Three to see at Edmonton International Film Festival – Calgary Herald

With more than 150 films, both fiction and documentary, this year’s Edmonton International Film Festival covers topics as wide-ranging as humanity itself — which means love, war and everything sloppy in between.

What follows is just three of them given a closer look and highly recommended. The full slate is at edmontonfilmfest.com. It runs Sept. 28 through Oct. 7.

Birth of a Family — director Tasha Hubbard

Landmark Cinemas — 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct 1 and 3 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 5

Between 1955 and 1985, some 20,000 Indigenous children were removed from their families into adoptive or foster care during Canada’s atrocious Sixties Scoop. Journalist Betty Ann Adam and her siblings Esther, Rosalie and Ben were four of them, pulled as babies away from their single mother and sent to separate fates and families.

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