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January / February 2020

Canadian & International Features: ’s Top Ten Film Festival: CRANKS

special Events THE TWENTIETH CABIN FEVER: CENTURY FREE FILMS FOR KIDS!

www.winnipegcinematheque.com January 2020 TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY

1 2 3 4 5 closed: New Year’s Day Parasite / 7 pm / 7 pm Honeyland / 3 pm & 7:30 pm Cabin fever:  Honeyland / 9:30 pm Parasite / 9 pm Parasite / 5 pm & 9:15 pm Fantastic Mr. Fox / 3 pm Honeyland / 5 pm Parasite / 7 pm

7 8 9 10 11 12 RESTORATION TUESDAYS: Honeyland / 7 pm UWSA Snowed In: Canada’s Top Ten: Canada’s Top Ten: And the Birds Cabin fever:  Quartet / 7 pm Parasite / 9 pm Waves / 7 pm And the Birds Rained Down / 7 pm Rained Down / 2:30 pm Mirai / 3 pm Heater / 9 pm Parasite / 9 pm Honeyland / 9:30 pm Honeyland / 5 pm Canada’s Top Ten: Stages of Beauty: The Short And the Birds Films of Matthew Rankin / 7 pm Rained Down / 5 pm Canada’s Top Ten: The Twentieth Century / 7:30 pm The Twentieth Century / 9 pm

14 15 16 17 18 19 RESTORATION TUESDAYS: Canada’s Top Ten: Hinterland Remixed / 7 pm Cranks / 7 pm Letter from Cabin fever:  Heater / 7 pm The Twentieth Century / 7 pm Canada’s Top Ten: Canada’s Top Ten: Masanjia / 3 pm & 7 pm Diary of a Wimpy Kid / 3 pm Quartet / 9 pm Cranks / 9 pm And the Birds The Twentieth Century / 9 pm Cranks / 5 pm Cranks / 5 pm Rained Down / 9 pm Canada’s Top Ten: Canada’s Top Ten: The Twentieth Century / 9 pm The Twentieth Century / 7 pm

21 22 23 24 25 26 RESTORATION TUESDAYS: McDonald at the Movies: Canada’s Top Ten: Canada’s Top Ten: Canada’s Top Ten: Cabin fever: Experimental Quartet / 7 pm Young Frankenstein / 7 pm Murmur / 7 pm Murmur / 7 pm Murmur / 2:30 pm Films for Kids! / 3 pm Heater / 9 pm Cranks / 9:15 pm The Twentieth Century / 9 pm Antigone / 9 pm Antigone / 4:30 pm Canada’s Top Ten: survivor screenings: Murmur / 5 pm The Tale / 7 pm Antigone / 7 pm Canada’s Top Ten: Matthias & Maxime / 9:30 pm

28 29 30 31 RESTORATION TUESDAYS: Canada’s Top Ten: Canada’s Top Ten: WINNIPEG DREAMERS: Heater / 7 pm Murmur / 7 pm One Day in the Life of Noah Part One / 7 pm Quartet / 9 pm Matthias & Maxime / 9 pm Piugatuuk / 7 pm Part Two / 8:15 pm Monday, January 27 The Body Remembers When Canada’s Top Ten: Punjabi Cinema: the World Broke Open / 9:15 pm Matthias & Maxime / 9:30 pm Toxification / 7 pm February 2020 TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY

1 2 Canada’s Top Ten: Cabin fever: The Body Remembers When The Three Stooges / 3 pm the World Broke Open / 2:30 pm Canada’s Top Ten: Matthias & Maxime / 4:30 pm The Body Remembers When One Day in the Life of Noah the World Broke Open / 5 pm Piugatuuk / 7 pm In Fabric / 7 pm In Fabric / 9:15 pm 4 5 6 7 8 9 RESTORATION TUESDAYS: Canada’s Top Ten: McDonald at the Movies: Varda by Agnès / 7 pm The Saturday Morning Cabin fever: Daguerréotypes / 3 pm Anne at 13,000 ft / 7 pm vs. / 7 pm Canada’s Top Ten: All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal All the Time in the World / 3 pm Vagabond / 7 pm In Fabric / 9 pm Canada’s Top Ten: Anne at 13,000 ft / 9:15 pm Cartoon Party / 10 am Varda by Agnès / 5 pm The Gleaners and I / 9 pm Anne at 13,000 ft / 9 pm Canada’s Top Ten: Canada’s Top Ten: Anne at 13,000 ft / 2:30 pm Anne at 13,000 ft / 7:15 pm In Fabric / 4:30 pm & 9:15 pm Varda by Agnès / 7 pm

11 12 13 14 15 16 RESTORATION TUESDAYS: Canada’s Top Ten: Varda by Agnès / 7 pm Godzilla Fest: In Fabric / 2pm & 4:30 pm Cabin fever: The Gleaners and I / 3 pm Anne at 13,000 ft / 7 pm Canada’s Top Ten: Godzilla vs. / 7 pm Black Lodge: Godzilla vs. / 3 pm Daguerréotypes / 7 pm Varda by Agnès / 9 pm Anne at 13,000 ft / 9:15 pm All Monsters Attack Cream of the Crap / 7 pm Godzilla Fest: Vagabond / 9 pm (Godzilla’s Revenge) / 9 pm Godzilla Fest: Godzilla vs. Hedorah / 5 pm All Monsters Attack / 7 pm (Godzilla’s Revenge) / 7 pm Destroy All Monsters / 8:30 pm

18 19 20 21 22 23 RESTORATION TUESDAYS: Afro Prairie Film Fest / Afro Prairie Film Fest / Afro Prairie Film Fest / Afro Prairie Film Fest / Afro Prairie Film Fest / Vagabond / 3 pm & 7 pm Showtimes TBA Showtimes TBA Showtimes TBA Showtimes TBA Showtimes TBA Daguerréotypes / 9 pm Cabin fever: Supa Modo / 1 pm

25 26 27 28 29 RESTORATION TUESDAYS: CICFF: CICFF: CICFF: Varda by Agnès / 2:30 pm Daguerréotypes / 3 pm All Star Local Night / 7 pm Boys vs. Girls / 7 pm Best of the Fests / 7 pm Daguerréotypes / 5 pm The Gleaners and I / 7 pm & 9 pm The Twentieth Century / 9 pm Tapeworm / 9 pm Dark, Edgy & Out The Gleaners and I / 7 pm There Comedy / 9 pm Vagabond / 9 pm Canadian & International Features

Parasite Cranks In Fabric Directed by Bong Joon Ho Directed by Ryan McKenna Directed by Peter Strickland 2019, South Korea, 132 min 2019, Canada, 94 min 2018, USA, 118 min Korean with English subtitles Wednesday, January 15 / 9 pm Saturday, February 1 / 9:15 pm Thursday, January 2 / 7 pm Friday, January 17 / 7 pm Sunday, February 2 / 7 pm Friday, January 3 / 9 pm Saturday & Sunday, January 18 & 19 / 5 pm Wednesday, February 5 / 9 pm Saturday, January 4 / 5 pm & 9:15 pm Wednesday, January 22 / 9:15 pm Saturday, February 8 / 4:30 pm & 9:15 pm Sunday, January 5 / 7 pm Saturday, February 15 / 2 pm & 4:30 pm Skype Q&A with Ryan McKenna on Friday, January 17th. Wednesday & Thursday, January 8 & 9 / 9 pm British auteur Peter Strickland merges the high-style horror A city symphony focused on several different characters living In this exhilarating new film, a threadbare family of four, pastiche of Berberian Sound Studio with the dangerous erotic charge in the sleepy, isolated town of Winnipeg. The film emulates the struggling to make ends meet, hatches a scheme to work for, and of The Duke of Burgundy, in this fascinating and unpredictable aesthetic of a photo album – each new scene a black & white infiltrate, the wealthy household of an entrepreneur, his seemingly ensemble tale, revolving around the saga of a haunted dress. tableau vivant of a new character and setting. Connecting the frivolous wife, and their troubled kids. Their best-laid plans spiral Strickland’s subterranean deadpan odyssey centers its narrative various characters are the letters they wrote, very odd ones, to into destruction and madness making for one of the wildest, on an eerie department store, equal parts David Lynch and Dario Peter Warren, legendary host of the infamous Action Line, a radio scariest, and most unexpectedly affecting movies in years. Winner Argento. Unsuspecting clients purchase cursed outfits leading to program broadcast throughout Canada from 1971-1998. Cranks of the prestigious Palme d’Or at the 2019 . supernatural horrors which defy any rational explanation. explores how journalists like Peter Warren, who pioneered an “Parasite begins in exhilaration and ends in devastation, but accusatory and belligerent style of reporting, and his angry way “At a time when movies are growing more plastic by the day, it’s the triumph of the movie is that it fully lives and breathes at of tackling issues has trickled down in our culture, affecting and always a thrill to experience something that’s so attuned to the every moment, even when you might find yourself struggling emboldening real lives. tactile pleasures of the cinema; to see a movie that you can feel to exhale.” — Justin Chang , La Times with your fingers even when it bypasses your heart or goes over your head.” — David Ehrlich, IndieWire

New World Documentaries

Honeyland Letter from Masanjia Varda by Agnès Directed by Tamara Kotevska & Ljubomir Stefanov Directed by Leon Lee Directed by Agnès Varda 2019, Macedonia, 90 min 2018, Canada, 75 min 2019, France, 115 min Turkish with English subtitles French with English subtitles Saturday, January 18 / 3 pm & 7 pm Thursday, January 2 / 9:30 pm Friday & Saturday, February 7 & 8 / 7 pm Q&A and discussion by David Matas (international human rights Friday, January 3 / 7 pm Sunday, February 9 / 5 pm lawyer, Order of Canada) and Maria Cheung (Social Work Department of Saturday, January 4 / 3 pm & 7:30 pm Wednesday, February 12 / 9 pm University of ) following the 3pm screening. They will be joined Sunday, January 5 / 5 pm Thursday, February 13 / 7 pm in a Skype Q&A with director Leon Lee following the 7 pm screening. Wednesday, January 8 / 7 pm Saturday, February 29 / 2:30 pm Friday, January 10 / 9:30 pm When a woman in Oregon opens a box of Halloween decorations The final film from the late, beloved Agnès Varda is a Saturday, January 11 / 5 pm and finds a distressing letter written by a political prisoner from characteristically playful, profound, and personal summation inside a Chinese labour camp, her discovery makes waves across A triple Sundance award-winner, Honeyland offers up a visual feast. of the director’s own brilliant career. At once impish and wise, major news outlets worldwide. Meanwhile, the author of the Haditze Muratova scales her way along the breathtaking Balkan she acts as our spirit guide on a free-associative tour through letter, Sun Yi, breaks through internet firewalls to learn about mountainside to check her beloved cache of honeybees. She’s the her six-decade artistic journey, shedding new light on her films, the attention his letter has received and joins forces with an last of the Macedonian wild beekeepers and lives alone with her photography, and recent installation works while offering her underground network of journalists and Chinese dissidents to ailing mother on a farm unspoiled by electricity or running water. one-of-a-kind reflections on everything from filmmaking to reveal his entire story. From Peabody Award–winning director She survives by selling small-batch honey in a Skopje market, a feminism to aging. Suffused with the people, places, and things Leon Lee, Letter from Masanjia takes us deep into the horrific mere four-hour walk away. Her peace is happily broken by the she loved—Jacques Demy, cats, colors, beaches, heart-shaped realities of China’s labour camps through the eyes of Sun Yi, arrival of new neighbours, their herd of cattle and seven kids. potatoes—this wonderfully idiosyncratic work of imaginative who is determined to expose these unthinkable human rights Sumptuously filmed over three years, this extraordinary debut autobiography is a warmly human, touchingly bittersweet violations. fable imparts a timeworn message about humankind’s true place parting gift from one of cinema’s most luminous talents. in the natural order. — Myrocia Watamaniuk, Hot Docs Sponsored by UMSU. RESTORATION TUESDAYS Generously Sponsored by IATSE 856. Restoration Tuesdays is a new series shining a light on the important work being done to preserve Vagabond (New 2K Restoration) and promote the history of film. All admissions to these screenings is $5 — no passes. Directed by Agnès Varda 1985, France, 105 mins Quartet (New 4K Restoration) Agnés Varda: Life is Cinema French with English subtitles Directed by James Ivory 1981, UK/France, 101 min The late Agnés Varda (1928-2019) made over 50 films in an incredible Tuesday, February 4 / 7 pm life that saw her help spark the revolution of the French Nouvelle Tuesday, February 11 & 29 / 9 pm Tuesday, January 7 & 21 / 7 pm Vague in the 1950s and continue to inspire artists for decades Tuesday, February 18 / 3 pm & 7 pm Tuesday, January 14 & 28 / 9 pm through her form-bending documentary and narrative films, right up to her final months with the release of her last: Varda by Agnés. Sandrine Bonnaire won the Best Actress César for her portrayal of Marya (Isabelle Adjani), a former chorus girl of humble origins, is With this series of 4 films by Agnés - 3 new restorations of her classic the defiant young drifter Mona, found frozen to death in a ditch at gleefully living it up in the decadence of 1920s Paris until Stephan films and her last - completed just before her death - we honour her the beginning of Vagabond. Agnès Varda pieces together Mona’s (Anthony Higgins), her art dealer husband, is convicted of theft. singular voice in cinema. story through flashbacks told by those who encountered her Broke and alone, she is taken in by a posh and eccentric married (played by a largely nonprofessional cast), producing a splintered couple (Alan Bates and Maggie Smith) who take pity on the poor Series presented in partnership with Cinémental portrait of an enigmatic woman. With its sparse, poetic imagery, girl. But before long this trio will become hopelessly entangled in a Vagabond (Sans toit ni loi) is a stunner, and won Varda the top treacherous love triangle. prize at the Venice Film Festival.

Heater (New 4K Restoration) Daguerréotypes (New 2K Restoration) The Gleaners and I (New 2K Restoration) Directed by Terrance Odette Directed by Agnès Varda Directed by Agnès Varda 1999, Canada, 85 min 1976, West Germany/France, 80 min 2000, France, 82 mins French with English subtitles French with English subtitles Tuesday, January 7 & 21 / 9 pm Tuesday, January 13 & 28 / 7 pm Tuesday, February 4 / 3 pm Tuesday, February 4 / 9 pm Skype Q&A following the January 7th screening with director Tuesday, February 11 / 7 pm Tuesday, February 11 / 3 pm Terrance Odette. Tuesday, February 18 / 9 pm Tuesday, February 25 / 7 pm & 9 pm Tuesday, February 25 / 3 pm Saturday, February 29 / 7 pm Ben and The Man are homeless during an icy Winnipeg winter. Saturday, February 29 / 5 pm Their only hope for salvation is an unopened space heater that Varda’s rumination on this art of “living off the leftovers of they share but have no use for. They decide to return their sole This classic documentary from Agnès Varda is an intimate others” finds inspiration in both past and present, rural and possession for a negligible sum of cash. What follows is a day portrait of the small shops and shopkeepers of the Rue urban, the political and the highly personal. Camera in hand, long journey in which they meet a plethora of quirky characters Daguerre in Paris, a picturesque street that was the filmmaker’s Varda interviews those for whom gleaning is a way of life, or an while forming an unlikely bond. home for more than 50 years. encompassing philosophy. GODZILLA FEST: KING OF THE MONSTERS In 1954, an enormous beast clawed its way out of the sea, destroying everything in its path—and changing movies forever. We present some newly restored Godzilla classics that reveal the technical wizardry, fantastical storytelling, and indomitable international appeal that established the most iconic giant monster the cinema has ever seen. All films in Japanese with English subtitles.

Godzilla vs. Hedorah All Monsters Attack (Godzilla’s Revenge) Destroy All Monsters (aka Godzilla vs the Smog Monster) Directed by Ishirô Honda Directed by Ishirô Honda Directed by Yoshimitsu Banno 1969, Japan, 70 min 1968, Japan, 88 min 1971, Japan, 85 min Friday, February 14 / 9 pm Saturday, February 15 / 8:30 pm Friday, February 14 / 7 pm Saturday, February 15 / 7 pm Sunday, February 16 / 7 pm Sunday, February 16 / 5 pm Director Ishirô Honda returns for the first Godzilla movie The original Godzilla team of director Ishirô Honda, special- February 14th screening introduced by Matthew Maslanka, expressly for children. Economizing by reusing effects shots effects supervisor Eiji Tsuburaya, and composer Akira Ifukube one of the founding members of the Godzilla Society of North America. from other films in the series, All Monsters Attack tells the story reunited for this extravaganza, which features no fewer of Ichiro, a lonely latchkey kid who finds solace in his dreams than eleven monsters. Set in the remote future of 1999, when Intended to address the crisis levels of pollution in postwar Japan, of befriending , the titular progeny of Son of Godzilla, the people of Earth have achieved world peace by confining Godzilla vs. Hedorah finds the King of the Monsters fighting an whose parent is also often absent. In this thoughtful, human- destructive creatures to Monsterland (until an alien race alien life form that arrives on Earth and steadily grows by feeding scale story, boy and monster learn together what it means to intervenes), Destroy All Monsters mounts a thrilling display of on industrial waste. Director Yoshimitsu Banno infuses the film grow up. innovative action sequences and memorable images that have with equal parts ecological horror, humorous monster antics, and made it a favorite for generations of viewers. sixties psychedelia straight out of San Francisco. PLays with Bambi Meets Godzilla / 1969, USA, 1:36 min PLays with Baby Metal / Directed by Cressa Maeve Beer, PLays with Bambi Meets Godzilla / 1969, USA, 1:36 min 2019, USA, 1:24 min The 19th edition of Canada’s Top Ten films, as curated by the International Film Festival, presents a superb line up of new independent cinema – from Zacharias (Atanarjuat) Kunuk’s latest moving story set in the North, One Day in the Life of Noah Piagatuuk, to Heather Young’s Murmur – a compassionate look at an older woman who finds meaning in her life by adopting pets.

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And the Birds Rained Down (Il pleuvait des oiseaux) Murmur One Day in the Life of Noah Piugatuuk Directed by Louise Archambault Directed by Heather Young Directed by Zacharias Kunuk 2019, Canada, 127 min 2019, Canada, 84 min 2019, Canada, 113 min French with English subtitles French with English subtitles Thursday & Friday, January 23 & 24 / 7 pm Friday, January 10 / 7 pm Saturday, January 25 / 2:30 pm Thursday, January 30 / 7 pm Saturday, January 11 / 2:30 pm Sunday, January 26 / 5 pm Saturday, February 1 / 7 pm Sunday, January 12 / 5 pm Wednesday, January 29 / 7 pm For decades, Zacharias Kunuk has been one of the most Thursday, January 16 / 9 pm In one of the most auspicious debut features at TIFF, Heather exciting, dynamic, and innovative filmmakers in Canada, and As acclaimed director Louise Archambault’s elegiac and Young further establishes herself as one of her country’s indeed the world. With Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner — a prize charming film opens, we meet three hermits living in cabins most promising filmmakers. Brilliantly fusing documentary winner at Cannes and voted the best Canadian film of all time in the countryside, miles from civilization. Tom (Rémy and fiction techniques, Young crafts a bold, distinct visual in a recent TIFF poll — Kunuk introduced a film language that Girard), Charlie (Gilbert Sicotte), and Ted (Kenneth Welsh) aesthetic. Donna (Shan MacDonald), a woman in her sixties, combined myth, history, and folklore. His latest film hinges fled society years ago, and have eked out a back-to-the-land feels isolated. She lives alone, estranged from her daughter. on a pivotal 1961 encounter on spring sea ice between the title existence, selling pot to the locals with help from local hotelier Sentenced to community service at a local animal shelter character (Apayata Kotierk) and other community leaders and Stephen (Éric Robidoux). But their lifestyle is increasingly after an impaired-driving conviction, she ends up taking home a government emissary (Kim Bodnia), who has come to ask endangered by nature, infirmity, and age. A poignant an elderly dog. The new-found companionship eases her them to relocate their families. Behind what seems to the meditation on the possibilities of living outside modernity. loneliness, and to fill the void in her life further, Donna keeps hunters to be the government agent’s incoherent requests adopting pets. is a policy that will mean a fundamental rupture in the lives “Touching, heartbreaking and dangerously thought-provoking, of . In this one day — and this fateful meeting — Kunuk And the Birds Rained Down will force you to re-examine your condenses much about Inuit–settler relations. The emotional relationship with yourself, the world around you and the Antigone and historical layers in the film make it one of his finest people you love.” — Anne Donahue, Globe & Mail Directed by Sophie Deraspe works. – TIFF 2019, Canada, 109 min The Twentieth Century French with English subtitles Directed by Matthew Rankin The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open Friday, January 24 / 9 pm Directed by Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers & 2019, Canada, 90 min Saturday, January 25 / 4:30 pm 2019, Canada, 105 min Opening night screening introduced by Matthew Rankin. Sunday, January 26 / 7 pm Thursday, January 30 / 9:15 pm Saturday, January 11 / 9 pm The Canadian entry at the for Best Foreign Saturday, February 1 / 2:30 pm Sunday, January 12 / 7:30 pm Film, Antigone also won the Best Canadian Feature at last Sunday, February 2 / 5 pm Wednesday, January 15 / 7 pm year’s Toronto International Film Festival. A compassionate Friday & Saturday, January 17 & 18 / 9 pm family drama that doesn’t hold back on its indictment of Discovering Rosie (Violet Nelson), a pregnant teenager, Sunday, January 19 / 7 pm the current refugee and immigrant experience in North sobbing and barefoot on a rainy East Vancouver street, Áila Thursday, January 23 / 9 pm America. Following the murder of their parents, Antigone, (Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers) swiftly intercedes, initially offering

her sister Ismène, her brothers Étéocle and Polynice, and shelter in her own apartment before working feverishly to An incendiary send-up of Canadian identity, history, and their grandmother Ménécée find refuge in . Tragedy get the girl access to proper support networks so that she politics, Matthew Rankin’s insanely brilliant feature debut strikes when Étéocle is wrongfully gunned down by police needn’t return to her abusive home. As these two Indigenous is a hilariously irreverent, visually stunning retelling of how during the arrest of Polynice, a small-time drug dealer. women embark on a revelatory odyssey to a safe house, they William Lyon Mackenzie King became Prime Minister... King must confront society’s assumptions about them, overcome seems destined to earn Canada’s crown, but just how much their preconceptions about one another, and reflect on their debasement and degradation must an ambitious young own respective self-images. politician endure in such a noble pursuit? Quite a lot, it Matthias & Maxime Directed by seems. Particularly when the affection of an unattainable 2019, Canada, 119 min woman becomes his priority. Along his epic journey, King French with English subtitles will encounter devastating heartbreak, fascistic corruption, Anne at 13,000 ft Directed by hilarious diversions to the outsider cities of Vancouver and Saturday, January 25 / 9:30 pm 2019, Canada, 75 min Winnipeg, and… kinky boot sniffing. – VIFF Wednesday, January 29 / 9 pm “A…totally twisted take on Canadian history… Best described Friday, January 31 / 9:30 pm Wednesday, February 5 / 7 pm as meets John Waters by way of Powell and Saturday, February 1 / 4:30 pm Thursday, February 6 / 9 pm Pressburger.... A throwback to an MGM weepie and a Friday, February 7 / 9:15 pm A comeback for the Quebec wunderkind director Xavier colorized acid trip through historic hell, plunging us into Saturday, February 8 / 2:30 pm Dolan who made a stir at Cannes with his first few features a universe that’s entirely his own. The decors, which were Sunday, February 9 / 7:15 pm like I Killed My Mother and Mommy. Maxime (Xavier Dolan) designed by Dany Boivin, are particularly striking, with nods Wednesday, February 12 / 7 pm is preparing to move from his hometown of Montreal to to classics like A Matter of Life and Death and The Lady From Thursday, February 13 / 9:15 pm Australia, leaving behind his troubled mother () Shanghai.” — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter and boisterous group of twenty-something , including Anne (Deragh Campbell) has a seemingly ordinary life as a *Best Canadian First Feature Award – 2019 Toronto lifelong best pal Matthias (Gabriel D’Almeida Freitas). A few single daycare worker in Toronto. But a skydiving trip for her International Film Festival* months before his departure, the gang spends the weekend best friend Sara’s bachelorette party shifts the ground beneath at a lakeside retreat, where Matthias and Maxime agree to her feet. She begins to bring a care-free joyfulness to her take part in an experimental student film, which requires conservative job and the effects spill over into her personal life. them to kiss. After it happens, a change occurs between them, one they cannot articulate, but neither can they deny its powerful impact. – Irish Film Institute What started as a dream in 2005 has blossomed into an annual rite of passage for parents and their kids. They can shake the snow off their boots and spend an afternoon at the movies for free every Sunday throughout January and February. The popularity of this series, aimed at children 6-12, means that families with children will be seated first. We appreciate your cooperation. There will be will be free stop motion workshops offered by Art City one hour prior to each screening. We acknowledge the continued and generous support of the Assiniboine Credit Union.

Free Films for Kids!

Fantastic Mr. Fox Diary of a Wimpy Kid All the Time in the World Directed by Wes Anderson Directed by Thor Freudenthal Directed by Suzanne Crocker 2009, USA, 87 min 2010, USA, 94 min 2014, Canada, 87 min

Sunday, January 5 / 3 pm Sunday, January 19 / 3 pm Sunday, February 9 / 3 pm Director Wes Anderson and writer Noam Baumbach adapted The delightful adventures of a 12-year-old transitioning to In search of a new perspective, a family leaves the comforts Roald Dahl’s 1970 children’s book into an endearing stop- middle school, where he has to learn about consequences and of home to live in the remote Yukon wilderness for the long motion animated tale featuring a family of foxes. Mr. Fox responsibility to survive the year. Based on a hugely popular northern winter. The parents leave their jobs and take their (George Clooney) is a newspaper columnist who, after speaking book series by author and cartoonist Jeff Kinney. three children, ages 10, 8 and 4, and spend nine months living with his lawyer Badger (Bill Murray), moves with his wife in a small cabin with no road access, no electricity, no running PLays with Sagas / Directed by Frédéric Demers, 2019, (Meryl Streep) and son into a new house in a hollow Beech tree. water, no internet, no TV, no phone and, most importantly, no Canada, 1 min / Just one little jump can turn your whole world But before long, Mr. Fox is back up to his old tricks working clocks or watches. upside down. as a chicken thief stealing ducks, chicken and cider from his “Congratulations on this magnificent film.” — David Suzuki neighbours. PLays with The Cat Came Back / Directed by Cordell Barker, Experimental Films for Kids! 1988, Canada, 7:40 min / It’s the 40th anniversary of Fred Penner’s Godzilla vs. Megalon much beloved album and to celebrate we are screening Cordell Sunday, January 26 / 3 pm Directed by Jun Fukuda Barker’s hilarious Oscar-nominated classic which also won the 1973, Japan, 78 min WNDX presents this program of short 1989 Genie Award for best animated . and video tuned especially for kids and the young at heart! Sunday, February 16 / 3 pm Featuring handmade and digital animation, personal essay and documentary films, and left-field surprises from Manitoba The ancient underground civilisation of Seatopia decides that Mirai and around the world, this program will offer a beginner’s level it is time to take back what was once theirs, Earth. So they use Directed by Mamoru Hosoda introduction to the world of experimental moving image, and their own monster, Megalon, and enlist the help of to do 2018, Japan, 98 min an exciting alternative to the multiplex experience. Suitable for it. A scientist has just created a robot called Jet Jaguar who is

ages 4 to 94! sent to Monster Island to inform Godzilla of the dual threat. As Sunday, January 12 / 3 pm always it is up to Godzilla to save the Earth! Presented in partnership with This daringly original animated story of love passed down WNDX Festival of Moving Image. PLays with Godzilla x Nintendo / Directed by Cressa through generations was nominated for Best Animated film at Maeve Beer, 2018, USA, 1 min the 91st Academy Awards. When four-year-old Kun meets his new baby sister Mirai, his world is turned upside down. One The Three Stooges Comedy Classics day he storms off into the garden, where he encounters strange Supa Modo guests from the past and future – including his sister Mirai, as Sunday, February 2 / 3 pm Directed by Lukarion Wainaina a teenager. Together, Kun and teenage Mirai go on a journey 2018, Germany/Kenya, 74 mins through time and space, uncovering their family’s incredible Along with the Marx Brothers, The Three Stooges were a legendary English, Kikuyu & Swahili with English subtitles story. comedy trio who learned their craft in American vaudeville and embarked on a career in the movies - Larry Fine, Curly and Moe PLays with FACE|TIME / Directed by Anita Lebeau, 2019, Sunday, February 23 / 1 pm Howard, created a series of very funny comic shorts marked by Canada, 2:30 min / A beautiful, moving study of the cyclical physical farce and slapstick. Here are a few gems. Obsessed with Jackie Chan and action films, nine-year-old Jo nature of time, as seen through portraits and the hands that dreams of being a superhero, but time is not on her side. When create them. the doctors reveal that she is terminally ill, Jo leaves the hospital and returns home to be with her mom and sister. While her mom insists that she stay inside and rest, her sister has different plans. With the entire village’s support, they decide to make dreams a reality and turn Jo into the superhero they know she is. Presented as part of the Afro Prairie Film Festival.

THE SATURDAY MORNING ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT CEREAL CARTOON PARTY!

Saturday, February 8 / 10 am – 1 pm Admission: $15 General / $12 Students, Seniors and Members It’s that special time when kids and kids-at-heart get to relive the exciting Saturday morning ritual of non-stop retro cartoons, binging on the multi-colored sugary cereals that used to be a part of every “balanced” breakfast! The cartoon lineup is always a mystery, but you’ll see both Holiday faves and obscurities spanning the 40s through the 80s, all punctuated with vintage commercials and PSAs! Curated by film programmer, writer and pop culture connoisseur Kier-La Janisse! Feel free to roll right out of bed and come on down to the theatre in your pajamas (but brush your teeth first please)! HINTERLAND SURVIVOR Snowed in: REMIXED: MEDIA, SCREENINGS: MEMORY & THE CANADIAN 1970S THE TALE Directed by Jennifer Fox WAVESDirected by Trey Edward Shults 2018, USA, 114 min Book Launch and Screening 2019, USA, 136 min Saturday, January 25 / 7 pm Thursday, January 16 / 7 pm Thursday, January 9 / 7 pm A woman filming a documentary on childhood rape victims Join us for the launch of Hinterland Remixed: Media, The University of Winnipeg Students’ Association (UWSA) starts to question the nature of her childhood relationship Memory, and the Canadian 1970s (McGill-Queen’s is hosting a special screening of Waves for its winter with her riding instructor and running coach. A guided University Press). Author Andrew Burke will screen some back-to-school celebration. First 50 UofW students enter roundtable discussion will take place after the screening at classic Hinterland Who’s Who spots alongside other 70s free. Regular event pricing for all others. Seasonal bevvies Platform Gallery. Admission is by donation. oddities and provide a brief overview of why the 1970s available by donation. film and television looms so large in Canadian cultural Survivor Screenings is a cathartic and flourishing cinematic Waves traces the journey of a Black suburban family as memory. Andrew Burke is an associate professor in the experience. We engage in meditation, intentional cinematic they navigate love, forgiveness, and coming together in the Department of English at the University of Winnipeg witnessing and authentic discussion to both build meaningful aftermath of a loss. where he teaches screen and cultural studies. relationships with each other and the film. THE CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL COMEDY FILM FESTIVAL Punjabi Cinema Four Great Nights at the WFG Cinematheque (February 26 – February 28) and One Gala Event at the Park Theatre (February 29). Toxification Directed by Rehmat Rayatt & Leva Kwestany 2019, UK/India, 66 min All Star Local Night Tapeworm Punjabi with English subtitles Wednesday, February 26 / 7 pm Thursday, February 27 / 9 pm Monday, January 27 / 7 pm A laugh-filled retrospective of all-local Winnipeg-made films CICFF favourites Milos Mitrovic and Fabian Velasco’s from past CICFF events. deadpan Winnipeg comedy hit returns to the big screen by Panel discussion and Skype Q&A with the directors popular demand. following the screening. The Twentieth Century Toxification tells the story of the plight of the Punjabi Best of the Fests farmers. The north Indian state of Punjab was said to have Wednesday, February 26 / 9 pm produced enough food to feed the entire country during Friday, February 28 / 7 pm Special encore engagement of Matthew Rankin’s insane the Green Revolution. However, the overuse of chemicals laugh riot. A 7-year retrospective of CICFF comedy classic favourites and introduced to enhance production has poisoned the water award winners. with carcinogens and created an infertile soil addicted to Boys vs. Girls chemicals. As the land is dependent, so are more and more Dark, Edgy & Out There Comedy farmers becoming addicted to drugs, which help them to Thursday, February 27 / 7 pm work longer hours in the fields. Friday, February 28 / 9 pm Kevin McDonald and Colin Mochrie star in Michael Stasko’s Presented in partnership with the Winnipeg-based Kohinoor raucous summer camp Canadian comedy, preceded by This stellar collection of all-new intense, dark, fun and risque Collective, formed by Noor Bhangu and Gurpreet Sehra. Through Damien Ferland’s hilarious short Bible Camp Memories. comedy shorts is guaranteed to elicit laughs. the showcasing of film and video, Kohinoor uses a critical postcolonial lens to examine historical and contemporary topics impacting diasporic communities. The collective aims to grow The festival concludes Saturday, February 29 with gala screenings, celebration and party at The Park Theatre. into a strong network of artists and critical thinkers. For complete listings and information, please visit the www.cicff.ca or winnipegcinematheque.com. McDonald at the Movies Once a month, comedian and co-founder of Kids in the Hall, Kevin McDonald will present a film handpicked from the archives of comic history.

Young Frankenstein King Kong vs. Godzilla Directed by Mel Brooks Directed by Ishirô Honda 1974, USA, 106 mins 1962, Japan, 91 min

Wednesday, January 22 / 7 pm Thursday, February 6 / 7 pm Introduced by Kevin McDonald. Introduced by Kevin McDonald. Cream of the Crap IX: Crappy Valentine’s Bidet Perhaps one of Mel Brook's greatest comedies. Victor The two mightiest monsters of all time battle to the bitter end Frankenstein (Gene Wilder) learns that he has inherited in the American dubbed version of a Japanese classic. When grandfather’s castle in Transylvania and soon he is in the an underhanded pharmaceutical company goes to a remote Saturday, February 15 / 7 pm business of bringing the dead back to life. Featuring an all star tropical island to steal King Kong for advertising purposes they Black Lodge Studio (Suite 304, Artspace Building) cast of character actors - Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn and get more than they bargained for when King Kong attacks an Admission by donation Teri Garr. unsuspecting village and an enormous octopus. Our special team of cultural archaeologists sifted “A nutbrain classic. At one point, Peter Boyle delivers a strangled- through dying video stores, thrift shops and garage voice musical number that shows what Brooks can do when sales to dig up an especially terrible home video his comic instinct is really working. He can make you laugh atrocity. Our film selection will be secret until the helplessly.” — Pauline Kael, The New Yorker screening, and will feature drinking games, trivia and live commentary from our team of tapehead VHexperts and special guests.

Sponsored by Lunchmeat WINNIPEG DREAMERS: STATES OF BEAUTY: THE ANNUAL WFG MEMBERS’ SCREENING All Admissions: $6 The Short Films of Matthew Rankin We are proud to present these two exciting programs of new independent short films by The Winnipeg Introduced by Matthew Rankin. Film Group’s (WFG) membership. As per WFG tradition, do not expect the expected – there is plenty of hybrid work in these two programs – some traditional and many others mind-blowingly and Saturday, January 11 / 7 pm decidedly untraditional: Drama, documentary and experimental cinema are all represented. The films represent the dreams and imaginations of Canada’s premiere breeding ground for original and fiercely With the release of his astonishing first feature The Twentieth Century, which won Best independent work. Reception following the screenings, 9:30 pm at Platform Gallery. First Feature at TIFF, Matthew Rankin joins the front ranks of great Canadian filmmakers. A founding member of the artist collective L’Atelier national du Manitoba (with Walter Part One: Friday, January 31 / 7 pm

Forsberg & Mike Maryniuk), he created a remarkable series of imaginative shorts which traveled to festivals around the world. In these shorts Rankin explores a hybrid of Featuring: Exercise (Dylan Baillie), Hot Dog Guy (Sara Bulloch), Moms Meetup (Aniko Kere), Bees documentary and experimental drama with a sharp, satirical sense of humour and a and Space (Trinity Linklater), Caribou in the Archive (Jennifer Dysart), Portage Place (Tiff Bartel), The spectacular visual sense. Whether working with stop-motion, hand-painting, scratching Possessive (Tavis Putnam), Screen Test 2 (Meg) (Scott Fitzpatrick), Going (Cynthia Wolfe-Nolin) and or bleaching Rankin discovers worlds never seen before. This program features: I Dream When the Children Left (Charlene Moore). of Driftwood, Tabula Rasa, Cattle Call, Discount Everything, Negativipeg, Mynarski: Death Plumment, and Tesla World Light. Part Two: Friday, January 31 / 8:15 pm

“An astonishing demonstration of Rankin’s handmade film and in-camera effects wizardry… A high-voltage blast of cine-delirium, The Tesla World Light confirms Rankin’s status as one Featuring: Hot Plastic Suits (Dallas Cant), Nadia’s Songs (Nick White), Metis Femme Bodies (Chanelle of Canada’s most industrious and inventive filmmakers.” — Jason Anderson, Cinemascope Lajoie), Cruise Night (Isaac Würmann), Green Run (Jeremiah Milmine), Lens Flare (Doug Livingston), The Other Side (Jesse de Rocquigny), Love Song (Michael Sanders), and a sneak preview of new work by Lasha Mowchun & Dylan Baillie.

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ADMISSION Members pay only $6 ! The Afro Prairie Film Festival is back February 19-23 with its 3rd edition of Prairie Canada’s $10 General $5 Restoration Tuesdays only film festival devoted to Afro-centric stories in film. This year’s edition will feature new $8 Students & Seniors $4.99 Whopping Wednesday restorations of rediscovered classics (Claudine, Dolemite), socially-relevant documentaries (Our $6 Film Group & Student Special! Dance of Revolution), contemporary award-winners (Harriet, The Last Black Man in San Francisco), Cinematheque Members and APFF traditions: our Women’s Networking Luncheon and Black Canadian Shorts program with the announcement of this year’s recipient of the Winston W. Moxam Award for Best Black Canadian Short Film. We acknowledge that the Cinematheque resides on Treaty 1 territory, the traditional territory of the Anishinaabeg, , Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples, and the homeland of the Métis Nation, The full lineup and schedule will be available in early January. and we are privileged to be able to live, work, and play on this land. Go to blackspacewpg.ca/afro-prairie-film-festival for more info.

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