The Mint Film Festical celebrates World Water Day with arts and activism

Tony Clarke, co-author of Blue Gold: The Battle Against the Corporate Theft of the World's Water, and Executive Director of Polaris Institute, speaks after award-winning film Spoil about the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline.  

This documentary features breathtaking images of both the wildlife and the landscape of the Great Bear Rainforest and the challenges ahead if the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline is approved. 

The evening includes comedy, musical guests, artists and more for World Water Day. 

Need a break from the holiday hustle-and-bustle?

Give your family and your wallet some much needed down time. Visit us over the holidays to watch new releases, classics, wintry and holiday-themed animated movies - all for FREE!

Titles include:

The Sweater, Log Driver's Waltz, Lights for Gita, The Cat Came Back, Cinderella Penguin, It's Snow, Island, Blackberry Subway Jam, The Danish Poet, My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts, Noel Noel, The Legend of the Flying Canoe, Leon in Wintertime and Snow Cat.

This event is completely free!

Free Favourites at Four presents Qimmit: A Clash of Two Truths a film exploring the dramatic disappearance of the sled dog population in the Canadian Arctic. 

This event is completely free!

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Having dedicated nearly four decades to chronicling the lives of Canada's First Nations, director Alanis Obomsawin returns to the village where she was raised to craft a lyric account of her own people.

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They're civilians, yet the military runs their lives. By marrying a member of the Armed Forces, these women inherited a lifestyle they hadn't necessarily chosen.

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A documentary that goes behind the tightly guarded walls of wrestling's spectacle and theatre to explore the meaning of today's wrestling morality plays.

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Filmmaker Alan Kohl provides a portrait of an artist who provokes debate about the significance of art in urban spaces.

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Directed by Academy Award®-nominated David Paperny, this is a raw exposé that examines William Sampson's harrowing experience while imprisoned in Saudi Arabia for a crime he did not commit.