In 2014, the extremist organization Boko Haram kidnapped 276 teenage girls from a town in northeastern Nigeria. Waiting for Hassana is a harrowing first-person account of one girl’s escape from captivity and a heart-wrenching lament for her closest friend Hassana — one of the many girls still unaccounted for.

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Short Cuts

Waiting for Hassana

Ifunanya Maduka

Playing as part of Short Cuts Programme 08

— DANIS GOULET

Screenings

Tue Sep 12

Scotiabank 14

Regular
9:45pm
Wed Sep 13

Scotiabank 5

Press
9:15am
Sun Sep 17

Scotiabank 10

Regular
4:00pm