Face 2 Face With David Peck

  Egil Larsen and Face2Face host David Peck talk about his new film 69 Minutes of 86 Days, The Refugee crisis, making sense of time, polarization of real issues, childlike wonder and why he still has hope. Trailer Hot Docs Review – calls it “Essential viewing.” Find out more about the film here. Synopsis Every day, about 90 Syrian refugees arrive in Canada. 40,081 have been welcomed since November 4, 2015. (Data as of January 29, 2017) The war in Syria has now lasted six years. According to UNICEF, one in three of today’s Syrian children have never experienced anything but war and flight. Every week hundreds of families flee. 69 Minutes of 86 Days is the part of the story that hasn’t been told. Follow three-year-old Lean’s journey from an unfamiliar port in Greece on the edge of a beach, through passport controls, congested trains, tents, and a large field, to the quiet streets of Uppsala, Sweden. At an unspecified port, we are led into a crowd of people through a trail of discarded lifejackets. Part of a ne