Barbara Kopple | 2018 | 1h33m

Every summer since 1914, Camp Pathfinder, a summer camp located on a small island in the wilderness of Canada’s Algonquin Park, invites a community of boys and young men from all across Canada and the United States to spend a few weeks in the backcountry learning how to camp, hike, canoe and fish. Two years ago Camp Director Mike Sladden, heart-broken by the tragic images from the growing global refugee crisis but inspired by Canada’s growing intake of asylum seekers, had an idea. What if he could find a way to bring a group of displaced boys from war-torn Syria and Iraq, who recently settled in Canada, to spend the summer at Pathfinder?

Directed by two-time Academy Award winner Barbara Kopple, in collaboration with NowThis, New Homeland offers a unique and intimate perspective into the experience of building a new home after fleeing the traumas of war. 

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