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2018 Lunenburg Doc Fest

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2018 Lunenburg Doc Fest

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THE DEVIL WE KNOW

ATLANTIC CANADIAN PREMIERE Unraveling one of the biggest environmental scandals of our time, a group of citizens in West Virginia takes on a powerful corporation after they discover it has knowingly been dumping a toxic chemical — now found in [...]

GENESIS 2.0

CANADIAN PREMIERE On the remote New Siberian Islands in the Arctic Ocean, hunters are searching for the tusks of extinct mammoths. There is a gold rush fever in the air. The price for white gold has never been so high. [...]

THE GUARDIANS

ATLANTIC CANADIAN PREMIERE In a vitally important and overlooked subject, THE GUARDIANS exposes allegations of corruption within the Nevada Guardianship and Family Court System’s involvement in the legal kidnapping of elderly people. The film shines a light on a lucrative [...]

HAL

CANADIAN PREMIERE Although Hal Ashby directed a remarkable string of acclaimed, widely admired classics throughout the 1970s—HAROLD AND MAUDE, THE LAST DETAIL, SHAMPOO, COMING HOME, BEING THERE—he is often overlooked amid the crowd of luminaries from his generation. Amy Scott’s [...]

INTO THE OKAVANGO

CANADIAN PREMIERE The Okavango River Basin provides a vital source of water to about 1 million people, the world’s largest population of African elephants and significant populations of lions, cheetahs and hundreds of species of birds. However, this once unspoiled [...]

KAILASH

CANADIAN PREMIERE Hidden inside overcrowded factories around the world, countless children are forced into slave labour due to rising global demands for cheap goods. With the help of a covert network of informants, Nobel Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi and his [...]

LETTER FROM MASANJIA

ATLANTIC CANADIAN PREMIERE When a woman in Oregon opens a box of Halloween decorations and finds a distressing letter written by a political prisoner from inside a Chinese labour camp, her discovery makes waves across major news outlets worldwide. Meanwhile, [...]

PICK OF THE LITTER

ATLANTIC CANADIAN PREMIERE Pick of the Litter follows a litter of puppies from the moment they’re born and begin their quest to become guide dogs for the blind. Cameras follow these pups through an intense two-year odyssey as they train to [...]

SAMMY DAVIS JR.: I’VE GOTTA BE ME

ATLANTIC CANADIAN PREMIERE Sammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me is the first major film documentary to examine Davis’ vast talent and his journey for identity through the shifting tides of civil rights and racial progress during 20th-century America. Sammy [...]

THE SILENCE OF OTHERS

ATLANTIC CANADIAN PREMIERE The Silence of Others offers a cinematic portrait of the first attempt in history to prosecute crimes of Franco’s 40-year dictatorship in Spain (1939-1975), whose perpetrators have enjoyed impunity for decades due to a 1977 amnesty law. It brings to [...]

THE SONG AND THE SORROW

Musician Catherine MacLellan—the daughter of Canadian singer/songwriting legend Gene MacLellan—grew up surrounded by her father’s music. He committed suicide when she was 14. Two decades after his loss, Catherine is finally ready to confront the hurtful mystery of her absent [...]

UNTIE THE LINES

CANADIAN FESTIVAL PREMIERE Nike decides to quit her business career and let go of the comforts of home in her early thirties. She reduces her belongings to the essentials and buys an old sailboat in Panama. Even though she has [...]

DOC35: ATLANTIC MADE

DOC35: Atlantic Made celebrates 35 years of the Documentary Organization of Canada with a curated selection of shorts by DOC Atlantic members over the years. TOTAL RUNTIME: 69 MIN

SHORT FILMS FROM AROUND THE WORLD

* FREE ADMISSION * A special free admission presentation for students of Bluenose Academy followed by a second screening of these films for the community at large. Lunenburg Doc Fest is delighted to present a collection of short fact-based films [...]

SHORT FILMS: TRUTH BE TOLD

SHORT FILMS: TRUTH BE TOLD is an eclectic collection of short documentaries that challenge us to see the world through the eyes of others. TOTAL RUNTIME: 90 MIN

TIDE AND TIME: DOCUPOEMS ON LUNENBURG

* FREE SCREENING * This collaborative film project was designed to foster relationships between Nova Scotia’s filmmaking and creative writing communities. Professional filmmakers were paired with professional poets to collaborate and create short experimental documentaries to be premiere at the [...]