Happening (L'Événement)
Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour, VancouverAudrey Diwan's Venice Film Festival top prize-winner is an unfalteringly empathetic portrait of Anne, a talented student whose academic career is derailed by an unwanted pregnancy. In seeking termination, in France in the early 1960s, an Anne is forced to venture into a shadowy backstreet world where help carries considerable risk.