This weekend we attended the Nordlys Film and Arts Festival. Nordlys is Norwegian for Northern Lights. Visiting the festival this year was Montreal actor, Felix-Antione Duval, the main character in Shepherds. After the film, Duval participated in a Q & A. Altogether there were 9 films. The Last Repair Shop was a U.S. film about a L.A. music repair shop, which provides free repairs for schoolchildren’s musical instruments, telling the stories of some of their staff. The Teachers’ Lounge was a thought-provoking German film focussing on several contemporary themes/controveries in educational institutions. Wicked LittleLetters was a British film with way too much coarse language, as the title suggests. Blackberry tells the story of the once-popular Blackberry mobile phone—too much coarse language in this film too, as well as abusive CEOs. I won’t comment on the other films except my favourite. Readers can check out the festival website at: nordlysfestival.com.
My favourite was a 44 minute documentary called Magic Hours, about movie theatres in small towns of Alberta having to close, and/or struggling to keep their doors open. It was by Calgary filmmaker, Levi Holwell, who also attended the festival and participated in a Q & A. Here is the trailer: https://youtu.be/msAzB_4-Gyw
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