The Ancaster Film Fest presents two films on Oct. 6 at Ancaster Silver City. Up the Yangtze will screen at 4 p.m. and Boy A at 7:15 p.m. with the box office opening at 3:15 p.m. and 6:15 p.m. respectively. Non-members pay $9 at the 4 p.m. show and $10 at the 7:15 p.m. show.

Winner of the NFB Best Canadian Documentary Award at the Vancouver Film Festival and selected as part of the Toronto International Film Festival Group's 2007 Canada's Top Ten, Up the Yangtze also screened at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for a Jutra award. Yung Chang's luminous documentary focuses on the people who live alongside China's Yangtze River, many of whom are being uprooted as a result of the Three Gorges Dam project.

The central focus is on two teenagers, Cindy and Jerry, who hope to secure employment on a tour boat which caters to wealthy Westerners. Cindy comes from a very poor family who managed to eke out a living alongside the river, a life that's now endangered because of the massive relocation program. Jerry is a member of China's burgeoning middle class who comes to his new position with a brash attitude and a certain sense of entitlement.

Up the Yangtze was inspired by a trip Yung Chang took to discover his grandfather's China, only to find it gone, replaced by a country that's increasingly unrecognizable.

Boy A is a powerful coming-of-age drama that raises difficult questions about crime and punishment but also forgiveness and who deserves it.

Boy A is a fictional story starring Andrew Garfield as Jack, whose involvement in a criminal act when he was very young has meant that he, at 24, has spent most of his young life in juvenile prisons. Released from prison into an unrecognizable adult world, Jack is given a new name, new job, new home and a new life. The drama also stars acclaimed actor and director Peter Mullan (Children of Men) as Terry, Jack's care worker.

Proceeds from the screenings go to the Hamilton Out of the Cold program. From the last film date, $1,000 was donated. The Ancaster Film Fest is a member of the Toronto International Film Festival's Film Circuit, a group of some 180 sites across Canada that feature the best in Canadian and international films. For more information, visit www.ancasterfilmfest.ca or call 905-648-2277.