BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1231@events.nfb.ca DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210506 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210517 DTSTAMP:20210506T154238Z URL:https://events.nfb.ca/events/northwestfest-international-documentary-f ilm-festival-2021-online/ SUMMARY:NorthWestFest International Documentary Film Festival 2021 - ONLINE ! DESCRIPTION:NorthwestFest International Documentary Film Festival 2021\nOnl ine May 6-16\, 2021\n\n*Please note: All films are geo-locked for viewing within Alberta only. \n\nAll films are available to stream May 6th at 12:0 1 am to May 16th at 11:59 pm\, and are available to stream for 48hrs from the time you press play on a title.\n\nFor more information\, please click here.\n\n \;\n\nThe Magnitude of All Things | Jennifer Abbott | 2020  | 85 min\n\nWhen 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 betwee n 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.\n\nFor the people feat ured\, climate change is not happening in the distant future: it is kickin g down the front door. Battles waged\, lamentations of loss\, and raw tes timony coalesce into an extraordinary tapestry\, woven together with raw e motion and staggering beauty that transform darkness into light\, grief in to action.\n\nFor tickets\, please click here.\n\n \;\n\nStateless | M ichèle Stephenson | 2020 | 95 min 30 s\n\nIn 1937\, tens of thousands of Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent were exterminated by the Domin ican army\, on the basis of anti-black racism. Fast-forward to 2013\, the Dominican Republic’s Supreme Court stripped the citizenship of anyone wi th Haitian parents\, retroactive to 1929\, rendering more than 200\,000 pe ople stateless. Director Michèle Stephenson’s new documentary follows t he grassroots campaign of a young attorney named Rosa Iris\, as she challe nges electoral corruption and fights to protect the right to citizenship f or all people.\n\nFor tickets\, please click here.  \n\n \;\n\nThe F orbidden Reel | Ariel Nasr | 2019 | 119 min\n\nDriven to create amidst wa r and chaos\, Afghan filmmakers gave birth to an extraordinary national ci nema. Driven to destroy\, Taliban extremists set out to torch that legacy. Marvelling in the beauty and fragile power of movies\, Afghan-Canadian di rector Ariel Nasr crafts a thrilling and utterly original story of modern Afghanistan.\n\nFor tickets\, please click here.  \n\n \;\n\nSomeone Like Me | Sean Horlor &\; Steve J. Adams | 2021 | 80 min\n\nIn Sean H orlor and Steve J. Adams’ feature doc Someone Like Me\, Drake\, a young gay man from Uganda\, leaves behind everything he knows to attain the uni versal freedoms everyone deserves: to be who he is and love whomever he ch ooses without fear of discrimination\, persecution\, or violence. A group of queer strangers unite to resettle Drake in Vancouver\, but they are tas ked with a year-long commitment to someone they’ve never met\, and strug gle with the challenging conditions of this support. Together\, Drake and his sponsors embark on an emotional journey in search of personal freedom\ , revealing how in a world where one must constantly fight for the right t o exist\, survival itself becomes a victory.\n\nFor tickets\, please click here. CATEGORIES:Online Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20210314T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR