When online sales ends- you can still get tickets by paying cash at the venue at the box office- 30 minutes before screenings. Single tickets are $10. 5-paks are $40. Sudbury Downtown Indie Cinema Co-op is delighted to announce our 2nd edition of Junction North International Documentary Film Festival, Thursday February 28 to Sunday March 3, in Sudbury's downtown. This is possible due to the support of Government Partner: Ontario Arts Council, Major Presenting Partners: Autumnwood, Downtown Sudbury, as well as our Major Media Sponsors: The Sudbury Star, & CBC Radio. Junction North brings 30+ screenings over 4 days to Northern Ontario of the year's outstanding stories from Toronto’s Hot Docs International Film Festival, TIFF, and Sundance, plus a variety of local stories, an industry forum for Northern Ontario emerging doc filmmakers, and screenings geared to high school students. Screening Venues: Evening Premieres: @Sudbury Indie Cinema @The Indie- 162 Mackenzie St. Day Time Screenings: @The Indie @ McEwen School of Architecture

A documentary about Omara Moctar "Bombino". Presented by Bloom 2019 and Downtown Sudbury as part of the Junction North International Documentary Film Festival 2019. Film starts at 8:40pm, runtime 70 minutes. Make sure to catch Bombino at Bloom 2019: Bombino, Shad & The Battle of Santiago. www.nlfb.ca/bloom Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUcePTVPkZU&t=35s Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/junction-north-international-documentary-film-festival-2019-tickets-53471771508#tickets Plot: Almost four years in the making, the film follows the rise of Omara Moctar known as "Bombino," a twenty nine year old Tuareg musician who is becoming known as one of the great new guitarists and performers from Africa. Influenced by the legendary Ali Farka Toure and Jimi Hendrix, Bombino is cult hero at home in Niger where he embodies the new generation of Tuareg. The film also tells the story of his people, the Tuareg, an ancient Saharan nomadic tribe who, since the 12th century, have linked North Africa and West Africa, guiding their camel caravans across the desert, spreading art and music from Egypt to Mali. The Tuareg guard their independence and personal freedoms fiercely and have taken up arms against the government three times in the past two decades. During the most recent Tuareg rebellion the military executed two of his musicians, driving Bombino into exile for several years. He has now returned home to Agadez, a remote and storied city at the edge of the Sahara. With the Sultan's blessing, he staged a concert outside the Grande Mosque to celebrate the end of the war and the beginning of a lasting peace. The Tuareg are a people in flux, caught between modernity and tradition; Bombino’s songbook is a lyrical manual for both change and stability in a dangerous and uncertain future.