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The Inspection

Thu, Jan 5 / 7pm
Sat, Jan 7 / 5pm
Sun, Jan 8 / 3pm
Thu, Jan 12 / 7pm
Sat, Jan 14 / 2:30pm & 9pm
Sun, Jan 15 / 5pm
Dir. Elegance Bratton
2022, USA, 95 min

In Elegance Bratton’s deeply moving film inspired by his own story, a young, gay Black man, rejected by his mother and with few options for his future, decides to join the Marines, doing whatever it takes to succeed in a system that would cast him aside. But even as he battles deep-seated prejudice and the grueling routines of basic training, he finds unexpected camaraderie, strength, and support in this new community, giving him a hard-earned sense of belonging that will shape his identity and forever change his life.

Reviews

With The Inspection, Bratton has continued working with the humanist lens through which he shaped his captivating 2019 documentary Pier Kids.
- Sarah-Tai Black, Globe and Mail  
Bratton, who has an eye for compelling framing and unexpected beauty, has made something more complicated than a treatise against the power structures enshrined in the military, though he’s very aware of them.
- Alison Willmore, Vulture
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