Canada, our pleasant neighbors to the North, who welcomed 27,000 refugees (simply 6,000 fewer than America) in 2017 alone, regardless of having a tenth of the U.S. inhabitants. Lots of the refugees got here from Syria and Iraq, and their journeys to security had been bodily and mentally taxing. To inform the story of their expertise, Academy Award®-winning director Barbara Kopple makes use of a novel and inventive setting: summer time camp. Positioned on a small island within the Canadian wilderness, Camp Pathfinder has given boys from Canada and the U.S. a spot to belong for over a century. A number of years in the past, its director—saddened and disturbed by what he was seeing within the information—determined to offer refugees the chance to attend the camp. Kopple’s movie chronicles their keep, superbly capturing the bonds of recent friendship. However not all of the boys are capable of escape the mindset of conflict. By means of the eyes of those children, NEW HOMELAND paperwork the highs and lows of beginning over.
