''Zo Reken'' is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Emanuel Licha and released in 2021. Taking its name from a
Haitian Creole
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slang term for the
Toyota Land Cruiser
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, the film is an exploration of the impact of the international humanitarian aid apparatus on
Haiti
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, centering on the ways in which it can be both a necessary lifeline and an instrument of economic inequality and repression.
[Courtney Small]
"zo reken Review: A Brilliant Ride"
''Point of View
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* Point of view (literature) or narrative mode, the perspective of the narrative voice; the pronou ...
'', May 5, 2021.
The film premiered at the 2021
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival
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,
[ where it won the juried award for Best Canadian Feature Documentary. It won the award for Best Documentary Film at the 2021 Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie.]["Le jury du 35e FICFA récompense les meilleurs films"]
Ici Radio-Canada Nouveau-Brunswick, November 18, 2021. At the 2021 Montreal International Documentary Festival, it won the Grand Prize, National Feature and the Student Jury Award, and received an honorable mention from the Magnus Isacsson Award jury.
It received two Canadian Screen Award
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nominations at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards
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in 2023, for Best Feature Length Documentary and Best Cinematography in a Documentary (Étienne Roussy
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).[Pat Mullen]
"2023 Canadian Screen Award Nominations for Documentary"
''Point of View
Point of view or Points of View may refer to:
Concept and technique
* Point of view (philosophy), an attitude how one sees or thinks of something
* Point of view (literature) or narrative mode, the perspective of the narrative voice; the pronou ...
'', February 22, 2023.
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2021 films
2021 documentary films
Canadian documentary films
Black Canadian films
Works about Haiti
2020s Canadian films
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