Your Country, My Country

Your Country, My Country
French	Dans ton pays...
Directed by	Marquise Lepage
Written by	Marquise Lepage
Produced by	Jacques Vallée Monique Létourneau
Starring	Laurent Faubert-Bouvier Fatuma Kayembe Louise Richer Olivier Savoie-Mainguy
Cinematography	Jean-Pierre Lachapelle
Edited by	France Pilon
Music by	Jean Derome Robert Marcel Lepage
Production company	National Film Board of Canada
Release date	1993 (1993)
Running time	7 minutes
Country	Canada
Languages	French English

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.[1]

The film was a Genie Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 14th Genie Awards.[2]

References

1. "Your Country My Country". Canadian Materials for Schools and Libraries, Vol. 22, Iss. 5 (October 1994), p. 194.
2. "Film centre grads making their mark". Toronto Star, December 24, 1993.

External links

• Your Country, My Country at IMDb