{"id":16877,"date":"2017-07-25T03:12:35","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T03:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/giff.mx\/?p=16877"},"modified":"2017-07-25T03:12:35","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T03:12:35","slug":"in-the-name-of-all-canadians-eng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/in-the-name-of-all-canadians-eng\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Name of all Canadians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;\">[eltdf_dropcaps type=&#8221;normal&#8221; color=&#8221;&#8221; background_color=&#8221;&#8221;]H[\/eltdf_dropcaps]ot Docs 2017 commemorated Canada&#8217;s 150th anniversary of Confederation with the commissioning of <em>In the Name of All Canadians<\/em>, a compilation of six short documentaries inspired by Canada\u2019s Charter of Rights and Freedoms. From Indigenous rights to multiculturalism to the controversial \u201cnotwithstanding clause\u201d, each filmmaker selected a specific aspect of the Charter to explore, looking at how it resonates in the stories of their fellow Canadians.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;\">The films that make up this special selection are: <em>Nothwithstanding<\/em>, a speculative documentary which imagines a doomsday scenario in which Section 33, the nothwithstanding clause, weaponizes the Charter against itself; <em>The Inspector<\/em>, a story of school inspectors recalling the difficulties in teaching French in public schools; <em>The Long Way Home<\/em>, where mobility rights come into question when the Canadian government denies re-entry to a Sudanese-born Canadian after false allegations of terrorism.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;\">The selection is completed by: In part, a mosaic of Canadian portraits touching on Charter-related topics; Lessons Injustice, story of a troubled-teenager-turned-criminal-lawyer; and Last Resort, an exploration of the first indigenous freedom-of-religion challenge to go before the Supreme Court of Canada.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;\">The appointment to see <em>In the Name of all Canadians<\/em> is at 12:00 hrs, in Bellas Artes.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A compilation of six short documentaries <\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[640],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16877"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17007,"href":"http:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16877\/revisions\/17007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}