Birth: The Cycles of Life
- Showtime
- Friday, February 12 @ 3:00pm
- Director
- Arisa Wakami, Azuru Isshiki, Ayaka Kawasaki
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese
- Film Length
- 28 minutes
There is a drama for every childbirth. This films is an omnibus of animated documentaries that visualize experiences about childbirth. The first chapter, titled “Birth on the … Read more
In Lorton’s Darkroom
- Showtime
- Friday, February 12 @ 3:00pm
- Director
- Karen Ruckman
- Country
- USA
- Language
- English
- Film Length
- 37 minutes
In Lorton’s Darkroom is a documentary short that tells the story of inmates who come of age in DC’s notorious Lorton Prison during the early days of … Read more
Kuessipan
- Showtime
- Friday, February 12 @ 6:00pm
- Director
- Myriam Verreault
- Country
- Canada
- Language
- English, Innu-aimun
- Film Length
- 117 minutes
Two girls grow up as best friends in an Innu community. They’ve promised each other to stick together no matter what.
Come Come Rain
- Showtime
- Saturday, February 13 @ 11:00am
- Director
- Shafaq Khan
- Country
- India
- Language
- Marathi
- Film Length
- 93 minutes
The village of Islampura hasn’t seen rain in five years, and water has never been so scarce in it’s lifetime. Mother nature and the Government both somehow … Read more
The Whale and the Raven
- Showtime
- Saturday, February 13 @ 3:00pm
- Director
- Mirjam Leuze
- Country
- Canada
- Language
- English
- Film Length
- 101 minutes
Director Mirjam Leuze’s The Whale and the Raven illuminates the many issues that have drawn whale researchers, the Gitga’at First Nation, and the Government of British Columbia into a … Read more
Aurora
- Showtime
- Saturday, February 13 @ 6:00pm
- Director
- Miia Tervo
- Country
- Finland
- Language
- Finnish, English, Persian
- Film Length
- 105 minutes
One night at a hot-dog stand in Finnish Lapland, a commitment-phobic party animal, Aurora, meets Iranian Darian. Darian suddenly asks her to marry him. Darian needs to marry a Finnish woman … Read more
Dreamhood
- Showtime
- Sunday, February 14 @ 12:00pm
- Director
- Cigdem Slankard
- Country
- USA
- Language
- English
- Film Length
- 69 minutes
Dreamhood examines life in the International Village neighborhood in Cleveland, OH and captures the transformation of a community as a neighborhood is revitalized and a community continues … Read more
Marcelo
- Showtime
- Sunday, February 14 @ 3:00pm
- Director
- Eduardo Ortiz
- Country
- USA, Puerto Rico
- Language
- Spanish
- Film Length
- 97 minutes
A divorced actor teams up with with an unlikely group, fellow patients suffering from mental problems, to produce a play in order to prevent his son from … Read more
Our Lady of the Nile
- Showtime
- Sunday, February 14 @ 6:00pm
- Director
- Atiq Rahimi
- Country
- France, Belgium, Rwanda
- Language
- French, Kinyarwanda
- Film Length
- 93 minutes
Rwanda, 1973. Our Lady of the Nile is a prestigious Catholic boarding school perched high on a hill, where teenage girls are groomed to be the Rwandan … Read more
Behind the Bhangra Boys
- Showtime
- Monday, February 15 @ 3:00pm
- Director
- Nance Ackerman
- Country
- Canada
- Language
- English
- Film Length
- 52 minutes
A joyous look at culture, immigration, activism and community through the experience of the Maritime Bhangra Group – a Bhangra dancing team of five Sikh immigrants on … Read more
