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In August 2001 filmmaker Jane Williams was asked to shoot an international windsurfing competition on the Magdalen Islands, when athletes and journalists arrived from around the globe. The documentary follows the 14-day event, captured at a crucial moment in history: the two weeks before the world changed on 9/11. “14 Days” takes us on that journey, some 25 years after that fateful day.

“14 Days” is an intimate story of a sport and its adherents – professional and amateur. With pulse-pounding footage, it is an immersive film, dramatizing windsurfing’s raw edge it brings viewers closer to the story. Here are the lifestyle and the athletes dedicated to their extreme sport: the beats of competition – race meetings, constant assessment of conditions, the interviews, the entertainments, soirées. Until the final moment of that year’s video.

“14 Days” is a time capsule that tears a page from history. The boat exiting the harbor leaves pre-9/11 innocence and windsurfing becomes a prism through which we see the changes that bring us to today. From a bucolic, serene, pure competitive environment we witness the pivotal moment. When the Islands’ majestic ferry faces south into the Gulf of St. Lawrence to return the last of the sailors to handfuls of countries, after 14 days, on Tuesday, September 11, 2001, the world changes forever.