Film: No More Silent Battles

Wednesday, May 27, 2026 Doors open at 6:00 pm and screening begins at 6:30 pm
Bryan Jones Theatre, Lakefield College School

Canada’s dementia-care crisis — one of those slow-motion disasters too often buried under paperwork, euphemism, and political shrugging — gets dragged into the light with No More Silent Battles, a new documentary screening Wednesday, May 27 at Lakefield College School in partnership with 4th Line Theatre.

Directed and produced by Dr. Jenny Ingram, the film follows four families as they push through a home-care system that can feel less like support than a maze designed by bureaucrats with nowhere urgent to be. What emerges is a portrait of caregiving as both devotion and endurance test — a series of private fights waged behind closed doors by people simply trying to get their loved ones the help they need. But the documentary doesn’t stop at outrage. It also points toward something better: care rooted in compassion, specialized support, community involvement, and the stubborn force of family love.

Ingram’s push to make the film grew during COVID, when she watched supposedly well-meaning policies crash blindly into the realities facing her patients. Her aim now is blunt and necessary: to amplify the urgent need for community-based healthcare in the home and to stir enough discomfort that somebody in power finally has to answer the question, why has this still not changed?

The screening also reflects the long-running connection between Lakefield College School and 4th Line Theatre, including LCS’s support of the theatre’s young company. Afterward, Dr. Ingram will sit down for a conversation with 4th Line Managing Artistic Director Kim Blackwell, adding a live, local layer to a national issue that has already gone ignored for too long.

Proceeds from ticket sales will be shared among the Alzheimer Society, Lakefield College School, and 4th Line Theatre — which means this is one of those rare nights where simply showing up actually does some good.