Monthly free screening of a film with a Social-Justice theme on the second Friday of the month, unless noted.
October’s Theme is “Direct experience”
The Wind At My Door (2014, 1h 15m)
An intimate portrait of living with bipolar disorder. Filmmaker Pierre Goupil reveals his uneasy relationship with his illness and his journey as an artist in a society that struggles to accept those on the fringe.
Dec 13, 2019- (Experiencing our sources) – DOUBLE FEATURE – Invasion and Qallunaat!
In this era of “reconciliation”, Indigneous land is still being taken at gunpoint. INVASION is a new film about the Unist’ot’en Camp, Gidimt’en checkpoint, and the larger Wet’suwet’en Nation standing up to the Canadian government and corporations who continue colonial violence against indigenous people.
Qallunaat! Why White people are funny (NFB) 2006 52min
This documentary pokes fun at the ways in which Inuit people have been treated as “exotic” documentary subjects by turning the lens onto the strange behaviours of Qallunaat (the Inuit word for white people).