Language Docs

Upcoming


	10am, Sunday, May 19 Ganesh Boy Wonder Language: Hindi Krishna and Jayamma are a working class Indian couple who prayed to the god Ganesh to bless them with a boy, never dreaming that their son would actually look like his namesake, the elephant-headed deity.

	10am, Friday, May 24 Foreign Domestics: The Right to Stay Language: Tagalog Migrations are measured in waves. For the Chinese, it was the railroads. For the Irish, it was the famine in their homeland. For the African-Americans, it was to escape slavery. For the Filipinos, it was the Foreign Domestics Movement.

	11pm, Saturday, May 25 Small Places, Small Homes Language: Cantonese The first feature documentary for Toronto based filmmaker Julia Fong of Mitzi Productions, Small Places, Small Homes explores the lives of visible minority immigrants who choose to live in Canadian rural communities.

	10am, Sunday, May 26 The Way Must Be Tried Language: Hindi The Way Must Be Tried is a tribute to a university born of bunprecedented social change, and an exploration of the unique dynamic between two contrasting communities. Who has a right to education? What are the realities of access to education? These are the questions asked by the film as it moves through the five decades of York's history, each with its own cultural movements and shaping forces.