The Yorkton Film Festival is proud to announce the continuation of our OPEN Cinema program for the 2014 - 2015 Screening Year. Join us at the Yorkton Public Library as we open up the film vaults and bring out some of the best. It's movie night! It's free. It's fun. Everyone is welcome.
2014 is the 100th Anniversary of the commencement of the First World War. The structure of Europe, and indeed the course of human history, was changed due to the war. As part of remembering the sacrifice from this conflict, YFF is hosting two films that focus on the conflict.
The first film, 17 Days in Hades: Battle of Ypres, focuses on Germany's introduction of chlorine gas in an attempt to break the trench warfare deadlock of the war. It also tells the story of Canada's 1st volunteers, immortalized by the poem Flanders Field by John McCrae.
Our second film, The Trenches, tells the story of a group of soldiers in the trenches dreading the order to attack. At the signal, a recruit leaps into a hell of fire and blood where the earth engulfs both the living and the dead. An anti-war short film created through a masterful cotemporization of archival images by Claude Cloutier.
Discussion after the films will be led by Steve Variyan, a former history teacher from the Yorkton Regional High School.
Join us for an evening of film and discussion on Tuesday, November 4 at the Yorkton Public Library at 7:00pm.
