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URL:https://events.nfb.ca/events/north-vancouver-city-library/
SUMMARY:North Vancouver City Library
DESCRIPTION:In celebration of Asian Heritage Month 2023\, the North Vancouv
 er City Library is offering a free screening of three National Film Board 
 short documentaries exploring the diverse cultures and histories of Asian 
 communities in Canada:\n\nHighway to Heaven (2019 | 16 minutes)\n\nThis s
 hort symphonic documentary offers a glimpse into the unique religious co-e
 xistence found along No. 5 Road in Richmond\, BC. Highway to Heaven take
 s audiences into many of the temples\, mosques\, and churches that call No
 . 5 home\, revealing unity despite difference across these diverse cultura
 l spaces. In a world struggling with religious violence and intolerance\, 
 filmmaker Sandra Ignagni has crafted a gentle portrait of a rare landscape
  using attentive imagery and an acoustic tapestry of prayer.\n\nJia (2020
  | 10 minutes)\n\nA young Chinese-Canadian couple is visiting family in Wu
 han\, epicentre of the virus\, at the very moment the pandemic is declared
 . Interviewing his subjects in a novel socially distanced mode\, director 
 Weiye Su explores the culturally specific concept of Jia — an idea evoki
 ng family or home that acquires sharp new meaning during COVID times.\n\nA
 ngel Peacock (2019 | 24 minutes)\n\nDawod is a 12 year old Yazidi boy. Th
 e Yazidi are a small Kurdish-speaking sect from northern Iraq that dates b
 ack to Mesopotamian times and who have been persecuted for almost as long.
  ISIS has been waging a campaign of genocide against them since 2014. Over
  10\,000 men have been killed. Thousands of women kidnapped\, raped and tr
 afficked. The survivors are in camps in Kurdistan and a lucky few have bee
 n brought to Germany and Canada. Dawod and his mother Naro were held capti
 ve by ISIS for months. They managed to escape by running through forests f
 or 9 days and nights without food or water. They made it to one of the ref
 ugee camps and from there to Canada\, arriving in London\, Ontario in Janu
 ary 2018. This is the story of Dawod's arrival in and introduction to his 
 new homeland and way of life.\n\nFor more info\, visit the organiser's web
 site: https://www.nvcl.ca/events/asian-heritage-month-documentary-screenin
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CATEGORIES:Free Event,Screenings
LOCATION:North Vancouver Public Library\, 120 14th Street West\, North Vanc
 ouver\, British Columbia\, V7M 1N9\, British Columbia\, Canada
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