Black Canaries

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Isolated, desperate, and haunted by his coal-stained birthright, Clarence Lockwood continues his daily descent into the accursed Maple mine-even after it has crippled his father and blinded his youngest son. Set in 1907 and based on director Jesse Kreitzer's own coalmining ancestry, this 35mm turn-of-the-century folktale is a powerful meditation on patrimony, loyalty, and love.