only one SIFF feature and one short
This morning, instead of another SIFF movie - since we're running short of films suitable for kids - "T" got a special treat: watching television unsupervised. The show was "Tutankhamun's Treasures", a National Geographic documentary. I joined him for the last of it, and it looked pretty good, as one might expect with a National Geographic show.
Then I started watching a SIFF package: the dramatic short film "Maradona's Legs" and the documentary feature Captains of Zaatari, also with T. But the weather was beautiful, and "J" was outside gardening, and T decided to join her. I paused the short, and when they returned the three of us watched the rest of "Maradona's Legs". It's very good, particularly given the temptation that the film-makers may have had to stretch the story to feature length.
After the short, we all started the documentary feature, Captains of Zaatari. It's about two boys who go from a refugee camp to a professional soccer camp. The story about the boys is good, but I would have liked to know at least a little about the organization that ran the soccer camp too, to get an idea of how big a deal it was for the boys (young men by the end of the story) to be accepted there.
I also watched most of the question-and-answer session between the SIFF programmer who presented the film, the film's director, and a translator. The sound quality was kind of shaky, and the translator slowed the conversation to the point that it was kind of hard to follow. J watched some too, but gave up before I did.
Quarantine report: home all day.