Wed 10/5-Sun 10/9
Starting October 5 and going on through five packed days, the annual Chagrin Documentary Film Festival will be screening dozens of docs of all types — shorts and full-length, tragic and comic, dramatic and light-hearted, foreign and domestic — about all kinds of topics.
Opening day alone should give you some idea of the range of this festival. You can start at 9am in the morning at the Chagrin Falls Historical society for “Bagels and a Film,” a program of historical shorts accompanied, presumably, by breakfast bagels.
At 10:30am dash over to Chagrin Valley Little Theatre to see The Time of the Fireflies (pictured), which tells the true story of a Mexican migrant worker, humanizing these immigrants in a way governors Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis would despise.
After that there are 15 more film screenings that day ALONE — taking place at different easily walkable locations around downtown Chagrin Falls. They deal with spots of untouched nature beauty, ISIS fighters in Syria, an ensemble of older dancers who entertain for charity, indigenous issues, men who drive the trafficking business by buying sex, endangered whale, a friendly domestic goose and more.
And there are still four days to go! For a complete schedule of screenings and other events, locations and to buy tickets, go to chagrinfilmfest.org.