18th Annual Canadian Labour International Film Festival
5:15 PM - 7:00 PM MST Ironworkers 720 Hall 10512 122 Street NW Edmonton, AB T5N 1M6
Please join us for the 18th Annual Canadian Labour International Film Festival here in Edmonton. If you attend in person we will have some pizza, cookies & solidarity to go along with the movies. Guests are more than welcome and if you choose you are welcome to stay and attend the EDLC General Membership Meeting afterwards.
To attend virtually you MUST register at the link HERE
If you are attending in person please RSVP on the side panel so we can get an idea of how much food to provide. We are looking forward to seeing you all and growing our community.
We will be airing the following movies for your viewing pleasure:
Dabbawala Canada (27 m 8 s) – A documentary exploring the lives of immigrants and the challenges they face in the town of Kingston, Ontario.
Key{stone} Lim{stone} (4 m) – Histories and memories of industry (especially cement manufacturing in the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania), domestic labor, immigration, and family are entwined in a merging of narrative poetry, stop motion animation (melding mineral and organic materials), and documentary-style video footage.
No Safe Shift: Unravelling Discrimination Among Nurses in Canada (19 m 23 s) – Through the voices of nurse leaders and a labour lawyer, No Safe Shift traces how systemic racism shapes everyday realities within the nursing profession in Canada. What emerges is a system where safety is not equally shared.
The Machine Shop (10 m) – A worn down machinist takes up a hobby that reignites his joy for life.
1910: The Uncovering (27 m) – For many years the only transportation link across Canada was one railway line. This tenuous ribbon of steel was built through high, snowy, and unpredictable mountains. The tragic avalanche that occurred at the Rogers Pass summit in March of 1910 remains Canada’s deadliest. 58 railway workers, majority Japanese died while attempting to clear a snow slide from the tracks when another larger avalanche struck from the other side in the middle of the dark night. This documentary project also delves into the lives of two unlikely friends today, a downtown Vancouver businessman, and a Japanese-born ski guide brought together by their need for purpose, healing, and a shared passion for researching the mysteries and injustices of this event. During production, the team was surprised with a visit by a 1910 victim’s great grandson from Tokyo.
Bring Them Home (7 m 49 s) – Alex and Yan fled persecution in Cuba to marry in the US. When the federal government suddenly detains them and threatens deportation, their union comes together in an unprecedented way to fight for their release.