This Is Not A War Story (Film Screening)

72 South Main Street,Homer NY 13077

15 May, 2022

Description

Free Film Screening of THIS IS NOT A WAR STORY followed by a community discussion around veteran mental health, PTSD, and need for support. COMMUNITY FILM SCREENING + DISCUSSION The Blackbird Film Festival hosts a special screening of THIS IS NOT A WAR STORY followed by a community discussion with director Talia Lugacy around veteran mental health, PTSD and the need for more support. This event is FREE and open to the public. - ABOUT THE FILM: THIS IS NOT A WAR STORY tracks a ragtag group of combat veterans in New York whose anti-war art, poetry and papermaking keep them together, despite the spectre of their friend’s suicide and the ever-crystalizing fact that healing from war is sometimes an impossible mission. Through the process of shredding uniforms, writing poems, exposing their art to the public and telling stories in confidence within their group, the veterans in THIS IS NOT A WAR STORY find a way to give their suffering voice and clarity. Their critique of war, and of their own roles within it, form the apex of the film’s rallying anti-war cry and is a depiction of the guilt, the moral injury, that leads so many veterans to suicide.