The 2021 FIN Atlantic International Film Festival will showcase the talents of visionary filmmakers from across Atlantic Canada, the country and beyond, from September 16th to 23rd.
Award-winning feature-length documentaries by Indigenous and Acadian creators are just part of the selection, which includes four world premieres of NFB shorts.
Atlantic works debuting at the festival include two new films from the Labrador Doc Project, featuring inspired documentary shorts by Inuit creators from Nunatsiavut, as well as two short docs by PEI filmmakers, with a world premiere and a festival award winner.
Screenings will be presented in theatres as well as online via FIN Stream, available across Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador.
Inuk filmmaker Jennie Williams plunges audiences directly into the action in this bone-chilling black-and-white short documentary about a winter night like no other.
Every January 6, from the dark of the Nunatsiavut night, the Nalujuit appear on the sea ice. They walk on two legs, yet their faces are animalistic, skeletal and otherworldly as they approach their destination: the Inuit community of Nain.
Produced for the Labrador Doc Project by Latonia Hartery, Rohan Fernando and Kat Baulu, with Annette Clarke as executive producer for the NFB’s Quebec and Atlantic Studio.
The 13-minute film will be online on FIN STREAM from September 19 until 11:59 p.m. on September 20th.