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WED 16 AUG
Westbourne Grove Church 6-11pm

IDEAS IN MOTION ECOLOGY FESTIVAL CONTINUES

The Maximum Marmora Phenomenon
Tim (Hoagy) Wilson 33 mins
A neophyte filmmaker sets out to document what‚s in his local hinterland, and discovers a surprising mixture of punk music festivals, arsenic poisoning and radioactive pollution, coupled with special sites that have the power to induce spiritual and religious experiences.

Mini Cine Tupy
Sergio Bloch 10 mins
Portuguese with subtitles
In the slums of Sao Paolo, a charming trash gatherer‚s love of the cinema leads him to build a cinema from recycled junk to create free, Sunday matinees for local kids.

Travels By Tricycle
Wang Dongdong 42 mins
Mandarin with subtitles
74 year old Wang Yimin embarks on an epic journey with his 98 year mother on a hand made tricycle to fulfill her life-long dream of seeing China.

A Big Lake
Li Ping Weng & Olivier Mays 52 mins
Mandarin with subtitles
A lyrical, meditative, emotional essay on the disappearance of one family‚s world as the Three Gorges Dam rising water floods out the communities of the Yang Tse river.

Across the Border
Pentii Turunen 60 mins
Two Somalis, after a ten year residency in Europe, return to search for their long lost childhood friends and confront conflict and pain in the African refugee camps.

Rocked – SUM 41 in the Congo
Adrian Callendar & George Vale 52 mins
On a risky promotional visit to the Congo to support the efforts of War Child Canada, the rock band Sum 41 are caught in the crossfire of a rebel attack while actively seeking to meet child soldiers and other victims of the lethal ongoing conflict.