DAILY EVENT LISTINGS

Festival Schedule Day 2 – Thursday, October 25

INNIS TOWN HALL
5:30pm

In Defence of our Treaties (19/Canada)
Indigenous and non-native fishing communities fight to defend their ways of life.

Director in attendance.

Yukon Circles (27/USA) SP
The native people who live along the banks of the Yukon River, from Canada and Alaska , have joined forces and formed the largest international treaty organization in the world, to protect their river.

Last Yoik in Saami Forest? (54/Finland)
Northern Lapland, homeland to Northern Europe’s indigenous Saami people, is at the heart of a conflict between the Finish state owned Metsähallitus forestry company and Saami reindeer herders.

Director in attendance. 
 

 
INNIS TOWN HALL
7:30pm

A Mall on top of my house (6/India)
A man wakes up to discover that his home and way of life are being destroyed due to urban development.

Mr. Wong's World (80/Germany)
(Co-presented by the Reel Asian Film Festival)

Mr. Wong, a wealthy Chinese-Canadian billionaire, is spending his fortune salvaging historical buildings in Shanghai, discreetly under the radar of the Chinese government.
 

 
INNIS TOWN HALL
9:30pm

Cry Sea (55/Italy/Senegal)
In Senegal line fishermen try to catch what remains after technologically advanced European fishing vessels trawl their seas.

The Water Bearer (52/Canada)
Gilles Raymond is the water bearer. Along with the men and women of Flores Island, Indonesia, he is helping to develop running water systems one village at a time.
 

 
ROYAL
7:00pm

P is for Papaya (8/Canada)
Told as a romance gone bad, this short documentary reveals some of the sour secrets beneath the skin of a popular tropical fruit.

The Islands Project: Eigensinn Farm (102/Canada)
During the summer of 2006, chef Michael Stadtlander, his family and a group of apprentices packed his biodiesel/solar powered kitchen bus and headed west to Vancouver’s Quadra and Cortes Islands, in British Columbia to cook some meals.

Michael Stadtlander will be in attendance.
  

  
ROYAL
9:00pm

Buried at Sea (52/Canada)
Off the coast of Nova Scotia lie remnants of the wars of the 20th Century. Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of highly toxic materials are scattered on ocean floors – in rusting barrels, releasing lethal contents.

Blockade (52/Germany)
Russian master documentary filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa brings the haunting images of the Siege of Lenningrad back into our collective memory, lest we forget.
 

 
Box Office: 416 – 967-1528
Special Events & Information: 416 – 531-4689
Venues: Innis College, 2 Sussex Ave, The Royal Cinema, 608 College Street
Ticket prices: $10 adults, $8 student/seniors, $5 children

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