The Governor of Georgetown and Others: Documentaries on People Often Overlooked
June 12 at 7:00 PM Pay What You Can Buy Tickets Miss Campbell: Inuk Teacher DIRECTOR: Heather Campbell • NL • 15 minutes Through the eyes of a granddaughter, Miss Campbell: Inuk Teacher tells the story of Evelyn Campbell; a trailblazing Inuk K-12 teacher in Rigolet, Labrador. Director Heather Campbell combines her own striking […]
Stronger Together: Films about Family and Community
June 13 at 7:00 PM Pay What You Can Buy Tickets My Name is Edgar and I Have a Cow DIRECTOR: Filip Diviak • Czechia • 7 minutes A delightful animated film which follows Edgar as his life is disrupted by a newborn calf he sees on a tourist trip to a slaughterhouse. This […]
Under Cover of Night: Dark Thrillers and Horror
June 13 at 9:30 PM Pay What You Can Buy Tickets CONTENT WARNING: Depictions of violence, blood Dead Cat DIRECTOR: Annie-Claude Caron, Danick Audet • Quebec • 12 minutes Two parents are forced into a tough spot when their family cat suddenly dies and rather than having a tough conversation with their young daughter […]
Tears of Laughter: Feel-Good Dramatic Comedies about Friendship and Love
June 14 at 7:00 PM Pay What You Can Buy Tickets CONTENT WARNING: Nudity and on-screen depictions of sex Bounce DIRECTOR: Elizabeth Hicks • NL • 10 minutes Darcy is a fifteen-year-old mix of energy, perfectionism, and insecurity. When an ultra-cute boy from her cadet corps insists that she attend that night’s Trampoline Social, […]
The Edge of Reality: Mind-Bending Films after Dark
June 14 at 9:30 PM Pay What You Can Buy Tickets CONTENT WARNING: Depictions of violence, torture Calamus Variations DIRECTOR: Kenneth J Harvey • NL • 9 minutes The final installment of Newfoundland filmmaker Kenneth J. Harvey’s experimental short series inspired by Walt Whitman. The film features a score by Andrew Staniland, played […]
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 […]
Reflecting on Truth: Vivid Stories about Memory and Reconstructing the Past
June 16 at 3:30 PM Pay What You Can Buy Tickets 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 • […]
Plan 709 from Outer Space
June 16 at 7:00 PM Pay What You Can Buy Tickets Plan 709 from Outer Space The Nickel’s collaborative fan remake challenge of Ed Wood's so-bad-it's-good classic! It’s not a contest, it’s open to everyone and registration is open until the challenge is over on June 15. Sign up and you'll receive a […]