Presented in competition at the 53e International Film Festival in India, the film white dogby Quebec director Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, will be eligible for the ICFT-UNESCO Gandhi Medal, awarded to a film whose values reflect Mahatma Gandhi’s ideals of peace and tolerance.
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white dog is one of nine international films selected by a jury made up of members of the International Council for Cinema, Television and Audiovisual Communication, an organization whose mission is to advise UNESCO on questions concerning cinema, television and new media.
Fourth feature film by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, produced by Nicole Robert, white dog is adapted from the true story of Romain Gary and Jean Seberg told by the French author in a novel. It tells the story of a dog, taken in by Gary and Seberg, trained to attack black protesters in the post-segregation era in the United States of the 1960s. The animal is entrusted to an African-American trainer, Keys, to be cured of the hate he learned.