FILM KÍMMAPIIYIPITSSINI: THE MEANING OF EMPATHY Elle-Maija Tailfeathers, Canada The urgent, astounding, much lauded new film by Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers imbues the act of witnessing her community’s response to the opioid crisis with an ethic of empathy, love,...
FILM DREAMING OF WORDS By Nandan, India FeNjattyela Sreedharan, a fourth standard drop-out, compiles a dictionary connecting four major Dravidian languages. Traveling across four states and doing extensive research, he spent twenty five years making the...
” FILM Displaced Labour: Shorts Program These films explore the ways that migration and forced displacement, on a global and local scale, shape our relationships to work and the communities that sustain us. Sunday May 15th, 3PM-5PM (Doors open 2:30PM) at...
FILM COMPANY TOWN Peter Findlay, Canada On the anniversary of General Motors’ 100th year of manufacturing vehicles in Oshawa, Canada, union workers are forced into a life-and-death fight to save their members’ jobs when the company announces...
A FEELING GREATER THAN LOVEBy Mary Jirmanus Saba, LebanonSaturday May 7th, 7-9PM (Doors open 6:30PM) Innis Town Hall Dreams of popular revolution, erased by civil war. A young girl martyred at a factory strike in Beirut in 1972 – her identity shrouded in...
