Passage to Freedom Film Screening
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About the Event
The arrival of the Hearts of Freedom exhibition will be celebrated with a free screening of the exhibition’s accompanying film, Passage to Freedom.
Passage to Freedom is a moving documentary that features oral histories of Southeast Asian refugees that made the dangerous journeys from Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam to Canada. The film weaves archival clips of news stories, wartime footage, and interviews with former refugees and Canadian immigration officials.
The film also highlights the compassion shown in that era by Canadian officials, churches, and ordinary citizens who stepped up to innovate a private sponsorship immigration program, under the 1976 Immigration Act, where private citizens could sponsor complete strangers as refugees to Canada.
