Christy Garland's film What Walaa Wants, following the life of young Walaa on the West Bank, is still going strong on the festival circuit, since it premiered at Berlinale in 2018. Now selected for the 45th Seattle International Film Festival in May 16 - June 9, 2019.
WHAT WALAA WANTS
'WHAT WALAA WANTS’ WITH MORE FESTIVAL SELECTIONS /
Christy Garland's WHAT WALAA WANTS continues to travel around the world, and next stop will be DocsBarcelona that runs 15th - 25th of May.
In April WHAT WALAA WANTS was screened at Magnificent 7 festival in Belgrade, Serbia. The festival has a very exclusive programme of only seven carefully selected films, and screening only one film per day, in a cinema with 1300 seat. Each screening is followed by a masterclass the following day.
In March, WHAT WALAA WANTS was at at One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival in Prague, and at Tempo Documentary Festival in Stockholm, the largest documentary festival in Sweden.
'WHAT WALAA WANTS' NOMINATED FOR 3 CANADIAN ACADEMY AWARDS /
What Walaa Wants have beed nominated for three Canadian Academy Awards.
Read More‘WHAT WALAA WANTS’ WINS IN DOHA /
What Walaa Wants wins the Hilal jury award for Best Film at the Aiyal Film Festival in Doha, Quatar.
Read More'WHAT WALAA WANTS' MIDDLE EASTERN PREMIERE /
What Walaa Wants will have it’s Middle Eastern premiere this Wednesday at the Ayjal Film Festival in Doha, Quatar.
Read MoreFINAL CUT FOR REAL AT IDFA 2018 /
A full list of times and locations for pitches and screenings of Final Cut for Real productions and co-productions at IDFA 2018.
Read More'WHAT WALAA WANTS' WINS THE MARGARET MEAD FILMMAKER AWARD /
Christy Garland received the Margaret Mead Filmmaker Award for What Walaa Wants at the Margaret Mead Film Festival in New York.
Read More'WHAT WALAA WANTS' OPENS RIDM /
Christy Garland's What Walaa Wants, or by its French title Le rêve de Walaa, will open the Montreal International Documentary Festival RIDM, returning for its 21st annual edition, from November 8th to 18th.
Read More'WHAT WALAA WANTS' WINS WIFTV AT VIFF /
We are proud to announce director Christy Garland received the Women in Film + TV Artistic Merit Award for What Walaa Wants at the Vancouver International Film Festival.
Read More'WHAT WALAA WANTS' AND 'ANGELS ARE MADE OF LIGHT' TO IDFA BEST OF FESTS /
We are very happy to announce that What Walaa Wants by Christy Garland and Angels Are Made of Light by James Longley are selected for IDFA's Best of Fests programme.
Read More'WHAT WALAA WANTS' WINS SPECIAL JURY PRIZE AT HOT DOCS /
We're so proud that What Walaa Wants, directed by Christy Garland, won the Special Jury Prize at Hot Docs 2018.
The jury said the following about the film: “We award the DGC Special Jury Prize - Canadian Feature Documentary to What Walaa Wants for displaying an extraordinary bond between filmmaker and subject which then carries over to the audience. Christy Garland creates an exceptional emotional arc by focusing on Walaa’s growth and transformation.”
Read MoreTHREE FILMS SCREENING AT HOT DOCS 2018 /
We are proud to announce that we are presenting no less than three films at the Hot Docs festival in Toronto this year: The Distant Barking of Dogs, What Walaa Wants and Dreaming Murakami.
Following the lives of a 10-year old Ukrainian boy caught in a raging conflict, a young girl fighting for her right to train as a policewoman in Palestine, and a 60-year old Danish translator immersing herself in the surreal world of Haruki Murakami, the films speak to the heterogeneity of our output, and in each their own way, offer gripping and poetic stories about personal struggle and perseverance.
Read More'WHAT WALAA WANTS' HAS ITS WORLD PREMIERE AT THE BERLINALE /
After years in the making What Walla Wants, directed by Christy Garland had its world premiere at the Berlinale on Saturday Februar 17. And we are so happy that Walaa was able to come to the sold out premiere at the Zoo Palast.
Read More'WHAT WALAA WANTS' SELECTED FOR THE BERLINALE /
We are proud to announce that Christy Garland's documentary What Walaa Wants has just been selected to premiere at the 2018 Berlin International Film Festival.
Read More'WHAT WALAA WANTS' RECEIVES FUNDING FROM TRIBECA /
WHAT WALAA WANTS, currently being directed by Christy Garland, is among the seven projects selected by the Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund for projects that ”highlight and humanize critical domestic and international social issues.”
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