Lobster Queen & Light Through the Blindfold

This screening took place on Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:00 pmYukon Theatre

$5 ALFF Lunch screening!

Lobster Queen

NS | 2025 | Documentary | 23 min | English | Alix Buck

They say women are bad luck on a boat. Captain Gail Atkinson never gave a damn. She's spent the last 30 years proving everyone wrong—and taking chances on people nobody else would hire. But Gail's convictions are put to the test as she faces the storm of the year and an emotional upheaval. In this exceptional doc that mostly takes place on a lobster boat, Gail grapples with identity, loneliness, and legacy, Gail finds unexpected purpose providing others the very opportunities that she was once denied.

Light Through The Blindfold

BC | 2026 | Documentary | 25 min | English, Persian w EST | Alireza Kazemipour

Arguably the most cinematic documentary you will see at Available Light 2026, Iranian screenwriter, Alireza Kazemipour, now based in Vancouver, has crafted a very special portrait. Maryam Salehizadeh, an Iranian-Canadian goalball athlete with only five percent vision, is offered a surgery that could partially restore her sight. As she contemplates the possibility, memories and dreams resurface, challenging her sense of identity and what it truly means to see. In English and Persian with EST. WORLD PREMIERE.