Rebel
Original title: Recrue
2019 | 15 minutes | Canada
Director: Pier-Philippe Chevigny
2022. Quebec sees an unprecedented influx of illegal migrants entering the country by hiking through the wilderness that borders the United States. Radical groups are gaining supporters as citizens grow dissatisfied with their government’s mishandling of the crisis. Six years old Alex is oblivious to the world changing around him. The mysterious patrols his father leads with his rightwing militia are just more opportunities to go play hide and seek out in the woods. That morning, though, it all came into focus.
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While screening partner Young Ahmed portrays a form of radicalization the world has been taught to condemn, Rebel looks inward and asks an increasingly important question: what does domestic radicalization look like?
- Keltie Duncan