About this event
FilmCinema 7
Total running time: 02:15:00 Followed by audience Q & A.
FireBird Directed by Irina Patkanian & Marion Schoevaert
Once upon today, a ruthless Father of the Fatherland bunkered down in his citadel,decides to marry a Lacemaker with magic powers. After she rejects him, he sendsarmies and dragons to her country. She finally agrees to stop the war. At the wedding,she turns into a Firebird and burns down the world. (CP, 2025, 00:22:52, United States)
If They're Not Dead, They're Still Alive Directed by Maïka Hearson
On Newfoundland’s Port-au-Port Peninsula, generations of assimilation have threatened thesurvival of the French language and culture. Guided by the stories of Marc Cormier, Newfoundland’s last French storyteller, we discover a community who’sfighting to keep itsheritage alive. Through the lives of three locals, thefilm explores the challenges of preserving aculture at risk of fading with each generation, and the determination to pass its stories, traditions,and language on to the next. (TP, 2025, 00:10:00, Canada)