ICL Forum

1001 Apples (2013) (view trailer here) In 1988, 182 000 Kurds in Iraq were killed and buried in mass graves during the Anfal Campaign – a genocide executed by Saddam Hussein’s regime. 1001 Apples is a deeply moving and upsetting documentary about the unknown genocide against the Kurds. 16/03 (view trailer here) Haunted by the chemical attacks that claimed the lives of his family, Aryan, a Kurdish sniper, flees his homeland in search of a better life in the United Kingdom. Aryan begins to work in the film industry as a model of an asylum seeker but when an action scene goes horribly wrong and is attacked by terrorists, he is blamed as an insider. As the public outcry mounts against him, Aryan stands alone with only his English girlfriend believing his innocence. Detectives start to dig deeper into Aryan's past and find evidence of his past military training, which adds more weight to the public's desire for vengeance. Will Aryan maintain his innocence, or will he buckle before the weight of the court and public opinion? Kulajo My Heart is Darkened (view movie here) Documentary that depicts how villagers from a Kurdish farming community in Iraq survived the atrocities committed by Saddam Hussein’s regime. Triage (view trailer here) After being badly injured on assignment, battle-scarred photojournalist Mark Walsh (Colin Farrell) returns home from Kurdistan without his friend and colleague David (Jamie Sives). Unable to cope with the horrors he experienced, Mark begins to fall apart both mentally and physically while struggling to unravel the mystery behind David's disappearance.

I Am Rohingya: A Genocide in Four Acts(view trailer here) The movie chronicles the journey of fourteen refugee youth who take to the stage (in front of a live audience) to re-enact their families' harrowing experiences in Burma and beyond; before, during, and immediately after the escalation of military violence in their native homeland, Rakhine state; their unforgiving escape by foot and by boat to makeshift camps in Bangladesh; and their eventual resettlement in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario. Myanmar’s killing fields (view trailer here and movie here) In this documentary from Evan Williamssecret footage going back years and accounts from victims and their families shine new light on the effort to kill and expel the Rohingya people from Myanmar — an effort that has been described by the United Nations as having the “hallmarks of genocide.” Rohingya, la mécanique du crime (view movie here) Comment, de 2012 à 2017, les militaires birmans ont orchestré l'élimination et l'exode de la minorité musulmane dans l'ouest du pays. Signée Gwenlaouen Le Gouil, une enquête rigoureuse sur un crime de masse.

100 Days (2001) (view trailer here) A local Hutu official is persuaded to implement the government's policy against the Tutsi: To completely wipe them out. Josette, a beautiful young Tutsi girl struggles to survive the killing by taking refuge in a church, supposedly protected by the UNO forces. Meanwhile, Josette's brother is hunted down and murdered and her boyfriend rescued by the rebels. But the Hutu Catholic priest betrays Josette's family and only agrees to spare her life is to submit to the nightly violations. By the time she is reunited with her boyfriend, neither of them can face the brutal reality of their situation: she is pregnant and bears the priest's child, which she immediately abandons. 100 Days was shot in Kibuye, the beautiful landscape had been the back drop to some of the worst atrocities in 1994. In Kibuye Church, the site of an actual massacre, Rwanda actors played killers and victims that were only too familiar to them. Rwanda (2018) (view trailer here) Close your eyes and try to imagine. A man, a woman and their families. The fastest and most systematic genocide in history. He is Hutu, she is Tutsi. He must kill. She must die. A fate similar to many others in that bloody spring. But this time there is a slight difference. When you open your eyes, you will be in their shoes and now the choice is yours. And yours alone. Shake hands with the devil (view film here) The story of General Romeo Dallaire's frustrated efforts to stop the madness of the Rwandan Genocide, despite the complete indifference of his superiors. Ghosts of Rwanda (view trailer here) This documentary includes interviews with key government officials and witnesses to the genocide. It highlights the failures in government and intervention that allowed over 800,000 victims to be slaughtered in 100 days. Hotel Rwanda (view trailer here) The dramatized story of hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina, as he harbored more than a thousand Tutsi refugees from the Hutu militia in 1994.