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The Powell Street Festival takes place on the traditional, unceded and occupied territories of the Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations.
Saturday, December 3 at 7:30 pm
Sunday, December 4 at 4:10 pm
Vancity Theatre at 1181 Seymour Street
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Filmmaker Tiffany Hsiung in attendance on December 3rd
Vancity Theatre is playing “The Apology” on Saturday and Sunday, December 3rd and 4th, a striking and important film that follows the personal journeys of three former “comfort women” who were among the 200,000 girls and young women kidnapped and forced into military sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. Filmmaker in attendance on Dec. 3rd.
“The Apology is a simultaneously heartbreaking and uplifting, devastatingly powerful experience.” Hollywood Reporter
“Timely and profound… A landmark film for its subject matter and the sensitivity with which Hsiung approaches it, The Apology is one of the best films ever produced by the NFB.” Patrick Mullen, POV magazine