Jasmine Road (2020)

Directed by

Warren Sulatycky

Genre

drama film

Country

Canada

Runtime

2h 07m

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A rancher in rural Alberta has been emotionally closed off since his wife died. When his daughter brings home a Syrian refugee family who need a place to stay, he initially resists but gradually opens up and finds new purpose in connecting with them.

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What happens

Jasmine Road is a Canadian drama film, directed by Warren Sulatycky and released in 2020. The film stars Greg Ellwand as Mac Bagley, a rancher in rural southern Alberta who has been emotionally closed off since the death of his wife; after his schoolteacher daughter Loretta (Caitlyn Sponheimer) learns that her student Heba (Melody Mokhtari), a Syrian refugee who came to Canada with her mother Layla (Aixa Kay) and uncle Salem (Ahmed Muslimani), needs to find a new place to live, she invites the family to stay at the ranch, with Mac's initial resistance to the idea giving way to acceptance and a new lease on life as he gets to know them. The film premiered at the 2020 Calgary International Film Festival, and was subsequently screened as the opening gala of the 2020 Edmonton International Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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