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NINTH FLOOR
Directed by MINA SHUM

Date
September 10, 2019
About Project
DIRECTOR
MINA SHUM
COUNTRY
CANADA
RUNNING TIME
81 mins
YEAR
2015
LANGUAGE
English
ABOUT THE FILM
Over four decades after the infamous Sir George Williams Riot, Ninth Floor reopens the file on a watershed moment in Canadian race relations and one of the most contested episodes in the nation’s history. The riot started quietly when a few Caribbean students at Sir George Williams University (which later merged into Concordia), lodged a formal complaint against one of their professors, accusing him of racism. But what began quietly would end in a violent and widely reported confrontation on the upper floors of the university’s downtown Hall Building. Director Mina Shum engages the original protagonists in a compassionate cinematic exercise of reckoning and redemption.