The Vancouver International Film Festival presents:
Landfill Harmonic (USA, 2015, 84min)
Dir. Brad Allgood and Graham Townsley
Friday, November 18, 2016, 5:45pm
Saturday, November 19, 2016, 5:20pm
Sunday, November 20, 2016, 8:50pm
Monday, November 21, 2016, 8:30pm
Tuesday, November 22, 2016, 6:15pm
Wednesday, November 23, 2016, 8:35pm
Tuesday, November 29, 2016, 6:30pm
Thursday, December 1, 2016, 6:15pm
In Spanish and English, with English subtitles
Cateura, Paraguay, is Latin America’s largest landfill, and home to Cola, a garbage picker who proves an unlikely visionary when he realizes that instruments can be fashioned from trash. Banding together with a local music teacher, they turn oil drums into violins, water pipes into flutes and packing crates into guitars. More importantly, a group of impoverished local youths are transformed into the Recycled Orchestra.
“The world sends us garbage… We send back music.”
Winner: Audience Award, SXSW 2015; World Cinema Audience Award, AFI Fest 2015; International Audience Award, Vancouver International Film Festival 2015
100% Fresh, Rotten Tomatoes