Community Event - Sarnia - SWIFF 2017 presents opening night film DETROIT

The South Western International Film Festival presents DETROIT--screening at 7:30PM on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2017 at the Imperial Theatre.

On the night of July 25-26, 1967, during Detroit’s “long, hot summer” of racial tension and racially charged riots, three young black men—Aubrey Pollard, Carl Cooper, and Fred Temple, each of them civilians—were murdered by white police in the Algiers Motel. Nearly a dozen other people were gravely injured in the same incident that has remained a painful chapter in contemporary American history.
In DETROIT, director Kathryn Bigelow (THE HURT LOCKER, ZERO DARK THIRTY)’s latest film, this harrowing event unfolds in an incredible dramatization that is difficult to watch but impossible to ignore, given the firestorm political climate in the United States, the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement, and the international conversation about police killings.

Join us at MIXX lounge at 180 Front St. N. following the film for opening night celebrations!

Adults - $15
Students / seniors -$12 
SWIFF weekend pass - $79