“Journey of Eternity” by Assyrian movie director Frank Gilbert to be screened at Toronto theatre
TORONTO – Assyrian movie director Frank Gilbert and FG Productions will screen their movie about the tragic story of three Chaldean-Syriac-Assyrian nationalists and human rights activists who were hanged by Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi Ba’ath regime in 1985. The movie Journey of Eternity will be screened February 3, 2023, at the City Playhouse Theatre in Toronto, Canada.
Journey of Eternity tells of three youthful champions (Youbert Benyamin Shlimon, Youkhana Esho Jajo, Yousip Toma Hermis) of the Chaldean-Syriac-Assyrian people in their ancestral land Mesopotamia and Iraq, their national struggle and the events that led to their martyrdom for recognition, freedom and a decent life.
Director Frank Gilbert (Kerkheslokh (Kirkuk), 1981) is now shooting his new movie “Road to Urmi” in Agadir, Morocco. The movie tells the dramatic story of a mother and her sick son during the genocide of Syriacs (Assyrians-Arameans-Chaldeans), Armenians and Greeks by the Ottoman Turks and Kurds between 1914-1917, a black page in human history in which more than one and a half million people were brutally and premeditatedly slaughtered, deported and starved.