Refugee Awareness Month: Everybody's Children

Description

Free Admission | Thursday June 22 1:30 PM and 7:30 PM CST| Canada | 2008 | 51min | STC | Directed by Monika Delmos | Discussion to follow

Additional Information

Monika Delmos's documentary captures a year in the life of two teenage refugees, Joyce and Sallieu, who have left their own countries to make a new life in Ontario. Joyce, 17, left the Democratic Republic of Congo to avoid being forced into prostitution by her family. Sallieu, 16, had witnessed the murder of his mother as a young boy in wartorn Sierra Leone.

Delmos follows them as they bear the normal pressures of being a teenager while simultaneously undergoing the refugee application process. She shows how the guidance and support of a handful of people make a real difference in the day-to-day lives of these children.

Co-presented by Anti-Racism and Discrimination Working Group of the Regina Region Local Immigration Partnership (RRLIP)"

A discussion session will follow both the afternoon and evening movie showings to get people familiar with others and their stories, to think about the refugee situation, to develop relationships and to provide information and education to the community.