As part of THE NFB IN LIBRARIES programming, the Centennial branch of the Ottawa Public Library will present Higher Than Flames Will Go.

Higher Than Flames Will Go | Monique LeBlanc | 2020 | 104 min | in French with English subtitles

In this cinematic tour de force, Monique LeBlanc brings to the screen Louise Dupré’s 2011 Governor General’s Award-winning book of poetry, Plus haut que les flammes, recited in its entirety in the film by actress Violette Chauveau. Devastated by a visit to Auschwitz and Birkenau, a woman, a grandmother, tries to go on living and caring for a child. Because beyond the worst man-made horrors there is childhood, through which all roads to the future must pass. Weaving different stories, different experiences and different landscapes together, from Auschwitz to Canada via the United States, Nicaragua and the Ukraine, the filmmaker offers a moving meditation on how we might elevate the youth that will inherit this world “higher than flames will go.”

Higher Than Flames Will Go (Trailer 01m19s) on Vimeo

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FREE SCREENING
To have more information on this screening, consult the library’s website.