DOXA Documentary Film Festival

May 22 – 27 presents:
The Art of War
Sunday, May 27, Vancouver International Film Centre, 2:00pm

Four beautiful films on the ugliness of war, featuring the world premiere No More Hiroshima, No More Nagasaki, a Canadian production partially shot in Vancouver. Director Yuki Nakamura will in attendance for a post-screening discussion.

Tickets: www.ticketstonight.ca / 606.231.7535; Bibliophile Bookshop; Videomatica
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Full program details:

Even if she had been a criminal... / Eût-elle été criminelle...(Jean-Gabriel Périot, France, 9 minutes)
In only minutes, this award-winning short film shows the diverse impacts of the WW II armistice – the faces of happy, liberated citizens, contrasted with the cruel spectacle of women being publicly taunted, beaten and having their heads shaved for allegedly engaging with Germans.

The Bleeding Heart of It / L’Éclat du mal (Louise Bourque, Canada, 8 minutes)
Bourque explores a psychic terrain from her own childhood, yet the film is much more than simply personal.

The Big Lie (Peter Everett, Scotland, 13 minutes)
One of the last surviving members of the Scottish International Brigades, Steve Fullarton tells of his experiences fighting fascism in the 1930s. His story is heartfelt, and as the images change from Spanish peasants weeping over the dead to footage of the Middle East today, Fullarton exhorts us not to believe everything that is told to us by the mass media.

No More Hiroshima, No More Nagasaki (Yuki Nakamura, Canada, 52 minutes)
WORLD PREMIERE. Director and producer in attendance.
A powerful telling of the horrendous disaster of the August 1945 nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States. Hundreds of thousands of people were killed and/or died of radiation and few are still alive to tell the tale. In No More Hiroshima, No More Nagasaki we meet several survivors of that nuclear war and hear the stories of their personal experiences being on the ground in those cities while under nuclear attack. When so many countries are currently stockpiling and building nuclear weapons, the film reminds us about the reality of warfare of this magnitude.

Director’s Bio: Yuki Nakamura (No More Hiroshima, No More Nagasaki) was born in Tokyo, and moved to Canada in 1989 to study at York University’s Faculty of Fine Arts. Since graduation, she has gone on to work as a free-lance reporter, anchor, and associate producer. No More Hiroshima, No More Nagasaki is her first documentary.