Life is going on in Dakhla, one of the Sahrawi refugee camps in southern Algeria, forgotten for 45 years. A film festival, the Fisahara, breaks the monotony. The event ends, life (and oblivion) continues.
Saskatchewan Premiere
Love in the Time of Fentanyl
A group of misfits, artists, and drug users operates a renegade safe injection site in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. LOVE IN THE TIME OF FENTANYL is an intimate portrait of a community fighting to save lives and keep hope alive in a neighbourhood ravaged by the overdose crisis.
What Travelers Are Saying About Jornada del Muerto
Visitors and residents of the Tularosa Basin, site of the first detonation of an atomic bomb, contribute to the production of public memory as they offer reckonings, advice, and plaintive cries about making "the journey of the dead." 2020 was the 75th anniversary of the detonation of nuclear weapons in Japan and the US and the 340th anniversary of the 1680 Pueblo Revolt. Made in resistance to nuclear colonialism.
A Girl Meets A Boy And A Robot
Having lost her memory, a girl wanders alone in the desert of ruins. She encounters a robot who has also seemed to lose its memory and a boy seeking Crystal of time.
On a lovely night, the boy tells the girl that his dream is to find the Crystal of Time and ask the people from the past why they made the world this way. Then the girl gives her favorite stone to the boy, hoping he can get his wish…..
APPAN
APPAN MALAYALAM MOVIE PRESENTATION
Itty who is standing in the wilderness of an evil culture and clinging to this attitude in spite of being bedridden for ages. Itty’s son Njoonj, his family and the society wishes for his death.–
Dug Dug
An alcoholic Thakur dies a horrible death on the highway one night & his motorcycle disappears from the police station the next day. Upon searching, the motorcycle is found in the same place where Thakur had died. After many absurd incidents, the locals start taking them as signs from heaven and state that Thakur has become a god. Locals begin to offer Thakur's favourite thing, alcohol, to his motorbike & miraculously, their prayers start getting answered. The film is inspired by true events.