North East LHIN sponsors Oscar-winning film screening in Sault
Thursday, February 28, 2013 by: SooToday.com Staff
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NORTH EAST LHIN
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NE LHIN sponsors Oscar-winning Amour at the Shadows of the Mind Film Festival in SSM
The story of one elderly couple’s love in the face of debilitating loss took Best Foreign Film at the Oscars last weekend.
However, this Saturday audiences can watch it in Sault Ste Marie as part of the Shadows of the Mind Film Festival.
Amour
When: March 2, 9:45 a.m.
Where: Galaxy Cinema, as part of the Shadows of the Mind Film Festival
Cost: $8 adults, $5 students
Note: This French language film has English Subtitles
More Shadows of the Mind information
The North East Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) sponsored this powerful and moving French film because it explores themes of physical and mental loss, the experience of caring for a loved one, and aging.
Elaine Pitcher, the North East LHIN Board chair and Sault resident, will be on hand to open the film and welcome the audience on Saturday morning.
“Shadows of the Mind Film Festival has been a key touchstone here in the Sault for 14 years, providing an important opportunity to raise awareness on mental health issues through film,” said Pitcher. “As a LHIN we have been sponsoring French language films at the festival as a way to also serve the needs of our Francophone residents.”
Making mental health and substance abuse treatment services more accessible is one of the NE LHIN’s four priorities as outlined in our recently released three-year strategic plan.
The plan also focuses on the needs of seniors, as here in the North East we are greying at a faster rate than the rest of the population, with 18 percent now 65 years and older.
Amour tells the story of Georges and Anne, in their eighties, who are retired music teachers.
Their daughter, also a musician, lives abroad with her family.
One day, Anne has a stroke.
What follows severely tests the bonds of love of the couple.
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