International Film Festival of Ottawa

It Must Be Heaven (with Highway to Heaven)

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It Must Be Heaven (Feature Film): Filmmaker Elia Suleiman travels to different cities and finds unexpected parallels to his homeland of Palestine.


Highway to Heaven (Short Film): A beautifully composed and evocative documentary on the 25 houses of worship that line the No. 5 Road in Richmond, BC.


About the Pairing:

An inversion of It Must Be Heaven where a restless man is wandering westward in search of a new homeland, Highway to Heaven is an observational documentary exploring a single spot on Earth in which seemingly divergent religious ideologies co-exist in peaceful disassociation.


- Keltie Duncan

A place utterly unique in British Columbia and the world, Richmond’s No. 5 Road, also known as the “Highway to Heaven,” hosts a multitude of faiths. Side by side are numerous houses of worship, including Buddhist temples, a Sikh gurdwara, Hindu and Swami temples, Shia and Sunni mosques, Christian churches, and Jewish, Islamic and Christian schools.


About the pairing:

An inversion of It Must Be Heaven where a restless man is wandering westward in search of a new homeland, Highway to Heaven is an observational documentary exploring a single spot on Earth in which seemingly divergent religious ideologies co-exist in peaceful disassociation.

- Keltie Duncan

  • Year
    2019
  • Runtime
    17:00
  • Country
    Canada
  • Director
    Sandra Ignagni