What Walaa Wants
Generation 2018
CAN/DNK 2018
by: Christy Garland
What Walaa Wants
Generation 2018
CAN/DNK 2018
by: Christy Garland
What Walaa Wants
Generation 2018
CAN/DNK 2018
by: Christy Garland
What Walaa Wants
Generation 2018
CAN/DNK 2018
by: Christy Garland
What Walaa Wants
Generation 2018
CAN/DNK 2018
by: Christy Garland
Feb 17, 2018Ekram Zubajdi, Walaa Tanji, Christy Garland
The translator with the protagonist and the director.
Generation – What Walaa Wants
Feb 17, 2018Walaa Tanji
The protagonist on her way on to the stage.
Generation – What Walaa Wants
‘Working in the security apparatus is great.’ · ‘And I’ll get a licensed gun. How else do you enforce authority?’ · ‘Once she goes through training, she’ll completely change her way of thinking.’
Having grown up in a refugee camp while her mother was incarcerated in an Israeli prison, Walaa doesn’t want to marry young and start having children, nor is she much interested in school. She’d rather be a police officer, with the Palestinian National Authority, the body governing the Palestinian territories. The documentary follows this defiant and resilient young woman over the course of over five years, from age 15 to 21. Always maintaining a level playing field with her young protagonist, Christy Garland gives an intimate look at the rebellious girl fighting at times uncontrollably but tenaciously for her dream.
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Christy Garland
Canada / Denmark 2018
Arabic
Documentary form89’ · Colour
World premiere
A director of award-winning documentaries and short films, she lives and works in Toronto, Canada. Her films have been distributed worldwide and are characterised by ingenious dramatic structures, gripping character development and universally felt themes. The Bastard Sings the Sweetest Song was compared by the press to the work of Robert Bresson and the Dardenne brothers.
Filmography1998 Blind Spot; short film 1999 Dear Mr. Newton; short film · These Goods Are Manufactured 2000 Dual Citizen; short film 2008 Doormat; co-director: Susan Armstrong 2012 The Bastard Sings the Sweetest Song 2016 Cheer Up 2018 What Walaa Wants
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2018
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