Sammy

Toronto, July 27, 2013, shortly after midnight. Sammy Yatim is standing inside an empty streetcar, a small knife in his right hand. A Toronto Police officer will shoot him dead. From a mixture of gunpowder, blood and acrimony: the portrait of a boy who didn’t have to die.

Film Maker
Mondesir, Esery
Year
2016
Country
Canada
Length
2
Language
English
Category
(De)colonization, Abstraction, Activism + Protest, America, Canada, Capitalism + Economics, Community, Crime, Essay, Ethnography, found footage, history, Horror, Identity, Immigration
Genre
documentary, hand-processed, short