As part of THE NFB IN LIBRARIES annual programming, the Coquitlam Public Library (City Centre branch) is offering a free screening of the following film, presented within their Eco-Cinema series:

The Magnitude of All Things  (Jennifer Abbott | 1hr 26 minutes | 2020)

When Jennifer Abbott lost her sister to cancer, her sorrow opened her up to the profound gravity of climate breakdown. Abbott’s new documentary The Magnitude of All Things draws intimate parallels between the experiences of grief—both personal and planetary. Stories from the frontlines of climate change merge with recollections from the filmmaker’s childhood on Ontario’s Georgian Bay. What do these stories have in common? The answer, surprisingly, is everything. For the people featured, climate change is not happening in the distant future: it is kicking down the front door. Battles waged, lamentations of loss, and raw testimony coalesce into an extraordinary tapestry, woven together with raw emotion and staggering beauty that transform darkness into light, grief into action.

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For more information, please visit the organiser’s site: https://coquitlam.libnet.info/event/8538774