Atlantic International Film Festival kicks off this week [Video]

The Atlantic International Film Festival (AIFF) is getting ready to raise the curtain for another year of exciting, inspiring and thought-provoking movies.

The festival, which is celebrating its 44th year, started as a small grassroots operation in St. John’s, N.L. in 1981, before relocating to Halifax the following year.

Halifax-based filmmaker and director Andrea Dorfman is no stranger to the festival and is returning this year with her animated short film called “Hairy Legs.”

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Dorfman’s piece documents a 13-year-old girl’s lifechanging act of rebellion on the road to womanhood and feminism.

“‘Hairy Legs’ is about that first time as a girl you are told you have to do something, in this case, shaving your legs,” said Dorfman during an interview on CTV Morning Live Monday.

“And it goes horribly awry and things don’t go as planned let’s just say that… and …