Short Films at the Drive In

Sept 24

Special Event

Thursday, September 24, 2026 · 7–9 PM

Location: 1016 Grand Lake Road Drive In

Lumiere rolls into the Cape Breton Drive-in to start the engine on the 2026 festival with a selection of short films that will leave an impression long after your drive home. This year’s program includes a handful of Nova Scotian made works alongside celebrated festival gems from Chile, Belgium, New York City, and Toronto. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see cutting edge short films at a wonderfully unpretentious drive-in cinema. Stock up on snacks, set the volume at the level you like, and don’t worry about dressing up– our film festival is different from the rest.

This screening is intended for adult audiences.

WEJISQALIA’TIEK

Coexistance Films and Sarah Prosper

Unama’ki · Experimental Documentary · 9 minutes

DOUGH MAN

Brittney Gavin, Amy Mielke

Nova Scotia · Drama · 11 minutes

MELK

Filip Anthonissen

Belgium · Animation · 15 minutes

JUST ONE OF THE BOYS

Ted Haley, Mike Mahoney

Nova Scotia · Documentary · 15 minutes

MERRIMUNDI

Niles Attallah

Chile · Animation · 20 minutes

FLORENCE LIBRARY IS CLOSING

Nelson Bully

Canada · 6 minutes

MAN EATING PUSSY

Emily Lawson

Canada, USA · Horror · 12 minutes

BUTTER CHICKEN TO GO

Prajj

Documentary · Canada · 10 minutes

Plus a surprise film 🤐 …

Lumière Arts Festival 2026 // Metamorphosis

Lumière invites artists to explore transformations, growth, and renewal —across beings, identities, societies, and materials – through the lens of artistic expression. In the chrysalis phase, change is unseen, mysterious, and full of possibilities. Artists are invited to create/present works that examine shifts in personal identity, explore adaptation or environmental cycles and the transformation of objects and materials, highlighting not just beginnings or endings, but the unfolding of the process itself.

The Metamorphosis theme delves into the ongoing process of transformation from one life stage to another. Like renewal processes in nature, change unfolds in phases, some visible, and some hidden. How do we hold space for the unknown phases in between growth and reemergence? How do we honour the process of becoming?

In response to an ever changing world, the festival offers a space to reflect on how we adapt, change, and evolve. The festival is a space for collective transformation and activation of unconventional spaces into interactive and imaginative art installations.

Lumière asks: How does art mirror transformations? What guides us forward through unknown processes of becoming? In the glow of shared experience, we celebrate the beauty of metamorphosis, the mystery of the chrysalis, and the endless possibilities of becoming.

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.