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Need to Know, Need to Go: June 3–7

By: Alison Wick, Arts Editor Reel Causes: Because We Are Girls Update: Check out our review of the film and evening here. This week, Reel Causes — a film society dedicated to promoting and screening films for social justice and stimulating conversation — will be screening the 2018 documentary Because We Are Girls at the Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema. Previously screened at DOXA Documentary Film Festival, the film is an emotional and nuanced documentary about the impacts of sexual abuse on an Indo-Canadian family in rural B.C. Vancouver-based filmmaker Baljit Sangra follows three sisters as they come forward about the abuse…

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