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How a Teenager Survived War and Started Over in Canada Op-Docs

How a Teenager Survived War and Started Over in Canada Op-Docs

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To all appearances, Ibraheem Sarhan is just another teenager starting the school year in Winnipeg, Manitoba. But listen to him talk for a little while, and youll quickly realize that his presence in Canada is part of an extraordinary story of survival and resilience beginning during wartime in Syria, and continuing to this day. Ibraheem tells that story in We Became Fragments, the new Op-Doc directed by Luisa Conlon, Hanna Miller and Lacy Jane Roberts. The directors won the student prize in last years pitch competition for Op-Docs on international stories, supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and Tribeca Film Institutes IF/Then Initiative. Accompanied by a short written reflection by Samantha Power, the former United States Ambassador to the United Nations, the film uses Ibraheems own writings to explore the experience of trauma, loss and displacement and the limits, possibly, of healing.
Date: 2020-08-15

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This is great filmmaking. I love how honest it is and that it isnt spun. Very much like the three part series that the NYT did on Syrian refugees in Canada about a year ago. I live in New York these days, but I know Winnipeg and Gordon Bell High School very well. Ibraheem will get great medical attention there and great support adjusting to a foreign country and culture. I hope that his father also gets the support that he will need. Sorry for the Winnipeg winter, summers coming: )
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Wishing for you a wonderful life, Ibrahim. You are still very young, and there is much more to come of your life story. You have been through such hard times, and I'm sure it is still so hard. But I hope you will have a good life, with lots of warm human connections, a reason to live (something that is very important to you, and a hopeful heart.
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People who have faced down adversity like this and come out the other side are some of the strongest, bravest, hardest working people on earth. These are the type of people the new America hates and demonizes. Canada is lucky to have them.
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I lost my whole family at a young age too. All my siblings and my parents passed away when I was 20 and that's when I moved to the US. It's been 22 years away from my family, I cry every day still for their loss and my loneliness.
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There is nothing in this world that I haven't seen. What a strong claim from such a young man. Welcome to Canada! I hope you are able to begin to see good things that you haven't seen in life.
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As a mother, this deeply saddens my heart. Stay strong little guy your not alone. You were able to survive what most could never imagine happening. My heart is with you.
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When ever united nation, gov. s and nongovernmental organisations &. all humanity when they stop these massacres. in syria. and stop wars all over the world
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