The Confession

After the bombing of his father's chocolate factory, a young Syrian refugee struggles to settle into his new Canadian small-town life, caught between following his dream and preserving his family's chocolate-making legacy. Based on the incredible true story.

Tears and water is a film about Thaipusam. Thaipusam is a Hindu festival celebrated mostly by the Tamil community on the full moon in the Tamil month of Thai (January/February). In Malaysia, the temple at Batu Caves, near Kuala Lumpur,an 8-hour journey culminating in a flight of 272 steps to the top.Devotees carry containers containing milk as offering to Lord Murugan either by hand or in huge decorated carriers on their shoulders called 'kavadi'. The kavadi may be simple wooden arched semi-circular supports holding a carrier foisted with brass or clay pots of milk or huge, heavy ones which may rise up to two meters, built of bowed metal frames which hold long skewers, the sharpened end of which pierce the skin of the bearers torso.

In a sniper-threatened Los Angeles, a lone man's urgent quest for insulin intertwines with vivid memories, propelling him through a dangerous landscape where every step could be his last.