2024 Summer Screenings

Dark purple text at the top of the image reads: DOXA SUMMER SCREENINGS. Smaller dark purple text in the bottom left corner reads: FREE! 6:00 PM Tuesday, Aug. 13 | Thursday, Sept. 5 VPL Central Branch (Montalbano Family Theatre). Two film stills are side by side in the middle of the image, one of a Witsuwit'en elder banging her drum under a clear blue sky, the other a high-contrast orange and blue picture of three men looking to the right with binoculars.

DOXA's Summer Screenings are returning!
FREE to attend | When: Tuesday, Aug. 13 and Thursday, Sept. 5 @ 6:00 PM | Where: VPL Central Branch (350 W Georgia St), Montalbano Family Theatre

Join us as we bring back two outstanding films from our 2024 festival! We're excited to present two summer screenings in partnership with the Vancouver Public Library. On Tuesday, August 13 we're bringing back Yintah, directed by Jennifer Wickham, Brenda Michell and Michael Toledano. And on Thursday, September 5 we'll be screening Pablo Alvarez-Mesa's La Laguna del Soldado, winner of the 2024 Colin Low Award for Best Canadian Director.

Both events are FREE to attend! Quite possibly the perfect summer evening for any doc lover. Both events will start at 6:00 PM, and will take place in the Montalbano Family Theatre on level 8 of VPL's Central Branch. Seating is limited, so we recommend arriving early!

We're excited to once again gather with the DOXA community!

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Yintah | Tuesday, August 13

Filmed over 10 years, Yintah (directed by Jennifer Wickham, Brenda Michell and Michael Toledano) documents both a persistent historical framework and a stirring portrait of resistance by the Witsuwit'en peoples following Coastal GasLink's (CGL) determination to build a pipeline through their territory. Tsakē ze' Howilhkat Freda Huson of Witsuwit'en C'ilhts'ēkhyu clan and Tsakē ze' Sleydo Molly Wickham of Gidimt'en clan lead the fight with honour, and it is inspiring to witness their tenacious commitment despite an ever-increasing battery of strong-arm tactics from CGL and the RCMP. The film demonstrates how corporations and governmental agencies collude to wield power with impunity when their interests are at stake—but the fight isn't over yet. The film shows audiences that this is a land—a yintah—of not just resistance but resilience. Youngsters skilfully skin a carcass, teachings are shared, and families swim joyfully in the sacred river that connects the five clans.

La Laguna del Soldado | Thursday, September 5

Immersing us in ethereal realms of mist and the fevered verses of Simón Bolívar's 1822 poem "Mi delirio sobre el Chimborazo," director Pablo Alvarez-Mesa crafts a cinematic tapestry of sound and light that ascends the mountains, delves into the depths, burbles along streams, and ventures into the enigmatic darknesses of the páramo, "a space of transition, a space to disappear." La Laguna del Soldado, the second instalment in a trilogy tracing Bolívar's odyssey through Colombia, employs this voyage of "liberation" as a catalyst to probe two centuries of turbulent history. Giving voice to the space between memory and constructed reality, the film intricately weaves the narratives of environmentalists, farmers, Indigenous guardians, biologists, miners, and soldiers into the sounds and visuals of a unique and vital natural habitat. The outcome challenges conventional narratives, urging us to contemplate not only a harrowing legacy but also a shared future.

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Accessibility information - VPL Central Branch

  • Street-level access grade Promenade entrance, button-enabled automatic doors
  • Entrance doors to library are open
  • Low service counter at check-in desk and information desk
  • Elevators and escalators to all floors
  • Mobility device-accessible washrooms (all floors)
  • Single unit washroom large enough to accommodate a person in a wheelchair or on a gurney with their attendant (floor 2 - key at information desk)
  • Underground designated parking with elevator access
  • HandyDART stop on Hamilton Street with elevator access to Robson Street entrance
  • Designated parking and elevator to Promenade across from entrance
  • Bus stops on Robson Street entrance to Promenade via an elevator at Robson and Hamilton Streets
  • The Montalbano Family Theatre has a capacity of 80 people (77 fixed seats and 3 wheelchair accessible spaces)
  • Masks will be provided at the venue for those who wish to wear them

For more information on venue accessibility, including how to contact the library staff with specific questions, click here.

 

Presented in partnership with the Vancouver Public Library. These screenings are hosted on the unceded (stolen) territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples.