Carlos Colombia: NFB

Last Chance Dept: The camera dwells in full close-up for a full minute on the face of Zaki, a young Egyptian gay man trying to articulate, after being asked about coming out to his family, what is in his mind and tortured heart, according to The Chronicle Herald. Last Chance is an NFB documentary, showing today at noon, at the Atlantic Film Festival. The 84-minute documentary also tells the stories of Trudi, a lesbian from Jamaica, Jennifer, a trans-sexual woman from Lebanon, Carlos Colombia and Alvaro Nicaragua and there is a long take in Paul-Emile d Entremont s Last Chance, which is the most remarkable single shot of any film I have seen since Jean-LucGodard s Weekend in the 60s. He is rendered completely speechless. Despair and pain flare up like gas fires in his eyes, filling them with tears. His sensitive features play host to flickering waves of literally unspeakable thought. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.