Denial Satuday 10:00 am UNS 92 min. McNabb /Connolly, 2016 Filmmaker: Derek Hallquist Every day our changing climate pushes us closer to an environmental catastrophe, but the problem is easy to ignore. We often find it difficult to face change. We'd rather be in...
True Conviction Saturday 10:00 am LNS 84 min. Film Collaborators, 2017 Director: Jamie MeltzerThere's a new detective agency in Dallas, Texas, started by three exonerated men, with decades in prison served between them. True Conviction is a character-driven...
Pre-Crime Saturday 10:00 am FFR 88 min. Rise and Shine, 2017 Directors: Monika Hielscher & Matthias Heeder What if tomorrow's murders could be prevented today? To predict a future crime scene and to prevent a murder seems like something from a sci-fi movie. To...
Footprint: Population, Consumption and Sustainability Saturday 11:35 am LNS 82 min. Women Make Movies, 2017 Director: Valentina Canavesio Footprint takes a dizzying spin around the globe, witnessing population explosions, over-consumption, limited resources, and...
The Silent Land Saturday 11:40 am SID 75 min. 2017 Director: Jan Van den Berg In Cambodia, more and more fertile land is being taken over by large-scale farming industries while small-scale farmers are fighting to keep ownership of their land in order to maintain...
19 Paper Cranes Saturday 11:45 am FFR 6 min. L'Arche International, 2017 Director: Michael Joseph On July 25th, 2016, a young man attacked a centre for people with disabilities in Japan, killing 19 and wounding 26. He had sent a letter to the president of the Japanese...
Seeking Wisdom: Students & Elders in the Sea to Sky Saturday 11:50 am UNS 24 min. Carswellfilm.ca © Squamish Nation & School District 48, 2017 Director: Ed Carswell Students from School District 48's Aboriginal Leadership Group travel...
Love the Sinner Saturday 11:55 am FFR 17 min. Women Make Movies, 2017 Filmmakers: Jessica Devaney & Geeta Gandbhir This is a personal documentary exploring the connection between Christianity and homophobia in the wake of the 2016 shooting at Pulse nightclub in...
116 Cameras Saturday 12:15 pm FFR 16 min. Birdling Films, 2017 Director: Davina Pardo As the Holocaust survivor community ages, the Shoah Foundation, in collaboration with the University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies, has embarked on an...
Link Arms with Us Saturday 12:30 UNS 5 min. Council of Canadians Comox Valley Chapter, 2017 Video footage by Clayoquot Action and Sea Wolf Adventures Post production: carswellfilm.ca In late August, 2017, First Nations leaders and members of the 'Namgis, Mamalilikala,...
Water Warriors Saturday 12:35 pm UNS 22 min. Storyline Inc., 2017 Director: Michael Premo Water Warriors is the story of a community’s successful fight to protect their water from the oil and natural gas industry. In 2013, Texas-based SWN Resources arrived in New...
The Forger Saturday 12:35 pm FFR 16 min. NY Times Documentary and Manual Cinema Studios, 2016 Filmmakers: Samantha Stark, Alexandra Garcia, Pamela Druckerman It’s 1944 in occupied Paris. Four friends spend their days in a narrow room atop a Left Bank...
We Are Protectors of the Water Saturday 1:00 pm UNS 2 min. Island Soul Films, 2017 Filmmaker: Shane Philip Poem: Yarrow WillardBeautifully filmed local watersheds, lakes and rivers provide the images for Yarrow Willard's poem and call to action, “We Are Protectors of...
The Road Forward Saturday 1:10 pm UNS 101 min. NFB, 2017 Director: Marie ClementsThe Road Forward, a musical documentary, connects a pivotal moment in Canada’s civil rights history—the beginnings of Indian Nationalism in the 1930s—with the powerful momentum of First...
Bending the Arc Saturday 1:15 pm SID 102 min. Film Collaborators, 2017 Director: Kief Davidson Executive Producers: Matt Damon & Ben Affleck The film centers on three Harvard medical students: Jim Kim, current president of the World Bank, and Paul Farmer and...
Birthright: A War Story Saturday 1:15 pm LNS 100 min. Women Make Movies, 2017 Director: Civia Tamarkin In the US today, a radical movement has tightened its grip on state power, seeking to control whether and how women bear children. In this crusade,...
Finding Kukan Saturday 3:05 pm SID 75 min. New Day Films, 2015 Director: Robin Lung In the late 1930s China is in dire straits. The country will collapse under Japan’s military juggernaut if it doesn’t get outside help. Chinese American firebrand Li Ling-Ai jolts...
