Short Films at the Drive In

Sept 26

Short Films at the Drive In

Special Event

Lumière returns to the friendly confines of the Cape Breton Drive-in for another edition of boundary pushing short films at the most unpretentious venue imaginable.

Free admission. Intended for adult audiences – some films contain mature subject matter. Films begin at dusk. Canteen will be open.

Please tune your radio to 88.3

I Pity the Country

Directed by Lisa Jackson and Conor McNally
music video, Canada, 4 minutes

Wander to Wonder

Directed by Nina Gantz
animation, Netherlands, 14 minutes

Good Night Good Morning ’06

Directed by Joan Jonas
Canada/USA, 16 minutes

A Fermenting Woman

Directed by Priscilla Galvez
drama, Canada, 22 minutes

Welima’q

directed by shalan joudry
nonfiction, Mi’kma’ki, 5 minutes

Wrecked a Bunch of Cars Had a Good Time

Directed by Matt Ferrin, James P. Gannon
documentary, USA, 12 minutes

La voix des sirènes

Directed by Gianluigi Toccafondo
animation, France/Italy, 15 minutes

Men of the Deeps

Directed by Sandra Dudley
documentary, Canada, 2 minutes

Lumiere Arts Festival 2024 // The Art of Caring

Lumiere Arts Festival invites artists and community members to reflect on the concept of care.

In a polarized landscape, care can lap like a brook, or pound like large waves crashing ashore. To care is to tend, to root, to rebel, to share and to endure. This year, the festival is encouraging artists to submit works rooted in solidarity, with community building as resistance, that explores the need to care for ourselves, others, and the earth, both locally and globally. The Lumiere Arts Festival makes space for joy, contemporary art, and meaningful dialogue.

Land Acknowledgement

Lumière Arts Festival, on behalf of the board, the artists, and the communities we represent, acknowledges that we work, live and play in the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq people, in Unama’ki Cape Breton, who have stewarded these lands since time immemorial.

We are grateful not only for the strong and ongoing stewardship of these lands we call home, but also for the stories, music, and art that Mi’kmaq people continue to create and share, carrying ancestral voices, sacred teachings, and legacies of interconnectedness and resilience forward into the present and on to the future.

We aspire to reflect that sense of connection between past and present in our festival. We are inspired by L’nu artists to foster connection and self-reflection in our work. We will work to ensure that art is accessible, inclusive, and integrated into public spaces so that we can share our collective stories, recognizing the challenges of our past and imagining brighter futures.

We are all Treaty people.