VANCOUVER—CoDevelopment Canada’s annual film festival, Just Film, has a new venue for 2016. After 14 years at Vancouver’s Langara College, the popular documentary film festival and social justice bazaar (February 11-13) has moved downtown to the Van City Theatre.
The Friday night double feature this year is “Uyghurs: Prisoners of the Absurd” (Patricio Henríquez, China/Guantanamo, Cuba, 2014, 98 min) and “The Troublemaker” (Roberto Salinas, Nicaragua/USA/Italy, 2014, 82 min). The festival-closing feature on Saturday night is the much anticipated “Valentino’s Ghost: Framing the Arab Image” (Michael Singh, USA/Middle East, 2015, 100 min).
For more information about the festival, visit www.justfilm.ca.
In addition to this weekend’s festival, CoDev also sponsors the Traveling World Community Film Festival. In addition to screenings held in Courtenay on February 5 and 6, the festival will also be held this season in Nanaimo (Feb 19-21), Grand Forks (Feb 26-28), Kelowna (March 3-6), and Prince George (March 11-20). There will also be fall screenings in Duncan (October 7-9), and out of province in Winnipeg (November 4-6).
CUPE BC is a proud sponsor of this annual festival by CoDev, whose staff are members of CUPE Local 1004.
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