November / December 2019
special Events 11TH ANNUAL GIMME SOME TRUTH Canadian & International Features DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL TAPEWORM
WAYWARD HEROES: Restoration Tuesdays MODERN ICELANDIC CINEMA THE CREMATOR
www.winnipegcinematheque.com November 2019 TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY
1 2 3 Toni Morrison: Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am / Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am / The Pieces I Am / 7 pm 2:30 pm & 7 pm 2:30 pm & 5 pm The Tony Alva Story / 9:15 pm The Tony Alva Story / The Tony Alva Story / 7:15 pm 5 pm & 9:15 pm
5 6 7 8 9 10 Gimme Some Truth: Gimme Some Truth: Gimme Some Truth: Gimme Some Truth: Gimme Some Truth: Gimme Some Truth: Freedom Road: Shoal Lake 40 Searching Eva / 7 pm Jordan River Anderson, Honeyland / 7 pm Dear Brother / 1 pm Mastering Your Festival (Winnipeg Art Gallery) / 7 pm Sawaka / 9 pm The Messenger / 7 pm América / 9 pm Memory in a Place of Launch / 12 pm Chulas Fronteras & Del Mera The Cave / 9 pm Survival / 3 pm About Love / 1 pm Corazon / 7 pm Documentary Masterclass The Eyes of Orson Welles / 3 pm A Bigger Splash / 9 pm with Khalik Allah / 5 pm Midnight Traveler / 5:30 pm Black Mother / 7 pm Cold Case Hammarskjöld / The El Duce Tapes / 9 pm 7:30 pm
12 13 14 15 16 17 Restoration Tuesdays: McDonald at the Movies: Tapeworm / 7 pm Assholes: A Theory / 7 pm Assholes: A Theory / 3 pm Assholes: A Theory / 3 pm Suburbia / 7 pm Being There / 7 pm Assholes: A Theory / 9:15 pm Tapeworm / 9 pm Running Water 3D / 5 pm Running Water 3D / 5 pm The Harder They Come / 9 pm Assholes: A Theory / 9:30 pm Architecture+Film: Tapeworm / 7 pm Architecture & Infinity / 7 pm Tapeworm / 9 pm
19 20 21 22 23 24 Restoration Tuesdays: Assholes: A Theory / 7 pm Wayward Heroes: Wayward Heroes: Wayward Heroes: Wayward Heroes: The Harder They Come / 7 pm Tapeworm / 9 pm Children of Nature / 7 pm Life in a Fishbowl / 7 pm Children of Nature / 3 pm When the Raven Flies / 3 pm Suburbia / 9 pm Jar City / 9 pm Under the Glacier / 9:30 pm Under the Glacier / 5 pm As in Heaven / 5 pm Jar City / 7 pm Golden Sands / 7:30 pm Life in a Fishbowl / 9 pm
26 27 28 29 30 Restoration Tuesdays: Wayward Heroes: Wayward Heroes: Rams / 7 pm Wayward Heroes: Wayward Heroes: Suburbia / 7 pm Golden Sands / 7 pm Afro Prairie: Atlantics / 9 pm The Icelandic Dream / 7 pm The Icelandic Dream / 3 pm The Harder They Come / 9 pm As in Heaven / 9 pm Running Water 3D / 9 pm Running Water 3D / 5 pm Wayward Heroes: When the Raven Flies / 7 pm Nói the Albinói / 9 pm December 2019 TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY
1 Wayward Heroes: Nói the Albinói / 3 pm Rams / 5 pm Jar City / 7 pm
3 4 5 6 7 8 Restoration Tuesdays: McDonald at the Movies: Pain & Glory / 7 pm Stories of Indigenous music Tigers Are Not Afraid / Tigers Are Not Afraid / 3 pm & The Cremator / 7 pm Pee-wee’s Big Adventure / 7 pm Tigers Are Not Afraid / 9:15 pm and tradition / 7 pm 3 pm & 9:15 pm 5 pm My 20th Century / 9 pm Tigers Are Not Afraid / 9:15 pm Pain & Glory / 9 pm Pain & Glory / 5 pm & 7:15 pm Pain & Glory / 7 pm
10 11 12 13 14 15 Restoration Tuesdays: Pain & Glory / 7 pm Chained for Life / 7 pm Aaron Zeghers: The Two Popes / 2 pm & 4:30 pm Pain & Glory / 2 pm My 20th Century / 7 pm Tigers Are Not Afraid / 9:15 pm Pain & Glory / 9 pm Living on the Edge / 7 pm BLACK LODGE: Cream of the The Two Popes / 4:30 pm The Cremator / 9 pm The Two Popes / 9:30 pm Crap 8: We Wish You a Crappy Chained for Life / 7 pm Christmas / 7 pm Pain & Glory / 7 pm Chained for Life / 9:15 pm
17 18 19 20 21 22 Restoration Tuesdays: The Two Popes / 7 pm The Two Popes / 7 pm DRAG ME TO THE MOVIES: The Saturday Morning All- The Irishman / 1 pm & 7:15 pm The Cremator / 7 pm Chained for Life / 9:15 pm Chained for Life / 9:15 pm The Queen / 7 pm You-Can-Eat Cartoon Party! The Two Popes / 5 pm My 20th Century / 9 pm Paris Is Burning / 9:30 pm Christmas Edition! / 10 am – 1 pm The Irishman / 3 pm The Two Popes / 7 pm & 9:15 pm
24 25 26 27 28 29 Restoration Tuesdays: Closed for Christmas The Irishman / 1 pm & 7:15 pm The Irishman / 1 pm & 5 pm The Irishman / 1 pm & 5 pm The Irishman / 1 pm & 7:15 pm My 20th Century / 7 pm The Farewell / 5 pm The Farewell / 9 pm The Farewell / 9 pm The Farewell / 5 pm The Cremator / 9 pm Canadian & International Features
Tapeworm Running Water 3D Tigers Are Not Afraid
Tapeworm Running Water 3D Tigers Are Not Afraid Directed by Fabián Velasco & Miloš Mitrovič Directed by Bevan Klassen & Frank Zappia Directed by Issa López 2019, Canada, 78 min 2019, Canada, 82 min 2017, Mexico, 83 min Spanish with English subtitles Thursday, November 14 / 7 pm Saturday & Sunday, November 16 & 17 / 5 pm Friday & Saturday, November 15 & 16 / 9 pm Friday, November 29 / 9 pm Wednesday & Thursday, December 4 & 5 / 9:15 pm Sunday, November 17 / 7 pm Saturday, November 30 / 5 pm Saturday, December 7 / 3 pm & 9:15 pm Wednesday, November 20 / 9 pm Sunday, December 8 / 3 pm & 5 pm Introduced by Bevan Klassen and Frank Zappia. Wednesday, December 11 / 9:15 pm Opening Night introduced by Fabián Velasco & Miloš Mitrovič. Back by popular demand. In rural cottage country, Andy, a lonely A haunting horror fairytale set against the backdrop of Mexico’s A darkly comic gem with a local cast (Alex Ateah, Adam Brooks, machinist who has difficulty communicating with women, is devastating drug wars, this film follows a group of orphaned Sam Singer, Stephanie Berrington, Milos Mitrovic, Jennifer Mauws, fishing at his friends Mass and Julie’s summerhouse. Sara, a troubled children armed with three magical wishes, running from the ghosts Igal Rodriguez, Sandro Debari and Slobodian Mitrovic), exploring young artist and friend of Julie from Art School, arrives and Andy that haunt them and the cartel that murdered their parents. López the lives of losers and misfits as they intersect in a bleak Winnipeg, is instantly attracted to her. They are drawn together while being creates a world imbued with her own gritty urban spin on magical a city isolated and overlooked. A sickly man in an unhappy guided through a mysterious dimension in order to reconcile with realism to conjure a wholly unique experience that audiences will marriage, a stand up comedian received with indifference, a their past. not soon forget. stoner couple sharing trivial exchanges and a young loner, all are detached from their surroundings and the people around them.
Chained for Life The Irishman Directed by Aaron Schimberg Directed by Martin Scorsese 2019, USA, 91 min 2019, USA, 209 min
Thursday, December 12 / 7 pm Saturday, December 21 / 3 pm Saturday, December 14 / 9:15 pm Sunday, December 22 / 1 pm & 7:15 pm Sunday, December 15 / 7 pm Thursday, December 26 / 1 pm & 7:15 pm Wednesday & Thursday, December 18 & 19 / 9:15 pm Friday & Saturday, December 27 & 28 / 1 pm & 5 pm Sunday, December 29 / 1 pm & 7:15 pm This brilliant, weird feature resembles David Lynch’s Eraserhead and Todd Browning’s Freaks. In a deft tragicomic performance, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci star in The Irishman, Jess Weixler (Teeth) plays Mabel, a movie star “slumming it” in an epic saga of organized crime in post-war America as told an outré art-horror film. As her relationship with Rosenthal by veteran, hustler and hitman, Frank Sheeran. Spanning ↑ Pain & Glory (Under the Skin’s Adam Pearson), a gentle young man with a facial decades, it chronicles one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in deformity, evolves, cinematic notions of beauty, representation, American history, the disappearance of union boss Jimmy Hoffa. and exploitation are questioned. The Irishman offers a journey through the hidden corridors of Pain & Glory organized crime and mainstream politics. Directed by Pedro Almodóvar 2019, Spain, 113 min The Two Popes Spanish with English subtitles Directed by Fernando Meirelles The Farewell 2019, USA / UK / Italy / Argentina, 125 min Directed by Lulu Wang Thursday, December 5 / 7 pm English, Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese, German, Latin with subtitles 2019, USA, 98 min Friday, December 6 / 9 pm Mandarin, Japanese, Italian and English with subtitles Saturday, December 7 / 5 pm & 7:15 pm Friday, December 13 / 9:30 pm Sunday, December 8 / 7 pm Saturday, December 14 / 2 pm & 4:30 pm Thursday, December 26 / 5 pm Wednesday, December 11 / 7 pm Sunday, December 15 / 4:30 pm Friday & Saturday, December 27 & 28 / 9 pm Thursday, December 12 / 9 pm Wednesday & Thursday, December 18 & 19 / 7 pm Sunday, December 29 / 5 pm Saturday, December 14 / 7 pm Saturday, December 21 / 7 pm & 9:15 pm Billi’s (Awkwafina) family returns to China for a fake wedding Sunday, December 15 / 2 pm Sunday, December 22 / 5 pm to stealthily say goodbye to their beloved matriarch, the only A revival screening of his controversial classic reunites filmmaker Written by Anthony McCarten (The Theory of Everything, Darkest person who doesn’t know she has only weeks to live. As Billi Salvador (Antonio Banderas) with the film’s star, Alberto, a longtime Hour) and directed by Fernando Meirelles (City of God) The Two Popes navigates a minefield of family expectations and proprieties, she junkie. Alberto lures Salvador into seeking solace in opiates, and explores the disagreement between the Argentine Cardinal, Jorge finds lots to celebrate: a chance to rediscover the country she reminds him of a script he abandoned long ago, opening up a flood Mario Bergoglio (Jonathan Pryce), and the traditionalist Cardinal, left as a child, her grandmother’s wondrous spirit, and the ties of old acquaintances and vivid memories, involving his beloved Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger (Anthony Hopkins), over the spiritual bind even when much goes unspoken. mother (Penélope Cruz) and an old flame ravaged by addiction. direction of the Catholic church. New World Documentaries
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am The Tony Alva Story Assholes: A Theory
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am The Tony Alva Story Assholes: A Theory Directed by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders Directed by Coan Buddy Nichols & Rick Charnoski Directed by John Walker 2019, USA, 119 min 2019, USA, 54 min 2019, Canada, 81 min
Friday, November 1 / 7 pm Friday, November 1 / 9:15 pm Wednesday, November 13 / 9:30 pm Saturday, November 2 / 2:30 pm & 7 pm Saturday, November 2 / 5 pm & 9:15 pm Thursday, November 14 / 9:15 pm Sunday, November 3 / 2:30 pm & 5 pm Sunday, November 3 / 7:15 pm Friday, November 15 / 7 pm Saturday, November 16 / 3 pm From her childhood in Lorain, Ohio to her civil rights activism Skateboarding didn’t begin as a rebellious, anti-authority Sunday, November 17 / 3 pm with Muhammad Ali and Angela Davis, to her own riverfront lifestyle activity. Tony Alva was a key figure in the early evolution Wednesday, November 20 / 7 pm writing room, Toni Morrison leads an assembly of her peers, from wholesome “sport” to freewheeling art form. From his critics and colleagues on an exploration of race, America, history humble beginnings on the streets of Santa Monica to his rise to Are the assholes are taking over? Assholes investigates contemporary and the human condition as seen through the prism of her own superstardom as part of the legendary Z-Boys, the film chronicles asshole culture, moving between Ivy League frat clubs, the bratty literature. Inspired to write because no one took a “little black his drug-induced implosion and ultimate rise from the ashes princedoms of Silicon Valley and the bear pits of international girl” seriously, Morrison reflects on her lifelong deconstruction to serve as a beacon of hope and inspiration for generations of finance, searching for signs of civility in a rude-’n-nasty universe. of the master narrative. skateboarders the world over. Why do assholes thrive in these environments? What is their perverse appeal? How do they keep getting elected? Lively Co-presented by Winnipeg International Writer’s Festival. Plays with: Jeff Grosso’s Love Letter to Canada / 2019, commentary by John Cleese, former police officer Sherry Lee USA, 39 min / A love letter to some of the many great Canadian skaters Benson-Podolchuk, and Italian LGBTQ activist Vladimir Luxuria. who have killed it from the 70s to today. Skate Break / Directed by Peatr Thomas, 2019, Canada, 4 min / A young man takes a break from work, skateboarding along to see his favourite Winnipeg murals. Restoration Tuesdays is a new series shining a light on the important work being done to preserve and promote the history of film. All admissions to RESTORATION these screenings is $5 — no passes. TUESDAYS Generously Sponsored by IATSE 856.
Suburbia The Harder They Come The Cremator My 20th Century Directed by Penelope Spheeris Directed by Perry Henzell Directed by Juraj Herz Directed by Ildiko Enyedi 1983, USA, 94 min 1972, Jamaica, 103 min 1969, Czechoslovakia, 95 min 1989, Hungary, 104 min Czech with English subtitles Hungarian with English subtitles Tuesday, November 12 / 7 pm Tuesday, November 12 / 9 pm Tuesday, November 19 / 9 pm Tuesday, November 19 / 7 pm Tuesday, December 3 / 7 pm Tuesday, December 3 / 9 pm Tuesday, November 26 / 7 pm Tuesday, November 26 / 9 pm Tuesday, December 10 / 9 pm Tuesday, December 10 / 7 pm Tuesday, December 17 / 7 pm Tuesday, December 17 / 9 pm “Compelling… shows enormous empathy and “A revelation, evocative of a poor but vibrant Tuesday, December 24 / 9 pm Tuesday, December 24 / 7 pm sensitivity in capturing the angst and alienation Jamaican culture few Americans knew about, of American youth, making it seem both rooted with a bombshell reggae soundtrack that for New 4K restoration courtesy of Janus Films. New 4K restoration by the Hungarian Filmlab, in a specific time and place and strangely all intents introduced the musical genre here.” Czech New Wave iconoclast Juraj Herz’s courtesy of Kino Lorber. Ildikó Enyedi’s fairytale- timeless.” — Nathan Rabin, AV Club — Entertainment Weekly terrifying, darkly comic vision of the horrors like film spins the tale of twins, Dóra and Lili, of the Nazi racial ideology. Karel Kopfrkingl, born in Budapest at the very moment that New restoration courtesy of American Genre New restoration courtesy of AGFA. This (the chilling Rudolf Hrušínský) a crematorium Edison’s electric light-bulb is unveiled. Separated Film Archive (AGFA). Made for Roger Corman’s Scarface-y blend of crime drama and musical director in 1930s Prague, believes that in childhood, the sisters follow radically different New World Pictures after Spheeris’ phenomenal tracks Jimmy Cliff’s country-boy-in-search- death offers the only true relief from human paths: one becomes a naïvely idealistic, bomb- success with The Decline of Western Civilization, of-fame through Jamaica under the guises of suffering. Recruited by the Nazis, Kopfrkingl’s toting anarchist, the other a pampered, this nuanced look at a patchwork family of laborer, recording artist, convict, ganja dealer, increasingly deranged worldview drives him hedonistic courtesan – until they meet again punks banded together against bad parents to outlaw folk hero. This game-changer to formulate his own shocking Final Solution. on the Orient Express on New Year’s Eve and shitty authority figures is made even forever blew the doors off the foreign film Blending the blackest of gallows humor with 1899… more rad by hammering live sets from SoCal market — and reggae still hasn’t lost its cool, disorienting expressionistic flourishes, Herz’s hardcore squads D.I. and TSOL. F the world. its edge, or its power to make you dance. long-banned masterpiece stands as one of cinema’s most disturbing portraits of evil. WAYWARD HEROES: MODERN ICELANDIC CINEMA
All screenings November 21–23 introduced by curator Steve Life in a Fishbowl (Vonarstræti) Golden Sands (Gullsandur) Gravestock. Steve Gravestock is Senior Canadian and Directed by Baldvin Zophoníasson Directed by Ágúst Gudmundsson International programmer for TIFF and has been programming 2014, Iceland/Finland/Sweden, 129 min 1984, Iceland, 98 min Nordic films for TIFF since 1999. Friday, November 22 / 7 pm Sunday, November 24 / 7:30 pm , a drama set in a remote rural area of Iceland Rams Saturday, November 23 / 9 pm Wednesday, November 27 / 7 pm and directed by Grímur Hákonarson, won the top prize in the Cannes festival’s prestigious Un A single mother struggling to make ends meet; a former athlete In this satire, a group of American soldiers mysteriously set up Certain Regard section. Immediately preceding and now trying to climb the corporate ladder; and a once-respected camp near a small town. A youth-club leader becomes a vocal following Rams’ Cannes triumph, films by directors author turned full-time drunk. These three characters eventually opponent of these armed foreigners. Heavily influenced by his such as Dagur Kári, Rúnar Rúnarsson, Hlynur intersect in surprising ways. Zophoníasson uses their stories to crush on a strident town communist, he organizes anti-American Pálmason and Ísold Uggadóttir picked up prizes at address pressing contemporary issues, including the kreppa (the demonstration with her but it gains little traction. When word major festivals around the world. Steve Gravestock’s 2008 financial crisis). gets out that the Americans are searching for treasure, comic A History of Icelandic Film charts the course of chaos ensues. Icelandic cinema from the silent era to the present Under the Glacier (Kristnihald undir jökli) day. The sporadic production from the ‘20s to the Directed by Gudný Halldórsdóttir Rams (Hrútar) ‘70s gave way to the “Icelandic Spring” of the ’80s, 1989, Iceland, 89 min Directed by Grímur Hákonarson with international inroads being made in the ’90s. 2015, Iceland 93 min Magic-realist fables, bloody Viking epics, sardonic Friday, November 22 / 9:30 pm deadpan comedies, and hard-boiled Nordic noirs, Saturday, November 23 / 5 pm Thursday, November 28 / 7 pm a remarkable evolution from the ’80s to today. Sunday, December 1 / 5 pm We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Consulate of This absurdist fable follows Umbi, a young emissary sent by Iceland, Gimli Film Festival, The Toronto International the Bishop of Iceland to investigate a village at the foot of the This festival-circuit hit focuses on two sheep-farming brothers — Film Festival, and Frank Zappia, Zappia Group Realty. famous Snaefells glacier. Umbi finds the local church shuttered boastful, hard-living Kiddi and stern, solitary Gummi — who haven’t and the village a haven for all kinds of theologically unorthodox spoken to each other for 40 years, despite the fact they live and oddballs including an anarcho-hippie cult and the pastor’s work on adjoining farms. When Gummi spots a dead sheep in his mysterious, estranged wife, who has returned from the dead brother’s field and then finds symptoms in his rivals’ flock that point after transmogrifying into a fish! Under the Glacier is profoundly to the lethal disease scrapie, the furious Kiddi thinks his jealous Children of Nature (Börn náttúrunnar) cerebral, kind of trippy, and one of the most daring Icelandic brother is trying to cause trouble for him. Masterfully balancing films of the 1980s. deadpan comedy and heart-wrenching pathos. Directed by Fridrik Thór Fridriksson 1991, Iceland, 82 min When the Raven Flies (Hrafninn flýgur) The Icelandic Dream (Íslenski draumurinn) Thursday, November 21 / 7 pm Directed by Hrafn Gunnlaugsson Directed by Róbert I. Douglas Saturday, November 23 / 3 pm 1984, Iceland / Sweden, 110 min 2000, Iceland, 92 min, 35mm presentation Opening Night Reception, 6 pm on November 21st at PLATFORM & Sunday, November 24 / 3 pm Friday, November 29 / 7 pm Artspace Lobby. Saturday, November 30 / 7 pm Saturday, November 30 / 3 pm The aged Thorgeir bids a silent farewell to the farm he has devoted The first film in director Gunnlaugsson’s epic Viking trilogy, opens Unlikable “entrepreneur” Tóti is a failure at every one of the his life to, preparing to move in with his daughter in Reykjavik. as a young Irish boy witnesses the slaughter of his parents and many crazy schemes he turns his hand to. Tóti is abusive to Receiving a chilly reception from his family, he is whisked off the kidnapping of his older sister by marauding Viking warriors. family and friends, loathed by his ex-wife, and a stifling bore to a retirement home where he is reunited with an old flame. Years later, the now-grown boy, known as Gest, arrives in Iceland to his young daughter. Tóti’s latest idea, illegally importing This lyrical, affecting road movie put Iceland on the world cinema seeking to exact vengeance. Bulgarian cigarettes, threatens to be another fiasco. But when map and is the only Icelandic film ever nominated for the Best the smuggled smokes are found to contain a sought-after herb, it Foreign Language Film Oscar. may be that his luck has turned. As in Heaven (Svo á jörðu sem á himni) Jar City (Mýrin) Directed by Kristín Jóhannesdóttir 1992, Iceland / Denmark, 122 min, 35mm presentation Nói the Albinói (Nói Albinoi) Directed by Baltasar Kormákur Directed by Dagur Kári 2006, Iceland/Germany/Denmark, 93 min Sunday, November 24 / 5 pm 2003, Iceland, 93 min, 35mm presentation Wednesday, November 27 / 9 pm Thursday, November 21 / 9 pm Saturday, November 30 / 9 pm Saturday, November 23 / 7 pm This stunning magic-realist fable follows a lonely young girl who Sunday, December 1 / 3 pm Sunday, December 1 / 7 pm shuttles back and forth between her small coastal village in 1936 Iceland and her 14th-century fantasy world, populated with the Fusing a quirky, deadpan sense of humour with the almost surreal Arnaldur Indridason’ bestseller, Jar City announced the mini-boom familiar faces of her real life. While in current-day she eagerly atmosphere of its eerily still, isolated setting, this film follows of “Nordic noirs” that gained international exposure with The Girl awaits a visit from the ship of (true-life) French polar explorer a teenaged loner living with his grandmother in a small fishing with the Dragon Tattoo. Called in to investigate “a typical Icelandic Jean-Baptiste Charcot, her fantasy narrative unspools a tale of village in Iceland’s West Fjords. He is perpetually at odds with his murder”, hard-bitten, chain-smoking, Erlendur discovers the victim vengeance and sorcery that explains the origin of a curse that teachers, his principal, and his whole sleepy town, but things start is connected to nefarious goings-on 30 years ago, involving supposedly haunts the region to this day. looking up when he meets a new-girl-in-town who works at the a dead child, a crooked cop, and “the most notorious maniac local gas station. in Iceland.”
supported by Architecture+Film Architecture+Film, an ongoing series Afro Prairie Presents Stories of Indigenous music and tradition which focuses on architecture and design, THE TUNE THEREFORE IS is co-presented by Winnipeg Architecture Atlantics Foundation, a charitable organization Directed by Mati Diop PRESERVED AMONG THEM dedicated to advancing the awareness 2019, France/Senegal/Belgium, 104 min and appreciation of Winnipeg’s built Wolof, French and English with subtitles Friday, December 6 / 7 pm environment through public education. Curated and Introduced by Jenny Western Thursday, November 28 / 9 pm Music transcends time and memory. Beyond lyric and language, Architecture of Infinity On the Atlantic coast, a soon-to-be-inaugurated futuristic simple melody can spark connections to history and identity, Directed by Christoph Schaub tower looms over a suburb of Dakar. Ada, 17, is in love community and land, the past and the future. The tune therefore 2018, Switzerland, 86 min with Souleiman, a young construction worker, but she is preserved among them brings together film and video makers to is promised to another man. One night, he and his co- tell stories mediated by music. Whether reviving musical scores Saturday, November 16 / 7 pm workers leave the country by sea, hoping for a better future. from past generations, listening to the sounds of water, or Beyond seeing and explaining buildings, this documentary Days later, a fire ruins Ada’s wedding and a mysterious imagining ways music will lead traditions onward, this program deals with transcendence. Schaub explores, with architects, fever starts to spread. Little does Ada know that Souleiman celebrates the rhythms of lived Indigenous experience. Peter Zumthor, Peter Märkli and Álvaro Siza Vieira, artists has returned. Featuring work by Joe Kelly, Elisa Harkins & Dannie Wesley, James Turrell and Cristina Iglesias and drummer virtuoso Presented by Afro Prairie Film Festival. The Afro Prairie Film Leah Decter & Cheryl L’Hirondelle, Conor McNally, Navarana Jojo Mayer, the magic of sacred spaces, defined here as Festival will enjoy its 3rd edition February 20–23, 2020. Film Igloliorte, Marie Côté, Ziya Tabassian, Peter Morin, Evan James more than just church buildings. Who owns spirituality? submissions from Black filmmakers are being accepted on: Atwood, Seth Wanger, and Cara Mumford. The film examines “spiritual life” not only in architecture filmfreeway.com/AfroPrairieFilmFestival until December 1. and the fine arts, but also in nature. Co-presented by Urban Shaman. McDonald at the Movies DRAG ME TO THE MOVIES Once a month, comedian and co-founder of Special Event Pricing: $20 General / $15 Members, Students & Seniors Kids in the Hall, Kevin McDonald will present PRICE INCLUDES BOTH FILMS & PERFORMANCE. a film handpicked from the archives of comic Featuring a drag performance intermission by Feather Talia and Hari Vijaijay. history. Introduced by Kevin McDonald. The Queen (New 4K Restoration) Directed by Frank Simon 1968, USA, 68 min Being There Directed by Hal Ashby Friday, December 20 / 7 pm 1979, USA, 130 min More than 40 years before RuPaul’s Drag Race, the 1967 Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant introduced audiences to the world of competitive drag. Organized by LGBTQ icon and activist Wednesday, November 13 / 7 pm Flawless Sabrina, it boasted a star-studded panel of judges including Andy Warhol, Larry Rivers, Simple-minded Chance (Peter Sellers), a gardener who has resided in the Washington, D.C., and Terry Southern. The Queen features an epic diatribe calling out the pageant’s bias delivered by townhouse of his employer for his entire life, educated only by television, is forced to vacate Crystal LaBeija, who went on to form the influential House of LaBeija, featured in Paris Is Burning. when his boss dies. Wandering the streets, he encounters business mogul Ben Rand (Melvyn Plays with: Queens of Summer / Directed by Nigel Webber, 2019, Canada, 6.5 min Douglas), who assumes Chance is a fellow upper-class gentleman. Soon Chance is ushered into high society, and his unaffected gardening wisdom makes him the talk of the town. Paris Is Burning (New 4K Restoration) Directed by Jennie Livingston Pee-wee’s Big Adventure 1990, USA, 78 min Directed by Tim Burton 1985, USA, 91 min Friday, December 20 / 9:30 pm
Wednesday, December 4 / 7 pm Where does voguing come from, and what, exactly, is throwing shade? This vibrant snapshot of the 80s through the eyes of NYC’s African American and Latinx Harlem drag ball scene was made When his prized shiny red bike is stolen, Pee-wee sets off on an obsessive cross-country over 7 years. It offers an intimate portrait of rival fashion “houses,” fierce contests for trophies, journey, meeting hilarious characters along the way. Everything about this movie, from its house mothers offering sustenance in a world rampant with homophobia and transphobia, racism, toy-box colors to its superb, hyperanimated Danny Elfman score to the butch-waxed hairdo AIDS, and poverty. Paris Is Burning brings it, celebrating the joy of movement, the force of eloquence, and wooden-puppet walk of its star and mastermind, Pee-wee Herman, is pure pleasure. and the draw of community.
Sponsored by Reel Pride Film Festival. The 10th Annual Documentary Festival Jordan River Anderson, The Messenger Black Mother November 5 – 10, 2019 Directed by Alanis Obomsawin Directed by Khalik Allah 2019, Canada, 65 min 2018, USA, 77 min Gimme Some Truth is a unique, five day Filmmaker in attendance documentary festival that includes master lectures, Thursday, November 7 / 7 pm Saturday, November 9 / 7 pm workshops and special screenings — all intended Obomsawin’s remarkable 53rd film documents the long to provide filmmakers and audiences alike the and continued struggle of Indigenous activists and families Introduced by Khalik Allah. From red light districts to lush rain- opportunity to discuss creative, ethical and to force the Canadian government to enforce “Jordan’s forests, Black Mother is a loving and lyrical ode to Jamaica technical issues related to the documentary form. Principle” — the promise that no First Nations children would and its people, a visual poem that is at once deeply felt love Festival Pass: $40 / $30 Students, Seniors & Members experience inequitable access to government-funded services. letter and ecstatic street-corner prayer. More information available at gimmesometruth.ca Plays with: When the Children Left / Directed by Presented in partnership with Afro Prairie Film GIMME SOME TRUTH IS PRESENTED WITH THE GENEROUS Charlene Moore, 2019, 11 min Festival and sponsored by DOC Manitoba. SUPPORT OF Telefilm Canada, DOC Winnipeg, IATSE 856, Crave Hot Docs Showcase, Manitoba Film & Music, Sponsored by Manitoba Film & Music. Afro Prairie Film Festival, ASSURart Inc., Winnipeg Art Crave Hot Docs Showcase: Gallery, Decolonizing Lens, National Film Board of The El Duce Tapes Canada, Friends of Shoal Lake 40. The Cave Directed by Rodney Ascher, David Lawrence Directed by Feras Fayyad 2019, USA, 100 min 2019, Syria / Denmark / Germany / USA / Qatar, 95 min Opening Night Special Presentation: Arabic with English subtitles Freedom Road: Shoal Lake 40 Saturday, November 9 / 9 pm Directed by Angelina McLeod Thursday, November 7 / 9 pm Ryan Sexton spent the early 90s documenting the life and 2019, Canada, 67 min, World premiere art of El Duce, lead singer of the notorious shock rock band Director Feras Fayyad (Last Men in Aleppo) returns to his The Mentors, who were briefly in the spotlight, when the Tuesday, November 5 / 7 pm native, wartorn Syria to follow a dedicated team of female US Senate denounced their offensive lyrics. 25 years later, Winnipeg Art Gallery (Muriel Richardson Auditorium) doctors who tirelessly treat casualties in an underground Ryan’s archive is re-opened for clues to who El Duce really * free admission, no advance tickets hospital while battling systemic sexism. was, how much of his disturbing persona was real, and what Freedom Road is a five-film series presenting powerful Plays with: Methamphetamine / Directed by Rodney an act built around a cartoonish sense of violent misogyny accounts of lived history from band members of Shoal Lake Bodner, 2019, 5 min can tell us about our own time. 40 Anishinaabe First Nation – where Winnipeg gets its water. This community-led project is rich terrain for considering Crave Hot Docs Showcase: Mastering the Festival Launch with Sean Farnel our collective relationship to water and to each other. A Honeyland of Documentary Organization of Canada panel discussion with band members Daryl Redsky, Roxanne Directed by Tamara Kotevska & Ljubomir Stefanov Greene, director Angelina McLeod and Winnipeg-based 2019, Macedonia, 90 min Sunday, November 10 / 12 pm historian Adele Perry will follow the screening. Turkish with English subtitles Black Lodge Studio (Room 304, Artspace) Presented in partnership with National Film Board For most independent filmmakers, film festivals are a primary of Canada, The Decolonizing Lens, The Winnipeg Art Friday, November 8 / 7 pm Gallery and Friends of Shoal Lake 40. goal. Sean Farnel (Hot Docs, TIFF) will present an overview of Hatidze is the latest in a long family line of traditional film festival distribution strategies and DOC Canada’s Concierge Macedonian beekeepers. When an itinerant family sets up service. Farnel will be joined by filmmakers Dave Barber, Kevin Restoration Tuesdays meets GST: camp near Hatidze’s isolated property, a series of events cause a Nikkel and Jeff McKay for a filmmaker’s point-of-view. Chulas Fronteras & Del Mero Corazon breach in the natural order and threaten her means of survival. Directed by Les Blank & Maureen Gosling 1976 / 1979, USA, 58 min / 29 min, 4K Restorations About Love América Directed by Archana Phadke 2019, India, 91 min Tuesday, November 5 / 7 pm Directed by Erick Stoll & Chase Whiteside 2018, USA, 76 min Marathi with English subtitles Two rediscovered films that serve as introductions to the music Spanish with English subtitles and culture of the Texas-Mexico border: the famed Mexican- Sunday, November 10 / 1 pm American musicians of the borderlands, the migrant farming Friday, November 8 / 9 pm communities from which they come, the strong family bonds of Three generations of the Phadke family live together in Tejanos, and the social protest ethos inscribed in their music. Three brothers confront the chasm between adolescent yearning their home in Mumbai. With her brother’s pending wedding, and adult responsibilities when they are brought together to the filmmaker turns the camera towards her family. The care for their charismatic ninety-three-year-old grandmother. personal becomes political as power structures within the Restoration Tuesdays meets GST: family emerge, and eventually, unravel. Equally cruel and A Bigger Splash comic, the film shows the vagaries of affection within this Directed by Jack Hazan Crave Hot Docs Showcase: family tied together by something stranger than love. 1973, UK, 106 min, 4K restoration Dear Brother Directed by Julia Horn Plays with: Memoirs / Directed by Aaron Zeghers, 2019, 10 min Tuesday, November 5 / 9 pm 2018, Germany, 106 min German with English subtitles An intimate and innovative film about artist David Hockney and The Eyes of Orson Welles his work. Hazan creates an improvisatory narrative-nonfiction Saturday, November 9 / 1 pm hybrid featuring Hockney, a wary participant, as well as his Directed by Mark Cousins circle of friends, and the agonized end of the lingering affair When Markus is hit by a car, doctors give him a few days to 2018, UK, 115 min between Hockney and his muse, Peter Schlesinger. live. His father makes funeral arrangements, but his brother Michael refuses to accept anything but survival. Steadfast in Sunday, November 10 / 3 pm his commitment to rehabilitating Markus, Michael helps his Cinema historian Mark Cousins (Story of Film) charts the Crave Hot Docs Showcase: brother cultivate a world inside his mind, to the point where Searching Eva unknown territory of the imagination of one of the twentieth it’s hard to say which brother is bringing the other back to life. century’s most revolutionary artists. Granted unprecedented Directed by Pia Hallenthal access to hundreds of sketches, drawings, and paintings by 2019, Germany, 85 min Presented in partnership with Manitoba Brain Injury Association. Orson Welles, Cousins sheds new light on the experiences, German, Italian, English with subtitles dreams, desires, and obsessions that fuelled his creativity and inspired his masterpieces. Wednesday, November 6 / 7 pm Memory in a Place of Survival: The tale of a young woman growing up in the age of the Recent Short Docs from Saskatchewan internet, turning the search for oneself into a public spectacle, Midnight Traveler challenging what a woman “should be“ amidst the generation Saturday, November 9 / 3 pm Directed by Hassan Fazili 2019, Qatar/UK/Canada/USA, 90 min in which the concept of a fixed identity has grown old. Curated and introduced by Alex Rogalski. Persian, Arabic, Turkish, Bulgarian and English with subtitles Plays with: Hyper-Distracted: Bible Camp Memories / Working in isolation gives Saskatchewan filmmakers an Directed by Damien Ferland, 2019, 15 min opportunity to be DIY in their approach while delivering Sunday, November 10 / 5:30 pm extremely personal diaristic work and experimenting with When the Taliban puts a bounty on Afghan director Hassan Fazili’s documentary form. A reliance on memory, snapshots and Sakawa head, he is forced to flee with his wife and two young daughters. home video, allows for contemplation and catharsis from Directed by Ben Asamoah Capturing their uncertain journey with only his family’s cellphones, past trauma and unresolved feelings. Achingly honest and 2018, Belgium / Netherlands, 81 min Fazili shows firsthand the dangers facing refugees seeking asylum tied to the land, their voice resonates beyond borders. and the love shared amongst a family on the run. Featuring works by Elian Mikkola, Lisa Birke, Alexis Normand, Wednesday, November 6 / 9 pm Weiye Su, Matthew Ripplinger, Dianne Ouellette, Kiyari A group of young Ghanaians turn to internet fraud to help McNab & Andrea Cessna, and the late Trudy Stewart, in whose Crave Hot Docs Showcase: them with a desperate situation. memory this program is dedicated. Cold Case Hammarskjöld Plays with: Portage Place / Directed by Tiff Bartel, 2019, Directed by Mads Brügger 2019, Denmark / Norway / Sweden / Belgium, 128 min 3.5 min Documentary Masterclass with Khalik Allah French, Swedish, Bemba, Danish and English with subtitles Saturday, November 9 / 5 pm Sunday, November 10 / 7:30 pm New York-based documentarian and photographer Khalik The mysterious death of former United Nations Secretary- Allah will lead a workshop focusing on the ethics of depicting General Dag Hammarskjöld is dug up decades later by director marginalised Black urban communities on screen, and Mads Brügger and private investigator Göran Björkdahl, investigating the ways in which his distinctive methodology uncovering an unbelievable crime far worse than anyone seeks to resist stereotypes that still often frame discussions could have ever imagined. of race on film. Sponsored by DOC Manitoba + ASSURart Inc.
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