If you have time for an early movie, Sudbury Indie Cinema has you covered with its Cinema @ Six series.
Here’s what’s playing on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday this week for Cinema @ Six.
Tonight, Sept. 16, it’s your last chance to catch a screening of “Together”, starring Dave Franco and Alison Brie. A film that explores relationship co-dependence through the convention of body horror. An audience talkback following the screening will be led by Indie programmer Simone Widdifield.
Then on Wednesday, Cinema @ Six presents the Northern Ontario premiere of “Casques BleuEs / A War Movie”, a documentary that puts viewers on the ground with Canadian women peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The evening is sponsored by Centre Victoria pour femmes.
“Shot during the violent anti-UN riots, this cinema vérité documentary records a ground-level perspective of Canadian women peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where rape has become a weapon of mass destruction,” the description reads. “Deployed as part of the UN's special victim’s unit to combat sexual violence, these policewomen collaborate with the Congolese national police in pursuit of sexual criminals.”
Writer-director Louise Leroux documented the mission for two months, “recording their challenges and victories, their failures and disappointments against a dystopian backdrop of violence and death.”
The evening will also feature a live Q&A over Zoom with director Louise Leroux, producer Richard Blackburn and the film’s two main protagonists, Martine and Mélanie.
And finally, on Thursday, Sept. 18, check out the Northern Ontario premier of “Urban Forests / Forêsts Urbaine”, which is described as “an uplifting documentary on the efforts of Canadians in communities across the country in restoring natural places within urban settings.”
The screening will be followed by a local panel of “urban forest champions” that will include representation from the Coalition For a Liveable Sudbury, Junction Creek Stewardship Committee and EarthCare Sudbury.
The panel is moderated by Indie Cinema’s manager and doc filmmaker Loveleen Kaur.