Celebrate the start of the school year with a FREE outdoor cinema on Main Mall! Bring your own blanket and pack a picnic: - Sunday, September 4 - Starting at dusk, 8pm - Flagpole Plaza (Main Mall and Crescent Road) Everyone is welcome! Registration is required and will open on August 25: utown.ubc.ca/movie For questions […]
This in-person screening takes place at the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre, 1985 Learners Walk, UBC. A short discussion will follow the film screenings. Holy Angels (2017) Jay Cardinal Villeneuve In 1963, Lena Wandering Spirit became one of the more than 150,000 Indigenous children who were removed from their families and sent to […]
A free screening of Olivier Assayas’ meta-cinematic masterpiece, Irma Vep (France, 1996).
This in-person event takes place at the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre at UBC, 1985 Learners Walk. A brief discussion will follow the film screenings. Red Path (2015) Thérèse Ottawa This short documentary tells the story of Tony Chachai, a young Indigenous man in search of his identity. Moved by the desire to […]
This in-person event takes place at the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre at UBC, 1985 Learners Walk. A brief discussion will follow the film screenings. Sisters and Brothers (2015) Kent Monkman In a pounding critique of Canada’s colonial history, this short film draws parallels between the annihilation of the bison in the 1890s […]
This in-person event takes place at the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre at UBC, 1985 Learners Walk. A brief discussion will follow the film screenings. We Were Children (2012) Tim Wolochatiuk In this feature film, the profound impact of the Canadian government’s residential school system is conveyed through the eyes of two children […]
Please join us for a special screening of Seizing Hope: High Tech Journeys in Pediatric Epilepsy! Free admission - everyone is welcome! Can new technology bring hope to children who have drug-resistant epilepsy? More than 500,000 children in Canada and the USA have epilepsy. About a third of those children continue to have seizures despite […]
This in-person event takes place at the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre at UBC, 1985 Learners Walk. A brief discussion will follow the film screenings. Inconvenient Indian (2020) Michelle Latimer In this time of radical change and essential re-examination, Inconvenient Indian brings to life Thomas King’s brilliant dismantling of North America’s colonial narrative, […]
A free screening and discussion of the 1989 film, Coming Out.
This in-person event takes place at the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre at UBC, 1985 Learners Walk. A brief discussion will follow the film screenings. The Road Forward (2017) Marie Clements The Road Forward, a musical documentary by Marie Clements, connects a pivotal moment in Canada’s civil rights history—the beginnings of Indian Nationalism […]
A free screening and discussion of Mariupolis, a documentary made in 2016 by Lithuanian filmmaker Mantas Kvedaravicius about the contested Ukrainian city of Mariupol.
A free screening of The Goddess (1934), followed by a discussion by Professor Christopher Rea.