ColdwaterCanada
2005, 90min.
Script/Dir: Ruba Nadda, Dir of Phot.: Luc Montpellier, Music by: Geoff Bennett, Longo Hai, Ben Johannesen, Prod. Design.: Jonathan Dueck, Edit.: Teresa Hannigan, Sound: Urban Post, Prod.: Tracey Boulton, Execut. prod.: Atom Egoyan, Simone Urdl.
Cast : Arsinee Knanjian, Shawn Doyle, Jeff Seymour, Kathryn Winslow, David Alpay, Setta Keshishian, Roula Said, Fadia Nadda.
Sabah is a smart, beautiful Muslim woman who lives in Canada. She has just turned 40, yet her instinctive sense of independence and intense passion have been dulled by 20 years of devotion to her family. One day she has a crazy idea: as a treat to herself, she secretly buys a bathing suit and goes swimming. At the pool, she meets Stephen, a tall, handsome man, who is not a Muslim. A mutual attraction develops between them. Eventually, she will have to confront her relatives - can she rely on their love? | Nadda, Ruba Ruba Nadda (born 1972, Montreal)
Writer and director, she lives in Toronto. She is of Arab descent. She studied Literature at York University and was later admitted to New York's Tisch School of Art to study Film Production. Her films are based on her own short stories.
Filmography
Lost Woman Story (1997, short), Interstate Love Story (1997, short), Wet Heat Drafts Through the Afternoon (1997, short), Do Nothing (1997, short), So Far Gone (1998 short), The Wind Blows Toward Me Particularly (1998, short), Damascus Nights (1998, short), Slut (1999, short), Laila (1999, short), I Would Suffer Cold Hands For You (1999, short), Black September (1999, short), Blue Turning Grey Over You (1999, short), I always come to you (2000), Unsettled (2001), Aadan/Call to Prayer (2004, short).
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