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HOW TO WIFF 2 TICKET INFO 3 WHERE TO WIFF 4 WIFF VILLAGE/WIFF ALLEY 5 WHO WE ARE 6-7 SALUTE TO OUR SPONSORS 8-21 SPECIAL THANKS 22 A MESSAGE FROM VINCENT 23 A MESSAGE FROM LYNNE 24 A MESSAGE FROM THE MAYOR 25 FESTIVAL FACTS 26-27 MIDNIGHT MADNESS 28 SPECIAL SCREENINGS 29 WIFF PRIZE IN CANADIAN FILM 30 MARK BOSCARIOL 48-HOUR FLICKFEST 31 WIFF LOCAL 32 WOMEN OF WIFF 33 HOTDOCS SHOWCASE 34 SPOTLIGHT ON ARCHITECTURE 35 LES FILMS FRANCOPHONES 36 IN CELEBRATION OF MUSIC 37 TRIXIE MATTEL 38 LGBTQ2+ 39 SPOTLIGHT AWARD 40 TAKE IT FROM VINCENT 41 OPENING NIGHT FILM 42 CLOSING NIGHT FILM 43 FILM SYNOPSES 44-127 SCREENING CALENDAR 128-137 INDEX BY COUNTRY 138-139 1. PICK YOUR FILMS Films and showtimes can be found online at windsorfilmfestival.com, in the program book or at the box office. Film synopses are listed by title in alphabetical order, with their countries of origin noted. 2. TYPES OF TICKETS If you plan on seeing several films, consider a festival pass for an unlimited movie experience. Show your valid student card for discounted single tickets or festival passes. If you want to catch a show with a large group of 20+, our group sales packages will help you save. If tickets are sold out in advance a limited number of standby tickets will be available at the venue just before showtime. 3. BUY YOUR TICKETS Online – Purchase through your phone or computer by visiting our website. Print them off at home or bring them up on your mobile device. (Online tickets can be found as an attached PDF file on your confirmation email). In person – Visit our box office and buy from one of our volunteers. WIFF kiosks. Kiosks will be available in our box office, at the Chrysler Theatre and the UWindsor School of Creative Arts (Armouries). Tickets can now be purchased with debit or credit cards, cash or a WIFF gift card (in-person only). 4. VOTE FOR YOUR FAVOURITE After the screening, deposit your ballot in the LiUNA! People’s Choice Award ballot box outside every theatre venue. 5. TALK IT UP! Engage with other fest-goers through our social media portals, Twitter and Instagram (both @WindsorFilmFest) and Facebook (@WindsorInternationalFilmFestival), where you might find your photo snapped by one of our roving photographers. Use the hashtag #WIFF2019 to ensure your posts make the social media rounds. Join our email list via our website, windsorfilmfestival.com.

2 The main box office is at 109 University Ave. W. (ArtCite Gallery, directly attached to the Capitol Theatre). Please refer to the WIFF website, www.windsorfilmfestival.com, for important information regarding ticket or pass purchases and our ticket policy. You may also call the box office for more information beginning Oct. 25 at 226-826-WIFF (9433). Ticket & Festival Pass Prices Adult Ticket $14, Pass $249 Student Ticket $9, Pass $90 *Must have Student ID Opening Night Film $25 Opening Night Film & VIP Party $150 Closing Night Film $25 Trixie Mattel Presents $50 Film & Onstage Appearance; $150 includes VIP Meet & Greet Online Purchases Purchase tickets at windsorfilmfestival.com. Upon purchase, a confirmation email will be sent. Attached to this email is a PDF document bearing the name of the film. Print it off at home or open on a mobile device and a volunteer will scan it as you enter the theatre. Issue with printing or obtaining the ticket? Bring your confirmation code to the box office to get your tickets printed! Visit windsorfilmfestival.com for more information on our ticket policy and procedures. In Person Skip the box office line, and purchase from one of our WIFF kiosks. Find your film, choose your ticket type and pay with debit or credit. WIFF kiosks can be found in our box office, at the Chrysler Theatre and at the UWindsor School of Creative Arts (Armouries) for your convenience. Cash will only be accepted by our volunteers at the box office. Debit and credit will now be happily accepted. Buying Tickets in Advance Online: Oct. 10-Nov. 10 At the box office: Oct. 25 -Oct. 31, 10 a.m.– 6 p.m. Buying Tickets During Festival From Nov. 1-10, the box office will be open one hour prior to the first screening of the day and will remain open until the last film of the night commences. *On Nov. 1, the box office will open at 7:30 a.m. Ticket Policy Tickets and passes are non-refundable and non-exchangeable. One dollar from each ticket sale at the Capitol Theatre is contributed to the Capitol Theatre Restoration Fund. All tickets and passes can be purchased online at windsorfilmfestival.com. Passes include all films, except Opening Night film, Closing Night film and premium tickets such as Trixie Mattel Presents. Passholders are entitled to one ticket per screening block. We encourage passholders to pick up their passes during pre-festival box office hours.

3 4 Help celebrate our 15th anniversary in WIFF Village, a vibrant downtown venue featuring a tented space on University Ave. W. in front of the Capitol Theatre during the second weekend of the festival. WIFF Village will feature live entertainment and signature events.

WIFF VILLAGE SPONSORED BY

WIFF Alley is an urban transformation project supported by the City of Windsor Ward 3, DWBIA, CUPE Local 82, surrounding property owners in collaboration with the Windsor International Film Festival. In an effort to promote the arts, especially film, WIFF Alley creates a corridor connecting our venues and animating our downtown core. Through the addition of increased lighting and incredible public art installations, WIFF Alley will attract locals and tourists alike to celebrate film and downtown Windsor.

5 The Windsor International Film Festival (WIFF) is a cultural, not-for- profit organization that celebrates the art of cinema by showcasing Canadian and international film and filmmakers. Through unique programming, education and exhibition, WIFF strengthens and enriches community while promoting the creative economy.

Windsor International Film Festival Board of Directors Lynne Watts (Chair) Ryan Donally (Vice-Chair) Martha Winterbottom (Treasurer) Pat Papadeas (Secretary) Marty Beneteau Lysande Bisson Katharen Bortolin Barb Davis Angela Kaye Mori McIntosh Kim Nelson Jeff O’Brien Renée Trombley

Windsor International Film Festival 101 University Ave. W. Windsor ON windsorfilmfestival.com

6 Executive Director and Chief Programmer Vincent Georgie Windsor International Film Festival Managing Director: Hayden Freker Manager, Marketing & Signature Events: Anthony Dalla Bona Technical Director: Lana Oppen Director of Patron Services: Jen Holson Assistant Director of Patron Services: Nuha Elalem Graphic Design and Layout: Dave Houle Volunteer Coordinators: Keely Murdock and Nathan Parent Data Asset Manager: Maria Cusumano Social Media Coordinator: Dylan Kristy Mark Boscariol 48-Hour FlickFest Coordinator: Matthew Sabelli Print Traffic Coordinator: Alan Bull Photography/Marketing Coordinator: Erika Sanborn Projection Coordinator: Cherry Theresanathan Assistants to Executive Director: Niklas Pizzolitto & Noah Rocha Ceremony Production: Liz Pettapiece-Phillips Venue Managers: Omran Abouhassan, Nicholas Baddeley, Alexandra Bernier, Bryan Dutot, Adam Lau, Matthew Robinson, Matthew Sabelli, Ian Wood Junior Programmers: Sophie Brett, Kaycia Milne, Hagen Nelson and Sean Ross Honorary WIFF Ambassadors Nick Cacciato, Peter Coady, Denise Deziel, Debra Henderson, Mike Lesperance, Priyanka Philip, Michael Reboulis, Lou Tortola A SPECIAL THANKS TO Names

7 THE KING FRIDAY, NOV. 1, 5:45PM, CAPITOL THEATRE (PENTASTAR) SATURDAY, NOV. 2, 3:05PM, CAPITOL THEATRE (PENTASTAR)

PRESENTING SPONSOR

8 IT’S YOUR CHOICE! THIS YEAR’S WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED FOLLOWING THE FESTIVAL AND POSTED AT WINDSORFILMFESTIVAL.COM.

PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD SPONSOR

9 CASTLE IN THE GROUND SUNDAY, NOV. 3, 3:50PM, CAPITOL THEATRE (PENTASTAR) MONDAY, NOV. 4, 6:00PM, CAPITOL THEATRE (PENTASTAR)

Community Partner: Mental Health & Wellness

10 INVISIBLES FRIDAY, NOV. 1, 6:00PM, CHRYSLER THEATRE

OPENING NIGHT sponsor

4111 ONCE WERE BROTHERS: ROBBIE ROBERTSON AND THE BAND SUNDAY, NOV. 10, 6:00PM, CAPITOL THEATRE (PENTASTAR)

CLOSING NIGHT sponsor

12 41 THE LION KING SUNDAY, NOV. 3, 9:30AM, CAPITOL THEATRE (PENTASTAR)

CAPITOL THEATRE venue sponsor

4113 PIPE DREAMS SUNDAY, NOV. 3, 3:40PM & 5:05PM, ARMOURIES MONDAY, NOV. 4, 9:35AM, ARMOURIES

armouries venue sponsor

14 41 TOP END WEDDING SATURDAY, NOV. 2, 7:55PM, CAPITOL THEATRE (PENTASTAR) WEDNESDAY, NOV. 6, 7:50PM, CHRYSLER THEATRE

WIFF 365 sponsor Enjoy monthly screenings year-round at the Capitol Theatre in the heart of downtown

4115 BOX OFFICE SPONSOR

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

16 MEDIA PARTNERS

The DRIVE

17 OFFICIAL CHAMPION OF DOWNTOWN WINDSOR

OFFICIAL PRESENTER OF FRANCOPHONE FILMS

OFFICIAL HOTEL PARTNERS

18 PRODUCERS

19 DIRECTORs

Barbara O’Neill

CAST

Connor Hasegawa

20 CREW

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Marty & Nancy Beneteau Peter & Barb Kuker Lysande Bisson Garth Little & Kim (Boscariol) Little Gerald Cradock & Melinda Munro PAT PAPADEAS Anthony Dalla Bona Carol & Graham Reader Barb Davis Veronika Mogyorody & Vito Signorile Rachel & Ryan Donally Greer & Mike Stasko Janice Forsyth & Dan Hallett Reneé & Tim Trombley Vincent Georgie Christina Simmons & Bruce Tucker Peter & Denise Hrastovec Lynne Watts Angela Kaye Martha Winterbottom & Gui Ellwood

21 Mayor Drew Dilkens The City of Windsor The Ontario Ministry of Tourism, CULTURE & SPORT Ward 3 City Councillor Rino Bortolin Tourism Windsor Essex Pelee Island

22 How to plan for a 15th anniversary?

Let’s add an extra weekend and make it a 10-day festival. Check! (Worst-kept secret in Windsor: we are staying at 10 days...sshhhh) Let’s build WIFF Alley and make our downtown even cooler. Yes! While we’re at it, why not build WIFF Village too? Parties and hang-out space for locals and out-of-towners? Sold! Let’s bring in an Oscar-nominated actress, a few music legends and a red-hot drag queen to party with us. Done, done and done. How about we swing for the fences and get every great local film that we can get our hands on, and get them up on screen? Yup! And let’s make sure our films entertain, provoke, inspire, baffle and, in some cases, simply change your life? We’re on it!

We love showing you the best of the best. It’s not like films seen at WIFF have been nominated for 132 Oscars, or anything. We think... OK, we know because we totally counted off IMDB. WIFF is for everyone. Our goal is for anyone and everyone to look at our program guide and find a film that speaks to them, no matter what that means. Windsor-Essex built WIFF. We did it. It’s ours.

WIFF is a destination for movie-lovers, a festival of choice for audiences and fans alike. To have our 15th anniversary coincide with the same year that we have been named Canada’s No. 1 Film Festival on TIFF’s Film Circuit makes this festival the most festive we have ever had. We could not be more proud of our foundational partnership with TIFF.

Word has travelled about WIFF far beyond this region and into the calendars from tourists from all over. To our Windsor-Essex community, your jaw-dropping enthusiasm and support of us only makes us work harder to always raise our game and bring you what Windsor-Essex deserves: to be No.1.

For all our fans, welcome to #WIFFMAFIA

Vincent Georgie Executive Director and Chief Programmer

23 Named by TIFF Film Circuit as the Number 1 volunteer film festival in Canada! That says it all. We are all volunteers and we choose to spend our time on the festival for reasons ranging from love of film to commitment to downtown Windsor to camaraderie.

Here we are in our 15th year. Mori McIntosh, Martha Winterbottom and myself have all been volunteers from the beginning. Vice-chair, Ryan Donnally, calls us the O.G., which does not mean old gals as I originally assumed.

I am fortunate to work with a great board of directors, many of whom have full-time jobs and who devote endless hours to WIFF. We have amazing volunteers, many of whom have been with us for years and some who take time off work during the festival. Executive Director and Chief Programmer, Vincent Georgie, is the hub around which all else turns. His film knowledge is extraordinary, his capacity for work seems boundless, and he challenges us each and every day to think bigger and better.

We thank our many sponsors, and once again many have been with us for years. The City of Windsor has supported our capital investments in a big way.

This year we have more films and more days of viewing, and we are announcing a prize for best Canadian film. We will have more elementary and secondary school students at our film day than ever before. We also plan to inaugurate “WIFF Alley”.

I’m thinking about our founder, Mark Boscariol. He would be jumping up and down with excitement, and then very quickly would turn to the next big idea. We continue to be inspired by him and by our film audience. Enjoy!

Lynne Watts Chair, Board of Directors

24 “I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.” -Francis Ford Coppola

Film is magical. The images and stories, characters and music stay with us and become a part of us long after the lights come up. Film inspires us to think, to feel, to learn and to question. Film takes us on journeys, across barriers real and imagined, to explore the world. 2019 will be the fifteenth year that the Windsor International Film Festival (WIFF) makes magic in the City of Windsor by showcasing Canadian, local, and international feature films to audiences craving this experience. 2018 was a record-breaking year for the festival, with over 30,000 people flocking to Downtown Windsor for WIFF events throughout the year. Many travelled or took time off work to be with friends, family, and other magic-seekers to be part of a festival that tells people that Windsor is a vibrant, culturally rich, entirely alive community. And this year... guests are invited to more than 150 films and related events that make WIFF an incredible opportunity to “step out of your world.” Windsor City Council invested $250,000 in 2018 to help WIFF evolve. We wanted to help WIFF deliver this festival with a more mature and sustainable infrastructure. We offered this landmark support because we recognized WIFF as a true success story... a trend-setter... a crucial piece of the puzzle that makes Windsor such an incredible place to live, work, play, visit and invest. WIFF has raised the bar for what is possible when arts and culture combine with business and economic development to create a model of excellence. That model led WIFF to be named the number one film festival in Canada on the TIFF Film Circuit! From its permanent home in the Capitol Theatre, WIFF joins with educational institutions, established businesses, entrepreneurs, artists and investors working to ensure that Windsor is a place filled with experiences that draw people in. Thank you to the WIFF Board members; Vincent Georgie, and the entire WIFF staff; the WIFF Honorary Ambassadors; the organizers and volunteers working year-round on the festival experience; the festival screening venue partners; and everyone who buys a ticket and attends the festival and its spin-off events. WIFF extended the invitation to “step out of your world”, and in so doing has helped make Windsor a name known far beyond our borders. Enjoy the magic WIFF is creating.

Sincerely, Drew Dilkens City of Windsor Mayor

25 Worth Knowing This year marks the 15th annual WINDSOR INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL.

We’re offering 165 features and documentaries, and 13 short films including films from around the world with a total of 277 screenings.

Twenty-one films in the WIFF Local roster offer what our programmers regard as the highest-ever quality of locally-produced cinema.

The Mark Boscariol 48-Hour FlickFest will be held on Friday, Nov. 8

New films are featured from acclaimed directors Xavier Dolan, Bong Joon-ho, Ron Howard, Richard Linklater, Louise Archambault, Denys Arcand, Claire Denis, Alanis Obomsawin, Pedro Almodóvar, Ira Sachs, Matt Gallagher, Craig Brewer, Nick Shields, Jordan Krug, Ken Loach, Monia Chokri, Michael Stasko, Tasha Hubbard, Corneliu Porumboiu, Sophie Deraspe, Heddy Honigmann, Francesco Loschiavo, Werner Herzog, Joey Klein, Zacharias Kunuk, Tom Harper, Ursula Macfarlane, Philippe Lesage, Penny Lane, Matt Tyrnauer, Ian Thomas Ash, Gavin Michael Booth, Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles, Laurence Mathieu-Léger, Giselle Portenier, Céline Sciamma, Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache, Jessica Hausner, Agnès Varda and Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne. BY THE NUMBERS 29 countries represented 83 films from world-leading film festivals 21 films in Local 2019 programming 21 films in the Hot Docs Showcase 42 Francophone feature films 144 minutes – Length of longest film Sunset 13 short films 2 minutes – Length of shortest film The Rougaroux 46 films selected from TIFF

26 Q&A

Q. Who are the notable film stars appearing in this year’s festival?

A. Lots! They include: Robert Pattinson, Keira Knightley, Antonio Banderas, Eddie Murphy, Timothée Chalamet, Marie-Pier Morin, Xavier Dolan, Guy Pearce, Fanny Ardant, Ellen Page, Ben Whishaw, Neve Campbell, Vincent Cassel, Cate Blanchett, Kang-ho Song, Juliette Binoche, Vlad Ivanov, Pierre Niney, Ben Kingsley, Meryl Streep, Kristen Wiig, Penelope Cruz, Marion Cotillard, Gilbert Sicotte, Alec Baldwin, Julie Walters, Alexandre Landry, Sophie Okonedo, Marisa Tomei, Isabelle Huppert, Wesley Snipes, Ralph Fiennes, Colin Mochrie, Andrée Lachapelle, Rémy Girard, Virginie Efira, Bruce Greenwood, Sonia Braga, Olympia Dukakis, Aaron Paul, Anne Dorval, Keir Gilchrist, Brendan Gleeson, Jessie Buckley, Jesse Eisenberg and Shohreh Aghdashloo

Q. How many films are being shown at WIFF before their commercial release?

A. 29. They are: Arab Blues; Bacurau; Boys vs. Girls; Buddy; Castle In The Ground; Cunningham; Easy Land; For Sama; Frankie; It Must Be Heaven; Jordan River Anderson, The Messenger; La Belle Epoque; Lie Exposed; Little Joe; Little Star Rising; Midnight Family; Murmur; Nomad: In The Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin; Portrait of a Lady on Fire; Simple Wedding; The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao; The Specials; The Whistlers; There’s Something in the Water; Varda by Agnès; Vai; Vivarium; White Lie; Young Ahmed

Q. Which films were submitted by their home countries for academy award consideration in the Best Foreign Language Film category?

A. Brazil – The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao; Canada – Antigone; Luxembourg – Tel Aviv On Fire; Mexico – The Chambermaid; North Macedonia – Honeyland; Palestine – It Must Be Heaven; Romania – The Whistlers; South Korea – Parasite; Spain – Pain & Glory

2741 Midnight Madness is back with ridiculously wild films, cult classics, and some major nostalgia. The roster includes:

20th Anniversary Screening: South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut Friday, Nov. 1, 11:59 p.m. (Start 12:15 a.m.) Capitol Theatre (Kelly)

The Room Saturday, Nov. 2, 11:59 p.m. (Start 12:20 a.m.) Capitol Theatre (Kelly)

Border Friday Nov. 8, 11:59 p.m. (Start 12:15 a.m.) Capitol Theatre (Kelly)

Greener Grass Saturday, Nov. 9, 11:59 p.m. (Start 12:15 a.m.) Capitol Theatre (Kelly)

28 41 Beauty and the Beast Saturday, Nov. 9, 9:30 a.m., Capitol Theatre (Pentastar) Mamma Mia! Sing-Along Saturday, Nov. 9, 11:15 a.m., Chrysler Theatre

Paris is Burning (Digitally Restored) Friday, Nov. 8, 10:45 p.m., Armouries

25th Anniversary Screening: The Lion King Sunday, Nov. 3, 9:30 a.m., Capitol Theatre (Pentastar)

25th Anniversary Screening: The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert Saturday, Nov. 9, 8:30 p.m., Chrysler Theatre

35TH Anniversary Screening: Final Offer Sunday, Nov. 3, 8:30 p.m., Armouries

2941 The WIFF Prize in Canadian Film is the festival’s first annual award recognizing excellence in Canadian cinema. Using rigorous selection criteria, the WIFF programming team nominated 10 films for the award. All 10 will be screened during WIFF and reviewed by a panel of esteemed judges. The award recipient will be announced at the WIFF Closing Night ceremony and receive a $10,000 prize. Nominees were announced at a special WIFF reception at TIFF.

Nominees: And The Birds Rained Down, Louise Archambault Antigone, Sophie Deraspe Castle In The Ground, Joey Klein Easy Land, Sanja Zivkovic Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind, Martha Kehoe and Joan Tosoni Jordan River Anderson, The Messenger, Alanis Obomsawin Kuessipan, Myriam Verreault Matthias & Maxime, Xavier Dolan Prey, Matt Gallagher Willie, Laurence Mathieu-Léger Jury: Karen Bruce, Executive Director, Women In Film and Television Toronto Isabelle Corriveau, Journalist, Radio-Canada Joshua Riehl, Writer-Director, The Russian Five

30 41 Named in honour of WIFF founder, Mark Boscariol, the 48-Hour FlickFest consists of a slate of short films shot and edited by local filmmakers and film lovers over one weekend. FlickFest is an intense, hyper-local movie making challenge. Supplied with a line of dialogue, a character trait and a prop, filmakers are given 48 hours to submit their film. This is a juried competition and the screening includes award presentations. FRIDAY NOV. 8, 8:45 P.M., CAPITOL THEATRE (PENTASTAR)

Jury: Emily Buller, Keith Kemps & Andy Markowitz

FLICKFEST STREET PARTY Join us in WIFF Village outside the Capitol Theatre after the ceremony for a licensed party presented by Element Entertainment. Admission is free.

4131 WIFF is committed to promoting and fostering local films and filmmakers and welcomes local short and feature film submissions for programming consideration to the core festival. This year’s films were selected on the basis of quality and originality, and on their ability to contribute significantly to the overall success of WIFF 2019. We are delighted to be including films not only with a Windsor-Essex connection, but also from Detroit in collaboration with the Short Film Block Party.

WIFF 2019 local features Boys vs. Girls, Michael Stasko Ghost Artist, Steven Palmer & Edward Riche Go-Boy! Memories of a Life Behind Bars, Rob Lindsay Last Call, Gavin Michael Booth Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band, Daniel Roher Prey, Matt Gallagher Refugee, Alexander J. Farrell Tear Us Apart, Devin Clarke That Is All, Mark Weeden The Lower Plateau, Liz Singh The Quick and Dirty, Jordan Krug & Nicholas Shields, preceeded by Finding Feather Hat Guy, Michael Evans (19 minutes)

WIFF 2019 Local Shorts MONDAY, NOV. 4, 8 PM, CHRYSLER THEATRE A Normal Evening, Braunte Petric (16 minutes) Buskin’ in the Subway, Chris Di Staulo & Cam Cobb (10 minutes) Defender, Braunte Petric (5 minutes) Ei8ht, Sikander Saleem (2 minutes) Essence of Death, Matthew Sabelli (19 minutes) Gothic Springs, Lindsay Miernicke (12 minutes) Into The Grey, Francesco Loschiavo (13 minutes) Rough Love, Gemma Eva (14 minutes) The Rabbit and the Snare, Gemma Eva (12 minutes) The Rougaroux, Ana Vincent (2 minutes) Walking for Ded, Scott Boehm (8 minutes) Willa, Corey Mayne (12 minutes) 32 41 WOMEN OF

WIFFimportant films by and about women official selectionUntouchable THURSDAY NOV. 7, 6P.M., CAPITOL THEATRE (PENTASTAR) Directed by Ursula Macfarlane, Untouchable documents a seminal chapter in the #MeToo movement through the eyes of women who came forward against film mogul Harvey Weinstein. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with special guests. Along with the UWindsor Office of the President, Women of WIFF is generously supported by local individuals who have made contributions to help WIFF continue to ensure women’s voices are heard and their stories shared. For more information on how to be part of this cause, visit windsorfilmfestival.com

Other notable films in this series areArab Blues, City Dreamers, For Sama, Frankie, Invisibles, Maiden, Maxima, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, There’s Something in the Water, Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am, Wild Rose 3341 Documentaries allow viewers a look into a wide spectrum of truths, all within the same reality. Their potential for exploration, collaboration and creativity is constantly growing, and the boundaries are limitless. This year, WIFF is once again teaming up with the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival to present the Hot Docs Showcase. WIFF is thrilled to present unique, clever, and provocative films specifically selected by Hot Docs president Chris McDonald and Director of Programming Shane Smith for our audience:

Ask Dr Ruth Buddy Conviction David Crosby: Remember My Name Cold Case Hammarskjöld For Sama Framing John DeLorean Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind Honeyland Human Nature Inventing Tomorrow Killing Patient Zero Maxima Midnight Family nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up Olympia Pipe Dreams Prey There Are No Fakes Toxic Beauty Willie

34 Architecture influences many aspects of daily life. Architects create spaces, both public and private. They are talented individuals with a flair for design, an awareness of social trends and concrete engineering skills. The Windsor Region Society of Architects (WRSA) supports and encourages the profession of architecture. WRSA is also interested in a variety of social issues including urban gentrification, housing, access and the role of public spaces and livable communities.

For the sixth year, WRSA has joined forces with WIFF to promote four films that bring attention to issues surrounding communities & public spaces, the built environment, the creative process and the role of architecture and design in the modern world. the 2019 Spotlight on Architecture includes: The Infinite Happiness Loving Vincent: The Impossible Dream Push The World Before Your Feet

35 WIFF is delighted to showcase a compelling slate of Francophone films covering a broad spectrum of genres. We are proud to have Radio-Canada serve as the official presenter of our Francophone programming. Francophone titles that will be shown at WIFF 2019 include A Brother’s Love Genesis Sauvage (La femme de mon frère) (Genèse) (Sauvage) Alice and the Mayor In Safe Hands Slut in a Good Way (Alice et le maire) (Pupille) (Charlotte a du fun) Amanda Invisibles Sofia (Amanda) (Invisibles) (Sofia) It Must Be Heaven An Impossible Love Sweetheart (C’est ça le paradis?) (Un amour impossible) (Mon bébé) Jeune Juliette And The Birds Rained Down (Jeune Juliette) The Fall of the American Empire (Il pleuvait des oiseaux) (La chute de l’empire américain) Kuessipan Antigone (Kuessipan) The Far Shore (Antigone) (Dérive) La Belle Epoque Arab Blues (La belle époque) The Intouchables (Arab Blues) (Intouchables) Little White Lies 2 Before We Explode (Nous finirons ensemble) The Specials (Avant qu’on explose) (Hors normes) Lola and Her Brothers By the Grace of God (Lola et ses frères) Through the Fire (Grâce à Dieu) (Sauver ou périr) Matthias & Maxime City Dreamers (Matthias & Maxime) Varda by Agnès (Rêveuses de villes) (Varda par Agnès) The Mystery of Henri Pick A Colony (Le mystère d’Henri Pick) We are Gold (Une colonie) (Nous sommes Gold) No Filter Compulsive Liar (Chamboultout) Whatever Happened to (Menteur) my Revolution Our Happy Holiday (Tout ce qu’il me reste de la Cyrano, My Love (Premières vacances) (Edmond) révolution) Portrait of a Lady on Fire Young Ahmed For Those Who Don’t Read Me (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu) (A tous ceux qui ne me lisent pas) (le jeune Ahmed) Savage (Les fauves)

36 This year, our slate of music films highlights not only the passionate role that music plays in our lives, but the wide variety of genres, types of musical performances, and artists we have fallen in love with, again and again.

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert After So Many Days Beauty and the Beast Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes David Crosby: Remember My Name Echo in the Canyon Gay Chorus Deep South Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind I’m Going to Break Your Heart Leto The Lion King Mamma Mia! Sing-Along Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band Pavarotti Pipe Dreams South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut We Are Gold Wild Rose

37 Get ready for some fun as WIFF welcomes RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars champion, Trixie Mattel as she hosts the screening of the cult drag- queen classic The Adventures of Priscilla - Queen of the Desert, directed by Stephan Elliott. Guests of this special event will be treated to Trixie’s 10-minute opening number and introduction of the film and a 15-minute set following the completion of the film. All ticket holders are welcome back to the “WIFF dance street party,” featuring popular drag queens. VIP ticket holders will also receive an exclusive meet-and-greet after party with Trixie, souvenir poster and priority seating. SATURDAY, NOV. 9, 8:30 P.M., CHRYSLER THEATRE

38 Our roster of LGBTQ2+ films is significant thanks to the wide range of titles spanning the world. This slate displays the profound diversity that exists within this community and tells stories through films serious and comical, true and fictional, entertaining and life-changing.

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert Before You Know It Changing The Game Conviction Diamantino Gay Chorus Deep South Killing Patient Zero Mamma Mia! Sing-Along Matthias & Maxime Nomad: In The Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin Olympia Pain and Glory Paris is Burning Portrait of a Lady on Fire The Quietude Sauvage Sell By That Is All Vita & Virginia Where’s My Roy Cohn? White Lie

SPONSORED BY MARTHA LA MCCAIN AND J. SCOTT MCCAIN 39 RECIPIENT Shohreh Aghdashloo The Academy Award nominated star of House Of Sand And Fog will receive the Spotlight Award in honour of her distinguished film career on Saturday, Nov. 9, 2 p.m at the Capitol Theatre (Pentastar) followed by a screening of Simple Wedding. In celebration of Shohreh’s achievements WIFF will also screen House of Sand and Fog on Friday, Nov. 8, 6:30 p.m. at the Armouries and The Stoning of Soraya M. on Sunday, Nov. 10, 1:10 p.m. at the Armouries.

40 Our Executive Director and Chief Programmer Vincent Georgie, one of Canada’s pre-eminent film authorities who personally views more than 600 titles a year, offers his tips, top picks and hidden gems for this year’s festival.

Tip 1: Buy tickets early for Opening Night (Invisibles) and Closing Night (Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson And The Band). Why? “Invisibles engaged me from beginning to end,” says Vincent. “I cared about the characters, and I laughed heartily and teared up in equal measure. The predominantly non-professional cast – all playing versions of themselves – conveyed their stories in a way that was strikingly sincere.” Vincent calls Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band an ”expertly assembled film that is constantly entertaining, with not only a fantastic soundtrack but top-quality interviews from luminaries from the world of music. The quality of footage and access are also first-rate, often reminiscent of Scorsese’s The Last Waltz.”

Tip 2: Don’t miss these 10 must-see films. Why: “These 10 films are the ones that come quickly to mind as the unmissable, must-see titles of WIFF 2019,” says Vincent. “Each is a singular standout for how strikingly they achieve their missions.” The list includes: The Biggest Little Farm; Castle In The Ground; Cold Case Hammarskjold; For Sama; Maiden; Official Secrets, Parasite; Prey; Untouchable, Wild Rose.

Tip 3: Take a chance on these hidden gems. Why? “They’re the type of under-the-radar films that cannot be missed,” says Vincent. “Expect them to become word-of-mouth hits. They are: Amanda; Before You Know It; Buddy; Ghost Fleet; Little Star Rising; Maxima; Portrait of a Lady on Fire; The Specials; Top End Wedding; Willie.”

41 INVISIBLES Social commentary, feminist anthem, broad comedy with a side of rom com – Louis-Julien Petit’s Invisibles is a marvellous genre- bending confection.

Audrey (Audrey Lamy) and Manu (Corinne Masiero) run a day shelter for homeless women, offering them a warm shower, a hot meal, a little camaraderie and some necessary career guidance. When municipal officials decide that the centre isn’t helping get enough people off the streets and back to work, they shut it down, leaving Audrey and Manu to deal with the consequences. The two soon decide to keep it open clandestinely, allowing their girls to stay there overnight while training them during the day to become confident and functioning members of society.

Petit’s savvy decision to cast not only seasoned actresses but former homeless women as well, adds depth and pathos to the harrowing plot. Chief among them, 70-year-old Adolpha van Meerhaeghe is the film’s revelation and a force to be reckoned with. Disarmingly honest and tender, Invisibles sparkles with hope.

42 Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson And The Band Produced by Windsor native Stephen Paniccia, directed by Daniel Roher and executive produced by Martin Scorsese, Brian Grazer, and Ron Howard, this documentary follows Robertson from his early life in Toronto and on the Six Nations of the Grand River reserve, in Southern Ontario, to the creation of legendary roots-rock group The Band. Roher’s film draws you right into Robertson’s orbit as he recounts his early formation, the talent, hard work, and happy accidents that led to his fame with The Band, and the conflicts that consumed them.

Rare archival images, Robertson’s memory for detail, and contributions from friends such as Eric Clapton and Bruce Springsteen conjure up an era of creativity and excess that can never be repeated. But as The Band reached their creative peak, the seeds of their destruction were growing: egos, jealousies, and various intoxicants began tearing them apart. Offering unprecedented access to rock history, Once Were Brothers tells the story of one remarkable Canadian’s contribution to music.

ACQUAINTED 2018 | Canada | English | 101 Directed by Natty Zavitz Drama | PG

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Acquainted is more about Drew (Giacomo Gianniotti) homeowners. But when Drew restlessness than it is about love, and Emma (Laysla De Oliveira) and Emma get together or even lust —although carnal run into each other at a bar everything’s easy, leading both attraction is the motivator that and discover some serious to wonder if they shouldn’t gets our young participants chemistry. Which would be make a change. Do they want spinning away from otherwise fine, except they’re both in comfort or predictability? stable situations. It’s a romantic committed relationships. Emma Acquainted is about how comedy that gradually sheds is living with her boyfriend really smart people delude both the romance and the Alex (Raymond Ablack) who is themselves into making dumb laughs, in exchange for hoping to move to Japan for decisions while lying about something more serious. a year. Drew and his girlfriend what they really want. Claire (Rachel Skarsten) are Former high school classmates facing the tension of new

LGBTQ2+ Films In Celebration of Music THE ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT 1994 | Australia | English, Filipino | 104 Directed by Stephan Elliot Comedy, Musical | 14A

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Trixie Mattel joins us as we three showgirls it was the dream lian desert performing for enthu- celebrate the 25th of a lifetime, a four week cabaret siastic crowds and homophobic anniversary of Priscilla! engagement in Alice Springs. locals. Along the way, the act en- When drag queen Anthony counters any number of strange In 1994, writer-director (Hugo Weaving) agrees to take characters, as well as incidents of Stephan Elliott created a pi- his act on the road, he invites homophobia, while Bernadette oneering LGBT gem with this fellow cross-dresser Adam (Guy becomes increasingly concerned funny, smart and intensely lov- Pearce) and transsexual Berna- about the path her life has taken. able road-trip comedy. dette (Terence Stamp) to come When the other two performers Resplendent in flamboyant ball- along. In their colourful bus, learn the truth about why Antho- gowns, looking down over the named Priscilla, the three per- ny took the job, it threatens their vast red Australian desert: for formers travel across the Austra- act and their friendship. 45 In Celebration of Music AFTER SO MANY DAYS 2019 | USA | English | 87 Directed by Jim Hanft, Samantha Yonack Documentary | NR

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After a decade of making show every day for a year. With Many Days is a love letter to music together, Directors (and suitcases and a guitar, the the craft of songwriting, the real-life couple) Jim Hanft and troubadours ventured out for a exhilaration of touring, the Samantha Yonack, a recently 365-day tour down unexplored rewards of marriage and the married singer/songwriter duo roads and onto unexpected power of music that binds us from Los Angeles, are not the stages, bringing their music to all. It’s also an intimate front conventionally successful band new audiences throughout 14 row seat to the highs and lows they hoped they’d be. Feeling different countries. of what it’s like for two people stuck and anxious about to pursue a dream, together. their future, the duo makes a Featuring an incredible spontaneous decision to go “all selection of Jim and Sam’s in,” making a pact to play one mesmerizing songs, After So

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Longtime politico Paul Théra- Her job description is extreme- impossible. Eventually a dia- neau (Fabrice Luchini) is proud ly vague, and she’s treated by logue between Alice and the of his track record as mayor of some as a useful tool, by others mayor unfolds, bringing them Lyon, but he’s lost a sense of as an interloper. The rare min- together and shaking their cer- intellectual engagement. To utes in the day when she’s able tainties. Their interactions are kick-start the cerebral juices, to chat with the mayor open our gateway into a lively, funny his staff hire Alice Heimann pathways for stimulating dis- and touching exploration of (Anaïs Demoustier), a philoso- cussions about the role of polit- the way we live. Little by little, phy teacher recruited from Ox- ical parties and how to sharp- the question arises: are politics ford, to feed him ideas. Alice is en left-wing talking points, and reflection compatible? slightly befuddled by her entry but his overloaded schedule into the halls of government: makes sustained conversations 46 AMANDA 2018 | France | French, English | 107 Directed by Mikhaël Hers Drama | G | Subtitled

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Amanda is a quietly moving lives in the moment, juggling with delicacy and poignance, celebration of human resilience a variety of odd jobs and highlighting the human stories with a shattering tragedy at putting off the time to make behind the terror attacks that its heart. The devastation and more serious decisions. But the have shaken his city in recent loss caused by terrorist attacks relaxed pace of his life shifts years. Instead of ruminating in Paris, Nice and elsewhere when a family tragedy occurs. on the political context or root form the starting point for this He must then take charge of his causes of terrorism, he focuses gentle French film. seven-year-old niece, Amanda on its emotional aftershocks (Isaure Multrier), despite and the gradual return to The story kicks off in modern- barely having a handle on his healing normality that follows. day Paris. Twenty-four-year- own life. Director Mikhael old David (Vincent Lacoste) Hers explores their situation

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A poignant meditation on the Lachapelle, Gilbert Sicotte) charged with interviewing sur- possibilities of living outside living in cabins in the Quebec vivors of the region’s deadliest modernity, And the Birds Rained countryside, whose defiant need forest fire. Down is a tribute to the need to to live independently is increas- live independently and on one’s ingly endangered by nature, old After the death of the eldest own terms — and to those coura- age, and infirmity. While wild- hermit, the two women make an geous enough to pursue this. fires threaten the region, their astonishing discovery: hundreds quiet life is about to be shaken of paintings echoing his tragic Acclaimed director, Louise Ar- by the arrival of two women: a experience related to that dev- chambault’s elegiac and charm- luminous octogenarian, unjust- astating fire. This is a story of in- ing new film depicts three aging ly institutionalized her whole tertwined destinies, where love hermits (Rémy Girard, Andrée life, and a young photographer can happen at any age.

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James Longley, delivers who operates a struggling Longley offers us an arresting a sweeping, profoundly food stall with his father, a series of gorgeously compassionate portrait of former Mujahedeen. Longley photographed, often troubling Afghan students and teachers also gleans the thoughts and images. The Kabul on display still weathering national hopes of some of Sohrab and in Angels Are Made of Light is a turbulence. Nabiullah’s instructors, who place fraught with poverty and remember a golden age before instability, but by placing his Longley spent years at Kabul’s the Taliban, before tribal strife, focus on the next generation Daqiqi Balkhi School observing before Afghanistan became and the people who educate classes and following the a Cold War pawn, and before them, Longley has seized upon daily lives of several boys who the recent prolonged US Afghanistan’s single most study there; Sohrab, who finds occupation that left them only important resource: relentless, solace in books, and Nabiullah, more divided than before. radiant hope.

ANIARA 2018 | Sweden, Denmark, | Swedish, Spanish, English | 106 Directed by Pella Kågerman, Hugo Lilja Drama, Sci-Fi | R

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Based on a prescient epic poem the ship off course and disables A caustic portrait of humanity’s by Swedish Nobel Prize winner, its steering, the likelihood that capacity for self-delusion, self- Harry Martinson, Aniara charts these once-sanguine colonizers abuse, and consumption, Ania- the fate of the human race after will ever reach their destination ra follows the ship’s passengers they have destroyed the planet. gradually begins to shrink. The as they deal with uncertainty One of several ships launched passengers are initially lulled and dread but continue to in- into space to start anew on by the pronouncements from dulge their appetites whenever Mars, Aniara is designed to the bridge, but days turn into and however they can. meet the needs of a species months, months turn into years, that has just consumed its and social conventions and me- Aniara embraces the existential birthplace: it’s a giant shopping chanical parts start to break possibilities of sci-fi cinema. mall. When an accident knocks down. 48 WIFF JR. PROGRAMMER Les Films Francophones Prize in Canadian Film NOMINEE ANTIGONE 2019 | Canada | French | 109 Directed by Sophie Deraspe French | 14A | Subtitled

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Critically acclaimed Québécois Ismène, her brothers Étéocle the arrest of Polynice, a small- filmmaker, Sophie Deraspe’s and Polynice, and their time drug dealer. Motivated provocative and timely grandmother Ménécée find by her sense of duty towards adaptation of the classic refuge in Montreal. They live her family and fuelled by the Greek tragedy of the same a quiet modest life in a tiny memory she cherishes of her name reimagines the story of a apartment in a working-class dead parents, Antigone decides woman’s quest for justice as a neighbourhood. A straight-A to jeopardize her own future to commentary on the immigrant student seemingly destined for preserve that of her family. experience in contemporary greatness, Antigone (Nahéma Montreal. Ricci) is the glue that holds the Antigone acutely explores family together. Tragedy strikes familial sacrifice, the burden of Following the murder of their when Étéocle is wrongfully responsibility, and the nature of parents, Antigone, her sister gunned down by police during justice.

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Aquarela takes audiences on the throes of Hurricane Irma to at the form’s most elemental, a deeply cinematic journey Venezuela’s mighty Angel Falls, its subject, star and dominant through the transformative water is Aquarela’s main char- presence being water itself – beauty and raw power of water. acter, with Russian director Vic- not the creatures within it and Captured at a rare 96 frames- tor Kossakovsky capturing its only occasionally mankind. per-second, the film is a visceral many personalities in startling There is no narration, no con- wake-up call that humans are cinematic clarity. Kossakovsky text or captioning. A visual no match for the sheer force travels around the world to masterpiece that pushes view- and capricious will of Earth’s capture stunning images of the ers through awe, heartbreak, most precious element. From beauty and power of water. despair and joy, Aquarela is a the precarious frozen waters of true recognition of the respect Russia’s Lake Baikal to Miami in This is nature documentary that water demands. 49 Les Films Francophones ARAB BLUES 2019 | France | French, Arabic | 88 Directed by Manele Labidi Labbé Comedy | 14A | Subtitled

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After 10 years of living in Paris, open up a psychotherapy a locale that’s not keen on Selma (Golshifteh Farahani) practice. So begins an incisive the talking cure, but she also has returned to Tunis. Back comedy about coming home, needs to navigate a confusing home, her younger cousin can’t breaking taboos, and building bureaucratic circus in order to figure out why she’d leave community. get the right papers to run her the French capital; her aunt practice. is overbearing, and her uncle As Selma tries to settle in, is only giving her a matter of she’s faced with increasing Arab Blues develops with an weeks to crash in the apartment complications that she couldn’t irresistible charm while not above their house. Selma, have predicted. There isn’t just sidestepping bigger questions nonetheless, is steadfast the matter of finding interested about both a country and a in her resolve: she wants to psychotherapy patients in woman at a crossroads.

THE ART OF SELF-DEFENSE 2019 | USA | English, French, German | 104 Directed by Riley Stearns Comedy, Drama, Sport | 14A

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After he’s attacked on the for the first time in his life. But inal dark comedy that takes street at night by a roving mo- when he gets promoted to the toxic masculinity to absurd torcycle gang, timid bookkeep- Sensei’s mysterious night class- extremes. The script prods er Casey (Jesse Eisenberg) es at the studio, he discovers a the audience to laugh as Ca- joins a neighbourhood karate sinister world of fraternity, bru- sey begins his absurd journey studio to learn how to protect tality and hyper-masculinity, toward becoming more intim- himself. Under the watchful presenting a journey that plac- idating, then suddenly swivels eye of a charismatic instruc- es him squarely in the sights of into more frightening territory. tor, Sensei (Alessandro Nivola), his enigmatic new mentor. This is an incredibly audacious and hardcore brown belt Anna movie, which mixes the darkest (Imogen Poots), Casey gains a Audacious and offbeat, The of comedy with the most grisly newfound sense of confidence Art of Self-Defense is an orig- of violence.

50 HOT DOCS SHOWCASE ASK DR. RUTH 2019 | USA | English | 100 Directed by Ryan White Documentary, Biography | 14A

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Ask Dr. Ruth is a documentary profile turns up one of the most Unflappable and undaunted, portrait chronicling the trailblazing women in modern the heavily accented voice incredible life of Dr. Ruth history. The trauma of her youth behind the landmark 1980s Westheimer, a Holocaust as a Holocaust orphan fuelled radio show Sexually Speaking survivor who became America’s both a fierce survival instinct became one of the fiercest most famous sex therapist. As and a deep curiosity about advocates for sexual health, her 90th birthday approaches, human nature. How else could abortion and LGBTQ rights of Dr. Ruth revisits her painful past an Israeli-trained sharpshooter the century. Ask Dr. Ruth offers and her career at the forefront and three-times-married up a life story as edifying and of the sexual revolution. mother become a bestselling candid as the icon herself. author and one of Johnny Warm, funny and thoroughly Carson’s favourite guests? surprising, this revealing

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Set in the near future, the film arrives riddled with bullet holes. the villagers prepare a formida- follows Teresa (Bárbara Colen), ble organized resistance, with a who comes home to Bacurau, It soon becomes apparent that locally sourced psychotropic her matriarchal village in Bra- the government has forsak- drug as their secret weapon. zil’s semi-arid sertão, to attend en the village completely: not her mother’s funeral. Upon her only has Bacurau been literal- Winner of a jury prize at arrival, Teresa immediately ob- ly erased from the map, but its Cannes, Bacurau is both an serves signs that Bacurau is in citizens have also been sold as inspired genre hybrid and a dire straits. Basic amenities are prey for a safari of bloodthirsty gonzo parable about the long, in short supply, mobile-phone foreign hunters (with their lead- dark, lingering shadows of colo- coverage is fading, and the er played by cult-cinema legend nialism. truck that brings potable water Udo Kier). As the killers close in,

51 In Celebration of Music BEAUTY AND THE BEAST 1991 | USA | English | 85 Directed by Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise Animated | G

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The biggest achievement An arrogant young prince out of his isolation. attained by Disney’s 1991 and his servants fall under the film Beauty and the Beast is spell of a wicked enchantress, Beauty and the Beast being the first animated film who turns him into the hideous reaches back to an older and ever nominated for a Best Beast until he learns to love healthier Hollywood tradition Picture Oscar. And it remains and be loved in return. The in which the best writers, one of the best animated spirited, headstrong Belle musicians and filmmakers films of all time, worthy of its enters the Beast’s castle after are gathered for a project on place in history not just as a he imprisons her father. With the assumption that family Best Picture nominee, but as the help of his enchanted audiences deserve great the gold standard of what a servants, Belle begins to entertainment. Disney film should be. draw the cold-hearted Beast

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The third world war is immi- time. With his friends Hubert to accentuate the urgency nent. Despite attempts at nu- (Amadou Madani Tall) and and importance of the protag- clear deterrence, the threat Samuel (William Monette), onist’s quest proves brilliant of atomic bombing between he lives “the summer of last and effective. Can we really North Korea and the United chances” and takes drastic blame a teenager who wants States is bringing the world’s measures in order to lose his the chance to taste sex before population back to the cold virginity. he dies? Beyond the comedy, war. In a small Quebec town, Before We Explode hides a Pier-Luc (Étienne Galloy) is This idea of taking the basic profound reflection on human afraid. Afraid to die, certain- precepts of adolescent come- relationships and our relation- ly, but especially afraid to die dy and placing them on those ship to death. before having sex for the first of a catastrophe film in order

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Before You Know It is the story Yaffe); and Jackie’s sister, the theater and putting on of a family that lives above a Rachel (Hannah Pearl Utt), its mediocre plays, and when small community theater they the only real grown-up in the Mel’s death reveals the mother own in New York City. It’s a family, who holds the family they thought was dead is comedic drama about a clan of and the theater together and actually alive (Judith Light), creatives: patriarch and has- has just a few control issues. Rachel and Jackie are forced been playwright Mel (Mandy out of their comfort zone and Patinkin); his oldest daughter, This is a family whose extreme onto their own belated coming- Jackie (Jen Tullock), a quirky co-dependence has prevented of-age journeys in their 30s. actress stuck in adolescence the adults from ever really and single mother of a 12 having to grow up. Their lives year-old named Dodge (Oona and livelihood revolve around

THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM 2018 | USA | English | 91 Directed by John Chester Documentary | PG

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The successes and failures of epic of twists and turns related farmers would respond with a couple determined to live in to the creation of Apricot Lane pesticides, extermination, and harmony with nature on a farm Farms. As neophytes, John and concentration on a single crop. outside of Los Angeles are lov- Molly enlist a consultant, Alan But following their guru, John ingly chronicled by filmmaking York, whose vision is to raise and Molly remain steadfast in farmer, John Chester, in this an array of crops and livestock. their commitment to working inspiring, award-winning doc- Alan cautions that it will take with nature, not against it. The umentary. seven years before they fully Biggest Little Farm is a testa- realize their potential. During ment to idealism, teeming with John, with his wife, Molly, films that wait, they face mounting stunningly beautiful images of their efforts for more than obstacles: coyotes, insects, bad flora and fauna. eight years in this sweeping weather, and disease. Most

53 In Celebration of Music BLUE NOTE RECORDS: BEYOND THE NOTES 2018 | Switzerland | English | 90 Directed by Sophie Huber Documentary, Music | PG NOVEMBER 3, 9:10am-10:40am • Kelly NOVEMBER 8, 8:45pm-10:15pm • Kelly

One of the most important Founded in New York in 1939 with an endless stream of record labels in the history of by German Jewish refugees, beautiful jazz, Blue Note jazz — and, by extension, that Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, Records: Beyond The Notes of American music — Blue Note the history of Blue Note Records explores the unique vision Records has been home to goes beyond the landmark behind the iconic jazz record groundbreaking artists such as recordings, encompassing the label. Through rare archival Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, pursuit of musical freedom, footage, current recording John Coltrane, Bud Powell and the conflict between art and sessions and conversations Art Blakey, as well as present- commerce and the idea of with Blue Note artists, the film day luminaries like Robert music as a transformative and reveals a powerful mission Glasper, Ambrose Akinmusire revolutionary force. and illuminates the vital and Norah Jones. connections between jazz and An award-winning film burbling hip hop.

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Tina (Eva Melander) has a bes- pornography, whose crime Based on a short story by tial-looking face, a scar above so enrages Tina that she be- Swedish author John Aj- her tailbone, and the ability gins to take foolish risks when vide Lindqvist, this multiple to sense or smell how people she’s brought in to help with award-winning film (including feel. She is especially adept at the investigation. Then there’s Cannes) conjures up memories detecting fear or unease, skills the suspicious Vore (Eero Mi- of unsettling folk tales that tie that make her an invaluable lonoff), who shares physical us to the natural world and its border guard. Yet Tina’s latest traits with Tina and wears a odder anomalies, a world that customs stops are more trou- permanent cocksure smirk that now seems distant yet creepily bling than the usual routine ar- suggests he knows things she familiar. rests. First, there’s the twitchy doesn’t — knowledge that may businessman carrying child disrupt her life completely.

54 WIFF LOCAL BOYS VS GIRLS 2019 | Canada | English | 80 Directed by Michael Stasko Comedy | 14A

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Written and directed by In the summer of 1990, the film Rallying their sides in an Windsor’s own Mike Stasko, sees Camp Kindlewood forced attempt to win back their camp Boys vs. Girls is loosely to go co-ed for the first time and gain dominance over what based on his experiences at in its seventy-year existence. they feel is rightfully theirs, a summer camp during the Camp Director Roger (Colin this battle of the sexes sets off 90s. When camps around Mochrie) tries to keep the a series of pranks, fueled by the country were shutting camp off the corporatecamp caretaker Coffee (Kevin down every year and Camp chopping block, but after an McDonald), as the boys and Kitchikewana made the awkward encounter between girls fight for their summertime economically necessary move head counsellors Dale (Eric home. to turn co-ed, the result was a Osborne) and Amber (Rachel very real clash of the sexes. Dagenais), all bets are off.

THE BRINK 2019 | USA | English | 91 Directed by Alison Klayman Documentary | NR

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When Steve Bannon left his his controversial brand of na- tain his power and influence, position as White House chief tionalism into a global move- the former Goldman Sachs strategist less than a week af- ment. banker and media investor ter the Charlottesville “Unite reinvents himself — as he has the Right” rally in August 2017, The Brink follows Bannon many times before — this time he was already a notorious fig- through the 2018 mid-term as the self-appointed leader ure in Trump’s inner circle for elections in the United States, of a global populist move- bringing a far-right ideology shedding light on his efforts ment. Keen manipulator of the into the highest echelons of to mobilize and unify far-right press and gifted self-promot- American politics. He became parties in order to win seats in er, Bannon continues to draw free to peddle influence as a the May 2019 European Par- headlines and protests wher- perceived kingmaker, turning liamentary elections. To main- ever he goes.

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Britt-Marie (Pernilla August) As for the citizens of Borg, the the attention of a handsome has had enough. She finally only thing they have left to hold police officer. walks out on her loveless onto is something Britt-Marie forty-year marriage and finds absolutely loathes: their love of Based on the bestselling novel a supremely unglamorous job soccer. When the village’s youth by Fredrik Backman, author at a ramshackle rec center in team becomes desperate for a of A Man Called Ove, this Borg, a small, derelict town coach, they set their sights on warmhearted comedy suggests devastated by the financial her. As a reluctant mentor to there may be second chances crisis. For the fastidious Britt- these lost young boys and girls, after all. Marie, this new world of noisy Britt-Marie soon finds herself children, muddy floors, and a becoming increasingly vital roommate who is a rat (literally), to the community. Even more is a hard adjustment. surprisingly, she begins to draw

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After failing to secure a fac- Sophia “temporarily” moves in This separation that feels to ulty position because of the with her brother Karim (Pat- Sophia like a breakup is going controversy surrounding her rick Hivon). Given their intense, to force her to question her real thesis in the Philosophy de- symbiotic relationship, he’s purpose in life and make choic- partment, 35-year-old Sophia more than happy to share his es that will allow her to finally (Anne-Élisabeth Bossé) needs place with his little sister. This become an adult. Winner of a to take a hard look at her life unbreakable bond will be put Jury Prize at Cannes, A Broth- choices. Since her part-time to the test when, for the first er’s Love confirms Chokri as a job managing the community time in his life, Karim falls head directorial talent to watch. center art gallery isn’t enough over heels in love with Sophia’s to pay for her own apartment, doctor Eloïse (Evelyne Brochu).

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The exchanges between a veteran with PTSD, an autistic enabling people to occupy service dog and its owner are child with multiple physical public spaces to easing anxieties born of need, but the attachment challenges and an elderly soldier around social interactions, that develops between them blinded by a Second World War animals help their humans is far more complex. Dutch explosion each rely on a four- navigate physical and emotional filmmaker Heddy Honigmann legged partner to assist them living. With Honigmann’s turns her gaze to the inner with everyday tasks. Impressive signature interview and camera workings of six canine and dogs like Kaiko and Makker can style, Buddy captures canine human pairs to reveal what’s easily pull drawer handles and humanity and life-altering trust really given and received. signal approaching doorways, at work. It is a tender tribute to but what they actually open these tail wagging treasures. Among the film’s subjects, a is access to the world. From

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Francois Ozon’s gripping dra- the varying effects of trauma dren. He decides to take action ma follows three men who on survivors and their families and is soon joined by two other band together to dismantle the in this urgent portrait of resis- victims of the priest, François code of silence that continues tance, the power of mobiliza- (Denis Ménochet) and Emman- to protect a priest who abused tion, and the mysteries of faith. uel (Swann Arlaud). They band them decades ago. Based on together to “lift the burden of events from the 2019 convic- Alexandre (Melvil Poupaud) silence” surrounding their or- tion of Cardinal Philippe Bar- lives in Lyon with his wife and deal. But the repercussions barin of Lyon for concealing children. One day he learns, and consequences will leave the conduct of Father Bernard by chance, that the priest who no one unscathed. Preynat, By The Grace Of God abused him when he was in compassionately illustrates scouts is still working with chil-

57 CALL OF THE FOREST: THE FORGOTTEN WISDOM OF TREES 2016 | Canada, Germany, Ireland, Japan, USA English | 86 | Directed by Jeff Mckay Documentary | G

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Call of the Forest follows atmosphere would cease to five percent of the world’s old scientist and author, Diana exist on our planet. Trees growth native forests currently Beresford-Kroeger, as she are the most important living remaining. Call of the Forest investigates our profound organisms on earth, chemically sounds the alarm by calling biological and spiritual affecting our environment for immediate action on a connection to forests. more than anything else, global scale - massive, global and playing a vital role that reforestation to reverse climate Trees provide food, create sustains all life. change. But at its heart, it is a medicine, and most story of triumph, proposing a importantly, provide life-giving As human society has simple strategy for each of us oxygen. Without trees and developed, we have lost to combat climate change by their ability to capture carbon upwards of ninety-five percent planting trees in our own yards dioxide, our living breathable of the world’s forests with only and neighbourhoods.

Prize in Canadian Film NOMINEE CASTLE IN THE GROUND 2019 | Canada | English | 105 Directed by Joey Klein Drama | 14A

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Two lost souls befriend each the caretaker for his terminal- ing — neighbour, Ana (Imogen other and grapple with the ly ill mother (Neve Campbell). Poots). She’s the only person in hard truths of addiction, in Henry’s daily routine is to pre- his life who isn’t indulging his Joey Klein’s Castle in the pare his mother’s medication grief; she’s simply there, across Ground. by crushing an OxyContin pill the hall, and trying to kick her with a spoon, mixing it with jel- habit just as Henry is develop- Across North America tens of ly to mask the taste, and serving his own. Together, they be- thousands of people die every ing it to dull the intense and come tangled in the sordid web year as a result of opioid-relat- agonizing pain she’s suffering of indulgence that encompass- ed overdoses. Set in Sudbury, through. Following his moth- es drug dependence. Ontario just as the crisis is tak- er’s death, Henry befriends his ing hold, Henry (Alex Wolff) is loud and troubled — yet charm-

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The daily routine and grand of work, Eve has aspirations often do not have hot water in ambitions of a hard-working for the future and hopes that their own homes — accurately young chambermaid at a her diligence will get her a reflects the reality in many high-end Mexican hotel are coveted spot as the cleaner on Latin American countries. poignantly explored in Lila an executive floor. Eve quietly The impersonal hotel, a high- Avilés’s striking debut feature. enters one indistinguishable rise of glass and concrete, guest room after another and overshadows the small lives Eve (Gabriela Cartol) works we are struck by the intimacy of those maintaining it for the long hours as a maid at a behind the act of cleaning a wealthy owners and guests: a luxurious hotel in Mexico City. stranger’s mess. The disparity microcosm of contemporary A young, single mother who between the guests and those Mexican society. travels far to get to her place working at the hotel — who

LGBTQ2+ Films CHANGING THE GAME 2018 | USA | English | 95 Directed by Michael Barnett Documentary | NR

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Michael Barnett’s dynamic into her authentic self. The field, while also having the documentary takes us into the film centers on Mack Beggs, courage and resilience to face lives of three high school ath- who made headlines last year daily harassment and discrim- letes—all at different stages of when he became the Texas ination. The kids in this film their athletic seasons, personal State Champion in wrestling have found sports as a way to lives, and their unique paths as and was heralded as a hero by channel the negativity around transgender teens. Their sto- some while receiving hate and them into a positive, to gain a ries span across the U.S.—from threats from others. sense of self-worth and valida- Sarah, a skier and teen policy- tion. This film is their urgent, maker in New Hampshire, to Trans athletes have to work articulate plea for acceptance. Andraya, a track star in Con- harder than their cisgender necticut openly transitioning peers in order to thrive in their

59 Les Films Francophones CITY DREAMERS 2018 | Canada, USA | English | 81 Directed by Joseph Hillel Documentary, Biography, History | NR

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City Dreamers is the architecture is a form of cultural archival material and inspirational story of four representation that shouldn’t stunning cinematography, women, Phyllis Lambert, be forgotten or marginalized. City Dreamers offers a unique Blanche Lemco van Ginkel, These women overcame social history lesson about the Cornelia Hahn Oberlander and structures designed to keep evolution of city planning Denise Scott Brown, who broke them down, and are activists from the 1940s on. As the down barriers by building up who constantly fight for the world becomes increasingly the world around them. They lives of the people they want to urbanized, the insights of all share an unwavering belief serve with their buildings and these forward-looking women in architecture and design’s landscapes. They’re visionaries who have built social and ability to democratically in the truest sense of the word. environmental values into their represent the populace of work seem more relevant now any given area. To them, Through original interviews, than ever.

HOT DOCS SHOWCASE COLD CASE HAMMARSKJÖLD 2019 | Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Belgium English, French, Swedish, Bemba, Danish | 128 Directed by Mads Brügger Documentary | PG | Subtitled

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On September 18, 1961, a plane en route to negotiate peace talks Brügger becomes both filmmak- carrying United Nations Sec- during the Congo Crisis. Fifty er and subject in this multiple retary-General Dag Hammar- years of unanswered questions award-winning film, challenging skjöld and 15 others crashed and conspiracy theories lead the very nature of truth by “per- near Ndola, Northern Rhodesia. offbeat journalist and documen- forming” the role of truth seeker. There were no survivors and it tarian Mads Brügger to reopen As Brügger uncovers a critical was immediately suspected that the case. Brügger traverses the secret that could send shock- Hammarskjöld was assassinat- continent, scouring documents waves around the world, we real- ed. Hammarskjöld was a highly and interviewing witnesses, hop- ize that sometimes absurdity and controversial figure due to his ing to finally unearth the truth. irony are the ingredients needed support for decolonizing Africa, to confront what’s truly sinister. and at the time of his death was In his signature agitprop style,

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Twelve-year-old Mylia (Émilie her lock herself in a bathroom girl, and Jimmy, an Abenaki boy Bierre) lives near a First on the morning of her first day. who lives with his grandmother Nations reserve in Pierreville, Bullying problems at her last on the Pierreville reserve. This a small town in Quebec, with school perhaps exacerbate her prize-winning coming-of-age her parents, whose marriage hypersensitivity to her outsider film is both a story of a young is quietly fracturing, and her status here. woman at a crossroads in her embarrassingly free-spirited life and a subtextual overview of little sister Camille. The The eternal choices in navigating the various ways that systemic withdrawn and insecure Mylia, high school politics — to conform racism is emboldened and starting at a high school where or to rebel? — are embodied by allowed to flourish in a seemingly she doesn’t know anyone, is two classmates: Jacinthe, the progressive society. beset by social terrors that see popular, punch-swigging party

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A compulsive liar sees his the reasons he’s late, the rea- dhist monks, it seems) decides world upended when every sons women should sleep with to right a wrong by teaching lie he’s ever told — from the him, the reasons why people him a lesson and making all of littlest, whitest lie to lies so shouldn’t have to worry about the lies come true on the eve of grandiose they threaten the them shutting down the plant, a crucial meeting with a Rus- very fabric of society — be- the fact that his parents used sian businessman. Compulsive come true, all at once. Simon to beat him, the fact that his Liar takes a high-concept com- Aubert (Louis-José Houde) sister-in-law is in love with him. edy premise into the realm of runs his entire life on lies. An Simon’s self-serving lies are full-on fantasy. executive at an aviation com- so abundant that the universe pany, he lies about everything: (governed by a handful of Bud-

61 LGBTQ2+ Films HOT DOCS SHOWCASE CONVICTION 2019 | Canada | English | 78 Directed by Ariella Pahlke, Nance Ackerman, Teresa MacInnes Documentary | PG

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Conviction is a feature understand this statistic by view, inviting us to witness their documentary film that envisions documenting the experiences of triumphs and struggles in a alternatives to prison through a few incarcerated women and deeply intimate way. Repetitive the eyes of women behind embarking on a collaborative convictions and sentences bars and those fighting on the project that reveals the become the norm within a front lines of the decarceration intricacies of a broken system. hugely deficient support system. movement. When the women on the inside Working with an advocacy are empowered with cameras group, the women make the Women are the fastest- and the freedom to narrate choice to join the decarceration growing segment of the prison their own stories, they flip the movement and have their say in population in Canada. A narrative from a voyeuristic building a world without prisons filmmaking team attempts to lens to an authentic point of and punishment.

CUNNINGHAM 2019 | Germany, France, USA | English | 93 Directed by Alla Kovgan Documentary | G

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The iconic Merce Cunningham in his field. With Cunningham, with locations, the film places and the last generation of his we have a chance to experi- dancers in evocative back- dance company is stunningly ence what he did. Kovgan as- drops such as a tunnel, a profiled in Alla Kovgan’s doc- sembles the last generation of high-rise rooftop, and a for- umentary, through recreations Cunningham dancers to pres- est. These current-day perfor- of his landmark works and ar- ent landmark works from the mances are interlaced with archival footage of Cunningham, Cunningham repertoire. The chival footage of Cunningham John Cage, Robert Rauschen- film concentrates on the three speaking and moving. Wheth- berg, and more. Even for those decades from 1942 to 1972 er you come to Cunningham as who know little about dance, when Cunningham was making a neophyte or an aficionado, Merce Cunningham is a recog- his reputation you’ll leave with a rich experi- nizable name — an iconic figure ence of his art. Taking an inventive approach 62 Les Films Francophones CYRANO, MY LOVE 2018 | France, Belgium | French, Russian | 112 Directed by Alexis Michalik Comedy, Drama, History | NR

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Set in 1897 Paris, Edmond Rostand is approached by friend’s heart and the lack of Rostand (Thomas Solivérès) the greatest actor of the enthusiasm of all those around is a playwright of potential day, Constant Coquelin (Igor him, Edmond starts writing this genius, with a lot of anxieties. Gotesman) who insists on piece with no idea what story He has not written anything acting in his next play. And he he will tell. All he knows is its for two years, and all he has wants to premiere it in three title: Cyrano de Bergerac. This written has been a flop. He weeks! ‘Shakespeare in Love’-like take is paralyzed by the sight of a on the story behind the French blank page and his inspiration Ignoring the whims of hit play is a true crowd-pleaser. has dried up. Thanks to his actresses, the demands of his admirer, Sarah Bernhardt producers, the jealousy of his (Clémentine Célariéhe), wife, the stories of his best

HOT DOCS SHOWCASE In Celebration of Music DAVID CROSBY: REMEMBER MY NAME 2019 | USA | English | 95 Directed by A.J. Eaton Documentary, Music | PG

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Filled with music, this reveal- and Nash. Racked with health fear, exuberance and an un- ing and deeply personal docu- issues and personal obstacles, shakable belief in family and mentary exploring the life and Crosby forged a new path the transformative nature of creative renaissance of music at the age of 77. Seeking out music, Crosby shares his of- icon David Crosby will speak younger musicians and record- ten-challenging journey with to loyal fans as well as legions ing a pair of critically-praised humor and bite. You thought of new ones. new albums, Crosby set out you knew him! Meet David to make a mark in a world Crosby now in this portrait of A cultural force for over fifty very different from the gener- a man still tilting against every years, Crosby faced an un- ation he came to define in the windmill, with everything but certain future after the 2015 60’s. With unflinching hones- an easy retirement on his mind. dissolution of Crosby, Stills ty, self-examination, regret,

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Part loopily queer sci-fi thriller, Diamantino (Carloto Cotta) adopting an African refugee — part faux-naive political learns about the European only to find that his new “son” is rallying cry, glued together with refugee crisis, it shatters his actually an undercover lesbian candyfloss clouds of romantic sheltered worldview and drains tax auditor investigating him reverie, this genre-blending and him of the idyllic ignorance on suspicion of corruption. The gender-bending satire is one that fuels his athletic prowess. most subversive throughline of the year’s most original and He becomes a national is the central character’s infectiously crazy comedies, embarrassment overnight when ambiguous sexuality and garnering multiple awards and he misses a crucial penalty expressions of unmitigated joy nominations. kick in the World Cup final, and vulnerability. His childlike his ensuing sobs triggering a demeanour is the subject of When big-hearted but vacuous career-melting public backlash. scorn but may be his greatest Portuguese soccer hunk He resolves to make amends by asset.

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In a picturesque countryside privileged existence mostly ambiguity. Tackling the knotty villa in Tuscany, semi-retired keeps her at a remove from intermingling of politics and Nobel laureate Maria Linde the escalating xenophobia en- art, it provides no easy answers (Krystyna Janda) is living out gulfing Italy. But a secret dalli- to Europe’s current crisis of mo- her golden years in casual lux- ance with a handsome, young rality and identity. But the film’s ury. The celebrated Jewish-Pol- Egyptian immigrant sets off a true tour de force is Janda, ish poet enjoys a life filled with chain of events that will lead to who, in this award-winning per- late-night dinners, wine-infused Maria’s life coming apart at the formance, infuses her protago- conversation with friends, and seams. nist with the willful selfishness quality time spent with her of a child and the complicated daughter and grandchildren. This carefully crafted drama desires of a woman finding her The free-spirited matriarch’s is a study in mood, setting and way in life’s later stages.

64 WIFF JR. PROGRAMMER DOLEMITE IS MY NAME 2019 | USA | English | 118 Directed by Craig Brewer Biography, Comedy, Drama | 14A

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Eddie Murphy takes on the insults. Moore begins picking Murphy invests his character role of one of his wildest up their patter, drawn from with the ambition and focus inspirations, real-life legend the rich African-American of a true, American trash Rudy Ray Moore. tradition of “the dozens”, a auteur. As his Rudy Ray Moore game of verbal combat. He embraces the gratuitous Dolemite Is My Name tells the creates a stage character, violence and female nudity story of Moore, a struggling Dolemite the pimp, records of blaxploitation cinema, singer and comedian working some especially profane he insists on his own kind of in a record store in early- routines, and soon rockets perfection. Dolemite Is My 1970s Hollywood. Every from shop clerk to ghetto Name is a celebration of Black type of hustler populates the superstar. It’s not long before creativity from one of comedy’s neighbourhood, most with a he starts making movies. greatest entertainers. wicked repertoire of obscene

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A poignant examination of the and the after-effects are exac- towards the breaking point. obstacles and heartbreaks erbated by the menial jobs she facing recent refugees, Sanja must take to pay the rent de- Growing more and more emo- Zivkovic’s debut feature Easy spite being a trained architect. tionally resonant as it pro- Land follows Nina (Nina Kiri) Meanwhile, Nina must deal ceeds, the film reminds us that, and her mother, Jasna, (Mirja- with the regular tensions of as much as we pride ourselves na Jokovic) as they struggle to high-school life, which are com- on being welcoming to refu- build a life for themselves in a plicated by poverty and her gees, the lives of new arrivals new country. mother’s volatile psychological to Canada — though likely state. Plagued by the past, the safer — are often full of humil- Jasna has been traumatized by two women are unable to find iations and pitfalls not easily what she witnessed in Serbia, common ground and both veer surmounted. 65 In Celebration of Music ECHO IN THE CANYON 2018 | USA | English | 82 Directed by Andrew Slater Documentary, Music | PG

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Laurel Canyon is a surprisingly true is that from the mid- Carole King, the Eagles, rustic landscape of eucalyptus 1960s to the early 1970s Richie Furay and many more. trees and wooden houses in some of the most melodic, They took drugs together, Los Angeles, not so far from atmospheric, and subtly formed bands together, and the nightclubs and recording political American popular broke up those bands. Many studios on and around the music was written by residents of them slept with each other. Sunset Strip. of, or those associated with, The music was an amalgam Laurel Canyon—including Joni of influences that included Since nearly everyone who Mitchell, Neil Young, David blues, rock and roll, jazz, was there was, at one time Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Latin, country and western, or another, stoned, nobody Nash, Chris Hillman, Roger psychedelia, bluegrass, and remembers everything the McGuinn, J. D. Souther, Judee folk. same way. What is undeniably Sill, the Mamas and the Papas,

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Ajatashatru (Dhanush) has in love with a young American for the span of a few hours. lived all his life in a small Mum- woman having an existential As Aja finds himself helpless- bai neighborhood tricking crisis, wakes up in a truck full of ly shipped from Folkestone to people with street magic and Somalian refugees headed for Barcelona, and from Rome to performing as a ‘fakir’ who can England, is held hostage in a Tripoli, what was supposed to do impossible miracles. After bureaucratic war, sorts out the be a simple visit to Paris to dis- his mother’s untimely death, he love life of a movie star, gets cover his father’s identity turns sets out on a journey to France shot at by a hitman in a Roman into a veritable odyssey. to find his father. From the mo- palace, travels by private jet, ment he arrives in Paris, noth- merchant ship and hot-air bal- ing goes as planned. Aja falls loon, and becomes a rich man

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The film is built around the life: he finds himself with a lot various pursuers. concept of money: what it of money in his hands - and means, how it is used, what a choice. This money can Director Denys Arcand’s value it has in our world, and provide him the lifestyle he probing intelligence turns the what it can do to people. wants, but it can also lead to film into a subtle investigation Pierre-Paul (Alexandre numerous headaches, namely of contemporary society, Landry), is a shy 36-year-old in the form of entanglements a society where the old with a PhD in philosophy who with both police and the social contract that once ends up driving a courier truck, criminal underworld. Pierre- underpinned our interactions a line of work he believes Paul’s decisions take him on proves hollow. he is too good for. A single an unlikely voyage where he event changes Pierre-Paul’s needs all his wits to outfox his

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Andre has died under myste- (Éléonore Loiselle) and her ing to ghosts. Meanwhile, their rious circumstances, leaving eleven-year-old sister Marine mother (Mélissa Désormeaux- behind his wife and two daugh- (Maèva Tremblay) are adrift Poulin) is preoccupied with ters who must now learn to in their daily lives, desperate- paying their bills, struggling to grow together or risk being ly grasping for something to keep their heads above water. swept apart. One year after hold on to that will somehow She does not see that her fami- his death, the family continues make everything make sense ly is in danger of drifting so far to both mourn and contem- again. Each reacts different- apart that they may never find plate how to deal with their ly: Océane goes wildly off on each other again. The film is a profound sense of loss. a tangent, taking an older first deeply empathetic portrait of lover, while Marine takes ref- these women’s odyssey from Sixteen-year-old Océane uge in a fantasy world, speak- frailty to resilience.

67 FINAL OFFER 1985 | Canada | English | 79 Directed by Sturla Gunnarsson, Robert Collison Documentary | NR

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Filmmakers Sturla Gunnarsson The filmmakers follow White The most comprehensive and Robert Collison were given through the landmark auto and candid look at collective remarkable freedom to record strike at General Motors, bargaining on film, Final Offer the historic 1984 contract watching as he strategizes with is an invaluable document negotiations between the United his advisors, fields the demands for anyone interested in the Auto Workers and General of his members, and makes complexities of United States- Motors Corporation. Ultimately, offers, threats and counter-offers Canada relations and for this award-winning film provided during marathon bargaining generations of students learning a historical record of the birth of sessions. The filmmakers also how the process actually works. the CAW as Bob White, the head gained unrestricted access to Celebrating its 35th anniversary, of the Canadian sector of the GM’s plants, vividly capturing the it’s an extraordinary film about UAW, led his membership out of daily shop floor skirmishes and revolutionary events. the International union. tensions.

FOLLOW ME 2019 | Canada | English | 75 Directed by Nicholas Li Documentary | NR

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Those of us who struggle with Fought to Regain Weight” A fan of wellness documenta- obesity need a message of received a great deal of no- ries, Tony spent several months hope, not despair. In Follow toriety, which irked Tony. The searching hundreds of articles, Me, Tony Vassallo, a morbidly overall tone – long-term weight online and elsewhere, seeking obese survivor, investigates loss is impossible so don’t even out sustained weight-loss suc- others who beat the odds by try – would have discouraged cess stories. The film features losing a significant amount of him when he was losing weight. the weight-loss stories of 16 weight and keeping it off. When the concept of a docu- people who have lost more mentary was presented, Tony than 50 pounds each and kept In the summer of 2016, a New hoped it would help dispel the the weight off for as long as 30 York Times article “After ‘The pessimistic notion the article years. Biggest Loser,’ Their Bodies portrayed.

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Winner of multiple awards personal stakes as she falls in daily, baby Sama comes into (Hot Docs, Cannes, Telluride, love and becomes pregnant the world and Waad is faced to name a few), For Sama with her first child. The idea with an impossible decision - powerfully distills the difficult of bringing a baby into such whether or not to flee the city choices faced by citizens of extreme conditions transforms to protect her daughter, when war-torn regions. the narrative. She maintains leaving means abandoning the love for her nation and the struggle for freedom for which For five years, Waad al-Kateab people around her, hoping this she has sacrificed so much. For has been filming the uprising in passion can counterbalance Sama is a love letter from a her home city of Aleppo, Syria. the widespread violence her mother to her daughter. Capturing the brutal conflict all daughter will be born into. around her comes with added While the battles rage on

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All his life, Yves (Martin Du- Her son Marc (Henri Picard) Now alone at the end of the breuil) has dedicated himself immediately disapproves of world, he realizes his words no to writing poetry, carrying this eccentric stranger in his longer mean anything. Freely his suitcase to any couch that mother’s bed. But the studious inspired by the life and work would welcome him. After a teenager soon finds Yves’ reb- of Quebec poet Yves Boisvert chance meeting at a book el ways contagious and begins (1950-2012), For Those Who launch, the middle-aged Yves to explore his own artistic side. Don’t Read Me tells the story of storms into Dyane’s (Céline Meanwhile, the poet feels in- a man’s quest for the absolute, Bonnier) life, a graphic de- creasingly trapped in his new fighting not to end up forgot- signer who falls for his charms life and decides to sabotage ten between two cookbooks. and invites him into her home. everything in a great outburst.

69 HOT DOCS SHOWCASE FRAMING JOHN DELOREAN 2019 | USA | English | 109 Directed by Don Argott, Sheena M. Joyce Documentary, Biography, Drama | PG NOVEMBER 2, 3:10pm-4:59pm • Armouries NOVEMBER 2, 5:35pm-7:24pm • Armouries NOVEMBER 9, 4:30pm-6:19pm • Armouries NOVEMBER9, 6:30pm-8:19pm • Armouries

Mixing documentary and real John DeLorean? To conquer the world, and his fictionalized re-enactments,some, he was a renegade shocking fall from grace on a new film about thevisionary who revolutionized charges of cocaine trafficking. mythic automaker tells a the automobile industry. To Interweaving a treasure quintessentially American others, he was the ultimate con trove of archival footage with story of ambition and greed. man. Framing John DeLorean dramatic vignettes starring recounts, for the first time, the Alec Baldwin, Framing John Money, power, politics, drugs, extraordinary life and legend DeLorean is a gripping look scandal, and fast cars. The of the controversial automaker, at a man who gambled incredible story of John tracing his meteoric rise everything in his pursuit of the DeLorean is the stuff of a through the ranks of General American Dream. Hollywood screenwriter’s Motors, his obsessive quest to dreams. But who was the build a sports car that would

FRANKIE 2019 | France, Portugal English, French, Portuguese | 100 Directed by Ira Sachs Drama | PG

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A thoughtful generational study include her current and former Frankie hopes to set up with Paul from director Ira Sachs, Frankie husbands (Brendan Gleeson and — though Irene’s current beau, follows the members of a blend- Pascal Greggory), her chron- Hollywood cinematographer ed family over a day as they wan- ically single son Paul (Jérémie Gary (Greg Kinnear), might have der around the Portuguese town Renier), her unhappily married something to say about that. of Sintra, trying to ignore the daughter Sylvia (Vinette Rob- fact that their matriarch is dying. inson), and Sylvia’s adolescent Frankie generously eulogizes daughter Maya (Sennia Nanua), an undaunted woman living the Frankie (Isabelle Huppert) has who wants as little to do with conclusive chapter of her life in summoned a league of loved the occasion as possible. The a changing world, ready for her ones to join her for a holiday in family is joined by Frankie’s old final close-up. Sintra, Portugal. The attendees friend Irene (Marisa Tomei), who

70 LGBTQ2+ Films In Celebration of Music GAY CHORUS DEEP SOUTH 2019 | USA | English | 100 Directed by David Charles Rodrigues Documentary, Music | NR NOVEMBER 1, 9:10am-10:50am • Armouries NOVEMBER 6, 3:50pm-5:30pm • Armouries NOVEMBER 10, 11:10pm-12:50pm • Armouries

In response to a wave of acceptance, to communities confront their own fears, pain discriminatory anti-LGBTQ and individuals confronting and prejudices on a journey laws in the Southern states intolerance. Over 300 singers towards reconciliation. The and the divisive 2016 election, travelled from Mississippi conversations and connections the San Francisco Gay Men’s to Tennessee through the that emerge offer a glimpse of Chorus embarks on a tour of Carolinas and over the bridge a less divided America, where the American Deep South. into Selma. They performed in the things that divide us - faith, churches, community centers politics, sexual identity - are Led by Conductor, Dr. Tim and concert halls in hopes of set aside by the soaring power Seelig, and joined by The unity in a time of difference. of music, humanity and a little Oakland Interfaith Gospel The journey also challenges drag. Choir, the tour brings a Tim and other Chorus message of music, love and members who fled the South to

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An almost operatic tribute to Sixteen year-old Guillaume consider the possibility of see- youth, Genesis uses an uncon- Bonnet (Théodore Pellerin) and ing other people. His seemingly ventional structure to capture his older step-sister Charlotte throwaway comment rocks her the discomfort of adolescence. (Noée Abita), are going through world, yet it is Charlotte who Its nonlinear timeline follows equally troublesome patches in starts looking elsewhere for love. three interconnected experi- their romantic lives. Guillaume ences wrought by tragedy and seems insufferably arrogant but The characters show little re- cosmic coincidences. Its images is also the very cliche of a sen- gard for their own well-being, as form a unifying force in a deep sitive outsider. Charlotte is two if lingering at the edge of a cliff. examination of first love, real years older and in a committed This is an intimate, quietly trans- and imagined, in a confused and relationship with Maxime (Pier- gressive, and unsettling portrait often cruel world. Luc Funk), who suggests they of desire.

71 WIFF LOCAL GHOST ARTIST 2019 | Canada | English, French | 68 Directed by Steven Palmer, Edward Riche Documentary | NR

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When a revolutionary film Allen Ginsberg, Jean Genet bending indie movie in early about medicine and the body and Salvador Dalí. As Cordier 1970s New York shot by the is rediscovered after 50 years helps to revive the original film, first woman cinematographer in an archival vault, it leads to the great storyteller unmasks credited on a feature film its uncredited maker, Robert the film as a remarkable avant- (Deidi von Schaewen), Cordier’s Cordier, still working at 82. garde creation for the masses, endlessly surprising creative Beyond making 20,000 a strategic cross-over with networks are all about the people faint at the Montreal spectacular results. practice of art as liberation. world’s fair, Cordier’s 1967 movie was inspired by an Whether directing a Black Arts Ghost Artist is in the same unsung career of collaborations Movement theatre company in documentary family as with such legendary figures as the Deep South during the Civil Searching for Sugarman and James Baldwin, Andy Warhol, Rights era, or making a gender- Finding Vivien Maier.

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Ghost Fleet follows a small traffickers, the captive men go complacency, Patima’s fearless group of activists who risk their months, even years, without determination for justice in- lives on remote Indonesian is- setting foot on land, earning lit- spires her nation and the world. lands to find justice and free- tle to no pay, trapped on boats Combining chilling testimony dom for the enslaved fishermen in perilous conditions. from formerly enslaved men, who feed the world’s insatiable Bangkok-based Patima Tung- recreations of their ordeals, appetite for seafood. In the puchayakul, a Thai abolition- and on-the-ground footage of global fishing industry, a mod- ist, has committed her life to rescue missions, this award-win- ern form of slavery takes place helping these “lost” men return ning and revelatory documen- far out at sea where no one can home and expose the abuses tary condemns the modern-day bear witness. Once sold to Thai they’ve endured. Facing illness, slave labour fueling the Thai fishing companies by human death threats, corruption, and fishing industry. 72 WIFF LOCAL GO-BOY! MEMORIES OF A LIFE BEHIND BARS 2019 | Canada | English | 76 Directed by Rob Lindsay | Documentary | NR

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Roger Caron was 39 when he came in the form of regular Named after the memoir that made the transition from bank beatings, shock therapy, won a Governor General’s robber to celebrated author. extended periods of solitary Award in 1978, Go Boy! is a By then, he had spent 23 years confinement and medicalriveting account of Caron’s in Canada’s jails, including experimentation. It wasn’t until colourful life. The film combines several stints in Kingston Roger taught himself to write archival footage, Caron’s own Prison, and escaped an while living under the brutal words and interviews with incredible thirteen times. From conditions of the notorious people in his life, along with the the 1950’s to 1970’s, Canadian Kingston Penitentiary, that insights of others who know penitentiaries were some of the he discovered a new way to what it’s like to be on either most dangerous institutions escape - through the power of side of a cell door. in the world. “Rehabilitation” his words.

GOALIE 2019 | Canada | English | 119 Directed by Adriana Maggs Biography, Drama, Sport | PG

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Goalie is a biopic about Terry sports-hero mythologizing by The film rests on Mark O’Brien’s Sawchuk, a kid from Winnipeg acknowledging the damage brittle, evasive performance as who played for four of the Orig- that made the NHL legend who Sawchuk, a man who’s uncom- inal Six teams, held the all-time he was – and then simply track- fortable around his teammates, NHL record for the most wins, ing the physical and emotional uncertain around the woman he and died after a drunken fight scar tissue as it accumulates loves (Georgina Reilly) and un- in 1970. He was 40 years old, over the course of his life. It’s ceasingly deferential to coach- and a wreck. Director Adriana not a celebration; it’s a tragedy es and managers, self-medi- Maggs shows us how he got – an emotionally raw, perfor- cating with alcohol and slowly there. mance-driven study of a man losing everything around him. who gave everything to a sport, Goalie subverts the usual and couldn’t get anything back. 73 HOT DOCS SHOWCASE Prize in Canadian Film NOMINEE In Celebration of Music GORDON LIGHTFOOT: IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND 2019 | Canada | English | 91 Directed by Martha Kehoe, Joan Tosoni Documentary, Biography, Music | PG NOVEMBER 2, 1:15pm-2:46pm • Chrysler NOVEMBER 7, 8:30pm-10:01pm • pentastar

From the song he refuses to his element, candidly revisiting Lightfoot: If You Could Read perform to his admiration his idealistic years in Yorkville’s My Mind is an intimate and for Drake, a songwriting coffeehouses, up throughemotional examination of the legend reflects on hisstadium tours to Lightfoot’s artist’s profound relationship lyrics and longevity with hedonistic, substance-fueled to his music and his Canadian candour and humour. At 80 arena shows of the 70s, and roots. No matter how far his years young (and currently finally to his life today. music travelled, he continued recording another album), to write passionately about the Gordon Lightfoot continues Following Lightfoot’s evolution country he calls home. With his to entertain and enlighten. from Christian choirboy instantly recognizable voice Personal archive materials to troubled troubadour to and masterful guitar playing, and studio sessions paint an international star and beloved Gordon Lightfoot remains intimate picture of an artist in Canadian icon, Gordon influential and timeless.

MIDNIGHT MADNESS GREENER GRASS 2019 | USA | English | 101 Directed by Jocelyn DeBoer, Dawn Luebbe Comedy | PG

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Writers, directors, and stars parties complimenting their psycho yoga teacher killer is Jocelyn DeBoer and Dawn neighbours’ potluck dips. As on the loose and Jill’s husband Luebbe confirm their gift for the women desperately vie (Beck Bennett) has developed outrageous absurdity in this for validation, they struggle to a curious taste for pool water. impressive, dark comedy full of maintain pleasantry and nor- Brimming with a talented cast unsettling behaviour. malcy, even when things get of comedic favourites, Green- Jill and Lisa live in their per- weird. And they do get weird. er Grass fully commits to a fect homes in their idyllic sub- When Jill gifts Lisa her new- demented version of suburbia urban community with their born baby in an altruistic ges- (think Stepford Wives-on-acid) happy families. Their days are ture, paranoia overwhelms Jill as it scrutinizes the willingness spent in the grocery store ex- while her fears and anxieties to endure extreme discomfort changing fashion tips and at quickly unravel. Meanwhile, a in exchange for conformity.

74 HAIL SATAN? 2019 | USA | English | 95 Directed by Penny Lane Documentary | 14A

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The title card for Penny Lane’s documentary. When media- you open the door to Satan,” phenomenal Hail Satan? savvy members of the Satanic one devil worshipper beams. waits a beat before adding Temple organize a series of the question mark. Are the public actions designed to As charming and funny as members of the Satanic advocate for religious freedom it is thought-provoking, Hail Temple for real? No … and yes. and challenge corrupt Satan? offers a timely look at a authority, they prove that with group of often misunderstood Chronicling the extraordinary little more than a clever idea, outsiders whose unwavering rise of one of the most a mischievous sense of humor, commitment to social and colourful and controversial and a few rebellious friends, political justice has empowered religious movements in you can speak truth to power thousands of people around American history, Hail Satan? in some truly profound ways. the world. is an inspiring and entertaining “You open the door to God,

HAPPY NEW YEAR, COLIN BURSTEAD 2018 | UK | English | 95 Directed by Ben Wheatley Drama | NR

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Colin Burstead (Neil Mas- arrivals stage, a litany of pet- more explosive than most Bur- kell) rents a grand but gloomy ty grudges and deeper-seat- stead gatherings: sister Gini country manor in Dorset for ed resentments are exposed has invited black sheep brother his extended family to cele- between Colin, his tetchy, fi- David, despite the fact that he’s brate New Year. Everyone, nancially addled parents, his estranged from everyone. bar the eccentric, sentimental well-meaning but unsung sister Uncle Bernie, is annoyed that Gini and his Flemish wife Val, And that’s just the inner circle they’ve had to drive for hours seemingly doing her best to of the squabbling storm as Ben to get there, but a mixture of stay on the fringes of the whole Wheatley densely packs his film obligation, score-settling and affair. But it soon emerges that with a not-so-merry-go-round good old-fashioned family guilt there’s a wrench in the works of secondary tensions. compels them all. Even at the that promises to make this even

75 HIGH LIFE 2018 | UK, France, Germany, Poland, USA | English | 113 Directed by Claire Denis Adventure, Drama, Mystery | 18A

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In the near future, a spaceship system to keep everyone includes André Benjamin and proceeds on a mission to alive as they hurtle through Mia Goth, master filmmaker find a new energy source. Its deep space. Monte is also Claire Denis guides her actors destination: the black hole caring for a baby daughter into daring new territory. within closest reach of Earth. who was born on board — an This award-winning film is The ship’s crew is a collection anomaly that is just the first as visually arresting as it is of dangerous prisoners with sign of the chaos to come. challenging, confounding, and nothing left to lose. At first, As Monte’s self-discipline ultimately rewarding - which is Monte (Robert Pattinson) is slips, the crew awakens and to say it’s everything film fans the only crew member awake, conflicts erupt. Working with expect from Claire Denis. rigorously tending to the the brilliant Juliette Binoche computer and life-support and supported by a cast that

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The most awarded film at this in a long line of Macedonian offering her affections, her year’s Sundance Film Festival, wild beekeepers, eking out a brandy and her tried-and-true Honeyland is an epic, visually living farming honey in small beekeeping advice. When the stunning portrait of the deli- batches to be sold in the closest family’s patriarch senses op- cate balance between nature city -- a four hours’ walk away. portunity and decides to pro- and humanity. Hatidze’s peaceful existence duce his own honey, his disre- is thrown into upheaval by the gard of Hatidze’s advice causes Nestled in an isolated mountain arrival of an itinerant family, a breach in the natural order, region deep within the Balkans, with their roaring engines, sev- exposing the tension between Hatidze Muratova lives in a vil- en rambunctious children and exploitation and sustainabil- lage without roads, electricity herd of cattle. Hatidze meets ity, and threatening her very or running water. She’s the last the change with an open heart, means of survival. 76 HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG 2003 | USA | English, Persian | 126 Directed by Vadim Perelman Drama | 14A

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With fourteen nominations Nadi ( Shohreh Aghdashloo) Connelly), a self-destructive (including an Academy Award) and teenage son to America alcoholic. When Kathy decides for Best Actress in a Supporting to build a new life. Despite to fight for her home at any Role, and seven wins, Shohreh a pretense of continued cost, she and Behrani engage Aghdashloo shines in House of affluence, he is barely making in a legal battle that speaks Sand and Fog. ends meet until he sees his to issues of race and class, opportunity in the auction of sparking a tragic chain of Massoud Amir Behrani (Ben a house being sold for back events that will leave no one Kingsley) is living a lie to fulfill taxes. Through a bureaucratic unscathed. a dream. Once a member of snafu, the house had been the Shah of Iran’s elite inner improperly seized from its circle, he has brought his wife rightful owner, Kathy (Jennifer

HOT DOCS SHOWCASE HUMAN NATURE 2019 | USA | English | 107 Directed by Adam Bolt Documentary | PG

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With revolutionary advances implications of this genetic Human Nature is a provoca- being made in numerous sci- tinkering could mean the cure tive exploration of CRISPR’s entific fields, one particular and erasure of diseases or, on far-reaching implications, subfield of biology stands out, a broader and more contro- through the eyes of the sci- with the potential to funda- versial scale, the possibility of entists who discovered it, the mentally change the course shaping children according to families it’s affecting, and the of a human’s life even before predetermined traits. For the genetic engineers who are test- birth. One of the most signifi- first time in the history of our ing its limits. To begin to answer cant breakthroughs in modern world, we have the potential these questions we must look history, the discovery of CRIS- to craft our own evolution. But back billions of years and peer PR has unlocked our ability to should we? into an uncertain future. manipulate human DNA. The 77 In Celebration of Music I’M GOING TO BREAK YOUR HEART 2019 | Canada | English | 90 Directed by Annie Bradley, Jim Morrison Documentary | PG

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Their romance made headlines haven’t worked much together. but romantic Saint Pierre et as Canada’s beautiful young After nearly two decades Miquelon islands in the dead rock royalty, but nearly two and three children, the two of winter, the documentary decades and three children have decided to examine their immerses viewers in their later, Raine Maida (Our Lady relationship and how they can musical relationship, even as it Peace) and Chantal Kreviazuk patch things up. exposes long-standing wounds struggle – like most people – and unresolved heartache. with their relationship. I’m Going to Break Your Heart Ultimately, I’m Going to Break captures the raw and wrenching Your Heart is the true story Raine and Chantal have journey these renowned of rediscovering love through been together for years, and singer-songwriters took to find creativity, in which music plays although they’ve made plenty their way back to each other. the lead role. of music on their own, they Filmed on France’s isolated

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Based on Christine Angot’s tive Parisian translator, Philippe Yet despite the hardships she eponymous novel, An Impossible (Quebec’s Niels Schneider), and faces, the brave, resourceful Ra- Love is told through the words then spends the rest of her life chel manages to build a decent of the protagonist’s daughter, trying to make something of home for herself and daughter, slowly revealing a bleakness their on-and-off (mostly off) af- Chantal (played by four differ- underneath the picturesque fair, which leaves her pregnant ent actresses over the decades), French scenery and fashion. and alone. Refusing to marry who grows up to be a smart outside his bourgeois social cir- and precocious young woman. Beginning in 1960 and running cle, Philippe has no interest in But when Philippe does come to the year 2000, we follow acknowledging his daughter be- back into the picture, the conse- small-town girl Rachel as she yond the occasional visit. quences are disastrous for both falls head over heels for a seduc- Rachel and her daughter. 78 Les Films Francophones IN SAFE HANDS 2018 | France, Belgium | French | 110 Directed by Jeanne Herry Drama | 14A | Subtitled

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The delicate and emotionally of France’s anonymous Agency tries to find him precarious path of a newborn adoption system, where a home. Meanwhile Alice put up for adoption is the mothers who wish to give (Élodie Bouchez), unable to subject of In Safe Hands, which away their newborns can do so have children of her own, follows several adults and one without identifying themselves. has never stopped fighting baby boy from his birth to to be a mother. Thanks to the the moment he finally lands a Abandoned at birth, baby dedicated members of social home. Theo’s uncertain future lies services, the paths of Alice and in the hands of the Child Theo will cross, blending the With an infant providing the Welfare Services. Jean journey of Jean and the rest of narrative throughline, the (Sandrine Kiberlain) is given the team along the way. script digs deep into the legal the responsibility of looking and psychological particulars after Theo, while the Adoption

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Young African girls, some as ‘cutting season’, which runs courageous girls. But ancient young as eight, face a terri- through the school holidays traditions die hard. In cooper- ble choice: submit to female in December, is when some ation with the Safe House, Po- genital mutilation and child of the most courageous girls lice officer Sijali and her team marriage, or risk their lives in the world leave everything start cracking down on FGM, and run away. Although FGM behind, not knowing if they’ll arresting parents and cutters is illegal, in Tanzania it is wide- ever see their families again. while rescuing girls at risk. In ly believed that girls’ clitorises The Name Of Your Daugh- must be cut off to reduce pro- Rhobi Samwelly, a brave lo- ter gives a voice to children miscuity. Mutilated girls also cal hero, stands up to her whose voices have never been demand a much higher bride community and provides a heard before. price. The chillingly named Safe House to protect these

79 SPOTLIGHT ON ARCHITECTURE THE INFINITE HAPPINESS 2015 | France, Denmark | Danish, English | 85 Directed by Ila Bêka, Louise Lemoine Documentary | NR

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The Infinite Happiness is a recount their month-long lush green roof, getting lost highly unusual architectural immersion inside this vertical among its paths, while their experience. The film takes village, nominated “World’s kids attend kindergarten on us to the heart of one of best residential building” the ground floor. The film the contemporary housing in 2011. Some 500 people reveals the building through developments considered to inhabit this unusual building an intimate point of view. By be a new model of success: – a loop of apartments that showing the surprising results the giant “8 House” designed reinvents the concept of of this innovative social in 2009 by Danish architects “home”. Residents can go model, the directors question Bjarke Ingels Group in the up and down all nine floors architecture’s ability to create suburbs of Copenhagen. by riding their bikes, coming collective happiness. face to face with cows and Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine sheep, or go for a hike on the

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With 36 awards and 40 nomi- Cluzet) requires a caregiver to Based on a true story of nations, this irreverent, uplifting assist him with his daily physi- friendship between a hand- comedy about friendship, trust cal needs. With the help of his icapped millionaire and his and human possibility is one of assistant Magalie (Audrey Fleu- street smart ex-con caretaker, the top-rated movies of all time. rot), he interviews a number of The Intouchables depicts an The Intouchables is also a pe- highly qualified candidates, all unlikely camaraderie rooted in rennial favourite at WIFF with of whom he subsequently re- honesty and humor between sold-out screenings every year. jects in favour of Driss (Omar two individuals who, on the Sy), a recently released ex-con surface, would seem to have When a paragliding accident who has only applied for the job nothing in common. leaves him paralyzed from the to ensure that he keeps getting neck down, Philippe (François welfare payments.

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With the planet facing multiple creative solutions, such as on a small handful of teens, environmental threats, brilliant a photocatalytic paint that Inventing Tomorrow follows young minds from around can turn smog into nontoxic their journeys as they work the world are working on elements, or an app that can out the intricate mechanics of innovative solutions to stave analyze pollutants. their presentations in the lead- off crises in their communities. up to the competition. These Whether dealing with air The brightest of these students students represent the hope pollution in Mexico, noxious have one destination in mind and ingenuity of a burgeoning foam-covered lakes in India, to showcase their work: the generation: winning the mining operations poisoning Intel International Science competition may be their the oceans around Indonesia and Engineering Fair, the immediate goal, but changing or arsenic in the soil in Hawaii, world’s largest high school the world is the ultimate prize. young people are finding science competition. Focusing THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF EURIDICE GUSMAO 2019 | Brazil, Germany | Portuguese | 139 Directed by Karim Ainouz | Drama | NR Subtitled

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Winner of the Un Certain at the Vienna Conservatory. their city’s teeming bustle, Regard award at this year’s Her sister, Guida (Julia Stock- each believing the other to be Cannes Film Festival, the lat- ler), however, is the first of the half a world away. Aïnouz’s stir- est feature from prolific Brazil- siblings to make it to Europe, ring epic of winding paths that ian auteur Karim Aïnouz, set in albeit fleetingly, after having fail to intersect balances cruel mid-century Rio de Janeiro, is eloped with a Greek sailor. ironies — the black sheep finds a sprawling melodrama about Guida soon returns to Rio de herself truly seen, while the feminine resilience. Janeiro pregnant and alone, ostensibly good daughter be- unbeknownst to Eurídice. Kept comes invisible — with carnal The year is 1950. Classical pi- apart by a terrible lie, years abandon and tenacious love. ano prodigy Eurídice (Carol pass as the two sisters forge Duarte) dreams of studying their respective paths through

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Social commentary, feminist officials decide that the centre Petit’s savvy decision to cast anthem, broad comedy with a isn’t helping get enough people not only seasoned actresses side of rom com – Louis-Julien off the streets and back to but former homeless women Petit’s Invisibles is a marvellous work, they shut it down, leaving as well, adds depth and pathos genre-bending confection. Audrey and Manu to deal with to the harrowing plot. Chief the consequences. The two among them, 70-year-old Audrey (Audrey Lamy) and soon decide to keep it open Adolpha van Meerhaeghe is the Manu (Corinne Masiero) run a clandestinely, allowing their film’s revelation and a force to day shelter for homeless women, girls to stay there overnight be reckoned with. Disarmingly offering them a warm shower, a while training them during the honest and tender, Invisibles hot meal, a little camaraderie day to become confident and sparkles with hope. and some necessary career functioning members of society. guidance. When municipal

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In 1943, Joseph Goebbels de- Hanni Lévy (Alice Dwyer) is an with her friend Ellen (Vikto- clared Berlin “free of Jews.” orphan who has just turned ria Schulz), dreams of a life Though he did come markedly seventeen. Cioma Schönhaus in America. All of them live close to his goal, some 1,700 (Max Mauff) takes on a dif- from one day to the next, ful- endured in secret. This grip- ferent identity, working as a ly aware that they could be ping docu-drama traces the passport forger. Eugen Friede arrested and deported at any astonishing, true stories of four (Aaron Altaras) is fortunate moment. Their irrepressible young survivors who learned to arrive at a comfortable will to live and ingenuity give that sometimes the best place home with good meals and a them the hope that they might to hide is in plain sight. flirtatious young woman. Ruth make it through until the end Arndt (Ruby O. Fee), together of the war.

82 Les Films Francophones IT MUST BE HEAVEN 2019 France, Qatar, Germany, Canada, Turkey, Palestine English, French, Arabic | 97 | Subtitled Directed by Elia Suleiman | Comedy | G NOVEMBER 1, 8:30pm-10:07pm • Kelly NOVEMBER 4, 11:20am-12:57pm • Kelly

In a series of darkly comic incisive critique of nationalism others. Suleiman embellishes vignettes shot in international and identity. small details in each, his locales, Palestinian director style edging ever closer to Elia Suleiman investigates the Suleiman once again stars the surreal, in an attempt meanings of being in exile, and in his own film, personally to capture the experience the absurdities of nationalism, investigating the meaning of a perpetual outsider and normality, and identity. A Jury of being in exile and in to suggest that normality is Special Mention at this year’s search of a home. Opening highly circumstantial, and Cannes, Suleiman, a famed in his native Palestine often absurd. Suleiman lends figure in Palestinian cinema, before moving to Paris and a detached bemusement to explores the world with his then New York, It Must Be his observation of the minute trademark, wide-eyed wonder Heaven comprises comedic oddities of daily life. — one that, here, belies an vignettes, some darker than

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Jeune Juliette is Anne Émond’s started to gain weight. To- school, an older boy who is semi-autobiographical filmday, she’s not obese, but she’s about to graduate. In short, about the most awkward peri- clearly the heaviest girl at her she wants everything she can’t od of her life. Fourteen-year- high school. But that doesn’t have—which sometimes makes old Juliette (Alexane Jamie- stop her from being vivacious, her forget to appreciate those son) lives in the country with funny and unrepentantly rebel- who really love her. We follow her father and her older broth- lious. Juliette has big dreams: this brazen and endearing girl er. When Juliette was younger, she wants to throw the best during her hectic last weeks her mother left the family to parties, move to New York to before summer vacation, and pursue her career in New York; live with her mother, and date watch as she does some grow- from that moment, Juliette the most gorgeous guy in her ing up—but not too much.

83 Prize in Canadian Film NOMINEE JORDAN RIVER ANDERSON, THE MESSENGER 2019 | Canada | English | 66 Directed by Alanis Obomsawin Documentary | PG

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When Jordan River Anderson, home-care costs. In 2007, live up to the aspirations of the suffering from a rare muscle facing criticism and in response principle, we’ve finally reached disorder known as Carey- to recommendations from a time when justice is possible. Fineman-Ziter syndrome, Indigenous groups, Canada’s died in 2005, he had spent Parliament passed a motion in Containing personal interviews all five years of his life in support of “Jordan’s Principle,” with Jordan’s relatives and with hospital. Although doctors had a policy meant to ensure some of the many Indigenous permitted Jordan to move into that First Nations children families fighting for basic human special housing when he was have equitable access to rights across the country, two years old, the Canadian government-funded health, legendary filmmaker Alanis federal and Manitoba provincial social, and educational Obomsawin’s most recent governments disputed which services. Although practice work is an exposé of blatant one was responsible for his took an exhausting 10 years to governmental disregard.

LGBTQ2+ Films HOT DOCS SHOWCASE KILLING PATIENT ZERO 2019 | Canada | English | 100 Directed by Laurie Lynd Documentary | PG

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In 1981, a mere seven years dying before media attention the person behind the epithet, since homosexuality had been and medical resources were Québécois flight attendant de-classified as a mental illness brought to bear. At the centre Gaétan Dugas. Based on Rich- in North America, there was of this storm stood Patient Zero, ard McKay’s groundbreaking progress and a feeling of gay the man accused of spreading book Patient Zero and the liberation in the air. And then, AIDS in North America, vilified Making of the AIDS Epidemic, suddenly, a new disease was as the embodiment of gay he- this is a fascinating portrait killing gay men. Initially called donism and promiscuity. not only of a man, but of a cri- the “gay plague,” AIDS became sis that shocked a community a shocking illustration of the Director Laurie Lynd peels into action. entrenched homophobia of the back the layers of homophobia time, with thousands of gay men and misinformation to reveal

84 WIFF JR. PROGRAMMER THE KING 2019 | UK, Hungary, Australia English, French | 140 Directed by David Michod Drama | NR

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A Netflix drama premiering at reluctant heir to the English into armed conflicts that go WIFF, The King is both epic and throne, has turned his back on against everything for which intimate. The performances royal life and is living among he stands. The young king are deserving of the full big- the people. When his father must navigate the palace screen impact, led by Timothée (Ben Mendelsohn) dies, Hal politics, chaos and war his Chalamet as Henry V, who is is crowned King Henry V father left behind, and the forced to transform himself and is forced to embrace the emotional strings of his past overnight into a reluctant life he tried to escape. Hal life - including his relationship monarch, and featuring Robert grows increasingly steely as with his closest friend, the Pattinson as the Dauphin. he inherits a crown he never aging alcoholic knight, John sought and the responsibilities Falstaff (Joel Edgerton). Hal, wayward prince and that come with it, pulling him

NOVEMBER 5, 5:30pm-7:27pm • Kelly NOVEMBER 6, 9am-10:57aM • Kelly

Adapted from Naomi Fon- As children, they promised each narrative feature is an integral taine’s critically acclaimed other they’d stick together no Indigenous story. But it is also a novel of the same name, Kues- matter what. But as they grow universal narrative about family sipan follows two girls growing older, issues of race and class hardships, community, belong- up as best friends in a Quebec boil to the surface and Shaniss ing, and the strength of female Innu community. While Mikuan begins to feel abandoned when friendship. As an exploration (Sharon Fontaine-Ishpatao) has Mikuan falls for a white boy and of the inevitability of change, a loving family and is destined starts to dream of a life beyond Kuessipan is a heartfelt story for a promising life outside of the one they know. that acknowledges the heart- her hometown, Shaniss (Yamie aches and triumphs of lifelong Grégoire) is picking up the piec- With compelling depth and sen- friendships. es of her shattered childhood. sitivity, Myriam Verreault’s first 85 Les Films Francophones LA BELLE EPOQUE 2019 | France | French | 115 Directed by Nicolas Bedos Romantic Comedy | PG | Subtitled

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Victor (Daniel Auteuil) is a whatever historical moment its fell for 45 years ago. It feels sexagenarian cartoonist actors, designers, and builders like a beautiful dream. But whose long-time publisher has can conjure. Victor hires them what happens when it’s time to eliminated their print edition to return him to May 16, 1974, wake up? and, with it, his gig. the day he met his wife-to-be, Marianne (Fanny Ardant) in a La Belle Époque invites us to Longing to escape the present, Lyon café. He is beguiled by peer into the past, consider Victor opts to return to the every detail, from the vintage how it made us who we are, past — or a simulacrum of editions of Libération to the and to muse on who we might it. Enter Time Travellers, a plastic egg holders to Margo still aspire to be. service that immerses clients in (Doria Tillier), the actress he a painstaking reenactment of accepts as the Marianne he

WIFF LOCAL LAST CALL 2019 | USA, Canada | English | 77 Directed by Gavin Michael Booth Drama | NR

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Co-written and directed by man’s last lifeline. It’s an inher- cations, and in real time. Their Windsor’s Gavin Michael ently dramatic situation, with separate performances are Booth, Last Call is an indie dra- rising suspense, built-in pathos contained in one long take. He ma about a suicidal alcoholic and the “ticking clock” count- shows them both - all 70-odd who gets a wrong number when down of all good thrillers. minutes worth - on the screen trying to reach a crisis hotline. at the same time in split screen. The after-hours college custodi- Booth shot his two actors Sarah Booth’s increasingly an who answers the phone finds — Sarah Booth as Beth, the engaged and emotional per- herself first inconvenienced, working-mom/custodian and formance will punch you in the then trapped, then involved co-writer Daved Wilkins as heart before the film is finished. and finally committed to this Scott, the drunk on what might call that may be a despairing be his last bender — in two lo-

NOVEMBER 8, 11:30am-1:36pm • Pentastar NOVEMBER 9, 10:40pm-12:46pm • Pentastar

Avant-garde Russian the west, including classics trajectory of rock n’roll music filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov like the Beatles, Dylan, Velvet in the Soviet Union. has truly crafted something Underground, Bowie and original here and it needs the Doors. The underground Eventually winning the to be seen to be completely rock scene is boiling ahead Soundtrack Award at Cannes, understood. The setting of Perestroika. The film tells Leto hit a snag in August 2017 is Leningrad in the early the story of the relationship when Kirill Serebrennikov 1980s, when there was a between rock musicians Viktor was arrested as the film fiercely committed rock and Tsoi and Mike Naumenko, and was reaching the end of pop scene, with devotees Naumenko’s wife, Natalia, principal photography He has fanatically consuming the as well as the formation of remained in Moscow, where latest imported albums and the Leningrad Rock Club. he edited his film under house audiocassette bootlegs from Together they change the arrest.

LIE EXPOSED 2019 | Canada | English | 95 Directed by Jerry Ciccoritti Drama | NR

NOVEMBER 4, 10:25pm-12am • Kelly

Melanie receives a terminal many years and is in a good with alcohol and starts down a diagnosis which leads her to marriage with her partner path of self-destruction. When leave her husband and life be- Frank (Bruce Greenwood). she meets a photographer hind for Los Angeles and an When she is diagnosed with a working in the now rarely used affair with a tintype photogra- terminal illness, things change antique method of making tin- pher. dramatically. Melanie leaves type images, he challenges her her husband, and everything to give up alcohol for good and Directed by Jerry Ciccoritti, else, behind and makes her get sober. He also urges her Lie Exposed tells the story of way to Los Angeles. Feeling to pose for a series of explicit Melanie (Leslie Hope), a wom- she has nothing left to live for, photographs, which leads to a an who has been sober for she renews her relationship full-blown affair.

87 In Celebration of Music THE LION KING 1994 | USA | English | 89 Directed by Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff Animated | G

NOVEMBER 3, 9:30am-10:59am • Pentastar

Join us in celebrating the childhood turns tragic when instructs him to defeat the twenty-fifth anniversary of one his evil uncle, Scar, murders nefarious Scar and reclaim of the most popular Disney Mufasa and drives Simba his rightful throne. Borrowing animated musicals. away from the kingdom. In elements from Hamlet, exile, the young lion befriends classical mythology, and The Lion King presents the the comically bumbling pair African folk tales, The Lion story of a lion cub’s journey of Pumbaa the warthog and King tells its mythic coming-of- to adulthood and acceptance Timon the meerkat and lives age tale with a combination of of his royal destiny. Simba a carefree jungle life. As spectacular visuals and lively begins life as an honored he approaches adulthood, music, featuring songs by Elton prince, the son of the powerful however, he is visited by John and Tim Rice, and a score King Mufasa The cub’s happy the spirit of his father, who by Hans Zimmer.

LITTLE JOE 2019 | Austria, Germany, UK | English | 105 Directed by Jessica Hausner Science-Fiction | NR

NOVEMBER 2, 5:35pm-7:20pm • Kelly NOVEMBER 9, 10:30pm-12:15am • Kelly

Our society has grown so des- With the help of her partner comes into contact with the perate to be happy that it will Chris (Ben Whishaw), Alice cul- plant, which seems to infect accept any reality that gives us tivates a unique plant — so long those in proximity by releasing that chance, no matter how de- as they water it regularly, keep an inhalable, dusty cloud of humanizing it might be. it out of the cold, touch, and pollen with neurological con- talk to it — that allows its care- sequences. As more and more A strange pinkish glow ema- giver to feel happy. But when people in her circles become nates from the greenhouse of Alice brings the plant home to infected, the underlying cause Planthouse Biotechnologies, show her son Joe (Kit Connor), steadily erodes Alice’s grip on the laboratory where Alice for whom the plant is named, reality. Woodward (Emily Beecham), she begins to observe strange a dedicated geneticist, works. behaviour from everyone who

NOVEMBER 9, 9am-10:15am • Armouries NOVEMBER 9, 10:50am-12:05pm • Armouries

Little Star Rising is a feature- Ironman triathlon – 1.9 km determined and optimistic. In length documentary about swim, 90 km bike ride and a 21 front of her is an empowering a young woman whose first km run - is Nudži, a proofreader journey of redefining her life, memories are those of walking from Sarajevo, determined the obstacles that haters in front of a tank with her to change her life and be the throw at her feet but also mother and sister, banished first hijab-wearing woman good people that are drawn by from a village where she was in Europe to finish this hard Nudži’s optimism and the help born. When you see her today, race. Behind her is the war she gives others. you would never guess the that left scars on everyone, story of her childhood. including Nudži. She lost her father, her childhood and her At the starting line of a half home. Nudži is nothing but

NOVEMBER 6, 3:20pm-5:35pm • Pentastar

French actor-director Guil- are divorcing, and he’s selling know that he intends to sell the laume Canet’s follow-up to the summerhouse to pay off a place where they hope to stay his 2010 monster hit reunites debt caused by a bad invest- for a few days. When actor Eric stars François Cluzet, Marion ment. Two kinds of trouble (Gilles Lellouche) discovers the Cotillard and, in a cameo, Jean appear almost immediately truth, he offers to rent another Dujardin. on the horizon: Max’s group of villa so the reunited group can friends have decided to visit indulge its penchant for bicker- Little White Lies 2 opens in him for a surprise party for his ing, boozing and bed-hopping. Cap Ferret in the South of upcoming 60th birthday, even France during the off-season. though they haven’t seen him Max (François Cluzet) and his in ages, and neither Vero nor wife, Vero (Valérie Bonneton), any of those erstwhile friends

NOVEMBER 4, 9:05am-10:50am • Chrysler NOVEMBER 9, 6:30pm-8:15pm • kelly

Lola (Ludivine Sagnier), of the three and her brothers And so, as Lola falls for Zoher Pierre (José Garcia) and may be very overprotective, (Ramzy Bedia), she’s reluctant Benoit (Jean-Paul Rouve) but she’s actually like a mother to introduce him to her lost their parents a long time to them. Especially when Pierre brothers. But maybe the time ago. Family-wise, they’re all freaks out because he lost his has come for Lola to enjoy a they’ve got. Regardless of the job and pretends to everyone love life without interference, circumstances in their lives, that he’s still employed. Or and settle down at last. With they usually gather at their when paternity-shy Benoit family rivalry, love, tears and parents’ graves to update their bends over backwards to laughter, the film is about the parents and each other on how accommodate his new bride unbreakable bond between their lives are going. A 35-year- Sarah, on having kids asap. siblings. old lawyer, Lola is the youngest

NOVEMBER 5, 10pm-12:20am • Armouries

Oozing atmosphere with its virtuosic technical feats, Direc- flight — and featuring the for- noirish neon glow, the film tor Bi Gan’s award-winning film midable Sylvia Chang as Wild chronicles the return of Luo yields visual and aural delights. Cat’s mother — Long Day’s Hongwu (Huang Jue) to Kaili, With talismanic cues and mo- Journey Into Night leads the the hometown from which he tifs of uncanny doubling, the viewer on a nocturnal, laby- fled years before. Back for his film is bisected — its first half rinthine voyage that both re- father’s funeral, Luo recalls the recast through a vertiginous, veals and conceals a world of death of an old friend, Wild trance-inducing, hour-long sin- passion and intrigue. Past and Cat, and searches for lost love gle take. present, reality and dream Wan Qiwen (Tang Wei), who interweave in this stunningly continues to haunt him. Sculpt- A hushed, hypnotic study of beautiful and highly innovative ing in time and space through hazy memory, lost time, and film noir. 90 SPOTLIGHT ON ARCHITECTURE LOVING VINCENT: THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM 2019 | USA | English | 60 Directed by Michał Weçel | Documentary | NR NOVEMBER 3, 8:40pm-9:40pm • Chrysler NOVEMBER 9, 12:40pm-1:40pm • Armouries

In 2017, filmmakers Dorota their masterpiece. held guerrilla filmmaking Kobiela and Hugh Welchman The film takes the audience through the chaos that came made history with the Oscar- through the origin story of with creating Loving Vincent. nominated Loving Vincent - a the film’s concept, each step This behind-the-scenes look at huge hit at WIFF 2017- the first of the production process, Kobiela and Welchman’s 10- animated feature film created and ultimately how the team year journey demonstrates the entirely with hand-painted oil innovated a new way to create technology and artistry behind pictures, bringing to life the animation and storytelling. each frame of the film, while also renowned artist Vincent van Weçel mixed footage and revealing the risky challenges Gogh in his own impressionist interviews from production that tested the filmmakers at style. This new documentary with post-Academy Award each step in the process of by Michał Weçel, illustrates the interviews, providing a balance completing their ambitious filmmakers’ journey to create between narration and hand- project.

WIFF LOCAL THE LOWER PLATEAU 2018 | Canada | English | 82 Directed by Liz Singh Comedy, Drama | NR

NOVEMBER 10, 8:30pm-9:52pm • Kelly

Her ex wants her to move on, nis Morissette covers. Dogged and her charming new custom- her mom wants her to move to by her ex-band mate’s new hit er-slash-potential love interest, Toronto, her best friend wants song, Jaine mourns the loss Darren. When a glittering op- things to stay the same forever, of her career, her band and portunity in the Emerald City and her clients just want weed, her self respect. In the heart of Toronto threatens to lure but Jaine has other plans. of the city’s independent mu- her into a shiny new life, Jaine sic scene, the snow-covered struggles to sever old ties. Di- A formerly successful Montre- Plateau, Jaine encounters rected by Liz Singh, the film al musician trudges through both allies and obstacles, in- illustrates many facets of her the darkest days of winter, cluding her best friend-slash- own life as an emerging artist. armed with a backpack full of roommate Mari, her married weed and a repertoire of Ala- ex-lover-slash-manager David,

91 MAIDEN 2018 | UK | English, French | 97 Directed by Alex Holmes Documentary, Sport | PG

NOVEMBER 1, 3:25pm-5:02pm • Pentastar NOVEMBER 9, 6:30pm-8:07pm • Pentastar

The Whitbread Round the her father’s death and the its fundraising challenges and World Race was considered an adolescent rebelliousness that heated rivalries, the journey exclusively masculine endeavour resulted in her expulsion from to prepare the “Maiden” was when Tracy Edwards came along school. At 16, she ran away to already complicated. But it was and, in the face of much sexist Greece, where she had her just the beginning of an epic condescension, proved that skill, first taste of the seafaring life, adventure. perseverance, and courage at rapidly graduating from cook sea knows no gender. to deckhand to first mate. She Blending archival materials was still in her mid-twenties and new interviews in which Maiden traces Edwards’s when she became determined Edwards and her crew formative experiences: the to participate in the Whitbread members collectively narrate idyllic childhood that came with a crew of talented women their experience, Maiden is to a devastating halt with from around the world. With captivating.

LGBTQ2+ Films In Celebration of Music MAMMA MIA! SING-ALONG 2008 | USA, UK | English | 109 Directed by Phyllida Law Musical | PG

NOVEMBER 9, 11:15am-1:15pm • Chrysler

Set on a colorful Greek island, (Meryl Streep), who was once love. Mamma Mia!: The Sing- the plot serves as a back- the lead singer of Donna and Along Edition will feature the ground for a wealth of ABBA the Dynamos. In the meantime, lyrics to every musical number songs. A young woman Sophie Donna has invited her backup on the screen, and you are in- (Amanda Seyfried), about to singers, Rosie and Tanya, to vited to sing along. Join in on be married, discovers through the wedding. “Dancing Queen,” “S.O.S.,” an old diary of her mother’s “Money, Money, Money,” “Take that any one of three men Bring friends and family to ex- a Chance on Me,” “Lay All Your could be her father. She invites perience the smash hit movie Love on Me,” “Voulez-Vous” all three to the wedding with- musical in a whole new way by and all the others from the film! out telling her mother, Donna singing along to the songs they

92 In Celebration of Music MARIANNE & LEONARD: WORDS OF LOVE 2019 | USA | English, Norwegian | 102 Directed by Nick Broomfield Documentary, Music | PG NOVEMBER 1, 3:20pm-5:02pm • Kelly NOVEMBER 6, 11:20am-1:02pm • chrysler

Marianne & Leonard: Words a backdrop, Broomfield tells both Marianne and Leonard, of Love is renowned filmmaker the story of Cohen’s career whose friendship would last Nick Broomfield’s mostand the unlikely rise of the another fifty years before personal and romantic film. Montreal-bred poet with the their deaths in 2016, three The documentary starts on the deep bass voice. months apart. Through old Greek island of Hydra in 1960, photos, archival footage, and where Leonard Cohen, then a Never before seen footage interviews, the film traces struggling and unknown writer, shot by Broomfield and the love story that gifted and Marianne Ihlen, a single legendary documentarian, listeners with songs like “Bird mother with a young son, D.A. Pennebaker, make for a on the Wire” and “So Long, became part of a community unique portrait of an idyllic Marianne.” of expat artists, writers and 1960’s Bohemia. It was a time musicians. With their affair as that left a lasting imprint on

NOVEMBER 4, 8:20pm-10:19pm • Pentastar NOVEMBER 8, 6:30pm-8:29pM • Pentastar

Matthias and Maxime is a mum-care to his aunt. ka, a would-be movie director, personal film about a group makes a short film and per- of friends in French-speak- Meanwhile, Max’s circle of suades Matthias and Maxime ing Canada. One is Maxime friends are all vaguely dis- to be in it – and they have to (played by Dolan), a young turbed by the imminence of his kiss. The experience, expect- guy with a skin-pigmentation departure and what it means. ed to be laughed off, actually disorder whose career pros- Handsome, clean-cut Matthias affects both men deeply and pects have been hindered (Gabriel D’Almeida Freitas) is revives long-dormant feelings. by looking after his troubled in a straight relationship and With tenderness and gentle- mother (Anne Dorval). But trying to climb up the ladder ness, Dolan breathes fragrant now Max is going travelling in in his law firm. Things change life into a familiar story of un- Australia, and handing over when his annoying sister Eri- spoken longing. 93 HOT DOCS SHOWCASE MAXIMA 2019 | USA | Spanish | 88 Directed by Claudia Sparrow Documentary | PG | Subtitled

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Winner of the audience award She, along with neighbouring prosecution. Undeterred by the at the Hot Docs Film Festival, families, has grown up intimidation, Máxima knows Maxima is at times terrifying, understanding that land and what’s at stake. heartbreaking and always water are integral to life and infuriating – it’s difficult to not must be protected at all costs. This landmark film portrays leave feeling woke and weary. But as a multi-billion-dollar one woman’s courageous mining project is launched by journey to stand against the Surrounded by the beautiful the American Newmont Mining destruction of resources that mountains, lakes and water Corporation and lays claim hold far more value than systems of the Peruvian to the land, Máxima finds her gold. Her strength earned her Highlands lives Máxima Acuña, world turned upside down: she’s the world’s most prestigious a subsistence farmer who grows embroiled in conflict, forced environmental award, the potatoes and raises guinea pigs. eviction, violence and criminal Goldman Environmental Prize.

NOVEMBER 3, 10:20pm-11:50pm • Armouries NOVEMBER 5, 1:35pm-3:05pm • Armouries

Thrilling throughout, occasion- With a population of close to gency calls in the city’s wealth- ally heartbreaking, and some- nine million, Mexico City has iest neighbourhoods. But it’s times even darkly comedic, only 45 state-funded ambu- not all altruistic. This is, after Midnight Family, director Luke lances to serve in emergen- all, a quasi-legal business—bills Lorentzen’s verite look at Mex- cies. Meet the Ochoa family, must be paid, police must be ico’s broken healthcare system, who, like many, run a for-profit bribed—and the Ochoas often is a modern day parable about ambulance service to meet the find themselves in complicat- the dangers of increased pri- public’s needs when the state ed moral dilemmas, forced to vatization and the corruption falls short. They spend their barter with patients in an at- that takes root where govern- sleepless nights scanning po- tempt to balance their books mental oversight used to be. lice radios and competing to with their own ethical stan- be the first responder to emer- dard of care.

94 MIKE WALLACE IS HERE 2019 | USA | English | 94 Directed by Avi Belkin Documentary, Biography | PG

NOVEMBER 5, 1:35pm-3:09pm • Kelly

Mike Wallace made a fearless approach to his job is the American public by never career out of hard-hitting chronicled in this riveting and backing down from asking questions as one of the detailed Sundance-lauded tough questions. Unearthing original correspondents on 60 documentary. decades of never-before-seen Minutes where he interviewed footage from the 60 Minutes politicians and famous Taking on a wide array of vault, filmmaker Avi Belkin figures over five decades. His subjects, from Vladimir Putin crafts an all-archival portrait aggressive reporting style and and Malcolm X to Richard that explores what drove and showmanship redefined what Nixon and Barbra Streisand, plagued this restless reporter, America came to expect from Mike Wallace is Here carefully whose storied career and broadcasters. In a time where studies the rigorous and troubled personal life were journalistic integrity is under relentless professionalism of inherently entwined with the the microscope, Wallace’s a man who became trusted by evolution of journalism itself.

MINDING THE GAP 2018 | USA | English | 93 Directed by Bing Liu Documentary | 14A

NOVEMBER 1, 6:15pm-7:48pm • Armouries NOVEMBER 7, 11:10am-12:43pm • Armouries

Filmmaker Bing Liu returns quickly approaching. After the tions and complex emotions home to reconnect with his two carefree summers of their ado- that bubble to the surface. friends, bringing with him foot- lescence spent skateboarding While navigating a difficult re- age shot over the last 10 years. around Rockford, the stressors lationship between his camera, The resulting film tells the story of fatherhood, money, racial his friends, and his own past, of Liu and his friends – Keire tensions, domestic abuse and Bing ultimately weaves a sto- Johnson and Zack Mulligan – more start to threaten their ry of generational forgiveness who are grappling with what it decade-long friendship. while exploring the precarious means to be men in economical- gap between childhood and ly depressed Rockford, Illinois. Liu also turns the lens on his adulthood. Skateboarding is Adulthood and the responsi- own family, letting us see how a form of catharsis – and so is bilities that come with it are he handles upsetting situa- filmmaking.

95 MURMUR 2019 | Canada | English | 84 Directed by Heather Young Drama | 14A

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Brilliantly fusing documentary Donna, a woman in her sixties, isn’t long before she has taken and fiction techniques, director feels isolated. She lives alone, on more than she can handle. Heather Young crafts a bold, estranged from her daughter. distinct, visual aesthetic. Sentenced to community As Donna, Shan MacDonald Utilizing a hybrid approach service at a local animal shelter delivers a powerful and to casting and performance after an impaired-driving astonishingly raw performance through her use of non- conviction, she ends up taking as a woman struggling with the professional actors, Young home an elderly dog who is paralyzing fear of existing in a blurs the lines of conventional scheduled to be euthanized. world with no one to care for, narrative storytelling to The new-found companionship and no one to care for you. explore alienation, addiction, eases her loneliness, and to and the powerful desire within fill the void in her life further, all of us for connection. Donna keeps adopting pets. It

NOVEMBER 8, 11:50am-1:31pm • Kelly

While conducting a television the network. This double dis- ered by a young publisher in a interview with the widow of grace reinforces his desire to pile of rejected manuscripts? restaurateur Henri Pick, who prove that he is right. Jean-Michel is joined in his is the posthumous author of investigation by the late au- a bestseller, talk show host Because how could a small thor’s bookworm daughter, Jean-Michel Rouche (Fabrice town pizzeria owner, to whom Josephine (Camille Cottin), Luchini) attracts the wrath of no literary ambition has be- after convincing her the book his employer and the specta- fore been attributed, other couldn’t have been written by tors by suggesting the book than “writing a grocery list”, her father. Echoing Agatha could be a sham. The same have written this sublime novel Christie, false leads and liter- evening, his wife leaves him without anyone’s knowledge, ary fun abound in this charm- and he is fired from his job at which was only then discov- ing French affair.

NOVEMBER 1, 9am-10:38am • Kelly NOVEMBER 9, 9:10am-10:48am • Kelly

Winner of the Best Canadian not guilty of second-degree Reflecting on her own family Feature Documentary Award murder. The jury’s verdict drew connections to Indigenous at Hot Docs Film Festival, national attention and a public and settler histories, Hubbard nîpawistamâsowin: We Will outcry advocating for reforms faithfully follows the Boushie Stand Up tells a difficult story to the Canadian legal system. family’s pursuit of justice all that we all need to hear. the way to the United Nations. Colten Boushie, a young Cree With strength and authenticity, Drawing together the present man from Saskatchewan, was filmmaker Tasha Hubbard and past, Hubbard crafts killed by a bullet to the head bears witness to a tragic story an urgent and powerful film on Gerald Stanley’s farm in that traces back through that demands not only our 2016. Eighteen months later, centuries of injustice and attention, but our action. after the RCMP investigation colonial violence endured and trial, Stanley was found by First Nations peoples.

NOVEMBER 4, 11:20am-1:01pm • Pentastar

Inspired by a true story, No down, Frédéric not only lost his of her book and share it with Filter is about Beatrice (Al- sight but also lost the ability to her family and friends, they exandra Lamy), who has just filter his opinions and became soon realize, even though she published her first career novel obsessed with food. He now changed the names, that they called The Great Crossing. Her says everything he thinks and, are all there. At first delighted, book tells the story of the past though still funny and seduc- they quickly realize that Be- five years which she has just tive, he has become an unpre- atrice has somewhat magni- spent caring for her husband dictable man with no filter. fied some of their faults. What Frédéric (José Garcia). As the was intended as an homage result of an accident, which When Beatrice is finally ready to departure is quickly trans- turned everyone’s life upside to celebrate the publication formed into a minefield.

97 LGBTQ2+ Films NOMAD: IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF BRUCE CHATWIN 2019 | UK | English | 89 Directed by Werner Herzog Documentary | NR NOVEMBER 5, 3:35pm-5:04pm • Kelly

When British writer and the way, Herzog discovers wandering, borders and exile, adventurer Bruce Chatwin stories of dinosaurs, lost and art and objects. Told in was dying of AIDS, he gave tribes, Aboriginal traditions, Werner Herzog’s distinctive his friend, director Werner wanderers and dreamers. style, Nomad is a portrait Herzog, the rucksack that From Patagonia, to the of one of the 20th century’s he carried on all of his gorgeous landscape of Wales, most charismatic writers, full adventures around the world. to the Australian outback, of memorable characters and Now, three decades later, Nomad: In the Footsteps of encounters. It is also a portrait carrying the rucksack, Herzog Bruce Chatwin offers a fitting of two kindred spirits and sets out on his own journey, and thought-provoking tribute offers a fascinating insight into inspired by Chatwin’s passion to a man whose work explores Herzog’s own obsessions and for the nomadic life. Along human restlessness and imagination.

OFFICIAL SECRETS 2019 | UK, USA | English | 112 Directed by Gavin Hood Biography, Drama, Thriller | 14A

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Based on the book “The Spy United Nations Security Coun- al moments, Hood creates an Who Tried to Stop a War”, Offi- cil—proposed blackmailing intense atmosphere that cap- cial Secrets tells the true story smaller, undecided member tivates you until the very end of British secret-service officer states into voting for war. and begs the question: what Katharine Gun (Keira Knight- would you do? Keira Knight- ley), who, during the immediate Writer/director Gavin Hood ley’s performance as Gun al- run-up to the 2003 invasion of masterfully dramatizes these lows us a unique look into the Iraq, leaked a top-secret Na- real-life events and brings Gun psychology behind her deci- tional Security Agency memo. to life as an ordinary woman sion. The result is a portrait of The memo—which exposed an in an extraordinary situation. human nature that focuses on illegal U.S.-U.K. spying oper- By slowly revealing specific what is best in all of us. ation against members of the details and lingering on pivot-

98 LGBTQ2+ Films HOT DOCS SHOWCASE OLYMPIA 2018 | USA, Cyprus, Greece, Canada English | 103 Directed by Harry Mavromichalis Documentary, Biography | NR

NOVEMBER 10, 9am-10:43am • Kelly

Armed with her uncompromising 80th birthday and continuing Exhibiting candor and tenacity, intelligence, and humor, for three years, this film deals vulnerability, Olympia shares Olympia Dukakis fashions her with the struggles and pains with us her thoughts on aging, experience of alienation into surrounding identity and the grief and sexuality while opening armour while appropriating the expectations placed on us by up about past struggles with obstacles of life into tools for society. Its cinema-verité style depression, suicide and drug progression and growth. allows the audience to move addiction. Through her brutal alongside Olympia as she honesty, Olympia compels us to Director Harry Mavromichalis navigates between rehearsals, confront our own shortcomings follows Olympia Dukakis as workshops, family life, and by letting go and moving she takes on the roles of actor, finally, the journey with her forward with defiant conviction. teacher, wife, mother and daughter and granddaughters social activist. Starting on her to her ancestral home in Greece.

WIFF LOCAL In Celebration of Music ONCE WERE BROTHERS: ROBBIE ROBERTSON AND THE BAND 2019 | Canada, USA | English | 100 Directed by Daniel Roher Documentary | 14A

NOVEMBER 10, 6:00 PM • Pentastar

Produced by Windsor native Robertson’s orbit as he recounts of creativity and excess that Stephen Paniccia, directed by his early formation, the talent, can never be repeated. But as Daniel Roher and executive pro- hard work, and happy accidents The Band reached their cre- duced by Martin Scorsese, Brian that led to his fame with The ative peak, the seeds of their Grazer, and Ron Howard, this Band, and the conflicts that con- destruction were growing: documentary follows Robertson sumed them. egos, jealousies, and various from his early life in Toronto and intoxicants began tearing them on the Six Nations of the Grand Rare archival images, Robert- apart. Offering unprecedented River reserve, in Southern On- son’s memory for detail, and access to rock history, Once tario, to the creation of legend- contributions from friends such Were Brothers tells the story ary roots-rock group The Band. as Eric Clapton and Bruce of one remarkable Canadian’s Roher’s film draws you right into Springsteen conjure up an era contribution to music. 99 ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF NOAH PIOGATTUK 2019 | Canada | English, Inuktitut | 113 Directed by Zacharias Kunuk | Drama | G Subtitled

NOVEMBER 4, 8pm-9:53pm • Kelly

In the northern reaches of Those demands will carry an of years and the creation of Baffin Island in 1961, Noah enormous gravitas. Behind a new relationship with the (Apayata Kotierk) sets out what seems to the hunters to Canadian colonial state. In on a traditional Inuit hunt be the government agent’s this one day — and this fateful only to run headlong into incoherent requests is a policy meeting — Director Zacharias progress personified in the that will mean a fundamental Kunuk condenses much about form of “Boss” (Kim Bodnia), rupture in the lives of Inuit. Inuit–settler relations. The an emissary who’s come to The real Noah Piugattuk was emotional and historical layers make a proposition on behalf born in 1900 and lived to be 96 in the film make it one of his of the Canadian government: years old. He saw the decline finest works. assimilation in exchange for of traditional practices that shelter and services. had persisted for thousands

NOVEMBER 3, 3:45pm-5:27pm • Kelly

Marion and Ben are both in holiday should look like. modation and picture-perfect their thirties and living in Par- ocean views. While pursuing is. That and the Tinder app on The Airbnb in Bulgaria booked the holiday of their dreams and their phones is pretty much all by Marion (Camille Chamoux) wrangling the push-pull of their they have in common. But op- is not to Ben’s taste and tests mismatched personalities, a posites attract, and two weeks their burgeoning relationship trail of calamity is left across after the first date, they are with some hilarious conse- the Bulgarian countryside in leaving together for their sum- quences. While Marion’s care- their wake. The characters are mer holidays... to Bulgaria... free spirit sees her thrive on totally believable as are the with no clear plan. And as they adventure, Ben (Jonathan Co- ridiculous situations they man- will soon discover, with very dif- hen) prefers the finer things in age to find themselves in. ferent ideas of what a dream life, including five-star accom- 100 LGBTQ2+ Films PAIN AND GLORY 2019 | Spain | Spanish | 113 Directed by Pedro Almodóvar Drama | 14A | Subtitled

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This is pure Pedro Almodóvar: Winning Best Actor at a cinematheque in Madrid asks inventive and irreverent, Cannes, Antonio Banderas Salvador to help present a poignant and exhilarating. plays Almodóvar’s on-screen restoration of his breakthrough Chronicling the existential surrogate, Salvador Mallo, an film, he is compelled to odyssey of a filmmakeropioid-addled filmmaker with a reconnect with Alberto (Asier confronting the autumn of his laundry list of health problems. Etxeandia), an estranged life, the auteur’s 21st feature He hasn’t produced anything friend and that movie’s heroin- immerses us in the thrall of in years, spending most of his addicted leading man. Infused memory (and the fleeting bliss days feeling sorry for himself with dazzling colour and of narcotics) while celebrating and reminiscing about the emotional dynamism, Pain art as a balm for the burdens of difficult childhood he had with and Glory is a deeply personal mortality. his mother (Penélope Cruz, work from one of the world’s appearing in flashbacks). When foremost filmmakers.

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A family of cunning derelicts Ki-taek (Song Kang-ho) is a daughter Da-hye and terribly scheme to enter a wealthy good-for-nothing, unemployed spoiled son Da-song. When, household’s employ in this family man, patriarch of a fami- due to an unexpected stroke genre-bending, Palme d’Or– ly of derelicts — his wife Chung- of luck, Ki-woo is hired by the winning thriller of class strug- sook (Chang Hyae-jin), his clev- Parks to be Da-hye’s private gle from South Korean master er twenty-something daughter English tutor, the destinies of Bong Joon-ho. The film moves Ki-jung (Park So-dam), and his the two families cross. Their quickly from one tone to an- son Ki-woo (Choi Woo-shik)— explosive meeting exposes the other, mixing pathos and satire who live in an overcrowded, merciless evils of class inequal- with thrills and drama, in a per- sordid basement. The Parks, ities, culminating in a powerful fectly controlled blend of many on the other hand, live in a fab- and utterly original outcome. different genres. ulous house with their teenage 101 LGBTQ2+ Films PARIS IS BURNING 1990 | USA | English | 78 Directed by Jennie Livingston Documentary | 14A NOVEMBER 7, 10:30pm-11:48pm • Armouries NOVEMBER 8, 10:45pm-12:03am • Armouries

Chronicling the world of fierce members’ rival “houses,” as decorated sets, elaborate performance and competition they form fierce community voguing, and impassioned at Harlem drag balls during to combat the strains of offstage rivalries and onstage the 1980s, Jennie Livingston’s homophobia, transphobia, face-offs. Beyond the spectacle multiple award-winning Paris racism, AIDS, and poverty, the and pageantry of the drag balls, is Burning is a groundbreaking documentary features iconic Paris is Burning provides an exploration of race, class, voguers, drag queens, and intimate look into the very real gender, and sexuality. Now trans women, including Willi lives of a community struggling digitally restored, the film Ninja, Pepper LaBeija and to survive — queer and trans initially made waves when it was Venus Xtravaganza. Candid people of colour dealing with released almost 30 years ago. interviews with the performers loss and pain, but always are interspersed with images of thinking of their hopes and Showcasing the vibrant extravagant costumes, lavishly dreams for the future.

THE PARTS YOU LOSE 2019 | USA | English | 94 Directed by Christopher Cantwell Action, Drama, Thriller | NR

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Wesley (Danny Murphy), a man (Aaron Paul) helpless and at school and at home. After young deaf boy, is frequently bleeding beside the road. He a police officer visits his house, bullied at school, and his home brings the man to an aban- Wesley realizes he may not be life, a sanctuary, consists of doned barn near his house able to protect the man from his loving mother and younger and the man slowly recovers, being found and from the vio- sister. When his father returns helped by Wesley, who sneaks lence that will follow. Wesley home, Wesley withdraws into a him food and medical supplies. must choose between his loy- shy and uneasy silence. He and Wesley develop a pa- alty to a dangerous stranger, ternal bond as the man teach- and his growing understanding One day, on his walk home from es Wesley how to toughen up of right and wrong in the world. school, Wesley finds a strange and stand up to bullies, both

102 In Celebration of Music PAVAROTTI 2019 | UK, USA | English | 115 Directed by Ron Howard Documentary, Biography, Music | PG

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Director Ron Howard puts selling classical album in exploration into the challenging, audiences front row center for history. Luciano Pavarotti tempestuous, and triumphant an exploration of The Voice... gave his life to the music and journey of this master artist and The Man...The Legend. His a voice to the world. With his global figure. Featuring history- subject is, of course, Luciano endearing personality and making performances and Pavarotti (1935 – 2007), the love of publicity, he became a intimate interviews, including larger-than-life operatic tenor household name like no opera never-before-seen footage who cavorted with royals and star has since. and cutting-edge Dolby Atmos celebrities, raised millions for technology, Pavarotti is a charity, and helped make opera From his humble beginnings riveting film that lifts the curtain popular with the masses; the in Modena, to the heights of on the icon who brought opera first Three Tenors recording success, this documentary gives to the people. from 1990 remains the best- the audience an unprecedented

HOT DOCS SHOWCASE In Celebration of Music PIPE DREAMS 2019 | Canada English, French, German, Mandarin | 78 Directed by Stacey Tenenbaum Documentary | G NOVEMBER 3, 3:40pm-4:58pm • Armouries NOVEMBER 3, 5:05pm-6:23pm • Armouries NOVEMBER 4, 9:35pm-10:53pm • Armouries

In a house of worship, devo- musicians from around the of these organists as they tion takes many forms. Aiming world. They each attempt to move forward in the competi- to master the world’s largest transcend their hallowed sur- tion — or fail to make the cut. instrument, five young organ- roundings on a magnificent Listen as they make sounds ists compete in the prestigious Casavant organ constructed you would never associate with Canadian International Organ from 7,000 pipes. the organ. From the quietest Competition, culminating in a tinkling of a bell to the rumble captivating finale at Montre- Pipe Dreams gives us an inside of a locomotive, this is organ al’s historic Notre-Dame Basil- look into the weird and won- playing like you’ve never heard ica. One of the most exclusive derful world of competitive or- before! As the final chords re- competitions in the world, this gan playing. We’ll experience verberate, one champion will high-stakes event attracts top the emotional ups and downs emerge.

Winner of the Queer Palm reclusive daughter Héloïse Portrait of a Lady on Fire is and Best Screenplay awards (Adèle Haenel), who is soon a slow burn in which every at Cannes, Céline Sciamma’s to be married. The peculiar word, glance, and touch holds film is an exquisite portrait of conditions of this assignment, the promise of undiscovered hidden love, art, eros… and however, require that Marianne territory. The film engages the the gaze. never tell Héloïse the objective emotions and the intellect in of her visit. Instead, Marianne tandem, as our heroines discuss Set in 18th-century Brittany, is to escort Héloïse on walks, the purposes of art and life Portrait of a Lady on Fire follows posing as a companion while while their love builds from a Marianne (Noémie Merlant), closely observing her subject spark to a blaze. an artist commissioned by a so as to secretly render her noblewoman (Valeria Golino) likeness on canvas. to paint a portrait of her

WIFF LOCAL Prize in Canadian Film NOMINEE HOT DOCS SHOWCASE PREY 2019 | Canada | English | 88 Directed by Matt Gallagher Documentary | R

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Winner of the audience award have come forward to speak its role in enabling Marshall’s and a special jury prize at Hot publicly, while others have depravity. As the case moves Docs Documentary Festival, been silenced through settle- through the courts—led by Prey, directed by Windsor’s ments. Father Hod Marshall, a lawyer Rob Talach—the silence Matt Gallagher, tells the sto- Basilian priest and teacher in the Catholic Church fought to ry of a sexual abuse survivor’s Windsor, Toronto and Sudbury, maintain is broken. Also fea- court battle with the Catholic pled guilty to 17 sexual assault tured in the film is Windsorite Church. charges. One of his victims, Patrick McMahon who also fell Rod MacLeod, seeking closure victim to Marshall as a boy and Widespread sexual abuse for this traumatic part of his has been speaking out in an within the Catholic Church has childhood, filed suit against the effort to hold those within the traumatized thousands. Many Basilian Fathers of Toronto for church accountable.

104 SPOTLIGHT ON ARCHITECTURE PUSH 2019 | Sweden, Canada, Germany | English, Spanish, German | 92 Directed by Fredrik Gertten Documentary | G

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Housing is a fundamental to Housing, in her fight to Grenfell Tower fire in London human right, a precondition define affordable housing as that left 72 people dead. to a safe and healthy life. a fundamental human right. But in cities all around the She travels to some of the Who are the players and what world, having a place to live cities hardest hit by the crisis— are the factors that make is becoming more and more London, New York, Barcelona housing one of today’s most difficult. and Toronto, where housing pressing world issues? Farha prices have increased at three confronts the big business In this groundbreaking film, times the rate of income. perpetrators who put profits director Fredrik Gertten Among the many affected, we above the lives and safety of follows Leilani Farha, newly meet a man in Harlem who the urban populace. appointed UN Special spends 90% of his income on Rapporteur on the Right housing, and survivors of the

WIFF LOCAL THE QUICK AND DIRTY preceded by Finding Feather Hat Guy 2019 | Canada | English | 45 Directed by Jordan Krug & Nicholas Shields Crime Drama | NR

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Preceded by the short film and a gift for violence. When squarely in the noir genre - Finding Feather Hat Guy by the opportunity to upend a with an eclectic cast of char- Michael Evans small town criminal enterprise acters trapped in a backwoods presents itself, Page can’t say town becoming entangled in For Grant Page (Sean Dwyer), no. It’s a decision he comes a web of lies and deception. the only way to repent for a to regret. The simple caper in This latest film from Windsor’s misspent life of crime is to use the Deep South of the 1970’s Jordan Krug and Nick Shields that very inclination to take quickly spirals out of control. is further evidence that the down criminal organizations. aesthetic and simplicity of the It’s an exhausting and dan- In a tale reminiscent of the 70’s will always provide a fruit- gerous career, but it plays to Coen Brothers’ Blood Sim- ful milieu for film noir. his strengths - a cunning mind ple, The Quick and Dirty falls

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The Quietude invites us to a Quietud, the family home in matters demand attention, family gathering that will prove rural Argentina where Mia and both sisters re-entangle to be anything but tranquil. still resides with their mother, themselves in dormant love Sisters Mia (Martina Gusman) Esmeralda (Graciela Borges). affairs. The façade of quietude and Eugenia (Bérénice Bejo) The alarm caused by their won’t be sustained. have spent much of their father’s affliction is alleviated adult lives living on different by the announcement that A beautifully crafted, continents, yet they retain a Eugenia is pregnant, yet multilayered drama, The rare, almost disconcerting, tensions shadow the reunion Quietude chronicles a collision intimacy. When their father nonetheless. Mia and of old grievances and long-held suffers a stroke and slips into Esmeralda get into heated secrets. A melodramatic feast a coma, Eugenia leaves her arguments over seemingly on the surface, it opens up Paris home and returns to La petty matters, family business darker questions underneath.

RAISE HELL: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MOLLY IVINS 2019 | USA | English | 93 Directed by Janice Engel Documentary | 14A

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Raise Hell: The Life and Times tion and a good way to wreck ments. A workaholic, she trad- of Molly Ivins tells the story of a country.” Molly’s words have ed conventional relationships media firebrand Molly Ivins, six proved prescient. Now it’s up and intimacy for beer, a solid feet of Texas trouble who took to us to raise hell. typewriter, and boots made for on Good Old Boy corruption muckraking - dedicating four wherever she found it. Her ra- Intimidatingly brilliant and decades of her signature, droll zor sharp wit left both sides of quintessentially Texan - six- wit to tackling corruption, de- the aisle laughing, and craving foot tall, flame-maned journal- fending free speech, and mak- ink in her columns. She knew ist Molly Ivins was politically ing all the right frenemies. the Bill of Rights was in peril, blue in a scarlet red state and and said “Polarizing people unabashedly brash in her in/fa- is a good way to win an elec- mously lauded political assess-

106 WIFF LOCAL REFUGEE 2018 | UK English, Arabic, Kurdish, German, Greek | 87 Directed by Xander Farrell Documentary | NR | Subtitled

NOVEMBER 10, 1:25pm-2:52pm • Kelly

In 2015, at the height of the left…it was too late. The their own nightmare in one Syrian war, Raf’aa, a Syrian political climate had changed of the worst refugee camps mother was forced to make and the borders to Europe in Europe. Over the next the ultimate sacrifice. With her were closed. eighteen months, we witness husband Nazem in hospital, a testament to the human and the bombs getting closer, Safe in Germany, Raf’aa is spirit as the family fights to be she fled Syria to find asylum for traumatized by what she reunited. And a father shields her family, leaving Nazem and witnessed on her journey his children from what it means their two children behind. They and prays her children have to be a refugee. hoped to reunite in Europe not endured the same. Two within a few weeks, but by the thousand miles away, Nazem time Nazem and the children and her children live through

MIDNIGHT MADNESS THE ROOM 2003 | USA | English | 99 Directed by Tommy Wiseau Drama | 18A

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A bona fide classic of midnight a man who has it all: great Mark, finds his resistance to cinema is back at WIFF! friends, a good job, and a gor- Lisa’s seductive charms weak- geous fiancée named Lisa (Ju- ening. Meanwhile, local or- When Greg Sestero, an aspir- liette Danielle). But Lisa’s in- phan Denny looks up to John- ing film actor, meets the weird nocent act masks the fact that ny, and needs the older man’s and mysterious Tommy Wiseau she’s looking to bring Johnny help after the teen rips off a in an acting class, they form down, and her manipulations drug dealer. What kind of a unique friendship and trav- are tearing Johnny apart. As drugs? It doesn’t matter. Then el to Hollywood to make their Lisa informs her cancer-ridden guys play football in tuxedos, dreams come true. mother, Claudette, that John- because you can play football ny hit her (which he certainly anywhere. The film centers on Johnny, did not), Johnny’s best friend,

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Sauvage, Camille Vidal- complicated and visceral romantic feelings are violently Naquet’s riveting and vibrant world of male sex work, Leo rebuffed, Leo begins to spiral, erotic journey of a 22-year-old finds himself searching for questioning if he will ever find male prostitute named Leo, affection anywhere he can the love he so desperately features a stunning, award- get it. In poor health and with craves. This arresting and winning performance from no fixed address, he finds sometimes brutal debut Félix Maritaud. Leo trades fleeting solace in the arms of is bolstered by a raw in love as much as lust, and the men he meets through his performance by Maritaud, wanders through his life work. The crushing solitude who portrays Leo with quiet without rules or restrictions. of Leo’s life is tempered when introspection and disarming Through a series of encounters he falls for fellow hustler Ahd fragility. that offer a glimpse into the (Eric Bernard). But when his

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It’s hot in the South of France petty theft and fantasizing obsessing about the brooding and the little campground next about boys. Yann, the self- horror writer next door, Paul to the river is a microcosm of proclaimed local teenage (a creepy Laurent Lafitte). summer clichés: infatuations heartthrob, sets his sights Given the man-eating animal and unrequited puppy love, on Laura, but after a brief situation, and convinced disappearing panties and... make-out session and her that something about him disappearing men. A leopard subsequent rejection, he seems off, Laura decides to on the loose is supposedly to goes missing. Socially weird investigate further and sets blame for two victims already. and disconnected, Laura a game of cat and mouse in Laura (Lily-Rose Depp) and becomes the focus of police motion, not realizing just how her cousin (Aloïse Sauvage) suspicions, but when they dangerous he could be. occupy their days with come to question her, she’s

108 SCOTCH: A GOLDEN DREAM 2018 | UK, Taiwan | English | 89 Directed by Andrew Peat Documentary | PG

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Shot entirely on location in While capturing stunning made bottles for rare whiskies Scotland, Scotch: The Golden Scottish landscapes, the that sell for over $10,000 Dream tells the story of Uisge real heart of the film is the each, and the Cinderella tale beatha, Gaelic for “water characters - the fascinating of Jim McEwan, the distiller of life.” Scotch is enjoyed in people who make Scotch and master blender, a 50 year more than 200 countries, whisky. The film explores some plus industry veteran who takes generating over $6 billion of the biggest names in the on a dilapidated distillery on in exports each year. For industry, including Richard his home island of Islay in the more than a century, Scotch Paterson, a master blender Inner Hebrides and turns it into whisky has been the premier whose nose was insured for an award-winning blend. international spirit of choice. $2.5 million, Glasstorm, a company specialising in hand-

LGBTQ2+ Films SELL BY 2019 | USA | English | 94 Directed by Mike Doyle Comedy, Drama, Romance | NR

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Does every relationship have watching their support net- “stable” ones – are on the brink an expiration date? Adam work crumble around them. of divorce after 15 years of so- (Scott Evans), a frustrated Best friend Cammy’s (Michelle called bliss. But, in this mess, painter, and Marklin (Augus- Buteau) latest beau checks all hope springs eternal as they tus Prew), a successful fashion of her boxes – if you don’t count all muddle their way through to influencer, are about to find that he actually lives in a box; try and make life work. Sell By out. Their 5-year relationship Haley’s (Zoe Chao) student is is an impressive directorial de- has gone from a passionate more interested in studying her but from a veteran actor with flame to a medium burn, forc- than for the SATs; and Eliza- a refreshingly bespoke point of ing them to reconcile with each beth (Kate Walsh) and Damon view. other’s shortcomings all while (Chaz Lamar Shepherd) – the

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Sending Off is a gentle film families as they reach the end power to “take away the fear about the end of life. Filmed of their lives. of death.” Sending Off was over ten months in rural Japan, named Best Documentary at The trust the director formed director Ian Thomas Ash the 2019 Nippon Connection, with the medical team and documents a home care doctor the largest festival of Japanese patients is reflected in the as she and her team provide film in the world. often surprising level of access hospice care for residents of granted to the camera. The film a village who choose to pass This film contains images has been described as being away at home. The changing around the dying and the both “emotionally charged... seasons provide a backdrop dead that some might find makes us question our own to the deepening relationships disturbing. Viewer discretion attitude towards death and the patients form with their is advised. aging” while also having the

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In his new film, award-winning commander (Deng Chao) has lizing a pallet of rich greys and director Zhang Yimou (House cultivated a secret weapon to blacks. From the stark clothing of Flying Daggers) once again aid his survival: a “shadow,” a of the cast to the bleak sets pushes the boundaries of the lookalike who can fool both his where it all takes place, it is a wuxia genre to create a sword- enemies and the king himself feast for the eyes. Using con- play epic like no other. In an as the commander prepares trolled environments, sets and empire ruled by a wild and for a dangerous final assault costuming, Zhang Yimou has dangerous young king (Zheng against the forces of a rival taken the concept of yin and Kai) whose court is a hive of kingdom. yang and brought it to life on politicking and treachery, screen. the monarch’s brave military Shadow is a visual marvel, uti-

110 SIMPLE WEDDING 2019 | USA | English | 88 Directed by Sara Zandieh Comedy, Romance | NR

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The screening will be preceded Shohreh Aghdashloo and from Nousha’s parents as Alex by the presentation of the Houshang Touzie, it’s incredibly isn’t the Muslim engineer they’ve Spotlight Award to Shohreh important that Nousha gets imagined Nousha will marry. Aghdashloo. married immediately because she’s reaching prime spousal Aghdashloo and Touzie tie Simple Wedding, directed and age. However, as Nousha the whole film together as the co-written by Sara Zandieh, rejects all the basic, boring men well-meaning, loving parents stars Tara Grammy as Nousha, a thrown her way, she meets Alex who only want the best for young Iranian-American lawyer (Christopher O’Shea) a bisexual everyone. They embody who spends her days fighting artist, activist, and DJ who worried yet forceful parents for human rights while spending believes in all the same things with overbearing emotion and her nights on blind dates set up she does. As Nousha and Alex cautious stoicism. by her parents. For her parents, fall in love, they face disapproval

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Overtly challenging more than Charlotte (Marguerite Bouch- politics. Lorain beautifully illus- a century of chauvinistic teen ard) and her two best friends, trates the awkwardness of sex- sex comedies, this Canadian Megane (Romain Denis), the ual exploration and discovery, crowd-pleaser argues there’s anti-love anarchist, and Aube putting imperfect girls front nothing wrong if girls just want (Rose Adam), a virgin who and centre to celebrate them to have fun too. French-Cana- dreams of love, decide that through both their failures dian actress-turned-director they’re in need of some se- and victories. Slut in a Good Sophie Lorain’s Slut in a Good rious fun. Surprisingly, that Way cleverly navigates friend- Way is what you’ve been wait- fun is found in their new part- ship, relationships, and what it ing to see from the “teen girl time jobs at a toy store where means to be a liberated wom- rom-com” genre. the three girls get involved in an in the modern world. workplace love-drama and After a tragic heartbreak, 111 Les Films Francophones SOFIA 2018 | France, Qatar, Belgium, Morocco Arabic, French | 90 Directed by Meryem Benm’Barek-Aloïsi Drama | NR | Subtitled

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Winning multiple awards, medical student cousin, Lena by the legal need to find the including Best Screenplay at (Sarah Perles) is shocked to father and have him recognize Cannes, the pregnancy of an realize that Sofia is pregnant. the child; the other is driven by unmarried Moroccan girl is the Passing the pains off as social pressures, and the desire basis for an intimate drama “women’s problems”, the two of Sofia’s shame-ridden family and exposé of social hypocrisy set off for the hospital, where to cover up the birth. Both in Sofia. Sofia is asked to present her ID converge where the father, card, and the name and details Omar (Hamza Khafif), and his While serving her family dinner of her husband. family live, in a working-class at home, Sofia (Maha Alemi) Two narrative strands Casablanca neighborhood the starts to experience stomach intertwine after Sofia’s baby cousins would never normally cramps. In the kitchen, her is delivered. One is propelled enter.

SORRY WE MISSED YOU 2019 | UK, France, Belgium | English | 102 Directed by Ken Loach Drama | PG

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Award-winning, socially con- a go at being his own boss, he work in order to buy the van scious director Ken Loach’s takes a quasi-freelance deliv- he needs for the job. Compli- latest film, Sorry We Missed ery gig, though it means pun- cations mount as Ricky starts You, is a captivating and com- ishing hours, working under a to discover the harsh realities passionate portrait of a family ruthless manager, and making of supposedly autonomous la- who sacrifices nearly all they a substantial investment up bour, his son Seb (Rhys Stone) have for the uncertain prom- front. courts trouble in his new- ise of independence. Ricky found, semi-politicized voca- (Kris Hitchen) is a former con- Ricky convinces his wife, Ab- tion as a graffiti artist, and struction worker who lost his bie (Debbie Honeywood), a the family’s hopes of getting job and home in the 2008 fi- home-care nurxse, to sell her ahead seem only to drag them nancial crash. Eager to make car and take long bus rides to further behind.

112 MIDNIGHT MADNESS In Celebration of Music SOUTH PARK: BIGGER, LONGER AND UNCUT 1999 | USA | English | 81 Directed by Trey Parker, Matt Stone Comedy | 14A NOVEMBER 1, 11:59PM-1:36am • Kelly (12:15AM START)

When Cartman and his friends in particular - the overinflated least an appearance, and two go to see an R rated movie, they Hollywood/Broadway musical new characters are especially start cursing and their parents numbers and the MPAA’s funny - the effeminate “braniac” think that Canada is to blame. hypocrisy in rating foul language Gregory and the battle-scarred An Academy Award nominee more harmful to children than “Mole”. Make no mistake, the for the song “Blame Canada”, extreme violence. The musical language is foul, and the humor South Park: Bigger, Longer and numbers are brilliant - highlights crude, but it took some genuinely Uncut is celebrating its twentieth include the nonsensical “What talented people to put together anniversary. Would Brian Boitano Do” and the a movie this funny on so many over the top “Up There” as sung different levels. Directors Trey Parker and Matt by a lonely, homosexual Satan. Stone take aim at two targets All of the old favorites make at

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Opening a door into the world cent Cassel) who is Jewish outside of traditional settings, of teenagers and young adults and Malik (Reda Kateb) who is for some quite extraordinary who are profoundly autistic, Muslim, have lived in a differ- characters. The Specials is a The Specials is clearly a per- ent world: the world of autistic rare film that comes both from sonal film, based on Eric Tole- children and teens. In charge the heart and reality: it’s a po- dano and Olivier Nakache’s of two separate nonprofit or- tent mix which allows access (Intouchables, C’est La Vie) ganizations, they train young to tough subject matter yet real-life friendship with its sub- people from underprivileged welcomes the audience in with jects, two indefatigable suppli- areas to be caregivers for ex- grace and humour. Dignified ers of round-the-clock care for treme cases that have been re- and respectful, it is also dra- those the system has rejected. fused by all other institutions. matically satisfying. For twenty years, Bruno (Vin- It’s an exceptional partnership, 113 THE STONING OF SORAYA M 2008 | USA | Persian, English | 116 Directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh Drama | 14A | Subtitled

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Stranded in a remote Iranian the local phony mullah, A shocking and true drama, village, a French journalist (Jim and a town all too easily it exposes the dark power of Caviezel) is approached by led down a path of deceit, mob rule, uncivil law, and the Zahra (Shohreh Aghdashloo), coercion, and hysteria. The utter lack of human rights for a woman who has a harrowing women, stripped of all rights women. The last and only hope tale to tell about her niece, and without recourse, nobly for some measure of justice lies Soraya (Mozhan Marnò), and confront the overwhelming in the hands of the journalist the bloody circumstances of desires of corrupt men who use who must escape with the her death the day before. and abuse their authority to story. Zahra takes us back to the condemn Soraya, an innocent beginning of her story which but inconvenient wife, to an involves Soraya’s husband, unjust and torturous death.

NOVEMBER 6, 3:15pm-5:39pm • Kelly NOVEMBER 7, 3:20pm-5:44pm • Kelly

In this award-winning film, di- the store soon pervades the who he says is her brother. rector László Nemes recreates entire film as we learn the rea- Refusing to leave the city, the the twilight of an era in all its son for Írisz’s visit: the shop young woman follows Kálmán’s sensual detail. once belonged to her parents. tracks, her only link to a lost The young Irisz is quickly sent past. Her quest brings her In 1913, in the Austro-Hungar- away by the new owner. through the dark streets of Bu- ian Empire, the enigmatic Írisz dapest, where only the Leiter Leiter (Juli Jakab) causes a stir While preparations are under hat store shines, into the tur- when she enters an elegant way at the store to host im- moil of a civilization on the eve Budapest department store, portant, wealthy, royal guests, of its downfall. specializing in women’s hats. a man abruptly comes to Irisz, The sense of disquiet that fills looking for a Kálmán Leiter,

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In this tender drama, Heloise emotions to the fore. Heloise amateur filmmaker, using her (Sandrine Kiberlain) is mother is thrown into existential iPhone to record every detail to three children. Jade (Thaïs crisis. How could her baby, about her daughter lest certain Alessandrin), her youngest, her “Sweetheart”, already be memories evade her later on. has just turned eighteen and so old? Tender memories of Heloise is so desperate to is about to leave home to start Jade’s childhood clash with cherish the last moments they university in Canada. the young woman she sees have together that she almost before her. Heloise starts to forgets to live in the here and As the day of Jade’s graduation recall their shared experiences now and to enjoy the intimacy and her inevitable departure of a tender and very close that she has always had with fast approaches, this life mother-daughter relationship. her daughter. changing event brings mixed Her response is to act as an

WIFF LOCAL TEAR US APART 2019 | USA | English | 81 Directed by Devin Clarke Horror, Thriller | NR

NOVEMBER 9, 10:35pm-11:56pm • Armouries

In the months following the what has happened. Thus, the tently fill the house, and some- disappearance of their daugh- two are taken to a cottage in thing is following her wherever ter, Drew (Michael Lipka) and the woods by their therapist, she goes. Is Helen increasingly Helen (Elma Begovic) are han- Dr. Thad Stevens (Sean Bal- losing her grip on reality? Or is dling the stress very differently. lantyne), in a last ditch effort there truth to the things she’s Drew has come to terms with to rectify their marriage. Upon seeing and hearing? his situation and is attempting their arrival, however, Helen to move forward, while Helen discovers a number of strange The film is a subversive genre has taken the opposite track occurrences: the TV turns on bending thriller, but at its core - a walking zombie in her day- and off by itself, whispers and it deals with themes of grief to-day life, unable to address children’s laughter intermit- and loss.

115 TEL AVIV ON FIRE 2018 | Luxembourg, Belgium, Israel, France Arabic, Hebrew | 100 | Subtitled Directed by Sameh Zoabi Comedy, Drama, Romance | PG

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A middle-aged slacker fails Arab soap opera, popular in the demands of the army upwards in his job on the set both the Territories and Israel, officer and the show’s Arab of a popular Palestinian soap who must navigate through an financial backers on how the opera only to end up fielding Israeli checkpoint every day love story will end, Salaam script notes from a disgruntled to get to the Ramallah studio. devises a final masterstroke. Israeli military officer, in this In order to gain favour with Just beginning his life as a irreverent satire on the Arab- the checkpoint commander, writer, Salam is already forced Israeli conflict from Palestinian Salaam allows him to suggest to compromise his integrity writer-director Sameh Zoabi. changes to the plot that would — while the entire country see a sultry Arab spy fall in watches flabbergasted. Salam (Kais Nashef), is a love with an Israel Defence hapless intern on a well-liked Force general. Torn between

WIFF LOCAL LGBTQ2+ Films THAT IS ALL 2019 | Canada | English | 120 Directed by Mark Weeden Drama | NR

NOVEMBER 10, 6pm-7:47pm • Armouries

Written and directed by Mark at his place, he meets Sam (Al into a secret relationship that’s Weeden, That Is All tells the Braatz), his good friend Brad’s both emotional and sexual. story of Ryan (Joel Ballanger), (Dan Tait Brown) boyfriend, Things begin to devolve with a thirty-something man deal- and Maya (Sara Hinding), a Maya as she senses some- ing with the malaise of the 21st university student who’s just thing is off. From there, Ryan century, and the monotony of joined his pickup game. There’s and Sam only grow closer, but corporate life. He spends his a connection with Maya and things happen that force Ryan days lazing with his roommate they begin casually dating, just to face his loneliness, his be- Paul (Dan Bossenberry), play- as he’s striking up an unlikely trayal of his friends, and his ing basketball and working. friendship with Sam. Quickly sexuality. At one of the weekly parties this friendship begins to morph

116 HOT DOCS SHOWCASE THERE ARE NO FAKES 2019 | Canada | English | 114 Directed by Jamie Kastner Documentary, Biography, Crime | 14A

NOVEMBER 6, 9am-10:54am • Pentastar

Norval Morrisseau (Copper canvas being called into their interests in a search Thunderbird) is arguably the question. His decision to for truth where culture and most influential Indigenous sue the art dealer spurs an commerce collide. Questions artist in Canada, commonly investigation into the painting’s of authenticity, appropriation referred to as the founder provenance, and so begins the and exploitation underlay of the “Woodlands Style”. unravelling of an art fraud a devastating story about After spending $20,000 at ring with fighting factions, a visionary artist caught a reputable Toronto gallery all claiming to be the true between worlds. As the legal to purchase Spirit Energy of protectors of the Anishinaabe case proceeds, shocking new Mother Earth, Kevin Hearn painter’s legacy—and all of revelations emerge, detailing (of the Barenaked Ladies) whom happen to be white. damages that spread far was surprised to discover the Dealers, investors, experts beyond the canvas. authenticity of his Morrisseau and artists vigorously defend THERE’S SOMETHING IN THE WATER 2019 | Canada | English | 73 Directed by Ian Daniel, Ellen Page Documentary | 14A

NOVEMBER 8, 4:25pm-5:38pm • Pentastar

Ellen Page brings attention from industrial development. As Shelburne, gives us a tour of a to the injustices and injuries did Waldron, the filmmakers dis- neighbourhood where every caused by environmental rac- cover that these catastrophes house has been affected by ism in her home province, in this have been precisely placed, all cancer. Michele fights to pro- urgent documentary on Indige- in remote, low income — and tect A’se’k, or Boat Harbour, nous and African Nova Scotian very often Indigenous or Black — once a sanctuary for Indigenous women fighting to protect their communities. As the filmmakers people, now plagued by toxins communities. Based on Ingrid observe, your postal code deter- spewed by a pulp and paper Waldron’s incendiary study, the mines your health. mill. Only when whiter, wealthier film follows Page as she travels communities were affected did to rural areas of the province We’re introduced to many cou- the government get involved. that are plagued by toxic fallout rageous women. Louise, from 117 Les Films Francophones THROUGH THE FIRE 2018 | France | French | 117 Directed by Frédéric Tellier Drama | NR | Subtitled

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Paris fireman Franck Demoustier), pregnant with apart and his connection to Pasquier (Pierre Niney) is twin girls. his twin daughters remains a hardworking and heroic nonexistent. Scarred both public servant. He saves lives While fighting a factory on the outside and inside, on a daily basis — in France, fire in the north of Paris, he he tumbles into a major funk firefighters are also certified courageously saves some of that goes from bad to worse EMTs — bravely leads his his men but winds up getting to suicidal. Based on a true colleagues through risky devastatingly injured in the story, the film tenderly shows situations and maintains an process. Franck undergoes how Franck tries to piece his admirable level of discipline. surgeries and hospitalization. life back together, even if it He’s also an ideal husband During that time, his will never be the life he once to the lovely Cecile (Anaïs relationship with Cecile falls had.

TONI MORRISON: THE PIECES I AM 2019 | USA | English | 120 Directed by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders Documentary | PG

NOVEMBER 9, 1:55pm-3:55pm • Kelly

This is an artful and intimate of race, America, history and her many critically acclaimed meditation on the life and the human condition as seen works, including “The Bluest works of the legendary sto- through the prism of her own Eye,” “Sula” and “Song of Sol- ryteller who made history as literature. Inspired to write omon”, her role as an editor of the first African-American to because no one took a “little iconic African-American litera- win the Nobel Prize for Liter- black girl” seriously, Morrison ture and her time teaching at ature. From her childhood in reflects on her lifelong decon- Princeton University. Featur- the steel town of Lorain, Ohio struction of the master narra- ing interviews with Angela Da- to 70’s-era book tours with tive. Woven together with a vis, Fran Lebowitz and Oprah Muhammed Ali, from the front rich collection of art, history, Winfrey, the film celebrates lines with Angela Davis - she literature and personality, the Toni Morrison’s life. leads us on an exploration film includes discussion about

NOVEMBER 2, 7:55pm-9:48pm • Pentastar NOVEMBER 6, 7:50pm-9:43pm • chrysler

Australian director Wayne But Lauren’s father (Huw personal journeys through the Blair (The Sapphires) delivers a Higginson) is making a habit wild beauty of the landscapes homegrown rom-com about a of spending time alone – in the and the unbeatable charm of mixed-race couple navigating pantry, where he slumps on the the characters that they meet pre-marital chaos. floor weeping, and her mother along the way. An affecting (Ursula Yovich) has gone sense of place takes hold Engaged and in love, Lauren missing, experiencing a midlife toward the end — of past and (Miranda Tapsell) and Ned crisis. In order to find her, the present coming together in (Gwilym Lee) have just 10 couple goes on a fantastic harmony, and for Lauren, of a days to reunite her newly road trip across northern spiritual connection she didn’t separated parents and pull off Australia. Along the way they know she was missing. their dream Top End Wedding. find fulfillment for their own

HOT DOCS SHOWCASE TOXIC BEAUTY 2019 | Canada, USA | English | 90 Directed by Phyllis Ellis Documentary | PG

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Beauty products are a multi-bil- their baby talc products are safe. products; the results are shock- lion-dollar industry. Despite pub- In exclusive interviews with sci- ing. The film ultimately concludes lic attention, companies continue entists, whistleblowers and law- that without action, the greatest to get away with harmful prac- yers, the film reveals the ongoing chemical disaster may be the tices that leave the average con- lack of government regulation one happening inside our bod- sumer wondering which brand of cosmetics. To personalize the ies. can be trusted. Toxic Beauty’s effects, the film enlists Mymy, a case in point is the landmark young medical student whose Toxic Beauty might inspire wom- class action lawsuit brought by morning routine includes more en to go home and raid their van- female cancer survivors against than 27 mainstream products. ity kits, but it’s also saying that Johnson & Johnson, in the face Her body is tested, then tested beauty, intelligence, and resil- of the company’s insistence that again after using clean beauty ience are not mutually exclusive. 119 WOMEN OF WIFF UNTOUCHABLE 2019 | USA | English | 98 Directed by Ursula Macfarlane Documentary | NR

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Women of WIFF’s 2019 the revelations thus far and power gave him carte blanche. Official Selection effectively pieces together the The fact that it took decades words of the accusers, former to finally hold him accountable Canadian actor Erika Weinstein employees and the for such pathological and Rosenbaum is front and centre journalists who brought the destructive behavior speaks and unfailingly forthright in the story to light. Actor Rosanna to how Hollywood and society shocking and disturbing new Arquette and investigative at large allowed these things documentary Untouchable, reporter Ronan Farrow are also to happen time and again. detailing the alleged crimes among those who step forward Untouchable demonstrates how of disgraced American movie in Untouchable to relate alleged patterns of intimidation and the mogul Harvey Weinstein. incidents of assault and bullying power to destroy lives flourish Directed by Ursula Macfarlane, and to offer insights on a man in systems that allow for the the film credibly reviews who allegedly acted as if his turning of blind eyes.

VAI 2019 | New Zealand Maori, Fijian, English, Samoan | 90 Directed by Various Drama | NR | Subtitled

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Vai is a portmanteau feature each filmmaker was to create from various forms of colonial- film made by 9 female Pacif- a 10-minute vignette from a fic- ism for hundreds of years. The ic filmmakers, filmed in 7 dif- tive woman’s life, each segment vignettes form a sort of com- ferent Pacific countries: Fiji, advancing a decade or so for- posite of female experience in Tonga, Solomon Islands, Cook ward, deploying a single contin- cultures where family separa- Islands, Samoa, Niue and New uous shot where possible. tion for the sake of work or edu- Zealand. It is about the jour- cation has often been the norm, ney of empowerment through The result is an aesthetically and the cultures themselves are culture over the lifetime of one pleasing meditation on wom- in constant danger of being as- woman, Vai, played by a differ- anhood and vanishing tradi- similated out of existence. ent indigenous actress in each tions — in places where those of the countries. The task of things have been under siege 120 WIFF JR. PROGRAMMER Les Films Francophones VARDA BY AGNES 2019 | France | French, English | 115 Directed by Anges Varda | Subtitled Documentary, Biography | PG

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The last film from the late wide-ranging journey through through her films, of what she French filmmaker forms its core her world: her filming process, brought to the art form, and out of lectures she gave in her her feminism, her photography of finding the extraordinary in later years. But, in pure Varda and her long-time relationship the ordinary. “Nothing is banal fashion, the film is punctuated with director Jacques Demy. if you film people with empathy by humour as she dives into and love,” Varda once said. unexpected realms, tracing her Varda died only a month after This is the inspiration she has career and life, and the ways Varda by Agnès premiered. Yet, left us with. they intertwined. Though 90 at like all of Varda’s work, it brims the time of filming, Varda still with life. And its takeaway is emanates her characteristic not a past-tense legacy, but vibrant energy. She offers a a sense of how Varda lived

LGBTQ2+ Films VITA & VIRGINIA 2018 | Ireland, UK | English | 110 Directed by Chanya Button Biography, Drama, Romance | 14A

NOVEMBER 2, 9am-10:50am • Pentastar

The affair and the friendship of The year is 1922. Though happily tionizing literature. When Vita authors Virginia Woolf and Vita married, Vita (Gemma Arterton) receives an invitation to Blooms- Sackville-West — both uncom- is as notorious for her dallianc- bury, she is elated at the thought promising in their insistence on es with women and iconoclastic of meeting the enigmatic Woolf living, loving and creating to the attitudes toward gender as she and, not surprisingly perhaps, fullest — constitutes one of the is famous for her aristocratic becomes obsessed with the most fascinating relationships in ancestry and writerly success. notion of seducing her. Their literary history. This sumptuous Virginia (Elizabeth Debicki), romance overcomes all social double portrait of two uncom- meanwhile, is a celebrated writ- boundaries, Virginia’s mental promising women is based on er, publisher, and member of the health struggles, Vita’s reckless- Sackville-West and Woolf’s per- Bloomsbury Group, those inno- ness, and neither will ever be the sonal correspondence. vative moderns already revolu- same without the other.

121 VIVARIUM 2019 | USA | English | 97 Directed by Lorcan Finnegan Mystery, Sci-Fi | NR

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Teacher Gemma (Imogen The place itself is stranger still they’ve been lured to this Poots) and handyman Tom - a life-size toytown of endless nightmarish non-place for (Jesse Eisenberg) are a identical family homes, all sinister ulterior motives. As the young couple with plans of painted in the same pristine dimensions of the development buying a home in an unnamed green, stretching out forever expand and warp around them, European city. During a visit under a perfect sunny sky all attempts to escape bring to a bizarre property agent, peppered with candy-floss them back to the same house, Martin (Jonathan Aris), they clouds. again and again. Phone and agree to visit a new housing internet connections are dead. development called Yonder Mysteriously deserted by All the other homes appear to on the edge of the city, its Martin in the middle of their be empty. location suspiciously vague - visit to Yonder, Gemma and “near enough and far enough.” Tom slowly come to realize

NOVEMBER 4, 10:35pm-12:15am • Pentastar

Director Éric Morin’s film has She returns to Gold, the rock sions bubbling to the surface. deep roots in the harsh real- band formed by her childhood Family, friends, history, mem- ities of life in a remote mining friends, Kristoff and Kevin, who ory, youthful dreams, the be- town. The film stars Monia is the only survivor of the min- trayals of industry, and above Chokri as Marianne, a suc- ing collapse. Each in their own all a visceral sense of belong- cessful indie rock musician re- way will relive these events in a ing to the land: We Are Gold turning to her hometown in the singular way. For Gold’s short- is both intimate and collective, Abitibi-Témiscamingue region lived trio, the commemorative poignant and unifying. of Quebec for the first time week will slowly drag them into since the death of her parents shocking and confusing areas. in a mining accident that killed The commemoration of the ter- 68 people ten years earlier. rible anniversary brings pas- 122 WHATEVER HAPPENED TO MY REVOLUTION 2018 | France | French | 88 Directed by Judith Davis Comedy | NR | Subtitled

NOVEMBER 6, 1:25pm-2:53pm • Chrysler

In her directorial debut, actor revolution, losing sight of her and moved to the countryside. Judith Davis takes a stance friends, family and lover in the Angèle hasn’t seen her mother both satirical and sympathetic process. in years, but now she seeks her toward her problematic out, hoping to find answers. protagonist. Angèle (Davis), After losing her job, she moves Everyone would like Angèle to an urban planner in her back in with her father, a calm down and stop wanting thirties living on the outskirts former activist and the only to remake the world. Is it the of Paris, has just been fired. person who understands her. world that is not going well or Rebelling against society, she Her mother once marched is it Angèle who is out of place? calls everything into question. alongside her father in the front Deeply involved in politics, lines of political protests but she never stops crusading for then gave up, left her family,

WHERE’D YOU GO, BERNADETTE 2019 | USA | English | 130 Directed by Richard Linklater Comedy, Drama, Mystery | PG

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Based on the runaway best- into a midlife crisis wherein her ness while her daughter, Bee seller, Where’d You Go, Ber- decades-long creative inactiv- (Emma Nelson), hopes that a nadette is an inspiring comedy ity sees her crawling the walls family trip to Antarctica will about a loving mom who be- of her home. She’s semi-ago- help bring them all together. comes compelled to reconnect raphobic, choosing time with But when a mishandled black- with her creative passions family in her crumbling, ex- berry bush results in the de- after years of sacrificing her- travagant home rather than struction of the house of pris- self for her family. Bernadette risk encountering the horror of sy neighbour Audrey (Kristen (Cate Blanchett) is an architect other people and “the banali- Wiig) and when, for reasons whose bold, innovative designs ty of life”. Her husband (Billy too convoluted to explain, the once earned her a MacArthur Crudup) is worried about her FBI come knocking, Berna- Fellowship; but she has settled descent into pill-popping mad- dette decides to flee.

123 LGBTQ2+ Films WHERE’S MY ROY COHN? 2019 | USA | English | 97 Directed by Matt Tyrnauer Documentary | PG

NOVEMBER 10, 10:30pm-12:07am • Pentastar

Roy Cohn personified the dark This shocking film exposes Director Matt Tyrnauer, an arts of 20th-century American Cohn’s malign influence and award-winning journalist, politics, turning empty vessels contextualizes him as a modern tells his most explosive and into dangerous demagogues— Machiavelli, tracing his rise to scathingly delicious film to from Senator Joseph national prominence—first as date. Where’s My Roy Cohn? McCarthy to his final project, prosecutor of the Rosenbergs, shines a blistering spotlight Donald J. Trump. Where’s then as handmaiden to Joseph on the horrifying story of the My Roy Cohn? unearths the McCarthy. After these twin ultimate string-puller whose origins of the seditious right disgraces, Cohn re-emerges diabolical influence helped set wing’s ascent, revealing as a New York power broker, the United States on its current how a deeply troubled mafia consigliere, white-collar uncharted course. master manipulator shaped criminal, and, eventually, the our current political world. mentor of Trump.

THE WHISTLERS 2019 | Romania, France, Germany, Sweden Romanian, English, Spanish | 97 Directed by Corneliu Porumboiu Crime | 14A | Subtitled

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In this neo-noir tale from Ro- La Gomera, where he collabo- nicate in an indigenous whis- manian auteur, Corneliu Po- rates with mobsters in order to tle language called “El Siblo,” rumboiu, a corrupt cop — under try and free a shady Bucharest which is unintelligible to the surveillance while participat- businessman named Zsolt (Sa- police because it sounds like ing in a mob plot in the Canary bin Tambrea), who is believed bird calls. Full of double-cross- Islands — must communicate to know the whereabouts of a ings and unexpected twists with his accomplices in an In- mattress containing millions in and turns, this thriller is an digenous language based on cash. Under heavy surveillance intelligent, entertaining, dead- whistling. on the island, Cristi is taught pan-funny caper that explores by the local gangsters and a the limitations of language Bad cop Cristi (Vlad Ivanov) femme fatale, named Gilda while at the same time using it travels to the Canary Island of (Catrinel Marlon), to commu- as a poetic form of resistance.

124 LGBTQ2+ Films WHITE LIE 2019 | Canada | English | 96 Directed by Calvin Thomas, Yonah Lewis Drama | 18A

NOVEMBER 1, 1:15pm-2:51pm • Kelly

White Lie focuses on Katie story slowly begins to unravel, manipulation and falsehood (Kacey Rohl), a young woman she disastrously decides to have become the norm — its who has become a literal double down, unable to give up chief virtue is its insistence poster child on her university the real-life fantasy world she’s that we look at, and empathize campus: recently diagnosed constructed for herself. with, a protagonist who does with cancer, she’s the focal the unthinkable. White Lie is point of an online funding While the film has much to say one of the most fearless and campaign for both herself and about social media’s impact emotionally affecting films other cancer-related causes. on contemporary culture you’ll see this year. The only problem is, it’s all built — where compassion and on a lie: Katie isn’t sick, and hatred can both burst forth in never has been. And as her tsunami-like waves, and where

In Celebration of Music WILD ROSE 2018 | UK | English | 101 Directed by Tom Harper Drama, Music | PG

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Giving a vivacious and unfor- Just released from prison, Lynn’s biggest fans and Susan- gettable performance, Jessie forced to wear an ankle moni- nah her enthusiastic patron, Buckley plays Rose-Lynn Har- tor and keep curfew, she can’t determined to help her get lan who has dreamt of becom- return to her job as the house- to Nashville. But Rose-Lynn’s ing a country music star forev- band singer at Glasgow’s dreams come at a cost. Her er. But Glasgow isn’t exactly Grand Ole Opry. Rose-Lynn mother (Julie Walters), has Nashville, and, as a convicted lands a new job as a house- always done what she can to criminal and single mother keeper for the lovely, and help her daughter realize her of two young children, Rose- very posh, Susannah (Sophie dreams, but she also wants her Lynn is more country song than Okonedo). After catching her to take responsibility and act country star. singing on the job, Susannah’s like the grown-up her kids need kids quickly become Rose- her to be. 125 HOT DOCS SHOWCASE Prize in Canadian Film NOMINEE WILLIE 2018 | USA, Canada | English | 90 Directed by Laurence Mathieu-Leger Documentary | G

NOVEMBER 3, 1:35pm-3:05pm • Pentastar NOVEMBER 3, 6:20pm-7:50pm • Pentastar

In a country filled with hockey beginnings in Fredericton, New opportunities for kids who heroes, Willie O’Ree stands Brunswick, to a 22-year pro never had a chance to lace up amongst the greats. In 1958, hockey career that intersected a pair of skates. he broke the colour barrier, with the civil rights movement. becoming the first Black His talent on the ice was only In Willie, everyone from player in the National Hockey a fraction of his impact on his oldest friends to a new League. Sixty years later, his the game: a trailblazer who generation of players comes induction into the Hockey Hall paved the way for players of together to honour a man of Fame made history again. diverse ethnic backgrounds, dedicated to improving the The youngest of 13 children O’Ree was named NHL world through a sport he loves. and a descendant of escaped Diversity Ambassador in slaves, O’Ree rose from humble 1998, with a focus on creating

SPOTLIGHT ON ARCHITECTURE THE WORLD BEFORE YOUR FEET 2018 | USA | English | 96 Directed by Jeremy Workman Documentary | PG

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Thirty-seven-year-old Matt been walking them all - every along the way. Something of Green sets goals for himself. street, park, cemetery, beach, a modern-day Thoreau, Matt The latest quest for this ex-civ- and bridge. It’s a five-bor- sustains his endeavour through il engineer, was to get off his ough journey that stretches couch-surfing, cat-sitting and a duff, give up his apartment, from the barbershops of the $15-per-day budget. He’s not get rid of most possessions, Bronx to the forests of Stat- sure exactly why. The World and walk every block and en Island, from the Statue of Before Your Feet is a tribute street in New York City. There Liberty to Times Square, with to an endlessly fascinating city are 8,000 miles of roads and Matt amassing a surprisingly and the freedom to be found, paths in New York and for the detailed knowledge of New wherever you live, in simply past six years Matt Green has York’s history and people taking a walk.

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Directed by legendary (Idir Ben Addi) has developed Ahmed’s attitude are recent, duo Jean-Pierre and Luc a dangerous connection with as a boy who seemed to be Dardenne, and winning a militant imam (Othmane a relatively normal teen just the Best Director Award at Moumen), who plants weeks before has become Cannes, Young Ahmed tells poisonous ideas in the boy’s obsessed with prayer and the the story of a teenage Muslim head. Ahmed refuses to shake “purity” of those around him. boy in Belgium who becomes the hand of his teacher Inès But Ahmed’s convictions are enthralled with extremists and (Myriem Akheddiou) because stronger than anyone could plots to kill his schoolteacher she’s a woman, while at home, have imagined, creating to impress his imam. he tells off his white mom suspense right up to the last (Claire Bodson), in Arabic, scene. As the film opens, it’s clear for drinking alcohol. Clues that this biracial, big-city teen suggests these changes in

127 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 1 9:05AM-10:56AM COMPULSIVE LIAR CHRYSLER 9:15AM-10:52AM JEUNE JULIETTE PENTASTAR 9:00AM-10:38AM nîpawistamâsowin: WE WILL.... KELLY 9:10AM-10:50AM GAY CHORUS DEEP SOUTH ARMOURIES 11:30AM-1:13PM A COLONY CHRYSLER 11:20AM-1:16PM THE SPECIALS PENTASTAR 11:15AM-12:57PM ASK DR. RUTH KELLY 11:10AM-12:40PM VAI ARMOURIES 1:35PM-2:57PM ECHO IN THE CANYON CHRYSLER 1:35PM-3:03PM ARAB BLUES PENTASTAR 1:15PM-2:51PM WHITE LIE KELLY 1:25P-2:43PM CONVICTION ARMOURIES 3:25PM-4:55PM SWEETHEART CHRYSLER 3:25PM-5:02PM MAIDEN PENTASTAR 3:20PM-5:02PM MARIANNE & LEONARD: WORDS... KELLY 3:30PM-5:12PM THE CHAMBERMAID ARMOURIES 6PM INVISIBLES CHRYSLER 5:45PM-8:05PM THE KING PENTASTAR 6:20PM-7:54PM THE PARTS YOU LOSE KELLY 6:15PM-7:48PM MINDING THE GAP ARMOURIES 8:30PM-10:08PM BEFORE YOU KNOW IT CHRYSLER 8:30PM-10:11PM WILD ROSE PENTASTAR 8:30PM-10:07 IT MUST BE HEAVE KELLY 8:30PM-9:46PM GO-BOY! MEMORIES OF A... ARMOURIES 10:25PM-11:47PM ECHO IN THE CANYON CHRYSLER 10:30PM-12:07AM VIVARIUM PENTASTAR 10:30PM-12:02AM SLUT IN A GOOD WAY KELLY 10:30PM-12:07AM DIAMANTINO ARMOURIES 12:15AM-1:36AM SOUTH PARK: BIGGER... KELLY

128 SATURDAY NOVEMBER 2 9:00AM-10:57AM THROUGH THE FIRE CHRYSLER 9:00AM-10:50AM VITA & VIRGINIA PENTASTAR 9:10AM-10:50AM TEL AVIV ON FIRE KELLY 9:20AM-10:50AM I’M GOING TO BREAK YOUR... ARMOURIES 11:20AM-12:58PM BRITT-MARIE WAS HERE CHRYSLER 11:20AM-12:51PM THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM PENTASTAR 11:30AM-12:58PM EASY LAND KELLY 11:20AM-12:45PM IN THE NAME OF YOUR... ARMOURIES 1:15PM-2:46PM GORDON LIGHTFOOT: IF YOU... CHRYSLER 1:10PM-2:27PM LAST CALL PENTASTAR 1:15PM-2:58PM ALICE AND THE MAYOR KELLY 1:20PM-2:54PM SELL BY ARMOURIES 3:15PM-5:14PM PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE CHRYSLER 3:05PM-5:25PM THE KING PENTASTAR 3:25PM-4:54PM SCOTCH: A GOLDEN DREAM KELLY 3:10PM-4:59PM FRAMING JOHN DELOREAN ARMOURIES 5:45PM-7:37PM OFFICIAL SECRETS CHRYSLER 5:45PM-7:05PM BOYS VS GIRLS PENTASTAR 5:35PM-7:20PM LITTLE JOE KELLY 5:35PM-7:24PM FRAMING JOHN DELOREAN ARMOURIES 7:55PM-10:07PM PARASITE CHRYSLER 7:55PM-9:48PM TOP END WEDDING PENTASTAR 8:10PM-9:14PM THE QUICK AND DIRTY KELLY 7:50PM-9:37PM HUMAN NATURE ARMOURIES 10:25PM-12AM DAVID CROSBY: REMEMBER MY... CHRYSLER 10:20PM-12:18AM DOLEMITE IS MY NAME PENTASTAR 10:20PM-11:54PM THE PARTS YOU LOSE KELLY 10:20PM-11:59PM SAUVAGE ARMOURIES 12:20AM-1:59AM THE ROOM KELLY

129 SUNDAY NOVEMBER 3 9AM-10:55AM LA BELLE EPOQUE CHRYSLER 9:30AM-10:59AM THE LION KING PENTASTAR 9:10AM-10:40AM BLUE NOTE RECORDS: BEYOND... KELLY 9:15AM-10:50AM CHANGING THE GAME ARMOURIES 11:15AM-1:09PM THE SPECIALS CHRYSLER 11:20AM-1:15PM PAVAROTTI PENTASTAR 11:15AM-1:23PM COLD CASE HAMMARSKJÖLD KELLY 11:30AM-1:12PM THE CHAMBERMAID ARMOURIES 1:35PM-3:28PM PAIN AND GLORY CHRYSLER 1:35PM-3:05PM WILLIE PENTASTAR 1:40PM-3:13PM CUNNINGHAM KELLY 1:35PM-3PM IN THE NAME OF YOUR... ARMOURIES 3:50PM-5:30PM FOR SAMA CHRYSLER 3:50PM-5:35PM CASTLE IN THE GROUND PENTASTAR 3:45PM-5:27PM OUR HAPPY HOLIDAY KELLY 3:40PM-4:58PM 5:05PM-6:23PM PIPE DREAMS ARMOURIES 5:55PM-8:02PM AND THE BIRDS RAINED DOWN CHRYSLER 6:20PM-7:50PM WILLIE PENTASTAR 6PM-7:40PM TEL AVIV ON FIRE KELLY 6:40PM-8:10PM VAI ARMOURIES 8:40PM-9:40PM LOVING VINCENT: THE... CHRYSLER 8:30PM-9:36PM JORDAN RIVER ANDERSON... PENTASTAR 8:25PM-10:02PM JEUNE JULIETTE KELLY 8:30PM-9:49PM FINAL OFFER ARMOURIES 10PM-11:30PM SOFIA CHRYSLER 10PM-11:37PM VIVARIUM PENTASTAR 10:20PM-12:16AM SHADOW KELLY 10:20PM-11:50PM MIDNIGHT FAMILY ARMOURIES

130 MONDAY NOVEMBER 4 9:05AM-10:50AM LOLA AND HER BROTHERS CHRYSLER 9:00AM-10:57AM THE QUIETUDE PENTASTAR 9:20AM-10:53AM RAISE HELL: THE LIFE AND... KELLY 9:35AM-10:53AM PIPE DREAMS ARMOURIES 11:15AM-12:45PM YOUNG AHMED CHRYSLER 11:20AM-1:01PM NO FILTER PENTASTAR 11:20AM-12:57PM IT MUST BE HEAVEN KELLY 11:20AM-12:56PM DOLCE FINE GIORNATA ARMOURIES 1:20PM-2:55PM HAPPY NEW YEAR, COLIN... CHRYSLER 1:20PM-3:04PM THE FAR SHORE PENTASTAR 1:20PM-3:09PM ANTIGONE KELLY 1:30PM-2:57PM HONEYLAND ARMOURIES 3:25PM-5:32PM AND THE BIRDS RAINED DOWN CHRYSLER 3:25PM-5:40PM AN IMPOSSIBLE LOVE PENTASTAR 3:40PM-5:06PM CALL OF THE FOREST KELLY 3:30PM-4:46PM GO-BOY! MEMORIES OF A LIFE... ARMOURIES 6PM-7:38PM BEFORE YOU KNOW IT CHRYSLER 6PM-7:45PM CASTLE IN THE GROUND PENTASTAR 6:10PM-7:36PM BUDDY KELLY 6PM-7:34PM SELL BY ARMOURIES 8PM-10:30PM WIFF LOCAL SHORTS 2019 CHRYSLER 8:20PM-10:19PM MATTHIAS & MAXIME PENTASTAR 8PM-9:53PM ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF NOAH... KELLY 8PM-9:30PM TOXIC BEAUTY ARMOURIES 10:45PM-12:08AM SAVAGE CHRYSLER 10:35PM-12:15AM WE ARE GOLD PENTASTAR 10:25PM-12AM LIE EXPOSED KELLY 10:15PM-12:05AM THE INVISIBLES ARMOURIES

131 TUESDAY NOVEMBER 5 9AM-11:19AM THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF EURIDICE... CHRYSLER 9AM-10:57AM ANGELS ARE MADE OF LIGHT ARMOURIES 11:40AM-1:12PM THE EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEY... CHRYSLER 11:45AM-1:15PM I’M GOING TO BREAK YOUR... ARMOURIES 1:30PM-3PM YOUNG AHMED CHRYSLER 1:40PM-3:04PM MURMUR PENTASTAR 1:35PM-3:09PM MIKE WALLACE IS HERE KELLY 1:35PM-3:05PM MIDNIGHT FAMILY ARMOURIES 3:20PM-5:15PM PAVAROTTI CHRYSLER 3:25PM-5:08PM ALICE AND THE MAYOR PENTASTAR 3:35PM-5:04PM NOMAD: IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF... KELLY 3:25PM-5:01PM DOLCE FINE GIORNATA ARMOURIES 5:30PM-7:23PM PAIN AND GLORY CHRYSLER 5:40PM-7:22PM SORRY WE MISSED YOU PENTASTAR 5:30PM-7:27PM KUESSIPAN KELLY 5:40PM-7:20PM KILLING PATIENT ZERO ARMOURIES 7:50PM-9:42PM OFFICIAL SECRETS CHRYSLER 7:45PM-9:53PM THE FALL OF THE AMERICAN... PENTASTAR 7:45PM-9:30PM INVENTING TOMORROW KELLY 7:50PM-9:17PM AFTER SO MANY DAYS ARMOURIES 10:05PM-11:55PM BORDER CHRYSLER 10:15PM-12:08AM HIGH LIFE PENTASTAR 10PM-11:37PM THE WHISTLERS KELLY 10PM-12:20AM LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO... ARMOURIES

132 WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 6 9AM-10:57AM THROUGH THE FIRE CHRYSLER 9:00AM-10:54AM THERE ARE NO FAKES PENTASTAR 9AM-10:57AM KUESSIPAN KELLY 9:15AM-10:51AM THE WORLD BEFORE YOUR FEET ARMOURIES 11:20AM-1:02PM MARIANNE & LEONARD: WORDS... CHRYSLER 11:15AM-1:05PM IN SAFE HANDS PENTASTAR 11:25AM-12:56PM THE BRINK KELLY 11:15AM-1:07PM THE INTOUCHABLES ARMOURIES 1:25PM-2:53PM WHATEVER HAPPENED TO MY... CHRYSLER 1:25PM-2:55PM GHOST FLEET PENTASTAR 1:15PM-2:58PM A COLONY KELLY 1:30PM-3PM TOXIC BEAUTY ARMOURIES 3:20PM-5:30PM WHERE’D YOU GO, BERNADETTE CHRYSLER 3:20PM-5:35PM LITTLE WHITE LIES 2 PENTASTAR 3:15PM-5:39PM SUNSET KELLY 3:50PM-5:30PM GAY CHORUS DEEP SOUTH ARMOURIES 5:55PM-7:35PM FRANKIE CHRYSLER 6PM-7:28PM MAXIMA PENTASTAR 6PM-7:28PM EASY LAND KELLY 6PM-7:37PM DIAMANTINO ARMOURIES 7:50PM-9:43PM TOP END WEDDING CHRYSLER 7:50PM-9:18PM PREY PENTASTAR 7:50PM-9:49PM PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE KELLY 7:55PM-9:30PM CHANGING THE GAME ARMOURIES 10:05PM-11:49PM THE ART OF SELF-DEFENSE CHRYSLER 10:05PM-11:51PM ANIARA PENTASTAR 10:05PM-11:37PM SLUT IN A GOOD WAY KELLY 10:05PM-11:23PM CONVICTION ARMOURIES

133 THURSDAY NOVEMBER 7 9AM-10:44AM THE ART OF SELF-DEFENSE CHRYSLER 9:05AM-10:35AM AQUARELA PENTASTAR 9AM-10:55AM VARDA BY AGNES KELLY 9AM-10:40AM KILLING PATIENT ZERO ARMOURIES 11:05AM-12:47PM SORRY WE MISSED YOU CHRYSLER 11:05AM-1:04PM GOALIE PENTASTAR 11:10AM-12:52PM CYRANO, MY LOVE KELLY 11:10AM-12:43PM MINDING THE GAP ARMOURIES 1:20PM-3PM FRANKIE CHRYSLER 1:20PM-2:55PM HAIL SATAN? PENTASTAR 1:15PM-2:41PM BUDDY KELLY 1:20PM-2:50PM VAI ARMOURIES 3:20PM-5:39PM THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF EURIDICE... CHRYSLER 3:45PM-5:03PM PREY PENTASTAR 3:20PM-5:44PM SUNSET KELLY 3:30PM-4:49PM SENDING OFF ARMOURIES 6PM-7:40PM THE EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEY... CHRYSLER 6PM UNTOUCHABLE PENTASTAR 6PM-7:57PM A BROTHER’S LOVE KELLY 6PM-7:30PM TOXIC BEAUTY ARMOURIES 8:30PM-10:01PM GORDON LIGHTFOOT: IF YOU... PENTASTAR 8:15PM-9:45PM SWEETHEART KELLY 8:15PM-9:30PM FOLLOW ME ARMOURIES 10:20PM-11:43AM SAVAGE CHRYSLER 10:25PM-12:37AM BACURAU PENTASTAR 10:15PM-12:11AM SHADOW KELLY 10:30PM-11:48PM PARIS IS BURNING ARMOURIES

134 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 8 9AM-11:10AM WHERE’D YOU GO, BERNADETTE CHRYSLER 9AM-11:12AM GENESIS PENTASTAR 9:15AM-11:03AM FOR THOSE WHO DON’T READ ME KELLY 9:30AM-10:45AM FOLLOW ME ARMOURIES 11:30AM-1:48PM BY THE GRACE OF GOD CHRYSLER 11:30AM-1:36PM LETO PENTASTAR 11:50AM-1:31PM THE MYSTERY OF HENRI PICK KELLY 11:30AM-1:27PM ANGELS ARE MADE OF LIGHT ARMOURIES 2:15PM-4:10PM LA BELLE EPOQUE CHRYSLER 2:05PM-3:53PM BEFORE WE EXPLODE PENTASTAR 2PM-4:08PM COLD CASE HAMMARSKJÖLD KELLY 2:10PM-4PM THE INVISIBLES ARMOURIES 4:30PM-6:17PM AMANDA CHRYSLER 4:25PM-5:38PM THERE’S SOMETHING IN THE WATER PENTASTAR 4:35PM-6:13PM BRITT-MARIE WAS HERE KELLY 6:35PM-8:27PM OFFICIAL SECRETS CHRYSLER 6:30PM-8:29PM MATTHIAS & MAXIM PENTASTAR 6:50PM-8:10PM GHOST FLEET KELLY 6:30PM-8:36PM HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG ARMOURIES 8:45PM-10:43PM DOLEMITE IS MY NAME CHRYSLER 8:45PM-10:55PM MARK BOSCARIOL 48HR FLICK FEST PENTASTAR 8:45PM-10:15PM BLUE NOTE RECORDS: BEYOND... KELLY 9:15PM-10:23PM GHOST ARTIST ARMOURIES 11PM-12:51AM COMPULSIVE LIAR CHRYSLER 11:15PM-1:27AM BACURAU PENTASTAR 10:30PM-11:58PM ARAB BLUES KELLY 10:45PM-12:03PM PARIS IS BURNING ARMOURIES 12:15AM-2:05AM BORDER KELLY

135 SATURDAY NOVEMBER 9 9:05AM-10:52AM AMANDA CHRYSLER 9:30AM-10:55AM BEAUTY AND THE BEAST PENTASTAR 9:10AM-10:48AM nîpawistamâsowin: WE WILL... KELLY 9AM-10:15AM 10:50AM-12:05PM LITTLE STAR RISING ARMOURIES 11:15AM-1:15PM MAMMA MIA! SING-ALONG CHRYSLER 11:15AM-1:14PM GOALIE PENTASTAR 11:15AM-1:33PM BY THE GRACE OF GOD KELLY 12:40-1:40PM LOVING VINCENT: THE... ARMOURIES 2PM-4:12PM PARASITE CHRYSLER 2PM-4:10PM SPOTLIGHT AWARD: SHOREH... PENTASTAR 1:55PM-3:55PM TONI MORRISON: THE PIECES I AM KELLY 2PM-3:36PM THE WORLD BEFORE YOUR FEET ARMOURIES 4:30PM-6:11PM WILD ROSE CHRYSLER 4:30PM-6:10PM FOR SAMA PENTASTAR 4:30PM-5:02PM PUSH KELLY 4:30PM-6:19PM FRAMING JOHN DELOREAN ARMOURIES 6:30PM-8:05PM DAVID CROSBY: REMEMBER MY... CHRYSLER 6:30PM-8:07PM MAIDEN PENTASTAR 6:30PM-8:15PM LOLA AND HER BROTHERS KELLY 6:30PM-8:19PM FRAMING JOHN DELOREAN ARMOURIES 8:30PM-10:45PM TRIXIE MATTEL PRESENTS THE... CHRYSLER 8:30PM-10:22PM OFFICIAL SECRETS PENTASTAR 8:30PM-9:58PM MAXIMA KELLY 8:35PM-10:02PM AFTER SO MANY DAYS ARMOURIES 11:05PM-12:51PM ANIARA CHRYSLER 10:40PM-12:46PM LETO PENTASTAR 10:30PM-12:15AM LITTLE JOE KELLY 10:35PM-11:56PM TEAR US APART ARMOURIES 12:30AM-2:11AM GREENER GRASS KELLY

136 sunDAY NOVEMBER 10 9:10AM-10:40AM AQUARELA PENTASTAR 9AM-10:43AM OLYMPIA KELLY 9:05AM-10:30AM HONEYLAND ARMOURIES 11:05AM-1:13PM THE FALL OF THE AMERICAN... PENTASTAR 11:15AM-12:36PM CITY DREAMERS KELLY 11:10AM-12:50PM GAY CHORUS DEEP SOUTH ARMOURIES 1:30PM-3:24PM THE SPECIALS PENTASTAR 1:25PM-2:52PM REFUGEE KELLY 1:10PM-3:06PM THE STONING OF SORAYA M ARMOURIES 3:50PM-5:21PM THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM PENTASTAR 3:40PM-5:21PM ACQUAINTED KELLY 3:40PM-5:05PM THE INFINITE HAPPINESS ARMOURIES 6PMPM ONCE WERE BROTHERS: ROBBIE... PENTASTAR 6:15PM-8:04PM ANTIGONE KELLY 6PM-7:47PM THAT IS ALL ARMOURIES 8:30PM-10:11PM WILD ROSE PENTASTAR 8:30PM-9:52PM THE LOWER PLATEAU KELLY 8:20PM-9:28PM GHOST ARTIST ARMOURIES 10:30PM-12:07AM WHERE’S MY ROY COHN? PENTASTAR 10:20PM-11:57PM THE WHISTLERS KELLY 9:50PM-11:29PM SAUVAGE ARMOURIES

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ARGENTINA GO-BOY! MEMORIES OF A LIFE FRANCE QUIETUDE, THE BEHIND BARS ALICE AND THE MAYOR GOALIE AMANDA AUSTRALIA GORDON LIGHTFOOT: IF YOU ARAB BLUES ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, COULD READ MY MIND BACURAU QUEEN OF THE DESERT, THE I’M GOING TO BREAK BY THE GRACE OF GOD TOP END WEDDING YOUR HEART CUNNINGHAM IT MUST BE HEAVEN CYRANO, MY LOVE AUSTRIA JEUNE JULIETTE DIAMANTINO LITTLE JOE JORDAN RIVER ANDERSON, EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEY OF THE FAKIR, THE THE MESSENGER FRANKIE BELGIUM KILLING PATIENT ZERO HIGH LIFE ALICE AND THE MAYOR KUESSIPAN BY THE GRACE OF GOD IMPOSSIBLE LOVE, AN LAST CALL COLD CASE HAMMARSKJÖLD (UN AMOUR IMPOSSIBLE) LIE EXPOSED IN SAFE HANDS CYRANO, MY LOVE LOWER PLATEAU, THE INFINITE HAPPINESS, THE EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEY OF THE FAKIR, THE MATTHIAS AND MAXIME INTOUCHABLES, THE IMPOSSIBLE LOVE, MURMUR INVISIBLES AN (UN AMOUR IMPOSSIBLE) nîpawistamâsowin: IT MUST BE HEAVEN IN SAFE HANDS WE WILL STAND UP LA BELLE EPOQUE LITTLE WHITE LIES 2 OLYMPIA LETO MYSTERY OF HENRI PICK, THE ONCE WERE BROTHERS: ROBBIE LITTLE WHITE LIES 2 NO FILTER ROBERTSON AND THE BAND LOLA AND HER BROTHERS SOFIA ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF LONG DAY’S JOURNEY SORRY WE MISSED YOU NOAH PIOGATTUK INTO NIGHT SWEETHEART PIPE DREAMS MYSTERY OF HENRI PICK, THE TEL AVIV ON FIRE PREY NO FILTER YOUNG AHMED PUSH OUR HAPPY HOLIDAY QUICK AND DIRTY, THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE BRAZIL SLUT IN A GOOD WAY SAUVAGE / WILD BACURAU THAT IS ALL SAVAGE DIAMANTINO THERE ARE NO FAKES SOFIA INVISIBLE LIFE OF EURIDICE THERE’S SOMETHING IN SORRY WE MISSED YOU GUSMAO, THE THE WATER SPECIALS, THE TOXIC BEAUTY SUNSET CANADA WE ARE GOLD SWEETHEART ACQUAINTED WHITE LIE TEL AVIV ON FIRE AND THE BIRDS RAINED DOWN WILLIE THROUGH THE FIRE ANTIGONE VARDA BY AGNES BEFORE WE EXPLODE CHINA WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BOYS VS GIRLS MY REVOLUTION? LONG DAY’S JOURNEY BROTHER’S LOVE, A WHISTLERS, THE INTO NIGHT CALL OF THE FOREST: THE YOUNG AHMED FORGOTTEN WISDOM OF TREES SHADOW CASTLE IN THE GROUND GERMANY CITY DREAMERS CROATIA AQUARELA COLONY, A LITTLE STAR RISING CALL OF THE FOREST: THE COMPULSIVE LIAR FORGOTTEN WISDOM OF TREES CONVICTION CYPRUS CUNNINGHAM OLYMPIA EASY LAND HIGH LIFE FALL OF THE AMERICAN INVISIBLES, THE EMPIRE, THE DENMARK IT MUST BE HEAVEN FAR SHORE, THE ANGELS ARE MADE OF LIGHT LITTLE JOE FINAL OFFER ANIARA PUSH FOLLOW ME AQUARELA WHISTLERS, THE FOR THOSE WHO DON’T READ ME BORDER GENESIS COLD CASE HAMMARSKJÖLD GREECE GHOST ARTIST INFINITE HAPPINESS, THE OLYMPIA

138 HONG KONG Russia CITY DREAMERS SHADOW LETO CUNNINGHAM HUNGARY DAVID CROSBY: Singapore KING, THE REMEMBER MY NAME EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEY SUNSET OF THE FAKIR, THE DOLEMITE IS MY NAME INDIA ECHO IN THE CANYON South Korea EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEY OF EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEY OF THE FAKIR, THE PARASITE THE FAKIR, THE INVENTING TOMORROW Spain FRAMING JOHN DELOREAN Indonesia PAIN AND GLORY GAY CHORUS DEEP SOUTH INVENTING TOMORROW SWEDEN GHOST FLEET IRELAND ANIARA GREENER GRASS CALL OF THE FOREST: THE FORGOTTEN WISDOM OF TREES BORDER HAIL SATAN? BRITT-MARIE WAS HERE VITA & VIRGINIA HIGH LIFE COLD CASE HAMMARSKJÖLD Israel PUSH HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG TEL AVIV ON FIRE WHISTLERS, THE HUMAN NATURE INVENTING TOMORROW JAPAN Switzerland CALL OF THE FOREST: THE BLUE NOTE RECORDS: LAST CALL FORGOTTEN WISDOM OF TREES BEYOND THE NOTES LION KING, THE SENDING OFF LOVING VINCENT: THE Taiwan Luxembourg IMPOSSIBLE DREAM SCOTCH: A GOLDEN DREAM TEL AVIV ON FIRE MAMMA MIA! SING-ALONG Mexico Turkey MARIANNE & LEONARD: CHAMBERMAID, THE IT MUST BE HEAVEN WORDS OF LOVE INVENTING TOMORROW MAXIMA MIDNIGHT FAMILY UK AQUARELA MIKE WALLACE IS HERE Morocco FOR SAMA MINDING THE GAP SOFIA HAPPY NEW YEAR, OFFICIAL SECRETS COLIN BURSTEAD Netherlands HIGH LIFE OLYMPIA BUDDY IN THE NAME OF YOUR ONCE WERE BROTHERS: ROBBIE DAUGHTER ROBERTSON AND THE BAND New Zealand KING, THE VAI PARIS IS BURNING LITTLE JOE PARTS YOU LOSE, THE NORWAY MAIDEN MAMMA MIA! SING-ALONG PAVAROTTI ANGELS ARE MADE OF LIGHT NOMAD: IN THE FOOTSTEPS RAISE HELL: THE LIFE AND TIMES COLD CASE HAMMARSKJÖLD OF BRUCE CHATWIN OFFICIAL SECRETS OF MOLLY IVINS Palestine PAVAROTTI ROOM, THE IT MUST BE HEAVEN REFUGEE SELL BY SCOTCH: A GOLDEN DREAM Poland SIMPLE WEDDING SORRY WE MISSED YOU DOLCE FINE GIORNATA VITA & VIRGINIA SOUTH PARK: BIGGER, LONGER HIGH LIFE WILD ROSE AND UNCUT Portugal STONING OF SORAYA M, THE DIAMANTINO USA TEAR US APART AFTER SO MANY DAYS FRANKIE TONI MORRISON: THE PIECES ANGELS ARE MADE OF LIGHT Qatar AQUARELA I AM IT MUST BE HEAVEN ART OF SELF-DEFENSE, THE TOXIC BEAUTY SOFIA ASK DR. RUTH UNTOUCHABLE BEAUTY AND THE BEAST VIVARIUM Republic of BEFORE YOU KNOW IT Macedonia BIGGEST LITTLE FARM, THE WHERE’D YOU GO, BERNADETTE HONEYLAND BRINK, THE WHERE’S MY ROY COHN? CALL OF THE FOREST: THE Romania FORGOTTEN WISDOM OF TREES WILLIE WHISTLERS, THE CHANGING THE GAME WORLD BEFORE YOUR FEET, THE 139 Congratulating on its 15 years! Follow us for Festival Features November 1st - 10th

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