DOXA Film Fest: Urgent Docs on Climate, Justice

0:00Vancouver's Doxah documentary film festival is celebrating its 25th year this spring, showcasing bold independent docks from British Columbia, across Canada, and around the world. The line-up spotlights, South Korean cinema, international shorts, the experimental paradoxist stream, and the key justice forum tackling social issues. Head on. Festival artistic director Sarah Ouzani picked films with real urgency, like ones hitting climate change hard on local waters. Entire country dives into a century old salmon fishing club in Campbell River, where catches are shrinking and members wonder if traditions can last. Another 100 years. Concrete turned to sand follows oyster farmers on Cortez Island battling corrosive seas in the state of Georgia. These stories pull you into communities tie to the land in water, showing how everyday lives face immediate threats from a warming planet. Folks aren't in denial, they're feeling the stakes, blending optimism with raw worry, while weaving in bigger talks on colonialism and indigenous sovereignty. Other highlights include tenors or caskies illustrated

1:05legacies, graveyard of the Pacific, using animation to reframe West Coast history through. Indigenous eyes before European contact. The justice forum covers AI surveillance in the sandbox and wars lasting images in Saigon story. Doxah runs April 30th through May 10th at Venues across Vancouver. Grab tickets online or at the door and catch these films sparking real. Conversations on our shared future. From your city, powered by AI, this is Vancouver News Today. I'm Corey with the story.