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URL:https://events.nfb.ca/events/the-silence-at-fin-2021/
SUMMARY:The Silence at FIN 2021!
DESCRIPTION:The Silence at FIN Atlantic International Film Festival 2021!\n
 Program:  Documentaries Program\n\nRenée Blanchar | 2020 | 106 min \n\
 nWhy be silent about the most serious matters? Doesn’t silence perpetuat
 e suffering? From the 1950s to the 1980s\, Catholic priests sexually abuse
 d many young boys in the francophone towns of New Brunswick. These scandal
 s only came to light when the victims were in their fifties\, provoking sh
 ock and outrage in the media and the public. Why did the affected communit
 ies keep silent so long\, preferring secrecy to justice and truth? Profiti
 ng from their positions of influence to impose a “pious silence” on th
 eir parishioners\, authority figures built an abusive system that tells us
  as much about the type of oppression specific to the Acadian population a
 s it does about the blanket denials issued by the Catholic Church. Called 
 to confront the power of this collective silence\, veteran filmmaker René
 e Blanchar meets with survivors in an attempt to untangle the deeply roote
 d reasons for this secrecy. With The Silence\, she takes us as close as sh
 e can to the humanity of these broken men\, revealing the forces that\, to
 day as in the past\, have the power to unite or divide Acadian communities
 .\n\nTo purchase tickets please click here.
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