
Someone Like Me
Drake fled Uganda because he is gay, and this film follows his first year seeking asylum in Canada. A Vancouver-based group called Rainbow Refugee takes on his case, and the film tracks the practical work of resettlement: finding him housing, helping him navigate immigration hearings, and connecting him with a small circle of queer Vancouverites who become his support network in a city he has never seen. Interviews with Drake and the volunteers who take on his case sit alongside footage of Vancouver's queer community spaces, contrasting the freedom on offer there with the danger he left behind. The film stays close to the specifics of one case rather than generalizing about the global asylum system, showing paperwork, waiting rooms, and the slow accumulation of a new life. It is as much about the people who show up to help a stranger as it is about Drake himself, and it ends with his resettlement still a work in progress rather than a tidy resolution.