Back by popular demand, join us for a selection of six short films on the big screen from The New York Times’s acclaimed Op-Docs series. Afterward hear firsthand from Canadian Op-Docs directors Charlie Tyrell and Matthieu Rytz, who will be joined by a Times journalist to discuss what went into making the films.
The program will include: My Dead Dad’s Porno Tapes by Mr. Tyrell (a 2018 Sundance Film Festival premiere); Mr. Rytz’s Sinking Islands, Floating Nation, about a Pacific atoll nation’s urgent showdown with climate change; Polar Bears of Hudson Bay, Ian Kerr’s meditation on interactions between natural and man-made environments in Manitoba; We Became Fragments by Luisa Conlon, Hanna Miller and Lacy Jane Roberts, on a young Syrian refugee coming of age in Winnipeg; The Last Storm by Liam Saint-Pierre, on a man battling cancer and storm chasing; and The Rebel Puppeteers of Sudan by Roopa Gogineni, on a satirical puppet show mocking an authoritarian ruler.