The Salt Spring Film Festival's annual "Best of the Fests" series launches on Wednesday, October 1, at 7:30 pm with HOME IS THE OCEAN, co-presented by the Salt Spring Island Sailing Club!
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Sail away with Dario & Sabine Schwörer, an adventurous Swiss mountain-climbing couple who have been living aboard their sailboat for the past 25 years, sailing over 100,000 nautical miles and visiting over 100 countries. Founders of the Swiss-based TOPtoTOP Global Climate Expedition – whose mission is to inspire young people to save the planet – the Schwörers conduct field-based research on climate change and microplastics in some of the world's most remote waters.
Along the way they’re home-schooling six precocious, multilingual children, all born in different time zones. Sharing 20 square meters of living space, each family member plays an important role in this well-coordinated team, with the intrepid and seemingly fearless kids confidently handling themselves on the high seas, until the older kids start getting restless as they reach high-school age...and a destructive storm forces the family to reconsider their unconventional life choices.
Filmed around the world over seven years and featuring gorgeous cinematography and spectacular drone footage, this strikingly beautiful film was named Best Documentary at Italy’s Riviera International Film Festival.
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The “Best of the Fests” series continues with five more screenings prior to our annual festival, which runs Feb. 27 to March 1:
• October 29: HAVE YOU HEARD JUDI SINGH? about a gifted but largely forgotten Edmonton jazz singer, co-presented by Salt Spring Music Events and Salt Spring Jazz & Blues Society.
• November 12: THE ART OF ADVENTURE, featuring Robert Bateman & Bristol Foster traveling around the world in the 1950s, co-presented by Salt Spring Arts.
• December 3: LOVE+WAR, an astonishing National Geographic film about courageous photojournalist Lynsey Addario, co-presented by the Salt Spring Friends of Ukraine Committee.
• January 21: Film title TBA
• February 11: Film title TBA
All “Best of the Fests” screenings are at ArtSpring on Wednesdays at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $15 at
http://www.artspring.ca; by phone (250-537-2102) or in person (Tuesday to Friday, 10 am to 2 pm); or at the door an hour before showtime.
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