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3 4 5 6 7 8 Close-Up / 7 pm The Wind Will Carry Us / 7 pm French Film Festival: French Film Festival: French Film Festival: French Film Festival: The Wind Will Carry Us / 9 pm Close-Up / 9:15 pm The Specials / 7 pm Portait of a Lady on Fire / 7 pm Les Misérables / 2 pm & 9:15 pm Invisibles / 3 pm Little White Lies 2 / 9:15 pm Pierrot le Fou / 9:15 pm Z / 4:30 pm Woman / 5 pm Le Belle Époque / 7 pm The Swallows of Kabul / 7 pm

10 11 12 13 14 15 The Wind Will Carry Us / 7 pm Portrait of a Lady on Fire / 7 pm Portrait of a Lady on Fire / 7 pm Groundswell: Groundswell: Close-Up / 3 pm Clemency / 9:15 pm Clemency / 9:30 pm Close-Up / 9:30 pm Mama Africa / 7 pm Mama Africa / 3 pm Portrait of a Lady on Fire / 5 pm Portrait of a Lady on Fire / 9 pm Clemency / 5 pm The Wind Will Carry Us / 7:30 pm Nothin’ Butt ‘90s: Freeway / 7 pm Portrait of a Lady on Fire / 9 pm

17 18 19 20 21 22 Clemency / 7 pm Clemency / 7 pm Portrait of a Lady on Fire / 7 pm Coppers / 7 pm Coppers / 2 pm For Sama / 2 pm Portrait of a Lady Portrait of a Lady Black Conflux/ 9:30 pm Black Conflux / 9 pm Black Conflux/ 5 pm Black Conflux / 5 pm on Fire / 9:15 pm on Fire / 9:15 pm 63 Up / 7 pm 63 Up / 7 pm Portrait of a Lady on Fire / 9:30 pm

24 25 26 27 28 29 Black Conflux / 7 pm Coppers / 7 pm 63 Up / 7 pm Firecrackers / 7 pm 63 Up / 2 pm & 7 pm 63 Up / 2 pm & 7 pm Coppers / 9 pm Black Conflux / 9 pm Coppers / 9:30 pm Coppers / 9:30 pm Coppers / 5 pm Coppers / 5 pm Black Conflux/ 9:30 pm

31 63 Up / 7 pm Cat Video Fest / 9:30 pm April 2020 TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY

1 2 3 4 5 Cat Video Fest / 7 pm Everybody Street / 7 pm Groundswell: Trimpin / 7 pm Everybody Street / 2 pm Story / 3 pm / 9 pm Cat Video Fest / 9 pm Cat Video Fest / 8:45pm Cunningham 3D / 5 pm Cat Video Fest / 5 pm Taipei Story / 7 pm Everybody Street / 7 pm Cat Video Fest / 9:15 pm

7 8 9 10 11 12 Cat Video Fest / 7 pm Cunningham 3D / 7 pm Long Day’s Journey Cunningham 3D / 7 pm Long Day’s Journey Cunningham 3D / 3 pm Taipei Story / 8:30 pm Cat Video Fest / 9 pm into Night 3D / 7 pm The Maze 3D / 9 pm into Night 3D / 2:30 pm The Maze 3D / 5 pm Cunningham 3D / 9:30 pm Made in Hong Kong / 5 pm Long Day’s Journey BLACK LODGE: into Night 3D / 7 pm Cream of the Crap / 7 pm Cunningham 3D / 7 pm The Maze 3D / 9 pm

14 15 16 17 18 19 Cunningham 3D / 7 pm Long Day’s Journey Made in Hong Kong / 7 pm The Best of Ottawa MARL Film Festival / 2 pm Made in Hong Kong / 3 pm Long Day’s Journey into Night 3D / 7 pm The Best of Ottawa International Animation Cunningham 3D / 5 pm The Best of Ottawa Festival / 7 pm into Night 3D / 9 pm Cunningham 3D / 9:30 pm International Animation The Best of Ottawa International Animation Festival / 9 pm Long Day’s Journey International Animation Festival / 5 pm into Night 3D / 9 pm Festival / 7 pm National Canadian Film Day: Made in Hong Kong / 9 pm Taking Shelter / 7 pm

21 22 23 24 25 26 The Best of Ottawa Architecture+Design Architecture+Design Architecture+Design Architecture+Design Architecture+Design International Animation Film Festival: Film Festival: Film Festival: Film Festival: Film Festival: Festival / 7 pm Lotte am Bauhaus / 7 pm The Proposal / 7 pm Bait / 7 pm Archishorts / 12 pm Backstage Vienna Cunningham 3D / 9 pm The New Bauhaus / 9:30 pm A Poetics of Living / 9 pm The Street / 9 pm A Concrete Cinema / 3 pm State Opera / 3 pm Floating Structures / 5 pm Jørn Utzon: Women of the Bauhaus / 7 pm The Man & The Architect / 5 pm Neutra - Survival Through The Dreams of Other / 7 pm Design / 9 pm

28 29 30 Made in Hong Kong / 7 pm Prototype 3D / 7 pm Prototype 3D / 7 pm & 8:30 pm Long Day’s Journey Long Day’s Journey into Night 3D / 9 pm into Night 3D / 8:30 pm Canadian & International Features

Clemency Firecrackers Long Day’s Journey Into Night 3D

Portrait of a Lady on Fire Canada’s Top Ten: Long Day’s Journey Into Night 3D (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu) Black Conflux (Diqiu zuihou de yewan) Directed by Céline Sciamma Directed by Nicole Dorsey Directed by Bi Gan 2019, France, 121 min 2019, Canada, 100 min 2019, China / France, 138 min French with English subtitles Mandarin with English subtitles Thursday, March 19 / 9:30 pm Friday, March 6 / 7 pm Friday, March 20 / 9 pm Thursday, April 9 / 7 pm Wednesday & Thursday, March 11 & 12 / 7 pm Saturday & Sunday, March 21 & 22 / 5 pm Saturday, April 11 / 2:30 pm Friday & Saturday, March 13 & 14 / 9 pm Tuesday, March 24 / 7 pm Sunday, April 12 / 7 pm Sunday, March 15 / 5 pm Wednesday, March 25 / 9 pm Tuesday, April 14 / 9 pm Tuesday & Wednesday, March 17 & 18 / 9:15 pm Saturday, March 28 / 9:30 pm Wednesday, April 15 / 7 pm Thursday, March 19 / 7 pm Friday, April 17 / 9 pm Jackie, a teen in late-80s Newfoundland, is dealing with Saturday, March 21 / 9:30 pm Tuesday, April 28 / 9 pm the trials of adolescence, friendship, dating, belonging Wednesday, April 29 / 8:30 pm Girlhood director Céline Sciamma returns with this beautifully vs. conforming. Dennis, a lonely outcast, struggles with calibrated, incandescent romance which took home both increasingly dark fantasies. What will happen when their paths In Bi Gan’s noir-tinged stunner, a lost soul on a quest to find Best Screenplay and the Queer Palm at last year’s Cannes. cross? Nicole Dorsey’s debut feature, remarkably nuanced, a missing woman from his past, crosses paths with a series of Marianne (Noémie Merlant), a young painter in 18th-century reinvents the coming-of-age movie, using the brooding colorful characters, among them a prickly hairdresser played by France, has been commissioned to do the wedding portrait of magnificence of the landscape to breathtaking effect. Ella Taiwanese superstar . When the search leads him Héloïse (Adèle Haenel), a soon-to-be bride who refuses to sit Ballentine, as the young Jackie looking to follow her own star, to a dingy movie theater, the film launches into an hour-long, for her portrait and so must be studied in secret. Intimacy and is a revelation. — Festival du Nouveau Cinema gravity-defying 3D sequence that plunges its protagonist—and attraction swiftly develop between the two women, even as us—into a labyrinthine cityscape. The film is China’s biggest “A beautiful piece of art... a landmark.” — Ben Scanga circumstance conspires to drive them apart. Writer/director arthouse hit of all time. Sciamma tightens the emotional screws with devastating Generously sponsored by “Swooningly beautiful... with a staggering 59-minute 3D precision, while Merlant and Haenel explore their characters’ tracking shot that must be seen to be believed.” overwhelming relationship with heartbreaking clarity. - — Justin Chang, Times Melbourne Film Festival Firecrackers Directed by Jasmin Mozaffari “A Chinese box office phenomenon… a mesmerizing “Not since Jane Campion’s The Piano has a costume drama 2018, Canada, 93 min hallucination of a film... recalls Tarkovsky, Malick and Wong presented such a gorgeous view of love from a woman’s Kar-wai.” — Todd Gilchrist, The Wrap point of view.” — CineVue, John Bleasdale Friday, March 27 / 7 pm Lou and Chantal plan to get out of their desolate town and The Maze 3D Clemency move far away. When Chantal’s ex-boyfriend violates her during Directed by William Cameron Menzies Directed by Chinonye Chukwu a night of partying, the girls decide to exact their revenge. The 1953, USA, 80 min 2019, USA, 112 min consequences of their actions are devastating, threatening their 4K Restoration chances of leaving. The more Lou fights to save her friendship Tuesday, March 10 / 9:15 pm and hold onto her dreams, the more she spins out of control as Friday & Saturday, April 10 & 11 / 9 pm Wednesday, March 11 / 9:30 pm she realizes that freedom will come at a high cost. Sunday, April 12 / 5 pm Saturday, March 14 / 5 pm “Like a young Andrea Arnold, Mozaffari has an incredible eye for Tuesday & Wednesday, March 17 & 18 / 7 pm The 1953 atmospheric horror film newly restored by the 3-D the details that bring a situation or place to life, working with Film Archive from 4K scans of the Paramount Pictures Archives! Winner of a Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance Film inexperienced actors to create electrifying characters and a Gerald MacTeam (Richard Carlson, star of Creature from the Black Festival, Clemency is an enthralling drama anchored by a sense of edgy unpredictability.” — Peter Debruge, Variety Lagoon) abruptly breaks off his engagement to pretty Kitty powerhouse performance from the great Alfre Woodard. A Director Jasmin Mozaffari will be in attendance for the screening, Murray (Veronica Hurst) after he inherits his uncle’s mysterious prison warden worn down by years of working on death row and will also be leading the Gimli Film Festival’s Future is Female* castle in the Scottish Highlands. After some mysterious becomes invested in the fate of Anthony (a mesmerizing Aldis Winter Retreat over the following weekend. As part of this new occurrences in the castle and the hedge maze outside, a group Hodge), an inmate scheduled for execution which encourages initiative, Jasmin will share her insight and knowledge with 10 of friends, including a doctor, arrive at the castle, hoping to her to take a long overdue look in the mirror. local filmmakers, assisting them in developing their own works- help Gerald with whatever ails him. William Cameron Menzies “It’s a sterling piece of American realism, powered by the in-progress. The program is a spin-off of GFF’s Future is Female* also directed Invaders from Mars and Things to Come and was a transfixing spectacle of a great actor at the peak of her powers.” Mentorship Program, which will be held for the 3rd annual year legendary production and art department designer. — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times during GFF 2020, July 22 to 26. “A gripping and fully absorbing atmosphere of place and mystery... easily ranks amongst the very best the studio 3 D Film Archive has released.” — Martin Liebman, BluRay.com For Sama Everybody Street Cunningham 3D

Coppers For Sama Cunningham 3D Directed by Alan Zweig Directed by Waad al-Kateab & Edward Watts Directed by Alla Kovgan 2019, Canada, 86 min 2019, UK / USA / Syria, 100 min 2019, USA, 93 min Arabic & English with subtitles Friday, March 20 / 7 pm Saturday, April 4 / 5 pm Saturday, March 21 / 2 pm Sunday, March 22 / 2 pm Wednesday, April 8 / 7 pm Tuesday, March 24 / 9 pm Thursday, April 9 / 9:30 pm Post-screening conversation with by Ayat Mneina, a young Wednesday, March 25 / 7 pm Friday & Saturday, April 10 & 11 / 7 pm Canadian-Libyan Human Rights and Youth Empowerment activist. Thursday & Friday, March 26 & 27 / 9:30 pm Sunday, April 12 / 3 pm Saturday & Sunday, March 28 & 29 / 5 pm An intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war. Tuesday, April 14 / 7 pm A love letter from a young mother to her daughter, telling the Wednesday, April 15 / 9:30 pm March 20th screening introduced by director Alan Zweig. A panel story of Waad al-Kateab’s life through five years of the uprising Saturday, April 18 / 5 pm discussion with follow the March 21st screening with Zweig and in Aleppo, Syria. She falls in love, gets married and gives birth Tuesday, April 21 / 9 pm several retired policemen. to Sama, while the cataclysmic conflict rises around her. Groundbreaking choreographer Merce Cunningham is Veteran documentary filmmaker Alan Zweig Vinyl,( I Waad’s camera captures incredible stories of loss, laughter and celebrated in this 3D documentary combining archival footage Curmudgeon, Hurt) profiles thirteen retired police officers who survival as she wrestles with whether or not to flee the city to and newly staged performances of 14 of his landmark works. tell stories of fights, shootings, accident scenes and sudden protect her daughter’s life, when leaving means abandoning What Kovgan’s utterly transporting film does, through a death. There are sweet stories and funny ones but the darker the struggle for freedom for which she has already sacrificed thoughtful and dynamic combination of curated material and stories dominate. At its heart this collective story is about so much. new performances, is radiate the rapturous power of dance. the trauma we expect the police to clean up and what that Organized by Jennifer Dueck with sponsorship from the Stephen A It embodies the daring of a peerless innovator taking the art experience does to them. Jarislowsky Chair in the Modern History of the Middle East and North form to places it had never before gone. The only voices heard “A wide range of powerful emotions makes Coppers one of the Africa, University of Manitoba. in Cunningham are the choreographer’s himself, the founding best documentaries I’ve seen in a while (and undoubtedly the members’ of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and best documentary feature from 2019 I’ve seen). An informative, artists who collaborated in his life’s work, including his life poignant and brave piece of cinema.” — Luca Pincelli Everybody Street partner — John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol. Directed by Cheryl Dunn – The Hollywood Reporter 2013, USA, 83 min Co-presented Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers 63 Up Directed by Michael Apted Thursday, April 2 / 7 pm 2019, UK, 145 min Saturday, April 4 / 2 pm * Sunday, April 5 / 7 pm Saturday & Sunday, March 21 & 22 / 7 pm *Panel on street photography to follow the Saturday, April 4 screening Prototype 3D Thursday, March 26 / 7 pm with photographers Roi Jones, Signy Thorsteinson, Valentyna Directed by Blake Williams Saturday & Sunday, March 28 & 29 / 2 pm & 7 pm Gabinyetova, Jhoel Manalo, Zachary Prong and Colin Gorneau. 2017, Canada, 63 min Tuesday, March 31 / 7 pm Moderated by Leif Norman. One of the greatest cinematic achievements in history, the Wednesday, April 29 / 7 pm Everybody Street highlights the lives and work of New York’s award-winning 7 Up series has checked in on the same group Thursday, April 30 / 7 pm & 8:30 pm iconic street photographers, including Bruce Davidson, Mary of people every seven years since they were children. Nine Ellen Mark, Elliott Erwitt, Ricky Powell and Jamel Shabazz, and As the deadliest natural disaster in US history strikes Galveston, episodes and six decades later, we arrive at 63 Up. The children the unparalleled city that has inspired them for decades. This Texas, taking between 6,000 and 12,000 lives, a mysterious director Michael Apted first captured in 1964 are now heading beautifully shot documentary celebrates the spirit of street televisual device projects images of unknown origin. Blake towards retirement. What has life thrown at them over the last photography through a cinematic exploration of New York City, Williams’ experimental 3D film immerses us in the storm’s seven years? Apted’s saga both precedes and eclipses our reality capturing the rush, perseverance, and danger customary to aftermath, at every minute represented by remarkable and TV-obsessed culture in a singularly human portrait of everyday these artists. Everybody Street allows the photographers to speak mysterious sights of one world nearing destruction as another people moving through all stages of life. This latest installment for themselves, eloquently illuminating why (and sometimes emerges. A consideration of technology, cinema, and the is full of insight, warmth, and humour in what Apted says could how) they do what they do. — Sarah Boslaugh, Playback medium’s future, Prototype is equal parts dense and fleet – be the coda of the series. an unprecedented experience with no clear ancestor or likely Presented in conjunction with “The most important British film of our lifetime. “ successor. Flash Photographic Fest (flashfest.net). — David Thomson, Film Critic and Historian “Just as Williams has given us a compelling vision of the art form’s future. Picks up where Godard left off inGoodbye to Language.”— Daniel Kasman, Notebook “A 60-minute avant-garde film has managed to easily outmatch any hundred-million-dollar production in its use of 3D.” — Dan Schindel, Hyperallergic NEW RESTORATIONS: LOOKING BACKWARDS // MOVING FORWARDS

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Close-Up Taipei Story Directed by Directed by Edward 1990, Iran, 98 min 1985, , 110 min Persian & Azerbaijani with English subtitles and Mandarin with English subtitles 4K Restoration 4K Restoration

Tuesday, March 3 / 7 pm Wednesday, April 1 / 9 pm Wednesday, March 4 / 9:15 pm Saturday, April 4 / 7 pm Thursday, March 12 / 9:30 pm Sunday, April 5 / 3 pm Sunday, March 15 / 3 pm Tuesday, April 7 / 8:30 pm Internationally revered Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has A mournful anatomy of a city caught between the past and the created some of the most inventive and transcendent cinema present made in collaboration with Yang’s fellow New Taiwan The Wind Will Carry Us of the past thirty years, and Close-Up is his most radical, brilliant Cinema master Hou Hsiao-hsien. The film chronicles the growing work. This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life estrangement between a washed-up baseball player (Hou, in a event—the arrest of a young man for impersonating the filmmaker rare on-screen performance) working in his family’s textile business Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered and his girlfriend (pop star Tsai Chin), an upwardly mobile property investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, developer. As the couple’s dreams of marriage and emigration in which the participants in the case play themselves. unravel, Yang illuminates the precariousness of domestic life and the desperation of Taiwan’s globalized modernity.

The Wind Will Carry Us Directed by Abbas Kiarostami Made in Hong Kong 1999, Iran / France, 118 min Directed by Fruit Chan Persian & Kurdish with English subtitles 1997, Hong Kong, 108 min New 4K Restoration Cantonese with English subtitles 4K Restoration Tuesday, March 3 / 9 pm Wednesday, March 4 / 7 pm Saturday, April 11 / 5 pm Taipei Story Tuesday, March 10 / 7 pm Thursday, April 16 / 7 pm Sunday, March 15 / 7:30 pm Saturday, April 18 / 9 pm Sunday, April 19 / 3 pm A TV crew from Tehran arrives in a remote Kurdish village to film an Tuesday, April 28 / 7 pm unusual funeral ceremony but are stymied when the old woman they expect to die clings to life. A fable-like story about professional The first independent film released in post-Handover Hong Kong, and personal frustration, this droll drama is the most tantalizingly director Fruit Chan’s atmospheric shoestring-budget character opaque and allusive of Kiarostami’s films, containing numerous study was shot on grainy leftover 35mm short ends in the city’s references to poetry and several key figures (including the old overcrowded subsidized housing projects. This tough, pessimistic woman), who are never seen. film is a portrait of a city on the brink. High school dropout and wannabe Triad tough, Autumn Moon drifts along, seeing little “Kiarostami’s tale is wonderfully warm-hearted, hope for his future or that of Hong Kong. A portrait of nihilistic frequently funny and always serenely beautiful to look at” youth in the same vein as Rebel Without a Cause, or My Own Private — Xan Brooks, The Guardian Idaho, the film poses questions that remain relevant as tumult engulfs Hong Kong. Made in Hong Kong

Freeway Directed by Matthew Bright 1996, USA, 102 min

Saturday, March 14 / 7 pm Relive the Greatest Decade with this collaboration with The Good Will Social Club’s Nothin’ Butt ‘90s dance party. All tickets $10 – bring your receipt to The Good Will afterward for free admission before 11pm. In this modern take on Little Red Riding Hood, Kiefer Sutherland plays Bob Wolverton, a serial killer who meets his match in Vanessa (Reese Witherspoon), a potty-mouthed girl on her way to her grandmother’s after her parents are arrested. ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2020 Alliance Française du Manitoba is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to teaching and promoting French and its diverse culture. For the 6th time, the Alliance Française’s French Film Festival provides an opportunity to see a selection of French features. Curated by Damien Ferland and Marie Lemeunier.

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The Specials (Hors normes) Les Misérables Invisibles (Les Invisibles) Directed by Olivier Nakache & Éric Toledano Directed by Ladj Ly Directed by Louis-Julien Petit 2019, France, 115 min 2019, France, 102 min 2019, France, 102 min French with English subtitles French and Bambara with English subtitles French with English subtitles

Thursday, March 5 / 7 pm Saturday, March 7 / 2 pm & 9:15 pm Sunday, March 8 / 3 pm For twenty years, Bruno and Malik have been living in a world With a gun in his belt and a truncheon in his hand, Pento joins After a municipal decision, a shelter for homeless women, apart, the world of autistic children and teenagers. Their the street crime unit in Seine-Saint-Denis, an inner suburb “l’Envol”, is about to close. With only three months to associations train youngsters from difficult neighborhoods of Paris. Along with the other members of his team, Chris reintegrate the women they care for, the social workers do to care for these cases categorized as “extremely complex”. A and Gwada, two men with “peculiar” methods, he becomes everything they can: pulling-strings, bending the truth, and special partnership for special personalities. From the makers of embroiled in the tensions between the different neighbourhood even outright lies... From now on, everything goes! The Intouchables. gangs. They find themselves overwhelmed as a drone owned by Sponsored by Cinémental. a local kid films their confrontation.

Little White Lies 2 (Nous finirons ensemble) Directed by Guillaume Canet Z 2019, France, 135 min Directed by Costa-Gavras Woman French with English subtitles 1969, France / Algeria, 127 min Directed by Anastasia Mikova & Yann Arthus-Bertrand French, Russian and English with subtitles 2019, France, 105 min Thursday, March 5 / 9:15 pm English, French and Spanish with subtitles Saturday, March 7 / 4:30 pm With lots on his mind, Max takes off for a long weekend alone in his beach house. Three years after they all fell out, his buddies In a fragile democracy where the police and the military are set Sunday, March 8 / 5 pm spring a surprise birthday party on him. The surprise is total on eradicating the political left, a member of the parliamentary Woman is a worldwide project giving voice to 2,000 women and Max’s welcome nothing less than reserved. He presents a opposition is murdered in the street after leading a pacifist from 50 different countries. Despite its large scale, the film happy front that rings hollow landing the group in unexpected meeting. The official inquiry into the case is entrusted to a offers an intimate portrait of half of humanity shedding light on situations. Children have grown, babies have been born, young judge who becomes aware that this was a political crime the injustices women are subject to the world over. But Woman priorities have changed. When everybody decides to stop telling committed by two hired killers. To entangle things further, an emphasizes the inner strength of women and their capacity to their little white lies, what remains of friendship? ambitious journalist resorts to unorthodox means to pile up change the world. You will hear the voices of women as you evidence against several members of an extreme right-wing have never heard them. party, while these in turn accuse police and army high officials. Portrait of a Lady on Fire An Oscar-winning film in 1970. (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu) The Swallows of Kabul Directed by Céline Sciamma (Les hirondelles de Kaboul) 2019, France, 121 min La Belle Époque Directed by Zabou Breitman & Eléa Gobbé-Mévellec French with English subtitles Directed by Nicolas Bedos 2019, France, 81 min 2019, France, 115 min French with English subtitles Friday, March 6 / 7 pm French with English subtitles On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth Sunday, March 8 / 7 pm Saturday, March 7 / 7 pm century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait Summer 1998 - Kabul under Taliban rule. Zunaira and Mohsen of a young woman. Sixty something Victor’s life is turned upside down when are young and in love. Despite the daily violence and misery, Antoine, a flourishing entrepreneur, offers him a unique they hope for a better future. One day, a foolish gesture causes opportunity. Using theatrical artifice and historical re- life to take an irrevocable turn. The film is an adaption of the Pierrot le Fou enactment, Antoine’s company lets clients return to a previous novel of the same name by the Algerian writer Yasmina Khadra, Directed by Jean-Luc Godard period of their life. Victor decides to relive the most memorable and was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2019 1965, France / Italy, 110 min week of his existence, 40 years earlier, when he met the love of . French, Italian and English with subtitles his life...

Friday, March 6 / 9:15 pm Ferdinand Griffon a.k.a. “Pierrot” (Jean-Paul Belmondo) wearies of his life and his wife. When Ferdinand falls head over heels in love with the enigmatic Marianne Renoir (Anna Karina) he abandons his family. He discovers, however, that Marianne is not who she seems. Pursued by thugs, they steal a car and embark on a crime spree through the French countryside. THE BEST OF OTTAWA INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL

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Mama Africa Trimpin: The Sound of Invention Directed by Mika Kaurismäki Directed by Peter Esmonde Taking 2011, Finland / Germany, 90 min 2009, USA, 79 min French and English with subtitles Friday, April 3 / 7 pm Friday, March 13 / 7 pm Shelter This amusing exploration of the sonic world of an eccentric Saturday, March 14 / 3 pm creative genius will delight anyone interested in the mysteries, Directed by Jonathan Culp A wonderful portrait of the legendary African singer Miriam pitfalls, and sheer joy of creative experiment. Artist, inventor, 2014, Canada, 83 min Makeba, from her appearance at a United Nations convention engineer, and composer, Trimpin shuns the hype and hyperbole urging it to boycott the South African government, to her of the commercial art world – yet his freewheeling sculptures Sunday, April 19 / 7 pm charismatic live performances. Featuring rare archival footage and outrageous musical experiments are cherished by museums Introduced by director Jonathan Culp. and interviews with friends and family, the film outlines her life. all over the planet. Filmed over two years, the film follows the Blacklisted in South Africa after appearing in Lionel Rogosin’s artist/inventor as he designs a 60-foot tower of more than Breaking out of their imaginary purgatory, a disagreeable political exposé Come Back, Africa (1959), she was boycotted by 500 automatic electric guitars; builds an ensemble of huge crew of aliens invade Canada, using the tools of cinema as the US music industry for her political activism and her 1968 marimbas that converts real-time earthquake data into music; weapons in a battle for colonial domination. Fragments of marriage to Black Power leader Stokely Carmichael, before and collaborates with the Kronos Quartet on an outrageous 434 Canadian feature films are mashed into this found- settling in Guinea. world premiere featuring toy instruments footage feature. All were produced between 1970 and 1989, the infamous “tax shelter” years, when the government tried “A truly amazing life story…genuinely inspiring…Mama Africa does “ Terrific... a must-see for anyone who loves music and culture” to create Hollywood North, failing spectacularly. Features a great job of bringing Makeba’s joy to a wider audience.” – Anne Thompson, IndieWIRE “appearances” from dozens of familiar Canadian actors. – Robert Munro, Eye for Film “An excellent film... a testament to the endless possibilities Fasten your seat belts. afforded by a free imagination.”– Austin Chronicle

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Now in its ninth year, the Architecture + Bait Women of the Bauhaus Design Film Festival (A+DFF) presents critically Directed by Mark Jenkin Directed by Susanne Radielhof acclaimed films focusing on the importance 2018, UK, 89 min 2019, Germany, 45 min of architecture and design in everyday life and covering a range of design-oriented topics from Friday, April 24 / 7 pm Saturday, April 25 / 7 pm architecture and urban design to graphics and A stark story, set in Cornwall, about marginal communities Followed by a panel discussion. product design. Presented in partnership with facing a changing world. A hand crafted monochrome The Bauhaus school was founded 100 years ago and its masters Urban Idea, the Winnipeg Foundation, Manitoba expression of a life under threat. Association of Architects and the Goethe-Institut. continue to be the stars of the architecture and design history. More informational available at adff.ca Sponsored by Cibinel Architects. But the (his)story of the Bauhaus remains male dominated. This documentary is an homage to the forgotten women of Bauhaus. Sponsored by Richard+Wintrup Associates. The Street Directed by Zed Nelson Lotte am Bauhaus 2019, UK, 94 min Directed by Gregor Schnitzler Neutra - Survival Through Design Directed by PJ Letofsky 2019, Germany, 105 min Friday, April 24 / 9 pm German with English subtitles 2019, USA, 100 min Focusing on one street in East London and its inhabitants Wednesday, April 22 / 7 pm over a four-year period, this film charts the toxic collision of Saturday, April 25 / 9 pm gentrification, austerity and the nation’s slide into Brexit. The story of a young female student at the famous Bauhaus Covering over 100 years of modern architectural history, this Design Academy in the early 1920’s, inspired by the real life of Sponsored by JRWagner Architect. documentary celebrates the remarkable career of Richard Neutra. designer Alma Siedhoff-Buscher. Sponsored by 1X1 architecture. Film and reception sponsored by 5468796 architecture. Archishorts Award Ceremony and Screening Backstage Vienna State Opera Saturday, April 25 / 12 pm The New Bauhaus Directed by Stephanus Domanig Directed by Alysa Nahmias A screening and Q&A with the winners of the annual 2019, Austria, 96 min 2019, USA, 85 min two-minute film contest. German with English subtitles Sponsored by Harlyn Thompson. Wednesday, April 22 / 9:30 pm Sunday, April 26 / 3 pm An odyssey through the life and legacy of László Moholy-Nagy, This documentary shows the wonderful energy and magic the innovative artist and educator whose pioneering approach A Concrete Cinema behind the scenes of the Vienna State Opera. to integrating technology into design continues to influence Directed by Luz Ruciello and inspire. 2017, Argentina, 78 min Spanish with English subtitles Jørn Utzon: The Man & The Architect Sponsored by Unit7 architecture. Directed by Lene Borch Hansen & Anna von Lowzow Saturday, April 25 / 3 pm 2018, Denmark, 92 min English and Danish with subtitles The Proposal Why would a gaunt small-town bricklayer, poor and ill, start a Quixote-like adventure and build a cinema theater on top of his Directed by Jill Magid Sunday, April 26 / 5 pm 2018, USA, 86 min own house, with no help and by himself? The story of Sydney Opera House architect Jørn Utzon as told Sponsored by Ken King Ottawa. Thursday, April 23 / 7 pm by his children, colleagues and friends. The film tells a personal story of Utzon’s struggle, his humanity and his influence on Performance artist Jill Magid is preparing a public exhibition architecture. inspired by the “emotional architecture” of Luis Barragán. Floating Structures To gain access to Barragán’s professional archives, she Directed by Feargal Ward & Adrian Duncan Sponsored by Monteyne Architecture Works. orchestrates a surreal scheme of cunning intrigue, as creative 2018, Ireland, 64 min and defiant as it is profoundly ironic. Saturday, April 25 / 5 pm The Dreams of Others Directed by Xavi Campreciós & Pep Martin A researcher travels across Europe, exploring an array of 2019, Spain, 56 min A Poetics of Living buildings and structures that seem other-worldly. Drawing on Directed by Caroline Alder & Damien Faure the ideas and visions of the great Irish engineer Peter Rice, they Sunday, April 26 / 7 pm 2018, France, 60 min explore the hinterlands that gave rise to these structures. Spanish with English subtitles This documentary is a critical reflection on the role of Sponsored by Crosier Kilgour and Associates. architecture in our society, on the evolution of the architect’s Thursday, April 23 / 9 pm figure and a look at what architecture is and where it is going. This award winning film explores the experimental architecture Sponsored by h5 architecture. of Chile’s “Open City” founded in 1967. Caroline Alder as she interviews architects, poets, artists and teachers, who continue building a free and open community in search of living poetry. PUBLICATIONS MAIL AGREEMENT NUMBER 40045468

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