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Reflecting on Truth: Vivid Stories about Memory and Reconstructing the Past

June 16

June 16 at 3:30 PM
Pay What You Can

 

 

Cumha

DIRECTOR: Elena Horgan • Ireland • 6 minutes

In this moving experimental documentary, a young Irish filmmaker contemplates her Gaelic roots, and their intersection with language, land, and identity.

 

A Fish Story

DIRECTOR: Yasmine Majchrzak, Michael Peers • NL • 6 minutes

An eccentric old man in a local pub tells tales too tall to be true.

 

Hebron Relocation

DIRECTOR: Holly Andersen • NL • 13 minutes

In 1959, residents of the community of Hebron were told that hey would be divided up and relocated to more southerly communities across Labrador. Weaving together intimate stories from her community with rare footage that gives us a glimpse of community life during this upheaval, director Holly Andersen of Makkovik gives a heartfelt look at a difficult past that has changed the lives of Labrador Inuit forever.

 

Memorable Night

DIRECTOR: Romain Fleury • France • 8 minutes

At a retirement home, Robert, who has Alzheimer’s, and Marcelle prepare for a rare night out at a discotheque.

 

Neighbour Abdi

DIRECTOR: Douwe Dijkstra • Netherlands • 29 minutes

Somali-born Abdi, now a furniture designer and support-worker in the Netherlands, teams up with his filmmaker and special effects expert neighbor to reenact a tumultuous past marked by war and crime. Using special effects and playful reconstructions, they explore Abdi’s painful history in a playful and revealing way.

 

Slow Light

DIRECTOR: Kijek / Adamski • Poland • 10 minutes

Born blind, the hero of this film turns seven before he begins to see images from the past that soon follow him like a curse. Like the stars in the night sky, what he sees has often long since passed away and gone out. A tragic story told beautifully 

 

Summer 96

DIRECTOR: Mathilde Bédouet • France • 12 minutes

Every summer, Paul’s family has a picnic on a small French island reached only by causeway at low-tide. When the tide takes them by surprise this year, they’re forced to spend the night on the beach. In this beautiful hand-drawn tale, a young boy wrestles with the eternal between the world of adults and that of children, and becomes aware of his individuality.

 

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June 16