SHORT FILMS: TRUTH BE TOLD

Screenings

3:00pm

Saturday, September 22, 2018

Lunenburg Opera House

Info

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

 

SONJA

DIRECTOR: MAROŠ MILČÍK, 2018 / SLOVAKIA / 5 MIN

Sonja is a poetic portrayal of the story of the sightless potter Sona Zeliskova, who despite adverse fate found her life yourney in art and ceramics.

BERNIE LANGILLE WANTS TO KNOW... WHO KILLED BERNIE LANGILLE

Director: Jackie Torrens, CANADA / 11 MIN

Following a mysterious 1968 death of a military electrician—a grandson tries to investigate what happened to the man he never met and who he’s named after. Through the use of historically-researched and specially-built miniature sets, we travel back to 1968 and gain access to a military base, as Bernie tries to put together the pieces of his bizarre family narrative.

ENOUGH: THE EMPOWERED WOMEN OF KOROGOCHO

Director: Brent Foster, 2018 / CANADA / 8 MIN

The elder women of Nairobi’s most dangerous slum decide it’s time to fight back.

WATER WARRIORS

Director: Michael Premo, 2018 / Canada, USA / 22 MIN

When an energy company began searching for natural gas in New Brunswick, Canada, indigenous and non-indigenous united to drive out the company in a campaign to protect their water and way of life.

LOTTE THAT SILHOUETTE GIRL

Director: Elizabeth Beecherl | Carla Patullo, 2018 / US / 10 MIN

Once upon a time, long before Disney and other animation giants, Lotte Reiniger ignited the screen with shadows, light, and a pair of magical scissors.

KUNSTGLASER

Director: Ben Proudfoot, 2017 / Canada / 9 MIN

Norbert Sattler is a master stained glass craftsman in Pleasantville, Nova Scotia.

SNAKE HIPS LULU

Director: Lulu Keating, 2018 / CANADA / 3 MIN

A dance hall girl from the Klondike Gold Rush has a painful rebirth in present day Dawson City, Yukon.

LAND OF THE WIND

Director: Laura Belinky, 2017 / UK, ARGENTINA / 19 MIN

The  wind  is  Patagonia’s  moving  soul  and  photographer  Eliseo  Miciu  is  determined  to  capture  it.