After 70+ festivals worldwide, What Walaa Wants can now be streamed on CBC’s GEM, where you can also see Cheer Up. What Walaa Wants is also being broadcast throughout Europe and the Middle East.
March 2019: What Walaa Wants nominated for 3 Canadian Screen Awards: Best Documentary Feature, Best Editing in a Documentary Feature and Best Cinematography in a Documentary!
What Walaa Wants chosen as one of TIFF Canada’s Top 10 ❤️ See it at the TIFF Bell Lightbox for one week starting March 1, 2019!
December 4, 2018: Grateful to announce that WWW won the Ajyal Film Festival Hilal Best Feature Film Award.
November 15, 2018: Going to Amsterdam for the world’s biggest doc fest? See What Walaa Wants in the Best of Fests program at IDFA!
November 8, 2018: Opening Night Film at RIDM in Montreal - November 8th, 2018
October 21, 2018: What Walaa Wants wins the Margaret Mead Filmmaker Award at the Margaret Mead Film Festival at the American Museum of Natural History in New York - thank you to the amazing jury!
Recent Awards and Nominations: After a premiere at the Berlinale 2018 and winning the Special Jury Prize at Hot Docs, What Walaa Wants has won the WIFTV Award for Artistic Merit at the Vancouver Int. Film Festival, and was nominated for the Directors Guild of Canada Allan King Award for Excellence in Documentary.
