The first time I heard Stan Rogers, the CBC was playing “The Mary Ellen Carter,” its rousing chorus an ode to unflagging courage. I immediately went out and bought the
Blink is a documentary film from National Geographic, which follows a Montreal family with four children, three of whom have retinitis pigmentosa, a genetic condition causing gradual loss of vision and probable blindness. They decide to set out on a trip around the world, in order to fill their children’s visual memories, so that they can at least recall the world and its wonders.
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SpotLit 2024: a mini lit mag fest
An event by VPL X Geist X Room X subTerrain. Join us on October 5!
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VIFF 2024: Souleymane's Story
Souleymane’s Story is a social-realist film in the tradition of Mike Leigh or Ken Loach, offering a more personal glimpse behind the headlines into the life of an asylum seeker in France.