Showing at the festival: Wednesday, October 4, 1 p.m., SFU’s Goldcorp Centre for the Arts

Friday, October 6, 6 p.m., Rio Theatre.

 Charles Officer’s Unarmed Verses presents a thoughtful and vivid portrait of a community facing imposed relocation, taking a look at marginalized Toronto Community Housing residents in the city’s north-east end.

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Premiering May 1 at 6:30 p.m. at the Isabel Bader Theatre, Charles Officer’s Unarmed Verses presents a thoughtful and vivid portrait of a community facing imposed relocation, taking a look at marginalized Toronto Community Housing residents in the city’s north-east end. At the centre of the story is a remarkably astute and luminous 12-year-old black girl  documentary Unarmed Verses, which made its world premiere at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival Unarmed Verses, which made its world premiere at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, whose poignant observations about life, the soul, and the power of art give voice to those rarely heard in society.

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