VFF- Perils of Immigrant Life (Documentary Program)

FANTASSUT/RAIN ON THE BORDERS (Documentary/15min/Canada)
Directed by Federica Foglia
11,000 refugees have been stranded for months in the Idomeni refugee camp on the Greek/Macedonian border. This short documentary is a glimpse of their lives in a forgotten twilight zone, as they wait for the European borders to open.

THAT NEVER HAPPENED: CANADA’S FIRST NATIONAL INTERNMENT OPERATIONS (Documentary/75min/Canada)
Directed by Ryan Boyko
The story of Canada’s first national internment operations between 1914 - 1920, when over 88,000 people were forced to register and more than 8,500 were wrongfully imprisoned in concentration camps across Canada. In 1954 the public records were destroyed and in the 1980s a few brave men and women began working to reclaim this chapter in history and ensure future generations would know about it.