Your Country, My Country

Directed by

Marquise Lepage

Elsewhere

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How it feels

A white Canadian boy and a Black Canadian girl are classmates. The boy mistakenly thinks the girl is from another country because of how she looks. They argue but then realize they share many things and start to become friends.

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What happens

Your Country, My Country (French: Dans ton pays...) is a Canadian drama short film, directed by Marquise Lepage and released in 1993. An examination of racism, the film centres on two classmates, a white Canadian boy (Laurent Faubert-Bouvier) and a Black Canadian girl (Fatuma Kayembe), who are drawn into conflict when the boy wrongly assumes that the girl's different physical appearance means she must have been born in a foreign country, but who are ultimately able to get past the initial misunderstanding and begin building a friendship when they discover that they have a lot in common. The film was a Genie Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 14th Genie Awards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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