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  • Snow Hides the Shade of Fig Trees
    La Neige Cache l'ombre des Figuiers

  • Samer Najari

Country: Canada
Year:
2009
Language:
French, Arabic, Spanish
Runtime:
21 minutes
Format:
Colour/35mm
Rating:
PG

This film plays in the Short Cuts Canada Programme 2 Programme with the following films:

75 El Camino - Sami Khan
The Translator - Sonya Di Rienzo
Out in that Deep Blue Sea - Kazik Radwanski
Night Mayor - Guy Maddin
Volta - Ryan Mullins
De Mouvement - Richard Kerr
PUBLIC SCREENINGS
Saturday September 1204:00PM ISABEL BADER THEATRE Add Film to MyTIFF Filmlist Buy Now
Sunday September 1301:15PM JACKMAN HALL - AGO Add Film to MyTIFF Filmlist Buy Now

Description

Salim, a recent immigrant to Canada, recounts this contemplative story about six men piled in the back of a van delivering flyers in Montreal on the day they are joined by a curious newcomer from Russia, Sacha. Though the men hail from different parts of the world, they all share a sense of nostalgia for their homelands. Melding poetic and magic realism, this lyrically melancholic drama ponders the immigrant experience, comradeship and the snow. ASD

Samer Najari was born in Moscow and received a B.A. in fine arts from Concordia University. He also directed the short film Le Petit Oiseau va sortir (06).

Cadillac People's Choice Award