
Darius Sam
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Canada
2022
English
Self Harm; coarse language
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VIFF Short Forum: Program 1
What kind of alchemy occurs to transform hardship into fortune? Here, the extraordinary burn brightly.
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No Other Land
Deemed by many critics one of the essential films of 2024, a multiple festival award winner and Academy Award winner for Best Documentary, No Other Land is a reminder that mass expulsion is by no means a new reality for Palestinians.
The Way, My Way
All manner of pilgrims flock to France and Spain to walk the 800 km Camino de Santiago. One such is Bill, a stroppy sexagenarian Australian filmmaker who's determined to do the Camino with minimal prep, a dickey leg, and no firm idea why.
Resident Orca
Captured in Puget Sound in 1970, killer whale Lolita spent the next half century in a cramped tank in Seaquarium, Miami. The film follows a coalition of Lummi elders, animal lovers and philanthropists on a rescue mission to return her to the ocean.
Misericordia
Edgy, eccentric, and unapologetically queer, this film goes from drama to comedy without putting a foot wrong. Sex and murder are the subjects, and writer-director Alain Guiraudie (Stranger by the Lake) mines them for suspense and outrageous laughs.
The Stand
This rousing doc explores a 1985 dispute over logging in the Haida Gwaii. Taking us from canny retrospective commentary to the thick of the action, director Chris Auchter employs animation and a wealth of archival footage to riveting effect.
Credits
Executive Producer
Geoff Vreeken
Producer
Hayley Morin, Amar Chebib
Cinematography
Jason Mannings
Editor
Amar Chebib
Director

Amar Chebib
Syrian-Canadian filmmaker Amar Chebib began making videos while growing up skateboarding in the Middle East. Driven to explore themes of transformation and the human condition, his work is empathetic and empowering. His most recent film, Joe Buffalo (2021), is a short, hybrid documentary which screened at Tribeca, won 16 awards at international film festivals including SXSW, made the DOC NYC Shortlist, and was nominated for an International Documentary Association Award for Best Short. Chebib resides with his wife on unceded Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh territory in Vancouver, BC.
Filmography: Wajd – Songs of Separation (2018)