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URL:https://events.nfb.ca/events/hello-film-ninth-floor/
SUMMARY:Hello Film! Screening of Ninth Floor
DESCRIPTION:Hello Film! Ninth Floor\nTo reserve your seats\, click here\n\n
 Free screening\, Thursday February 19\, 7 p.m.\nAs part of the Hello Film!
  screening series (free admission with reservation)\nScreening of Ninth F
 loor by Mina Shum (2015\, 81 min) Co-presented by CinéCozry\nAlanis Ob
 omsawin Theatre. A discussion with author and professor David Austin will 
 follow.\nIt started quietly when a group of Black Caribbean students bega
 n to suspect their professor of racism. It ended in the most explosive st
 udent uprising Canada had ever known. Over four decades later\, Ninth Flo
 or reopens the file on the infamous Sir George Williams (now Concordia) 
 protests in Montreal—a watershed moment in Canadian race relations and o
 ne of the most contested episodes in the nation’s history.\nPreceded by 
 the recent short film reXistence by Will Prosper (2025\, 9 min). Throug
 h striking Canadian archival footage\, the film exposes systemic violenc
 e and celebrates Black strength in Canada.\nThe screening will be followed
  by a discussion in English and French with author\nDavid Austin\, a prof
 essor at John Abbott College and McGill. Topics will include what Black ra
 dicals envisioned in speaking of freedom and the internationalist ideals t
 hese revolutionaries inspired\, both then and now.\nThis event will also m
 ark World Day of Social Justice (February 20).\n
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LOCATION:Salle Alanis-Obomsawin\, 1500 Balmoral St\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3
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