chiapas underworld's brothels - where many women end up - or on "La Bestia" - the freight train that carries migrants towards the United States border.
- DirectorBeth Wishart MackenzieA cinematic observation of Indigenous artist Lana Whiskeyjack as she works to complete a mixed-media sculpture of a tortured face, the face of her uncle. Lana calls the piece 'Losing My Talk'. This brief study of an artist and her work is a creative medium through which we can come to some understanding of the trauma experienced by Canada's Indigenous people in the Indian Residential School system, of its enduring effects on the children of survivors of the IRS, and of one woman's journey to recover what was lost: dignity, identity, and voice. A story of resilience, Lana's journey speaks of the power of Indigenous "ways of being" in our time.