FLY SO FAR is one of this week’s features at the Guelph Film Festival

Volunteer Coordinator November 27, 2021 November 27, 2021

Check out the film we’re sponsoring this week at the Guelph Film Festival! You can watch it until December 2nd, and if you miss it you can see it December 3-5 on Last Chance Weekend when all the feature films will be made available. More information and festival passes are available at https://guelphfilmfestival.ca/.

FLY SO FAR

Celina Escher * Sweden & El Salvador 2021

89 min * Full Subtitles

FLY SO FAR is the story of Teodora Vásquez and The Seventeen women accused of aggravated homicide in El Salvador because of having a miscarriage or a stillbirth. Their testimonies are evidence of the State’s violence against women, but also their fight for collective resilience, solidarity, and sisterhood.

OPIRG Guelph is located on the ancestral lands of the Attawandaron/Chonnonton, the Anishinaabe, and Haudenosaunee peoples and the treaty lands and territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit. We recognize the significance of the Dish with One Spoon Covenant to this land and offer our respect and gratitude to all of the Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island who have stewarded, loved & defended this land for centuries.

In stating this, we acknowledge that we are here as a result of blood that has been shed through colonization, which continues to be the lived experience of Indigenous communities across Turtle Island. Colonialism is a current ongoing process, and we need to be accountable for our present participation in that process.