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July / August 2017 new world documentaries Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World Canadian & International Features Frantz shorts & artist talks Comedy and Humour in Indigenous Film and Video special Events Rendezvous with Madness Film Tour www.winnipegcinematheque.com July 2017 WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY 1 2 Strangers on the Earth / 3 pm The Grubstake Remix / 3 pm The Grubstake Remix / 7 pm Strangers on the Earth / 7 pm 3D Rarities / 8:30 pm 5 6 7 8 9 The Grubstake Remix / 7 pm 3D Rarities / 7 pm Strangers on the Earth / 7 pm Strangers on the Earth / 3 pm & 7 pm Strangers on the Earth / 3 pm & 7 pm Strangers on the Earth / 9 pm 3D Rarities / 9 pm 3D Rarities / 9 pm 12 13 14 15 16 Strangers on the Earth / 7 pm Official Venue for the Winnipeg Fringe Festival (July 13 – 31) 19 20 21 22 23 26 27 28 29 30 August 2017 WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY 2 3 4 5 6 Frantz / 7 pm Frantz / 7 pm Frantz / 7 pm Frantz / 3 pm & 9 pm The Red Turtle / 3 pm The Red Turtle / 9:15 pm The Red Turtle / 9:15 pm The Red Turtle / 7 pm Frantz / 7 pm 9 10 11 12 13 Comedy and Humour in Indigenous Frantz / 7 pm Rendezvous with Madness: Rendezvous with Madness: Rendezvous with Madness: Film and Video / 7 pm The Red Turtle / 9:15 pm Swift Current / 7 pm Jaunicas / 3 pm Land of Not Knowing / 3 pm Certain Women / 9:15 pm Certain Women / 7 pm Certain Women / 7 pm The Red Turtle / 9 pm 16 17 18 19 20 Certain Women / 7 pm McDonald at the Movies: iranian cinema: Risk / 3 pm Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked Harold and Maude / 7 pm 76 Minutes and 15 seconds with Certain Women / 7 pm The World / 3 pm Abbas Kiarostami / 7 pm Risk / 9 pm Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked Risk / 7 pm Risk / 9 pm The World / 9 pm 23 24 25 26 27 Eva Hesse / 7 pm Artspace 30th Anniversary / 7 pm Eva Hesse / 7 pm Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked Eva Hesse / 3 pm Risk / 9 pm The World / 3 pm & 9 pm Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked Eva Hesse / 7 pm The World / 7 pm 30 31 Eva Hesse / 7 pm Eva Hesse / 7 pm Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World / 9 pm Canadian & International Features The Grubstake Remix Frantz Directed by Daniel Janke Directed by François Ozon 2016, Canada, 73 min 2016, France, 113 min French and German with English subtitles Saturday, July 1 / 7 pm Sunday, July 2 / 3 pm Wednesday – Friday, August 2 – 4 / 7 pm Wednesday, July 5 / 7 pm Saturday, August 5 / 3 pm & 9 pm Sunday, August 6 / 7 pm “ An act of inspired creative repurposing, a live event that uses Thursday, August 10 / 7 pm Shipman’s melodrama as a springboard to something else.” —Geoff Pevere, The Globe and Mail “ Astonishingly beautiful and inquisitive. It’s impossible to deny the sheer narrative sophistication.” —Eric Kohn, Indiewire “ Hip, cool, clever, very funny and extremely cinematic.” —Charles Wilkinson Inspired by Ernst Lubitsch’s 1932 drama Broken Lullaby, this The Grubstake Remix beautifully photographed mystery is set in a small town in To celebrate Canada Day we present a remarkable creative Germany after World War I. A young girl named Anna mourns remix of the 1923 silent movie The Grub Stake by screen icon her fiancé, Frantz and visits his grave often. One day she Nell Shipman. The Canadian-born actress, writer, producer and discovers a Frenchman named Adrien laying flowers on the animal trainer, was best known for her portrayals of strong, gravesite. He tells Anna that he and Frantz were friends while adventurous women. Grub Stake is the story of a young woman stationed in France during the war and reveals details of their who travels north to the Klondike to seek her fortune only to time together. Cautious at first, Anna takes him home to visit be deceived and manipulated by a world of men. When she her parents who slowly warm to him, eager to learn more about discovers that she has been brought to Dawson City to be sold his friendship with Frantz. One day Adrien reveals a dark secret into prostitution by the man who has promised to marry her, to Anna which changes everything. she escapes into the bush with a team of sled dogs, her ailing father, and a half-wit prospector. Grub Stake Remix is a mix of performance documentary and narrative fiction, the actors and musicians perform live, accompanying the original silent film in a redux with the on-screen characters who speak and think in Shakespearean English and French. For silent film fans it gives new life to a gem of the silent screen. Frantz The Red Turtle (La tortue rouge) Certain Women Directed by Michaël Dudok de Wit Directed by Kelly Reichardt 2016, France / Belgium / Japan, 80 min 2016, USA, 107 min Without dialogue Friday, August 11 / 9:15 pm Thursday & Friday, August 3 & 4 / 9:15 pm Saturday & Sunday, August 12 & 13 / 7 pm Saturday, August 5 / 7 pm Wednesday, August 16 / 7 pm Sunday, August 6 / 3 pm Saturday, August 19 / 7 pm Thursday, August 10 / 9:15 pm “ Kelly Reichardt’s wonderful triptych of female character studies Saturday, August 12 / 9 pm confirms her status as the quietest of great American filmmakers… “ The Red Turtle is a visually stunning poetic fable, but there’s more rivetting… among her richest, most refined works.” —Variety on its mind than simply beauty.” —LA Times Winner of Best Film at the 2017 London Film Festival, the latest Japanese animation giant, Studio Ghibli, enlisted the talents of the film from Kelly Reichardt (Wendy and Lucy, Meek’s Cutoff, Night Oscar-winning Dutch animator Michaël Dudok de Wit for this Moves) is a beautifully subtle take on female resilience. Michelle gorgeously animated, wondrous story about an unlikely friendship Williams, Kristen Stewart and Laura Dern star as three strong- The Red Turtle (La tortue rouge) between a castaway on a deserted island and an enormous sea willed women each striving to form their own path on the wide turtle. Shipwrecked, a lone man struggles to construct a raft, but open plains of the American Northwest. The film follows the his every attempt to leave the island is thwarted by an enormous interconnecting lives of a lawyer who finds herself contending sea turtle who seems intent on having him stay. Enraged, he with both office sexism and a hostage situation; a wife and attempts to kill the creature who is blocking his escape — but mother whose determination to build her dream home puts her what transpires instead opens a new chapter in his life, one in at odds with the men in her life; and a young law student who which he is instructed in the ways of companionship and led to forms a bond with a lonely ranch hand. the understanding that nature must take its course. Certain Women New World Documentaries Strangers on the Earth Risk Directed by Tristan Cook Directed by Laura Poitras 2016, USA, 96 min 2016, USA, 92 min English, Arabic, Spanish with subtitles Saturday, July 1 / 3 pm Sunday, July 2 / 7 pm Thursday & Friday, August 17 & 18 / 9 pm Thursday, July 6 / 9 pm Saturday, August 19 / 3 pm Friday, July 7 / 7 pm Sunday, August 20 / 7 pm Saturday & Sunday, July 8 & 9 / 3 pm & 7 pm Friday, August 25 / 9 pm Wednesday, July 12 / 7 pm “Following the Oscar-winning documentary Citizenfour, which “Transcendent… enlightening, poignant and even occasionally recorded Edward Snowden blowing the loudest of whistles, funny.” —NOW Magazine Laura Poitras arrives in Cannes’ with Risk, a superb character study of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.” —CineVue “Beautifully filmed… touching… profound… honest.” Strangers on the Earth —Vancouver Observer Laura Poitras, Academy Award winning director of Citizenfour, returns with her most personal and intimate film to date. In the footsteps of Walking the Camino, Tristan Cook’s lively Filmed over six years, Risk is a complex and volatile character portrait of modern pilgrims and fellow travelers winding their study that collides with a high stakes election year and its way on the Camino de Santiago muses on the psychological controversial aftermath. Cornered in a tiny building for half a and spiritual dividends of the 30-day hike. The landscape is decade, Julian Assange is undeterred even as the legal jeopardy beautiful but brutal, the dorms are packed and the bunks are he faces threatens to undermine the organization he leads and hard. Some find solace in solitude; others discover kinship fracture the movement he inspired. Capturing this story with and community en route. The case of Dane Johansen is unprecedented access, Poitras finds herself caught between remarkable: he embarks on the nearly 600-mile journey the motives and contradictions of Assange and his inner carrying his cello on his back with the notion of performing circle. In a new world order where a single keystroke can alter and recording Bach’s Cello Suites in thirty-six churches along history, Risk is a portrait of power, betrayal, truth, and sacrifice. the Camino. Risk Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World Eva Hesse Directed by Catherine Brainbridge & Alfonso Maiorana Directed by Marcie Begleiter 2017, Canada, 103 min 2016, USA, 108 min Saturday, August 19 / 9 pm Wednesday, August 23 / 7 pm Sunday, August 20 / 3 pm Friday & Saturday, August 25 & 26 / 7 pm Saturday, August 26 / 3 pm & 9 pm Sunday, August 27 / 3 pm Sunday, August 27 / 7 pm Wednesday & Thursday, August 30 & 31 / 7 pm Thursday, August 31 / 9 pm “Her pioneering sculptures, using latex, fiberglass, and plastics, “An unforgettable and political exploration of a musical history helped establish the post-minimalist movement.