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Creative Resilience: Stories about Artists and the Power of Art

June 15 at 3:30 PM Pay What You Can Buy Tickets     After Heather DIRECTOR: Clint Butler • NL • 22 minutes Before suffering a severe traumatic brain injury overseas, Heather Williams was a rising Canadian dancer. This poignant documentary reveals a portrait of Williams’ lifelong love of dance, her resilient creative spirit, and […]

Undercurrents: Moving Dramatic Shorts

June 15 at 7:00 PM Pay What You Can Buy Tickets   Ballad of North Whale DIRECTOR: Ehsan Mohammadi • NL • 13 minutes After Raam, an international student, moves to Newfoundland to pursue his dreams and education, his housemate Joseph loses his job amidst the global pandemic. As they set out on a whale […]

Three Promises and others: True stories about roots, survival, and legacy

June 15 at 1:00 PM Pay What You Can Buy Tickets     In the Whiteness DIRECTOR: Niya Abdullahi • Ontario • 4 minutes In the Whiteness is a poetic exploration of language, land, and identity through the eyes of a Harari-Ethiopian woman displaced by war. Now living in Canada, she uses poetry and movement […]