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2021 Lunenburg Doc Fest

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2021 Lunenburg Doc Fest

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Poster for A.RTIFICIAL I.MMORTALITY

A.RTIFICIAL I.MMORTALITY

AVAILABLE TO VIEWERS IN ATLANTIC CANADA Purchase ticket HERE. If you were able to create an immortal version of yourself, would you? This film explores the latest advancements in AI, robotics and biotech with visionaries who argue for a new [...]

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Poster for BANGLA SURF GIRLS

BANGLA SURF GIRLS

AVAILABLE TO VIEWERS IN NORTH AMERICA Purchase ticket HERE. Witness the thrills and struggles of three teenage girls from Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh who fight insurmountable odds to achieve their dreams. Shobe, Aisha and Suma break away from the drudgery of [...]

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Poster for HIGH MAINTENANCE

HIGH MAINTENANCE

AVAILABLE TO VIEWERS IN CANADA  Purchase ticket HERE. Israeli artist Dani Karavan has created nearly 100 environmental installations all across the world. He has won some of the most prestigious international art awards and is constantly asked to speak or [...]

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Poster for REBEL OBJECTS

REBEL OBJECTS

AVAILABLE TO VIEWERS IN NORTH AMERICA Purchase ticket HERE. Carolina returns to Costa Rica to try to rebuild the relationship with her father. After a few months, her father is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. At that moment, Carolina meets Ifigenia, [...]

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Poster for DROPSTONES

DROPSTONES

AVAILABLE TO VIEWERS IN CANADA & US Purchase ticket HERE. Set on Fogo Island off the coast of Newfoundland, Dropstones is an intimate family portrait that follows a matriarch, Sonya, shortly after she has returned to the home she once yearned to escape. [...]

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Poster for COME BACK ANYTIME

COME BACK ANYTIME

AVAILABLE TO VIEWERS IN CANADA Purchase ticket HERE. COME BACK ANYTIME presents a window into the lives of self-taught Japanese ramen master Masamoto Ueda and his wife Kazuko, who have run their tiny Tokyo ramen shop, Bizentei for more than [...]

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Poster for HELL OR CLEAN WATER

HELL OR CLEAN WATER

AVAILABLE TO VIEWERS IN CANADA & US Purchase ticket HERE. In what appears to be an impossible task, Newfoundland diver Shawn Bath has devoted himself to cleaning up the ocean floor one rotting tire at a time. On the brink [...]

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Poster for THE CONDUCTOR

THE CONDUCTOR

AVAILABLE TO VIEWERS IN NORTH AMERICA Purchase ticket HERE. The Conductor takes the audience into the heart of classical music, and into the soul of one of its top artists, the internationally renowned conductor Marin Alsop — the first woman [...]

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Poster for LILY TOPPLES THE WORLD

LILY TOPPLES THE WORLD

AVAILABLE TO VIEWERS IN CANADA Purchase ticket HERE. Lily Topples the World follows 20-year-old sensation Lily Hevesh – the world’s most acclaimed domino toppler and the only girl in her field – as she rises as an artist, role model, [...]

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Poster for TAMING THE GARDEN

TAMING THE GARDEN

AVAILABLE TO VIEWERS IN NORTH AMERICA Purchase ticket HERE. A powerful man and anonymous man has developed an unusual hobby. He buys century-old trees, some as tall as 15-story buildings, from communities along the Georgian coast and has them excavated [...]

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Poster for CLIMBING IRAN

CLIMBING IRAN

AVAILABLE TO VIEWERS IN NORTH AMERICA Purchase ticket HERE. "People often ask me: "why do you put nail polish?" When I climb they are all gone and scratched. Then I look at them and I feel: "Oooh! I did a [...]

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Poster for WRITING WITH FIRE

WRITING WITH FIRE

AVAILABLE TO VIEWERS IN CANADA Purchase ticket HERE. Multiple award recipient and a Sundance Audience Award winner, Writing with Fire is a must see. In a cluttered news landscape dominated by men, emerges India's only newspaper run by Dalit (‘low [...]

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Poster for WITH DRAWN ARMS

WITH DRAWN ARMS

AVAILABLE TO VIEWERS IN NORTH AMERICA Purchase ticket HERE. At the 1968 Olympics, Tommie Smith raised his fist during the medal ceremony. This defiant gesture has reverberated ever since, adopted by generations of civil rights activists in the fight for [...]

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Poster for SEYRAN ATEŞ: SEX, REVOLUTION AND ISLAM

SEYRAN ATEŞ: SEX, REVOLUTION AND ISLAM

AVAILABLE TO VIEWERS IN NORTH AMERICA Purchase ticket HERE. In the 1960s, the hippies championed the idea of a sexual revolution. They received neither Fatwas nor bodyguards. Today, Seyran Ateş – a Turkish- German lawyer, author, feminist, and one of [...]

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Poster for RETURNING HOME

RETURNING HOME

Canada’s Indian residential school legacy and the decimation of wild pacific salmon stem from a common story: a world where relationships are severed in the service of power, where people become detached from one another and the complex webs of [...]

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Poster for FANNY: THE RIGHT TO ROCK

FANNY: THE RIGHT TO ROCK

AVAILABLE TO VIEWERS IN CANADA Purchase a ticket HERE. OPENING NIGHT FILM Revivify Fanny. And my work is done. - David Bowie Sometime in the 1960s, in sunny Sacramento, two Filipina-American sisters got together with other teenage girls to play [...]

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Poster for BECOMING COUSTEAU

BECOMING COUSTEAU

AVAILABLE TO VIEWERS IN ATLANTIC CANADA Purchase online ticket HERE. FREE IN-PERSON SCREENING - Saturday, Sept 25, 7:30pm Zwicker Wharf, 146 Bluenose Drive, Lunenburg. This event is weather dependent. This is an outdoor screening, on a wharf, so bring a [...]

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Poster for APENAS EL SOL (NOTHING BUT THE SUN)

APENAS EL SOL (NOTHING BUT THE SUN)

AVAILABLE TO VIEWERS IN NORTH AMERICA Purchase ticket HERE. Opening Night Film - IDFA Facing the consequences of a violent uprooting, Mateo Sobode Chiqueno has been recording stories, songs, and testimonies of his Ayoreo people since the seventies. In an [...]

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Poster for REBEL HEARTS

REBEL HEARTS

AVAILABLE TO VIEWERS IN CANADA Purchase ticket HERE. In 1960s Los Angeles a trailblazing group of nuns, The Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, bravely stood up to the patriarchy of the Catholic Church, fighting for equality, their livelihoods, [...]

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Poster for GOOD EARTH: THE POTS AND PASSION OF WALTER OSTROM

GOOD EARTH: THE POTS AND PASSION OF WALTER OSTROM

AVAILABLE TO VIEWERS IN NORTH AMERICA Acquire ticket HERE. Nova Scotia-based Walter Ostrom is one of Canada’s foremost ceramic artists. Good Earth explores his passionate art practice through Ostrom’s own words and those of his former students and colleagues from around [...]

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Poster for DESERTED

DESERTED

AVAILABLE TO VIEWERS IN NORTH AMERICA Acquire ticket HERE. LUNENBURG DOC FEST SENIORS WORKSHOP  Deserted investigates the issue of food deserts in Nova Scotia and how food deserts impact food insecurity in both urban and rural areas of the province. [...]

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Poster for A WILL, A WAY: SHORT DOCS PROGRAM

A WILL, A WAY: SHORT DOCS PROGRAM

AVAILABLE TO VIEWERS IN NORTH AMERICA Nine Short Documentaries. In Plain Air Rat Tail Marianne's Onion Recycled Verses The Last Fisherman of Méjean La Coiffeuse / The Hairdresser Excluded by Design Haeberli It Feels Personal TOTAL RUN TIME: 17 Min

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Poster for INDIGENOUS SHORT DOCS

INDIGENOUS SHORT DOCS

AVAILABLE TO VIEWERS IN NORTH AMERICA Four Indigenous Short Documentaries. The Train Station Pituamkek: A Mi'kmaq Heritage Landscape Inendi The Roots of Lacrosse TOTAL RUN TIME: 86 Min.  

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YOUTH SHORT DOCS

EXPERIMENTING WITH THE BLUENOSE AVAILABLE TO VIEWERS IN NORTH AMERICA Watch the films HERE. FREE IN-PERSON SCREENING - Sunday, Sept 26, 4:15pm United Church Hall, 283 Lincoln Street, Lunenburg. UNCONVENTIONAL APPROACHES TO A LEGENDARY ICON Youth Made Films as part [...]

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Poster for THE LANGUAGES OF FILM: SHORTS FILM PROGRAM

THE LANGUAGES OF FILM: SHORTS FILM PROGRAM

AVAILABLE FOR VIEWING IN NORTH AMERICA FREE IN-PERSON SCREENING - Sunday, Sept 26, 5:00pm United Church Hall, 283 Lincoln Street, Lunenburg. THE LANGUAGES OF FILM presents a collection of voices: eight short documentaries of which six are made in languages [...]

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Poster for TURNING TIDES: ATLANTIC CANADIAN SHORTS

TURNING TIDES: ATLANTIC CANADIAN SHORTS

AVAILABLE TO VIEWERS IN NORTH AMERICA FREE IN-PERSON SCREENING - Sunday, Sept 26, 7:30pm United Church Hall, 283 Lincoln Street, Lunenburg. TURNING TIDES: Atlantic Canadian Shorts showcases the unique stories and abundance of talent in Atlantic Canada. Life of Pies [...]

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Poster for REFRAMED: THE ABILITY IN DISABILITY

REFRAMED: THE ABILITY IN DISABILITY

AVAILABLE TO VIEWERS IN NORTH AMERICA Five short documentaries. Full Picture Feelings of Invisibility Why We Fight Forerunner Who The Hell Is Nigel TOTAL RUN TIME: 94 min

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Poster for IN SEARCH OF SOLACE: CBC SHORTS

IN SEARCH OF SOLACE: CBC SHORTS

AVAILABLE TO VIEWERS IN NORTH AMERICA Watch the Films HERE. A Collection of Short Films as Reactions to Covid 19. Me, Mom & Covid Until Further Notice Rockin' the Coffin The Happy Island Tomomi on the Farm TOTAL RUN TIME: [...]

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