Tonight’s film, Back Home, Tomorrow, focuses on two children who confront changed lives in very different circumstances after becoming victims of war-torn environments. Yagoub has fled Darfur to the Mayo refugee camp in Khartoum, Sudan, where he waits for a heart operation to save his life. Seven-year-old Murtaza has lost his left hand to a land mine in Afghanistan. In heart-rending detail, directors Fabrizio Lazzaretti and Paolo Santolini follow Murtaza and Yagoub from their initial admission into hospitals in Kabul and Khartoum, respectively, to their release months later.
Back Home Tomorrow will be introduced by Canadian documentary filmmaker Shelley Saywell. Shelley has won numerous international awards including an Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Journalism and been short-listed for the Academy Awards. At home, her work has garnered three Hot Docs! and three Gemini Awards. Her films include A Child’s Century of War: Travels to three contemporary war zones to look at how war has increasingly affected children. Shelley has personally been honoured with UNESCO’s Gandhi Silver Medal for promoting the culture of peace.
You can read an interview with the directors in this week’s Tandem News.
Back Home, Tomorrow screens at 7 PM at Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario. For more information or to purchase tickets, please call the TIFFG Box Office at 416-968-FILM or toll-free 1-877-968-FILM. Tickets can also be purchased online at tiff.net/cinematheque or in person at the door.
