“Peace by Chocolate” – Bittersweet [MOVIE REVIEW]
Ayem Abou Ammar as Tareq and Hatem Ali as Issam in “Peace by Chocolate.” Photo courtesy of Magnetic North Pictures, LLC. Interred in a Lebanese refugee camp, Syrian refugee Tareq is granted asylum in Canada. Greeted at the airport by quintessential upbeat smiling Canadians, Frank and Heather, they come bearing gifts, well, one in any case — a super heavy-duty hooded ski parka for the super heavy-duty winter that awaits the young man from the desert. Driving to his new home, the tiny town of Antigonish is a far cry from the Toronto Tareq thought he’d be getting. Trying to make lemonade out of the lemons he’s been handed, he works hard to get the rest of his family transferred to him. Father Issam and mother Shahnaz soon follow but his sister Alaa is still stuck in the camp with her daughter with no visa on the horizon. Tareq’s dream was to attend medical school and he’s fulfilled the coursework necessary, except that his foreign transcript doesn’t translate, either in language or equivalencies. He is, however, determined to overcome this obstacle and, at the same time, help his father find work, a difficulty compounded by his father’s complete lack of English. But there is one…
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