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TABLE OF CONTENTS HOW TO WIFF 2-3 FESTIVAL MAP 4 TICKET INFO 5 WHO WE ARE 6 SALUTE TO OUR SPONSORS 7-10 MESSAGE FROM VINCENT 11 MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR 12 MESSAGE FROM THE MAYOR 13 FESTIVAL FACTOIDS 14-15 SPECIAL EVENTS 16-17 WIFF LOCAL 18 HOT DOCS SHOWCASE 19 SPOTLIGHT ON ARCHITECTURE 20 FRANCOPHONE FILMS 21 WOMEN OF WIFF 22 TAKE IT FROM VINCENT 23 REMEMBERING MARK 24-25 OPENING NIGHT FILM 26 CLOSING NIGHT FILM 27 FILM SYNOPSES 28-84 SCREENING CALENDAR 85-91 INDEX BY COUNTRY 92-93 THANK YOU WINDSOR 97

1 You love the Windsor International Film Festival and want to get the most out of your moviegoing experience. First of all, thank you for supporting WIFF! Second, here’s a quick guide to help navigate our more than 100 films and the related events which make WIFF a great opportunity to “step out of your world.”

1. PICK YOUR FILMS WIFF offers an amazing selection of films and you don’t want to miss out! To find the list of films and showtimes you can look at the schedule online, use your program book or just simply visit the box office! If you can’t decide which films you would like to watch, chat with friends and ask their opinions or check our social media for Vincent’s Picks. Film summaries are listed by title in alphabetical order, 3. BUY YOUR TICKETS with their countries of origin noted. For a full list WIFF now offers 3 different ways to buy your of films and events, you can visit our website at tickets. Online – Purchase through your phone or www.windsorfilmfestival.com 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. Want to skip the line? NEW to WIFF 2018; WIFF Kiosks! Kiosks will be available in our box office, at the Chrysler Theatre and the Armouries. Tickets can be now be purchased In-Person (cash only) or using a credit card online or at a WIFF Kiosk. 2. TYPES OF TICKETS WIFF offers different types of tickets to enhance your viewing experience. If you plan on seeing several films during the festival, consider buying a Festival Pass for an unlimited movie experience. They’re convenient and can save you money! 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 your group save! Sometimes advance tickets are sold out, but don’t despair. A limited number of “standby tickets” will be available at the venue just before showtime. If you want to explore this option, arrive at the theatre early and join the “standby line.” Be advised: When this line is admitted, it will be one ticket per person — you won’t be able to buy tickets for anyone who isn’t present. 2 6. TALK IT UP! WIFF prides itself on being an interactive experience. Make sure you vote for the LiUNA People’s Choice Award after every screening. Stick around for a Q&A. Engage with other fest- goers through our social media portals, Twitter and Instagram (both @WindsorFilmFest) and Facebook (@WindsorInternationalFilmFestival), where you might just find yourself snapped by one 4. ATTENDING FILMS of our roving photographers. Join our email list via Plan to arrive at the appropriate venue (The Capitol our website, www.windsorfilmfestival.com. We’re Theatre, Chrysler Theatre, or the Armouries) early all volunteers, so your encouragement is the best enough so as not to miss the start of a screening. reward we could hope for. We try to be prompt! If you have ordered online, be sure to have your tickets printed prior to arriving at the designated theatre or have them ready on your cellphone. Join in the appropriate line, and if you need help finding it, consult one of our volunteers wearing WIFF lanyards. They’re always happy to help!

5. ENJOY We try to offer our guests truly unique and unforgettable experiences. Food and beverages, including alcoholic drinks (where available), are available for purchase and allowed in the theatres. We have the greatest supporters in the film fest universe but it’s never a bad idea to remind you to be considerate to your fellow guests, volunteers, staff and sponsors. Always remember to turn your cellphone off when entering the theatre. Volunteers will be on hand to escort patrons to their vehicles or between venues.

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The main Box Office is located at 109 University In-Person Ave. West (ArtCite Gallery, directly attached to the New to WIFF 2018 – Introducing WIFF Kiosks! Capitol Theatre). Please refer to the WIFF website Skip the box office line, and purchase from one of for important information regarding ticket or pass our WIFF Kiosks. Find your film, choose your ticket purchases and our ticket policy. type, and pay with a credit card. WIFF Kiosks can be found in our box office, at the Chrysler Theatre, Ticket & Festival Pass Prices and at the Armouries for your convenience. Cash will • Adult – Ticket $14, Pass $195 only be accepted by our volunteers at the box office. • Student – Ticket $9, Pass $70 *Must have Student ID • Opening Night Film - $25 Buying Tickets in Advance • Closing Night Film - $25 Box Office hours for advance ticket purchases are • Mark Boscariol 48 Hour as follows: Flick Fest - $14 Adults, $9 Students Oct. 11 – Nov. 4 Online SPECIAL EVENT TICKETS Oct. 22 – 28 • Opening Night Film & VIP Party 10:00AM – 6:00PM at the Box Office $150 (At Box Office Only) • Mark Boscariol 48 Hour Buying Tickets During Festival Flick Fest Screening & After Party From October 29th to November 4th, the Box $40 Office will be open 1 hour prior to the first screening • Women of WIFF Special Event of the day and will remain open until the last film of $100 the night commences.

Online Purchases Ticket Policy Online sales begin October 11th. Tickets will not be Tickets and Passes are non-refundable and non- mailed. Upon purchase, a confirmation email will exchangeable. $1 from each ticket sale at the be sent. Attached to this email is a PDF Document Capitol Theatre is contributed to the Capitol labeled as the name of the film. Print it off at home Theatre Restoration Fund. All tickets and passes or open on mobile device and get scanned by a can be purchased online at windsorfilmfestival. volunteer upon entering the theatre. No more com. Passes include all films, except Opening picking up your online orders at the box office. Night Film and Closing Night Film. Passholder are www.windsorfilmfest.com entitled to one ticket per screening block and must obtain their tickets in advance from the block of tickets reserved for passholders. INFO5 WE ARE

The Windsor International Film Festival (WIFF) is a cultural not for profit organization whose mission is to recognize and celebrate the art of cinema by showcasing Canadian and international films and filmmakers. Through its exhibition, education, and community development programs, WIFF builds audiences for WHOCanadian content and talent, provides training opportunities for emerging filmmakers, and promotes the creative economy of Windsor and Southwestern Ontario.

HONORARY WIFF AMBASSADORS Nick Cacciato, Peter Coady, Denise Deziel, Debra Henderson, Mike Lesperance, Priyanka Philip, Michael Reboulis, Lou Tortola

WINDSOR INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Executive Director and Chief Programmer: Vincent Georgie Managing Director: Hayden Freker Technical Director: Lana Oppen Director of Patron Services: Jen Holson Directors of Event Operations: Nathan Parent and Matthew Sabelli Volunteer Directors: Keely Murdock and Bianca Rivera Data Asset Manager: Maria Cusumano Social Media Coordinator: Dylan Kristy Patron Services Coordinators: Nuha Elalem and Shivani Bhardwaj Projection Coordinator: Cherry Theresanathan Sponsorship Coordinator: Sahar Dawi Print Traffic Coordinator: Alan Bull Guest Relations Coordinator: Lotus Pupulin Guest Events Coordinator: Kevin Hamilton Webmaster: Marcin Pulcer Graphic Design and Layout: Dave Houle

SPECIAL THANKS Marianthe Bezzerides, Joanna DeLane, Dayo Ade (Mark Boscariol 48-Hour FlickFest jurists) Renaldo Agostino, Danielle Bowers, Tom Lucier, Seth “Hootie” Perera (Mark Boscariol 48-Hour FlickFest celebration) Niklas Pizzolitto (assistant to Vincent Georgie) Sophie Brett, Sydney Cremasco, Kaycia Milne, Hagen Nelson, Sean Ross, Mac Turner (Junior Programmers) Donald McArthur (communications/copy editing)

WINDSOR INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL P.O Box 591, Station A, Windsor, ON N9A 6M6 | www.windsorfilmfestival.com

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Angela Kaye & Hsiao d’Ailly The Honourable Steven Rogin Lysande Bisson Carol & Graham Reader Martha Winterbottom & Christina Simmons & Bruce Tucker Gui Ellwood Marty & Nancy Beneteau Daena & Andreas in memory of Mark Boscariol Peter & Barb Kuker Dr. Janice Forsyth & Dan Hallett Peter & Denise Hrastovec Garth Little & Kim (Boscariol) Little Renée & Tim Trombley Greer & Mike Stasko Veronika Mogyorody & Vito Signorile J. Douglas Lawson, O. Ont. Q.C., LL.D. & Jeffery J. Bissonnette Vincent Georgie

10 A MESSAGE FROM VINCENT Our favourite time of year is here again. Downtown Windsor is at its most vibrant. We get to catch up with friends (old and new; on-screen and off). We get to escape from daily life and live in the exciting bubble known as WIFF. Only here do you watch films from around the globe, catch titles months before movie theatres, eat popcorn for breakfast, “work from home” inside a dark theatre and give in to the pleasure, laughter, shock and inspiration of the stories on screen.

2018 has been a galvanizing year for WIFF. The landmark support we received from Mayor Drew Dilkens and City Council is tangible recognition of the incredible value and impact that WIFF has on the community. Making Windsor a wonderful place to live, supporting the bottom line of downtown businesses and playing a leadership role in building an arts & entertainment district downtown have been our themes. These are all things that WIFF strives to make happen every year, and this is what you - our passionate fan-base - have told us: you want films that would never normally come to town; you want to see stories that are of a high quality, are edgier and are socially relevant; you want WIFF to keep making downtown Windsor more alive, exciting and pushing forward.

Together, over the past 14 years, audiences initially small and now very large have built WIFF into something that is not only for movie fans, but for the whole community to point to and say: We have built something together at our kitchen tables, out of our basements, and in our garages. Windsor built a Winner. Windsor Won.

WIFF for the Win.

Vincent Georgie Executive Director and Chief Programmer

11 A MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR This year brought two notable events for WIFF – one very positive and the other devastating. Our founder, major supporter, friend and champion, Mark Boscariol, died in July. His passing is not only our loss, but a loss to the Windsor community and most of all to his family. We will honour Mark in some special ways this year, including naming our 48-hour FlickFest after him.

The good news came in the form of a substantial contribution from the City of Windsor. Thank you to Mayor Dilkens, Councillors and taxpayers. We have been diligent about using these funds to enhance the viewing experience through the purchase of projection and sound equipment and upgrades to our website and ticketing system. We have been able to offer more viewing opportunities throughout the year and ensure our viability for the foreseeable future.

As one of three original WIFF volunteers (the others being Mori McIntosh and Martha Winterbottom) still serving on the festival board, I want to salute our 200+ volunteers, some of whom have been with us from the beginning and others who join each year. Staging the festival and our monthly WIFF365 screenings is a huge task. Selecting films, negotiating with distributors, determining venues and equipment requirements, obtaining sponsorships, marketing, and running the box office require passion, dedication and expertise.

We couldn’t run this festival without you.

Lynne Watts Chair, WIFF Board of Directors

12 A MESSAGE FROM THE MAYOR

13 F E S T I VA L WORTH KNOWING

This year marks the 14th annual Windsor International Film Festival.

We’re offering 143 films including feature, documentary and short films from Canada, the United States, France, Italy, India, Sweden, Iceland, the UK, Denmark, China, Japan, Iran, Germany, Turkey, Spain, Lebanon, Poland, New Zealand, Australia and Kenya with a total of 218 screenings.

The University of Windsor School of Creative Arts (the Armouries) joins the roster of WIFF venues along with the Capitol and Chrysler theatres.

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

The newly re-named Mark Boscariol 48-Hour FlickFest will be held Friday, Nov. 2.

New films are featured from acclaimed directors Nadine Labaki, Pawel Pawlikowski, Hirokazu Kore- Eda, Jia Zhangke, Jafar Panahi, Thom Fitzgerald, Gilles Lelouche, Michael Stasko, Naomi Kawase, Isabel Coixet, Lauren Greenfield, Dylan Pearce, Maxim Pozdorovkin, Matteo Garrone, Miranda de Pencier, Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky, David Robert Mitchell, Mike Nichols, Eva Husson, Julie Bertuccelli, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache and Rob Stewart.

BY THE NUMBERS 21 Countries represented 13 Films part of the Hot Docs Showcase 14 Films part of Local 2018 programming 188 Minutes - Length of longest film: 26 Francophone feature Films The Wild Pear Tree 32 Short Films 35 Films selected from TIFF 4 Minutes - Length of shortest film: 45 Films from world-leading film festivals 8MM Projection FACTOIDS Q&A

Q. Who are the notable film stars appearing in this year’s festival? A. Lots! They include Julianne Moore, Emma Thompson, Andrew Garfield, Glenn Close, Ethan Hawke, Dame Maggie Smith, Dame Judi Dench, Dame Eileen Atkins, Dame Joan Plowright, Colin Firth, Kristen Stewart, Marion Cotillard, Rupert Everett, Chloe Sevigny, Martin Short, Ken Watanabe, Tantoo Cardinal, Romain Duris, Catherine Deneuve, Chiara Mastroianni, Emmanuelle Bercot, Stanley Tucci, Pierre Niney, Kelly Macdonald, Irffan Khan, Zhao Tao, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kyle MacLachlan, Marcello Fonte, Joanna Kulig, Nadine Labaki, Behnaz Jafari, Vincent Cassel, Gilles Lelouche, Fionn Whitehead, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Evan Peters, Blake Jenner, Patricia Clarkson, Bill Nighy, Jesuthasan Antonythasan, Vincent Lindon, Asa Butterfield, Tommy Wiseau, Greg Sestero, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Gilda Radner and Sophia Loren.

Q. How many films are being shown at WIFF before their commercial release? A. 26. They are: 3 Faces, Ash Is Purest White, Bathtubs Over Broadway, Becoming Astrid, Capernaum, Cold War, Dogman, The Fireflies Are Gone, Giant Little Ones, Girls of the Sun, Level 16, The Grizzlies, The Price of Everything, Rafiki, Ramen Shop, The Russian Five, Shoplifters, Sink or Swim, Sir, Sorry,Angel, Splinters, Stray, Transit, The Trouble With You, The Wild Pear Tree, Woman At War,

Q. Which films were submitted by their home countries for Academy Award Consideration in the Best Foreign Language Film Category? A. Denmark – The Guilty; Iceland – Woman at War; Italy – Dogman; Japan – Shoplifters; Kenya – Rafiki; Lebanon – Capernaum; Poland – Cold War; and Turkey – The Wild Pear Tree. SPECIAL EVENTS LIUNA! 2018 PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARDS The LIUNA! People’s Choice Award is WIFF’s annual award for the film rated as the year’s most popular by festival audiences. Audience members are invited to vote on the films by leaving their ballots in the LiUNA! voting boxes outside the theatres following the screenings. This year’s winner will be announced Nov. 5.

MARK BOSCARIOL 48-HOUR FLICKFEST Named in honour of WIFF founder, Mark Boscariol, the 48-Hour FlickFest is a celebration of the true spirit of filmmaking. 48-Hour FlickFest consists of a slate of short films shot and edited by local filmmakers and film lovers over one weekend. FlickFest is a fun, spirited event that epitomizes the grit, passion and determination of making films. It’s a guiltless all-you-can-eat buffet of creative work from filmmakers across the Windsor region, from the young and aspiring to established heroes of the local film scene. This is a juried competition and the event includes award presentations. Tickets to the after-party are available in person at the Box Office.

FROZEN SING-ALONG SCREENING On-screen lyrics and magical bouncing snowflakes will accompany this showing of Frozen - but that’s not all! Elsa and Anna will be joining us prior to the show for a special vocal warm up! Costumes are encouraged.

16 MIDNIGHT MADNESS Midnight Madness is back with horror and thriller flicks, cult classics, and some major nostalgia – but that’s not all! Greg Sestero, Star of The Room, will join WIFF live and in-person both Friday and Saturday at midnight. We’ll also feature volumes 1 and 2 of Justin MacGregor’s Best F(r)iends.

SPECIAL SCREENING OF DO NO HARM: THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC Join us Sunday, Nov. 4 for this important documentary which confronts the opioid crisis, a devastating epidemic tied to addiction and mental health, as well as community and public services. A special panel discussion will follow the screening, bridging the film’s larger context to the increasing local awareness of this complex issue. We thank Hotel-Dieu Grace Healthcare’s Changing Lives Together Foundation for its generous support and leadership in bringing this vital discussion to our program.

30TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING OF AKIRA This post-apocalyptic Japanese science fiction classic is credited with influencing The Matrix trilogy, Inception, Looper and even the Star Wars franchise. Join us as we honour Katsuhiro Otomo’s badass masterpiece.

JUSTICE? ON FILM Justice? On Film, presented by Windsor Law, is a series of films that question the presence/lack of justice in stories real and fictional, all ultimately critical to issues the world is facing today. Screening as part of this 2018 series: Crime + Punishment (2018), The Children Act (2017) and Netizens (2018).

WIFF NEXT WAVE, JUNIOR PROGRAMMERS This year marks the third that WIFF programming includes the perspectives of youth programmers. Our WIFF Next Wave junior programmers are young film lovers from Windsor/Essex. Look for their programming picks noted throughout the program as “WIFF Next Wave.” These selections highlight films that may be of special interest to teens and highly anticipated, buzzworthy movies for WIFF audiences of any age.

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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 2018. We are delighted to be including films not only from Windsor-Essex, but also from Detroit in collaboration with the Short Film Block Party.

The WIFF Local titles that will be shown at WIFF 2018 include: WIFF Local FEATURES BABY BLUES - 10th Anniversary screening (Dylan Pearce) THE CONTROL (Michael Stasko & Eric Schiller)

WIFF 2018 Local Shorts #1 (Oct. 30, 7:30pm) NEWBORN (Ray Savaya) ALIVE (Haolun Shu) ON THE MONEY (Pat Jeflyn & Kim Kristy)

WIFF 2018 Local Shorts #2 (Oct. 30, 9:30pm) FULL META RACKET (Gemma Eva) 8MM PROJECTION (Mitchell Bouchard) JOURNEY TO THE WEST (Milos Savic) CUT YOU UP (Ken Amlin) FAMOUS IN MICHIGAN (Nick & Max Rasmussen) LORETTA’S FLOWERS (James Tracey and Brendan Prost) DEAD TOOTH (Laena Bradley)

Screening prior to Akira (Oct. 31, 9:45pm) THE PROJECTOR (Christopher Chiasson)

18 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 for our audience:

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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 fourth year, WRSA has joined forces with WIFF to promote a number of fiction and non-fiction films that bring attention to architectural creativity and innovation – and make the viewer consider the environment in which they eat, sleep, work and play. This year, the Spotlight on Architecture includes:

ALWAYS AT THE CARLYLE

ANTHROPOCENE: THE HUMAN EPOCH

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UNARMED VERSES 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. The Francophone titles that will be shown at WIFF 2018 include:

1991 (1991) ANGEL FACE (GUEULE D’ANGE) THE APPARITION (L’APPARITION) AT WAR (EN GUERRE) BACK TO BURGUNDY (CE QUI NOUS LIE) BLACK TIDE (FLEUVE NOIR) C’EST LA VIE (LE SENS DE LA FETE) CLAIRE DARLING (LE DERNIER VIDE GRENIER DE CLAIRE DARLING) THE CONFESSION (LA CONFESSION) CUSTODY (JUSQU’A LA GARDE) DUMPED (LARGUEES) THE FIREFLIES ARE GONE (LA DISPARITION DES LUCIOLES) GODARD MON AMOUR (LE REDOUTABLE) THE INTOUCHABLES (INTOUCHABLES) THE JUNGLE BUNCH (LES AS DE LA JUNGLE) JUST A BREATH AWAY (DANS LA BRUME) FAMILY IS FAMILY (LA CH’TITE FAMILLE) LE BRIO (LE BRIO) THE MIDWIFE (LA SAGE FEMME) MY SON (MON FILS) PROMISE AT DAWN (LA PROMESS DE L’AUBE) CHRISTMAS & CO. (SANTA & CIE) SINK OR SWIM (LE GRAND BAIN) SORRY, ANGEL (PLAIRE, AIMER ET COURIR VITE) THE TROUBLE WITH YOU (EN LIBERTE!) THE WORKSHOP (L’ATELIER)

21 Join us for our annual celebration of women filmmakers and amazing women and their stories. Our featured Women of WIFF offering is SAY HER NAME: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF SANDRA BLAND This documentary follows the two-year case of a woman who was arrested for a traffic violation in a small Texas town, and three days later was found hanging in her jail cell. Women of WIFF, which includes a reception following the screening, is generously brought to you 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 a part of this cause, please visit windsorfilmfestival.com.

Other notable films which either feature women filmmakers or amazing stories about women are: Rafiki, The Feeling Of Being Watched, Love, Gilda, Netizens, Blowin’ Up, Time For Ilhan, Skate Kitchen, Girls Of The Sun, The Wife, Maria By Callas and Woman At War.

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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.

Buy tickets early for Opening Night (Capernaum) & Closing Night (Cold War) 1Why? “Capernaum was the best film I saw at TIFF,” says Vincent. “The film’s power lies in how touching and hopeful it ultimately is. Lebanese Director Nadine Labaki expertly directs a cast of mostly non-professional actors. The film is very moving and inspiring.” Vincent calls Cold War a “highly evocative love story set in 1950’s Poland. Two mismatched lovers are surrounded by politics, jazz, sex and everything in between. The black and white cinematography is stunning, every scene is its own photograph come to life.”

DON’T MISS THESE 10 MUST-SEE FILMS 2Why? “These 10 films are the ones that come quickly to mind as the unmissable, must-see titles of WIFF 2018,” says Vincent. “Each is a singular standout in their genre.” The list includes:

BATHTUBS OVER CAPERNAUM THE CHILDREN ACT TEA WITH THE DAMES BROADWAY COLD WAR DO NO HARM: THE RUSSIAN FIVE C’EST LA VIE FREE SOLO THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC THE WIFE

TAKE A CHANCE ON THESE HIDDEN GEMS 3Why? “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: AMERICAN ANIMALS THE GUILTY SINK OR SWIM THE FEELING OF BACK TO BURGUNDY RAFIKI SPLINTERS BEING WATCHED MARIA BY CALLAS SHOPLIFTERS TRANSFORMER

ark Boscariol didn’t just have vision, he had the will and the work ethic to transform his passions into tangible products that Mengaged, enlightened, informed and inspired. He combined his love of film and his love for downtown Windsor when he founded the Windsor International Film Festival in 2005. Through the sheer force of his personality and his infectious enthusiasm, Mark helped grow the festival into the can’t miss event it is today — the second biggest volunteer film festival in Canada, an economic generator for the core and a bastion of the local arts.

Mark was never much for boardrooms and bureaucracy and left the paperwork to others while he built the buzz for the festival in the streets and shops of Windsor, turning residents into movie buffs one passionate, heartfelt conversation at a time. He was smart enough to let others handle administrative details while he travelled far and wide to film festivals in search of inspiration and ideas that could make WIFF even better. Mark never stopped working behind the scenes, quietly and with no need for accolades, to ensure a successful festival. He sponsored WIFF financially each year and went above and beyond, pitching in wherever he was needed. He organized meal deliveries for technical staff and hosted thank you parties for volunteers and board members. He was there to lend a hand, to listen and offer advice and encouragement.

Mark took great pleasure in showing WIFF guests around Windsor and Detroit and would roll out the Rose City carpet for them, picking them up at the train station or airport and driving them around the city or Motown, all the while rapid fire rapping about the unique beauty of the place he called home.

A passionate patron of the local arts, Mark was the driving force behind the 48-Hour Flickfest, an intense, hyperlocal moviemaking challenge that celebrates and provides exposure for Windsor and Detroit area filmmakers. This unique event was Mark’s special project and we are proud to announce we are renaming it in his honour.

It is a testament to Mark’s ability to inspire and engage other creative souls that WIFF has come so far, so fast, and that it will continue to grow even stronger despite his passing. His energy and enthusiasm will be missed, but his presence will loom large and forever in an epic festival that began with one man’s audacious vision. REMEMBERING

MARK 25 CAPERNAUM Proving herself an accomplished director as well as a measured storyteller, Director Nadine Labaki draws attention to the plight of children in Beirut’s slums and the Kafka-esque bind of people without ID cards. While this is unquestionably an issue film, it tackles its subject with intelligence and heart.

Zain (Zain Al Rafeea) is only 12, but he’s seen enough of this life to resent his very existence. With numerous children to care for, his parents resort to some inventive scams, such as saturating garments with tramadol, which they then pass along to Zain’s incarcerated brother who reconstitutes the drug and sells it to fellow prisoners. More alarmingly, Zain’s parents have sold his 11-year- old sister’s hand in marriage, which prompts Zain to run away.

He befriends an Ethiopian cleaning woman, to whose baby he eventually becomes guardian. But life on the streets offers Zain fewer and fewer places to hide. OSCAR SUBMISSION BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM Encouraged by a current affairs Directed by Nadine Labaki program seeking to draw attention to child poverty, Zain files a lawsuit 2018 | Lebanon, USA | Arabic | Subtitled against his parents for giving birth to him. The trial provides the frame 130 min | Drama | NR through which Zain’s story unfolds. CHRYSLER THEATRE OCTOBER 29, 6:00 PM 26 C O L D WA R Following his beautifully composed Oscar-winning film Ida, Pawel Pawlikowski returns with an equally haunting, distinctive, and moving work.

Based loosely on the story of the director’s own parents, Cold War covers the entirety of a couple’s relationship, from their enchanted first meeting in 1949 to the aching denouement of their marriage in the 1960s. Wiktor (Tomasz Kot) is a jazz- loving pianist and musical director tasked with auditioning folk singers as part of a state-sponsored project to champion culture from rural Poland. Young Zula (Joanna Kulig), who turns out to be more torch singer than folk singer, captivates Wiktor at first sight with her beauty and insouciance. Their fates joined, they are soon struggling both with personal demons and historical forces that threaten to tear them apart. With time spent in Poland, Berlin and France, Pawlikowski explores what it means to live and love in the specific political landscape of postwar Poland and Europe.

OSCAR SUBMISSION BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM Cold War is a superbly realized visual Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski poem that resonates all the more thanks to its striking use of choral, 2018 | Poland, France, UK classical, and jazz music. It is also a Polish French German Croatian Italian Russian bittersweet paean to a relationship Subtitled | 88 min | Drama,Romance | NR and an era. CHRYSLER THEATRE NOVEMBER 4, 6:00 PM 27

LES FILMS Francophones

1991 2018 | Canada | French | Subtitled | 101 min

Directed by Ricardo Trogi having finally moved out of Quebec hoping to finally conquer her heart, Comedy | PG City and away from his hysterical and maybe get in touch with his Italian mother (Sandrine Bisson) and roots while he’s there. On his way, Beginning with 1981, and followed by eccentric dad (Claudio Colangelo). he encounters a panoply of colourful 1987, director Ricardo Trogi’s trilogy Ricardo only has eyes for Marie-Ève characters through whom he will learn of fictionalized autobiographical Bernard (Juliette Gosselin), a friend important and necessary life lessons. adventures presents three moments with whom he sees himself growing If travel forms youth, it will forever in his life in a way that feels completely old, even if that’s probably something transform the adult that Ricardo is unvarnished. she should be made aware of. When about to become. Marie-Ève announces that she’s going In 1991, Trogi is 21 years old. He’s on an exchange trip to Italy, Ricardo studying screenwriting at UQAM, decides he, too, is going on the trip,

ARMOURIES NOVEMBER 2, 8:10 PM

3 FACES 2018 | Iran | Persian | Subtitled | 100 min

Directed by Jafar Panahi 3 Faces begins with a mysterious but her friend, Jafar Panahi. Drama | NR troubling video of an impassioned teenager, Marziyeh (Marziyeh Upon their arrival, they meet with Iranian director, Jafar Panahi, is one Rezaei), describing how her Marziyeh’s friends and apprehensive of three main characters in his own ambition to become an actor has family, who remain unmoved in gently-paced meta-mockumentary, been thwarted by her family and ostracizing their daughter for her as he and film star, Behnaz Jafari, pleading for support from Behnaz. choice of profession. The more drive to northwest Iran on a quest The footage abruptly ends with the Jafari and Panahi discover about to thwart the suicide of a young, defeated Marziyeh appearing to Marziyeh, the more they learn about aspiring actor desperate to escape hang herself. Jafari abandons her the community around her and the her constrained, provincial life. current film shoot and sets off to inescapable bond between tradition Marziyeh’s village in the company of and destiny.

ARMOURIES OCTOBER 31, 3:40 PM | NOVEMBER 4, 8:20 PM 29 Hot docs SHOWCASE

93QUEEN 2018 | USA | English Yiddish Hebrew | Partially Subtitled | 90 min

Directed by Paula Eiselt community by creating the first all- the largest volunteer ambulance Documentary | PG female volunteer ambulance corps force in the world. But Freier is Best Screenplay - Cannes Film in New York City. The documentary determined to provide an alternative Festival 2018 focuses on Rachel “Ruchie” Freier, for Hasidic women whose religious a co-founder of the group. With beliefs have infused them with a Set in the Hasidic enclave of unprecedented access, 93Queen powerful sense of modesty. Through Borough Park, Brooklyn, a offers a unique portrayal of a group it all, we see Ruchie & Co. grappling neighbourhood containing the of religious women who are taking to balance their faith with their largest ultra-orthodox Jewish matters into their own hands to nascent feminism. community in the U.S., director Paula change their community from within. Eiselt’s 93Queen follows a group of And as if that’s not enough, Ruchie tenacious Hasidic women who are The community had been served then moves on to her next goal: smashing the patriarchy in their since 1969 by the all-male Hatzolah, running for civil court judge.

ARMOURIES OCTOBER 30, 1:25 PM | NOVEMBER 2, 3:55 PM

30th anniversary screening

AKIRA 1988 | Japan | Japanese | Subtitled | 125 min

Directed by Katsuhiro Otomo ESP experiments on children go awry. In between these mind-blowing Animation, Action | 14A In 2019, 31 years after the nuking of bookends is a sprawling, cyber-punk the city, Kaneda, a bike gang leader, epic haunted by the ghost of Hiroshima Neo-Tokyo, 2019. Delinquent bikers tries to save his friend Tetsuo from a and Nagasaki, and obsessed with are on the rampage and the city secret government project. He battles the unchecked power of the human is beset with terrorist atrocities, anti-government activists, greedy mind and youthful rebellion. It’s also revolutionaries, the army and the politicians, irresponsible scientists a wistful depiction of a friendship government. Lurking somewhere and a powerful military leader until changing beyond all recognition. within this urban warzone is a strange Tetsuo’s supernatural powers suddenly messianic creature named Akira. manifest. A final battle is fought Akira is widely considered to be one In 1988 the Japanese government in Tokyo Olympiad exposing the of the greatest animated and science drops an atomic bomb on Tokyo after experiment’s secrets. fiction films of all time. PENTASTAR OCTOBER 31, 9:45 PM 30 SPOTLIGHT ON ARCHITECTURE

ALWAYS AT THE CARLYLE 2018 | USA | English | 92 min

Directed by Matthew Miele culture. While it has housed some including George Clooney, Anjelica Documentary | PG of the world’s most famous clien- Huston, Vera Wang, Anthony Bour- tele, the stories within the walls of dain, Wes Anderson, Sofia Coppola, Bobby Short and the Carlyle Hotel the hotel rarely leave the premises... Jon Hamm, and Lenny Kravitz. - the epitome of sophistication, style until now. In Always at The Carlyle, and elegance. director Matthew Miele brings you Always at the Carlyle not only cap- inside the hotel’s storied walls and tures the intangible essence of a For nearly a century Manhattan’s reveals some of its greatest tales one-of-a-kind hotel but the soul of most famous and exclusive hotel, and secrets. The film features inter- a time and place, a piece of Man- The Carlyle Hotel, has been the views with The Carlyle’s employees hattan that literally and figuratively epitome of Upper East Side ele- and a star-studded roster of guests reaches for the stars. gance and a bastion of celebrity who share their favourite stories,

PENTASTAR NOVEMBER 2, 5:55 PM

WIFF NEXT WAVE

AMERICAN ANIMALS 2018 | UK, USA | English | 117 min

Directed by Bart Layton In 2004, four Kentucky college stu- collections room of Spencer’s college Drama, Crime | 14A dents — and one dropout — staged library. Enlisting two more friends, Eric perhaps the most stunningly inept (Jared Abrahamson) and Chas (Blake A fascinating and effective marriage art heist in the history of art heists. Jenner), the gang meticulously plots of documentary interview techniques Spencer (Barry Keoghan) and War- the theft and subsequent fence of the with slick, stylish, fictional filmmaking, ren (Evan Peters), two friends from stolen works. director Bart Layton’s unique heist dra- the middle-class suburbs of Lexington, ma American Animals delivers plenty of Kentucky, are determined to lead lives American Animals was made with the thrills and high spots while demanding that are out of the ordinary. Taking direct, on screen participation of the that the viewer acknowledge and their cues from heist movies, they plan four men who planned the heist. wrestle with the narrative’s true story the brazen theft of some of the world’s roots from the opening frame. most valuable books from the special

PENTASTAR OCTOBER 29, 10:15 PM | OCTOBER 30, 9:00 AM 31 AMERICAN CHAOS 2018 | USA | English | 90 min

Directed by James D. Stern and spend time with Donald Trump lesson in the central differences Documentary | NR supporters from different back- that continue to alienate Americans grounds. It was a search for insights from one another. And the film he re- When it comes to the last presiden- and answers, for anything that could turned with, American Chaos, sheds tial election, the past is still not over. explain the billionaire’s surging ap- unique light on difficult issues roiling That much is clear in American Cha- peal and why these voters remained the nation -- chronicling a cultural os. Starting six months before the untroubled by so many troubling divide, still dangerously misunder- 2016 presidential election, director, things the candidate had said and stood, that continues to tear at the Jim Stern, put his life on hold and -- done. This journey became his Heart fabric of its democracy. driven to understand what seemed of Darkness into the American body incomprehensible at the time -- trav- politic at a profoundly critical point elled through red states to interview in history. What he learned was a

KELLY NOVEMBER 1, 9:20 AM

LES FILMS Francophones

ANGEL FACE 2018 | France | French | Subtitled | 108 min

Directed by Vanessa Filho The title character in Angel Face cheer whenever social services Drama | NR could be either the thirtysomething, (which she refers to as “the children nearly always broke wild child, Mar- police”) come calling. Told from an innocent kid’s-eye point lene (Marion Cotillard) who’s into of view, Angel Face examines the dy- reckless partying, heavy drinking Living in a haze of intoxicants and namic between an immature young and careless hook-ups, or her cute- irresponsibility, Marlene is a wom- mom and her 8-year-old daughter as-a-button 8-year-old daughter, an in a pathological state of obliv- who’s obliged to grow up too fast, Elli (Ayline Aksoy-Etaix), who is also ion about how inappropriate her forced to assume adult responsibil- not afraid of a good time — or even behaviour is, and the profound and ity because of her mother’s reckless a stiff drink. Elli, is the real mother tragic ways her behaviour affects behaviour. in this relationship and has grown her young daughter. adept at presenting a front of good

CHRYSLER OCTOBER 31, 11:15 AM | NOVEMBER 2, 9:20 AM 32 SPOTLIGHT ON ARCHITECTURE

ANTHROPOCENE: THE HUMAN EPOCH 2018 | Canada | English | 87 min

Directed by Jennifer Baichwal, Nicho- change course, the first step will be a have created a global epidemic. las de Pencier and Edward Burtynsky revolutionary shift in consciousness. Documentary | G Anthropocene: The Human Epoch The Anthropocene Epoch label re- is the third collaboration between Anthropocene: The Human Epoch is a flects the dominance of humans on the award-winning photographer Edward mesmerizing and disturbing rumina- planet, causing mass extinction and Burtynsky and acclaimed filmmakers tion on what drives us as a species, climate change and altering the Earth Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de and a call to wake up to the destruc- more than all natural processes com- Pencier. In breathtaking tableaus, tion caused by our dominance. These bined. Spanning numerous countries, their latest documentary continues startling dystopian visions are not fu- the film reveals in stunning images how their exploration of industrialization ture projections; they reflect a reality our mania for conquest defines our re- and extraction in astonishing scale that is already here - and if we are to lationship to the Earth — and how we and perspective.

CHRYSLER OCTOBER 31, 5:50 PM | NOVEMBER 3, 3:55 PM

LES FILMS Francophones

THE APPARITION 2018 | France | English French Italian | Partially Subtitled | 144 min

Directed by Xavier Giannoli investigate the veracity of a saintly solicitations she receives. Lindon Drama | PG apparition in a small French village - portrays an emotionally wounded a true canonical investigation. man who latches on to Anna as Jacques (Vincent Lindon) is a a way to forget his own turmoil. journalist at a large regional Upon his arrival, he meets the Confronted with opposing views newspaper in France, having just young and sensitive Anna (Galatéa from clergy members and skeptics returned from a war zone in the Bellugi), who claims to have in the group, Jacques gradually Middle East. His reputation as an personally witnessed the apparition uncovers the hidden motivations impartial and talented investigator of the Virgin Mary. A profound and pressures at work and sees his attracts the attention of the Vatican devout, she’s garnered an impressive belief system profoundly shaken. which recruits him for a special following in the village and is torn task; taking part in a committee to between her faith and the many

ARMOURIES NOVEMBER 4, 10:20 PM 33 ARMY OF DARKNESS 1992 | USA | English | 96 min

Directed by Sam Raimi is transported by the powers of currently plaguing the land. Since Comedy, Horror | 14A a mysterious book, back in time the skeleton warriors have been with his Oldsmobile ‘88 to the 14th resurrected with the aid of the The third in director Sam Raimi’s century medieval era. Armed only Necronomicon (the same tome stylish, comic book-like horror trilogy with a shotgun, his high school that can send Ash back to his own that began with The Evil Dead chemistry textbook, and a chainsaw time) he agrees to face the enemy (1982), this multiple award-winning that mounts where his missing in battle. Ash also finds romance tongue-in-cheek sequel offers equal appendage once resided, the along the way with a beautiful parts sword-and-sorcery-style square-jawed, brutally competent damsel in distress, Sheila (Embeth action, gore, and comedy. Ash quickly establishes himself as Davidtz), and contends with his own a besieged kingdom’s best hope doppelganger after mangling an One-armed Ash (Bruce Campbell), against an “army of darkness” important incantation.

CHRYSLER OCTOBER 31, 10:00 PM

ASH IS PUREST WHITE 2018 | China, France, Japan | Chinese Mandarin | Subtitled | 152 min

Directed by Zhangke Jia fusion of innovation, entertainment, Qiao emerges from prison to find Drama, Romance | NR and social critique. Qiao (Zhao Tao) her world has transformed. Her for- lives in a town tumbling into econom- mer mafia associates have moved Zhang-ke has crafted a body of work ic decline. Her boyfriend is a dash- into legitimate businesses, while Bin that holds a mirror to contemporary ing gangster, Bin (Liao Fan), who has found another girlfriend. Qiao China in all its complexity. With his works for a corrupt property devel- seeks revenge, but more important- latest film, romance, tragedy, and oper. After his boss is murdered, Bin ly, she searches for a new identity in crime-story grit intermingle to form ascends in rank and finds himself this changing China — a search that a vision of China’s headlong plunge vulnerable to rival hostilities. When will take her toward a powerful rev- into capitalism. he is attacked, Qiao makes a fateful elation. decision. The couple is arrested and Set in 2001, Ash Is Purest White is a Qiao takes the fall.

ARMOURIES OCTOBER 30, 9:50 PM 34 LES FILMS Francophones

AT WAR 2018 | FRANCE | French | Subtitled | 113 min

Directed by Stéphane Brizé The stage is thus set for a long and eration. And on the management Drama | NR grueling fight between labour and side, there are the French execu- management. It is indeed a war, and tives, who claim to have no control In spite of heavy financial sacrifices one of attrition, where both sides over the situation, as well as the big on the part of the employees and a wear one another down with their bosses over in Germany. record profit for their company, the tenaciousness. On the labour side, management of the factory, Perrin Laurent (Lindon) and his right-hand At War captures the tidal swells of Industrie, decides on the total clo- gal, Melanie (Mélanie Rover), strug- solidarity and division that occur sure of the site. Vincent Lindon stars gle to keep the strike going as their within the group of striking workers. as a union organizer in this brutal colleagues begin to lose faith, espe- account of a workforce betrayed by cially when the company offers them factory management. payouts in exchange for their coop-

CHRYSLER NOVEMBER 2, 11:40 AM

10th anniversary screening

BABY BLUES 2008 | Canada | English | 84 min

Directed by Dylan Pearce gets a job at a run down diner where she can’t hide from her past forever. Drama | 14A she meets a young waitress who has Max shows Josie that not everyone come to terms with her dead end sees a monster when they look at Celebrating its tenth anniversary, job. Josie attempts to establish new her. As Josie begins to accept this, Dylan Pearce’s Baby Blues tells the relationships but the shame over her she dreams of being reunited with story of Josie Patterson (Jenny Coo- past mistakes prevents her from gether son. Josie must, however, cope per), a quiet, guarded woman, who ting close to anyone. Then, an unlike- with the terrible prospect that by is attempting to start her life over ly friendship with the kind hearted finding her son, she will reawaken after a tragic incident changed her co-worker, Mani (Melanie Scrofano), her past. life forever. and a romance with a young, drifter musician named Max (Sean O’Neill) Arriving in the outskirts of a city, she challenge Josie to recognize that

KELLY OCTOBER 29, 8:55 PM 35 LES FILMS Francophones

BACK TO BURGUNDY 2017 | FRANCE | English French Spanish | Subtitled | 113 min

Directed by Cédric Klapisch the family, Jean (Pio Marmai) unex- Jean’s return, leaving them with the Comedy, Drama | PG pectedly returns home from a de- estate and a looming inheritance cade abroad to reconnect with his tax of half a million dollars. The story-telling power of wine is the hospitalized father. He’s welcomed context of Cédric Klapisch’s Back to by his strong-willed sister, Juliette As four seasons and two harvests go Burgundy, a film detailing a year in (Ana Giradot), who took over the by, Jean, Juliette, and Jeremie have the life of a fictional wine-making reins of the vineyard after their fa- to learn to reinvent their relation- family in Burgundy. ther fell ill, and Jeremie (François ship and trust in each other as they Civil), the youngest of the three who work to preserve the land that ties Three siblings reunite at their home has recently married into one of the them together. in picturesque Burgundy to save the region’s more prestigious wine fam- family vineyard. The black sheep of ilies. Their father dies shortly after

PENTASTAR NOVEMBER 3, 9:00 AM | NOVEMBER 4, 3:45 PM

Hot docs SHOWCASE

BATHTUBS OVER BROADWAY 2018 | USA | English | 87 min

Directed by Dava Whisenant fascinating and hilarious homage to them for public eyes or ears. Hooked Documentary | G Young’s unique obsession. on their hilarity and surprisingly Director Award - Tribeca Film high quality, Young not only began Festival 2018 Corporate musicals from the 1950s collecting the recordings, but also to the 1980s—with titles like Got to tracked down their singing and When Steve Young, writer for The Investigate Silicones and Ford-i-fy songwriting talents: stars like Martin Late Show with David Letterman, was Your Future—literally sang the praises Short, Chita Rivera and Florence looking for strange record albums of everything from ball bearings to Henderson, as well as talents who to mock on a comedy segment, he bathtubs, Broadway-style. Businesses never became household names. turned up a few that sparked big like General Electric and McDonald’s Meeting the unknown stars of an audience laughs and a passion that commissioned these full-scale million- unsung chapter of musical history would last over 20 years. This multiple dollar productions strictly for their strikes a personal chord with Young. award-winning documentary is a annual conventions, never intending

Directed by Michael Pearce rarely acknowledging the horror she impulsively moves in with Pascal, Crime, Drama, Mystery | 14A happening on their island. an outsider with a police record and a mysterious past. When another Beast is a riveting, slow-burning, Moll (Jessie Buckley in a breakout local girl goes missing following a smartly-layered thriller about the performance) is a damaged young string of murders, Moll must decide limits of love and the darkness in- woman who is drawn to a similarly what to trust: her own instincts, or side us by director Michael Pearce damaged Pascal (Johnny Flynn). the mysterious man with whom she in his impressive feature debut. The Moll yearns to escape from her sti- has made a home. film is set on the isle of Jersey, where fling home life with her parents, a a serial killer has murdered several father with Alzheimer’s and a con- young girls. In their tense, clenched trolling mother. As the black sheep way, the locals attempt to carry on, of an upper-crust family on Jersey,

CHRYSLER NOVEMBER 4, 10:20 PM

BECOMING ASTRID 2018 | Sweden, Denmark | Swedish | Subtitled | 123 min

Directed by Pernille Fischer The majority of the film depicts her editor, Reinhold Blomberg (Henrik Christensen from age 16 to her early 20s, endur- Rafaelsen). Blomberg recognizes Biography, Drama | NR ing a coming-of-age more challeng- and promotes Astrid’s gifts, while he ing than one would have expected begins an inappropriately intimate The biopic, Becoming Astrid, chroni- from a young woman of her time and relationship with her in spite of be- cles a character-forming period in the upbringing. We see a smart, irrever- ing married and the father of seven. young life of the Swedish writer born, ent farm girl, who is a free-thinker, The results of that relationship have Astrid Ericsson (Maria Fahl Vikander), constantly questioning hypocrisy. repercussions for Astrid for the rest who would go on to worldwide fame Despite her youth, Astrid’s talent as of her life. as Astrid Lindgren, the creator of a writer earns her an internship at “Pippi Longstocking” and one of the the local newspaper, The Vimmer- most beloved children’s authors ever. by Times, working for charismatic

Directed by Paul Weitz because his hosts have invited (for a telenovela instead). Their goal is Drama, Music | 14A very hefty sum) a famous opera sing- to draw attention to their country’s er, Roxanne Coss (Julianne Moore), horrific wealth disparities and to Based on the best-selling novel by whom Hosokawa greatly admires, to free imprisoned comrades. What Ann Patchett, Bel Canto tells the sing for him at a private party. follows is a months-long standoff, story of Japanese businessman, during which hostage-takers and Katsumi Hosokawa (Ken Watanabe), Unfortunately for all, that party is hostages slowly bond, forgetting the who is flown to an unidentified South crashed by members of an indige- world outside. From individual arias, American country in the hopes that nous militant group, who mistakenly they form a gentle chorus, unaware he will build a much-needed factory believe that the President is pres- that theirs is no rejuvenating bap- in the capital. He has no intention of ent (he was supposed to come, but tism, but a requiem-to-be. doing so, but accepts the invitation stayed home to watch his favorite

PENTASTAR NOVEMBER 1, 8:30 PM | NOVEMBER 3, 6:15 PM

MIDNIGHT MADNESS

BEST F(R)IENDS VOL 1 2017 | USA | English | 103 min

Directed by Justin MacGregor cinematic saga that interweaves Jon as a helper, only to quickly Comedy, Thriiller | 14A mystery, intrigue, and more than bond with him in a friendship that a few dark laughs into the long- builds into a business partnership. When a drifter befriends a quirky awaited reunion of the The Room’s Meanwhile, Jon discovers that mortician, an unlikely business cult icons. Harvey is sitting on a mountain of partnership is formed. gold dental scrap extracted from The film opens on Jon (Sestero), the mouths of the bodies that pass Based on a series of true-to-life a homeless man with blood on his into his care, and Jon concocts a anecdotes sourced from Greg shirt trying to get by, speechlessly scheme to sell the gold, pushing Sestero’s and Tommy Wiseau’s two begging on the street with clever this new friendship to the limits of decades of shared experiences, Best cardboard signs. Harvey (Wiseau), honesty and trust. F(r)iends is a unique two-volume an independent mortician, recruits

PENTASTAR NOVEMBER 3, 10:45 PM 38 MIDNIGHT MADNESS

BEST F(R)IENDS VOL 2 2018 | USA | English | 94 min

Directed by Justin MacGregor of Wiseau’s particular persona, but Tommy’s two decades of shared Comedy, Thriller | 14A instead of painting him as an object experiences, Best F(r)iends is a of derision, intentional or otherwise, unique two-volume cinematic saga As Sestero’s drifter makes a run we’re instead given a glimpse at that interweaves mystery, intrigue, for it, he finds himself on a desert how Sestero himself must feel about and more than a few dark laughs expedition, where wild characters this emphatic over-actor, this larger into the long-awaited reunion of the and dark foibles intersect. While than life character who can’t help The Room’s cult icons. Step into this his misadventure teaches him about but overbear every performance he surrealist tale and learn a lesson friendship and loyalty, Wiseau’s gives. about friendship and loyalty. mortician surfaces a surprise or two. Based on a series of true-to-life This is a film that revels in the oddity anecdotes sourced from Greg and

PENTASTAR NOVEMBER 3, 11:59 PM (START TIME 12:45 AM)

SPOTLIGHT ON ARCHITECTURE

BIG TIME 2018 | Denmark | English Danish | Subtitled | 93 min

Directed by Kaspar Astrup Schr_der tic work in both places, including a Importantly, Schröder shows that Documentary | PG power plant topped with a ski slope building big is no easy business; from and a Manhattan apartment build- schmoozing with an American devel- “To create something the world has ing that twists the skyscraper into a oper to greeting Danish royalty to not yet seen.” That’s the Danish novel new shape. Somewhat incredi- arguing over the finish of aluminum architect Bjarke Ingels describing bly, the buildings come to life. facade panels, Ingels’s life comes his ambitions, the size of which is across as exhausting, stressful and captured by the name of his office: Director Kaspar Astrup Schröder lonely. But the designer desperately BIG. This engaging documentary puts Ingels’s remarkable commu- wants to make his mark on history, captures the young lion jetting back nication skills to work through a and after this you won’t want to bet and forth between New York and series of sketches and chats, and against him. Copenhagen and imagining fantas- then shows us the finished products.

KELLY NOVEMBER 3, 6:20 PM 39 LES FILMS Francophones

BLACK TIDE 2018 | France, Belgium | French |Subtitled | 114 min

Directed by Erick Zonca morning on his way to school, leav- ble one, on the heels of a neighbour Thriller | NR ing his mom (Sandrine Kiberlain) in and tutor, Yann Bellaile (Romain disarray and a bunch of false leads Duris), who seems to have been way The disappearance of a boy sends behind him. Drunk but still function- too fond of his pupil. an alcoholic cop on the track of a al, Visconti investigates to find the suspicious teacher while falling for missing teenager while he reluctant- What seems at first like a clear case the grieving mother. ly takes care of his own son, Denis of guilt turns out to be much more (Félix Back), who seems to be mixed bizarre and complicated! Visconti (Vincent Cassel), has been up in drug trafficking. He starts sniff- placed in charge of an investiga- ing out various clues, with one taking tion involving a high school student, him in the direction of international Dany Arnault, who vanishes one terrorism and another, more proba-

PENTASTAR NOVEMBER 4, 10:45 PM

Hot docs SHOWCASE

BLOWIN’ UP 2018 | USA | English Mandarin Japanese | Partially Subtitled | 97 min

Directed by Stephanie Wang-Breal three options: plead guilty to a crim- welfare system, and, most impor- Documentary | PG inal offense, fight the charge, or take tantly, the women and girls who are the state’s offer to attend a handful at the center of it all. Blowin’ Up is the story of an inno- of counselling sessions and get their vative human trafficking court, the record wiped clean. Through raw Blowin’ Up opens a window into compassionate 53-year-old Japa- and intimate cinéma vérité story- Judge Serita’s courtroom to cham- nese-American judge who runs it, telling, Blowin’ Up invites audiences pion the benefits of treating sex and the women who pass through to witness the growing pains of this workers humanely. It’s an engaging its doors every day. Arrested in po- emerging court, and explores how and insightful film that questions the lice raids for prostitution-related we define trafficking and prostitu- entire criminal justice system. offenses, the women in Judge Toko tion from the perspectives of the Serita’s court are presented with criminal justice system, the social

ARMOURIES OCTOBER 31, 5:45 PM | NOVEMBER 2, 10:20 PM 40 WIFF NEXT WAVE

THE BOOKSHOP 2017 | UK, Spain, Germany | English | 113 min

Directed by Isabel Coixet (Emily Mortimer), risks everything to cious signs of a local power struggle, Drama | PG open a bookshop in a conservative she is forced to ask: is there a place East Anglian coastal town. While for a bookshop in a town that may This quiet, gentle film, from writer/ bringing about a surprising cultural not want one? director Isabel Coixet (based on a awakening through works by Ray Penelope Fitzgerald novel) is for Bradbury and Vladimir Nabokov, What begins as a genteel portrait those who love books, picturesque she earns the polite but ruthless op- of village quirkery reveals a darker, English villages and getting lost in position of a local grand dame (Pa- sadder heart, and a brittle wariness actors’ faces. tricia Clarkson) and the support and of human nature, as it goes along. affection of a reclusive book loving The Bookshop is an elegant yet in- The story begins in England in 1959. widower (Bill Nighy). As Florence’s cisive rendering of personal resolve. Free-spirited widow, Florence Green obstacles amass and bear suspi-

CHRYSLER OCTOBER 30, 9:00 AM | NOVEMBER 1, 1:40 PM

LES FILMS Francophones

C’EST LA VIE 2017 | Belgium, Canada, France | French Tamil | Subtitled | 117 min

Directed by Olivier Nakache, Max (Jean-Pierre Bacri), is a bat- zanne Clement), seems to have written Éric Toledano tle-weary veteran of the wedding-plan- him off, coolly going about her profes- Comedy, Romance | PG ning racket. His latest and last gig is a sional duties while openly flirting with hell of a fête, involving stuffy period a much younger server. It’s going to be The directors of the French hit (and costumes for the caterers, a vain, hy- a very long night… especially once the perennial WIFF favourite), The Intouch- per-sensitive singer who thinks he’s groom’s aerial serenade gets under- ables, are back with a comedy about a Gallic James Brown, and a morose, way. the chaotic preparations of a cha- micromanaging groom determined teau-set wedding, where the groom is to make Max’s night as miserable as an obnoxious tyrant, the band is at war possible. But what makes the affair too with the organizers, and the chief plan- bitter to endure is that Max’s colleague ner is looking for the exit. and ostensible girlfriend, Joisette (Su-

Directed by Nadine Labaki with intelligence and heart. sold his 11-year-old sister’s hand in Drama | NR marriage, which prompts Zain to Oscar submission best foreign Zain (Zain Al Rafeea) is only 12, run away. He befriends an Ethiopian language film but he’s seen enough of this life cleaning woman, to whose baby Jury Prize - Cannes Film Festival 2018 to resent his very existence. With he eventually becomes guardian. Proving herself an accomplished numerous children to care for, his But life on the streets offers Zain director as well as a measured parents resort to some inventive fewer and fewer places to hide. storyteller, Director Nadine Labaki scams, such as saturating garments Encouraged by a current affairs draws attention to the plight of with tramadol, which they then program seeking to draw attention children in Beirut’s slums and the pass along to Zain’s incarcerated to child poverty, Zain files a lawsuit Kafka-esque bind of people without brother who reconstitutes the drug against his parents for giving birth ID cards. While this is unquestionably and sells it to fellow prisoners. More to him. The trial provides the frame an issue film, it tackles its subject alarmingly, Zain’s parents have through which Zain’s story unfolds.

CHRYSLER OCTOBER 29, 6:00 PM

JUSTICE? ON FILM

THE CHILDREN ACT 2017 | UK | English | 105 min

Directed by Richard Eyre ligious grounds. His devout parents to embark on an affair. Drama | PG (Ben Chaplin and Eileen Walsh) support Adam’s decision, but British law So what looks to become a court- Based on the novel by Ian McEwan, is quite clear about what’s supposed room drama about the battle be- The Children Act tells the story of to happen when a minor’s life is in tween State authority and religious cranky but humane High Court danger, even from himself. freedom soon takes a sharp turn into judge Fiona Maye (Emma Thomp- more personal wars when Judge son) as she prepares to try the case Fiona’s devotion to her work has all Maye puts her ruling on hold while of seventeen-year-old Adam (Fionn but destroyed her own personal life. she visits Adam in the hospital to try Whitehead), a Jehovah’s Witness She barely notices the frustration of to gauge his reasoning. with leukemia who has refused a her loving husband (Stanley Tucci), life-saving blood transfusion on re- who early on announces he’s about

CHRYSLER OCTOBER 30, 3:25 PM | NOVEMBER 2, 5:45 PM | NOVEMBER 3, 1:35 PM 42 LES FILMS Francophones

CHRISTMAS & CO 2017 | France, Belgium | French Russian Chinese | Subtitled | 95 min

Directed by Alain Chabat Nick who runs a successful toy the heart of Paris, where he’s quickly Comedy, Family | NR manufacture and delivery enterprise picked up by the police. Luckily, a in the North Pole along with his wife, kindhearted lawyer (Pio Marmai) Santa Claus is alive and well. He’s Wanda (Audrey Tautou). When his and his wife (Golshifteh Farahani) also a Frenchman who is wandering top elf (Bruno Sanches) falls ill with a take him in, much to the delight the streets of Paris in search of meds mysterious flu, taking 92,000 fellow of their two young kids but not for his army of diseased elves. elves with him, Santa must find a necessarily to their own personal cure before Christmas day arrives. benefit, especially when Santa Such is the premise of Alain trashes their apartment in his first- Chabat’s Christmas & Co. (Santa & But his plans are thwarted when ever stint at babysitting. Cie). Chabat plays Santa, a rather he’s forced to make an emergency laid-back, hippy-ish version of St. landing atop the Moulin Rouge in

KELLY NOVEMBER 2, 11:55 AM

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CLAIRE DARLING 2018 | France | French | Subtitled | 94 min

Directed by Julie Bertuccelli summer, Claire Darling (Cather- tranged daughter, is forced to come Drama | NR ine Deneuve) has laid down all her back to the family mansion to stop favorite objects on her front lawn this sale and unveil the reasons be- Set over 24 hours, this is a tale of a for one splendid garage sale. As hind her mother’s eccentric decision. woman who, convinced that it’s her a horde of curious bystanders and last day on Earth, decides to get rid neighbours fight over the ridiculous- Exploring a mother-daughter re- of all the objects she has collected. ly underpriced antiques, each object lationship and portraying strong Each object stirs vivid memories resurrects flashes of Claire Darling’s women characters, this adaptation that take her back in time, in a series tragic and flamboyant life. Alert- of Lynda Rutledge’s book Faith Bass of flashbacks. ed by her childhood friends, Marie Darling’s Last Garage Sale is an Darling, (Deneuve’s real life daugh- emotional, subtle and elegant film. On a beautiful, bright first day of ter, Chiara Mastroianni) Claire’s es-

PENTASTAR OCTOBER 31, 1:35 PM & 5:50 PM 43 2018 | Poland, France, UK | Polish French German Croatian Italian Russian COLD WAR Subtitled | 88 min

Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski relationship, from their enchanted both with personal demons and Drama, Romance | NR first meeting in 1949 to the aching historical forces that threaten to tear Oscar submission best foreign denouement of their marriage in the them apart. With time spent in Poland, language film 1960s. Wiktor (Tomasz Kot) is a jazz- Berlin and France, Pawlikowski Best Director - Cannes Film Festival 2018 loving pianist and musical director explores what it means to live and love Following his beautifully composed tasked with auditioning folk singers as in the specific political landscape of Oscar-winning film Ida, Pawel part of a state-sponsored project to postwar Poland and Europe. Pawlikowski returns with an equally champion culture from rural Poland. Cold War is a superbly realized visual haunting, distinctive, and moving work. Young Zula (Joanna Kulig), who turns poem that resonates all the more out to be more torch singer than folk thanks to its striking use of choral, Based loosely on the story of the singer, captivates Wiktor at first sight classical, and jazz music. It is also a director’s own parents, Cold War with her beauty and insouciance. Their bittersweet paean to a relationship covers the entirety of a couple’s fates joined, they are soon struggling and an era. CHRYSLER NOVEMBER 4, 6:00 PM

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THE CONFESSION 2016 | France, Belgium | French | Subtitled | 116 min

Directed by Nicolas Boukhrief town under Nazi occupation. Barny’s cinematography emphasizes the Drama | NR husband has been captured by the dark and claustrophobic feeling of Nazis and interned in a P.O.W. camp, life under the German occupation. In director Nicolas Boukhrief’s casting an additional under-current The Confession could ultimately be adaption of the 1952 best-selling of sensuality to the duo’s discourses, seen as a thriller as well, tracking Prix Goncourt novel by Beatrix Beck, the mutual musings of a beautiful a woman trying to escape the young priest Leon Morin (Romain young woman and her confessor. stranglehold of Vichy-era France Duris), and atheist/communist Barny Their debates are contentious by embracing the very faith she has (Marina Vacth), wrangle about and thought-provoking, yet good- always denied. religion and redemption. Their natured and at times amusing, encounters take place in the closing until the darker sides of the Nazi days of WW ll, in a small French occupation become evident. Striking

ARMOURIES NOVEMBER 4, 1:30 PM 44 THE CONTROL 2018 | Canada | English | 94 min

Directed by Eric Schiller, programmer and Eric (Eric Schiller), becomes trapped inside an unend- Michael Stasko a morally questionable neurochem- ing program, the victim of Eric’s care- Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | NR ist, are attempting to develop a cut- less methods. Mike tries to save her ting-edge computer-brain interface. but finds himself in a chess game of Directed by Windsor’s own Michael As they collaborate on the most alternate worlds, where reality can Stasko and Eric Schiller, The Control sophisticated and engrossing vir- break apart and the normal rules was shot entirely in Windsor, with tual reality system ever conceived, don’t always apply. Unsure what is more than 25 UWindsor students their ambitions clash and they find real and what is virtual, Mike has to and another 15 Windsorites serving themselves working on different deconstruct the program from the on its crew. approaches to the same program. inside in order to gain control and When Mike’s muse secretly volun- bring everyone back to reality. Mike (Michael Stasko), a brilliant teers as a test subject for Eric, she

CHRYSLER OCTOBER 29, 9:15 PM

Hot docs SHOWCASE JUSTICE? ON FILM

CRIME + PUNISHMENT 2018 | USA | English | 112 min

Directed by Stephen Maing Officer Sandy Gonzales is being officers and one unforgettable private Documentary | 14A publicly humiliated, Edwin Raymond investigator who risk their careers and Special Jury Prize - Sundance Film can’t get promoted, and a pregnant safety to bring light to harmful policing Festival 2018 Felicia Whitely is bullied into pre-term practices which have plagued the labour for refusing to participate in precincts and streets of New York City Amidst a landmark class action illegal summons and arrest quotas. for decades. lawsuit over illegal policing quotas, Crime + Punishment chronicles the real A highly intimate and cinematic The film is a galvanizing documentary lives and struggles of a group of black experience with unprecedented that goes behind the scenes and and Latino whistleblower cops and the access, Crime + Punishment examines undercover to expose racism, young minorities they are pressured to the United States’ most powerful corruption, and intimidation within the arrest in New York City. police department through the brave efforts of a group of active duty New York Police Department. ARMOURIES NOVEMBER 1, 11:20 AM | NOVEMBER 3, 4:00 PM 45 LES FILMS Francophones

CUSTODY 2017 | France | French | Subtitled | 94 min

Directed by Xavier Legrand to protect him from a father she is pushed to the edge to prevent a Drama | NR claims is violent. Antoine pleads tragedy. Nothing conveys the nature his case as a scorned dad whose of the abuse more effectively than In this multiple award-winning film, children have been turned against Thomas Gioria’s terrific, clenched a broken marriage leads to a bitter him by their vindictive mother. As performance as the misused young custody battle with an embattled is frequently the case, the man as- boy. son at the centre. serts his privilege, and Miriam falls silent, trusting the system to protect Custody addresses the worst mani- Miriam (Léa Drucker) and Antoine her. Unsure who is telling the truth, festations of toxic masculinity within (Denis Ménochet) have divorced, the judge rules in favor of joint cus- the context of a hurtling drama that and Miriam is seeking sole custody tody. A hostage to the escalating never allows attention to wander. of their son, Julien (Thomas Gioria), conflict between his parents, Julien

KELLY OCTOBER 30, 11:35 AM & 1:30 PM

Hot docs SHOWCASE

THE DEVIL WE KNOW 2018 | USA | English | 88 min

Directed by Stephanie Soechtig, While concealing knowledge about dren’s teeth turning black, the cor- Jeremy Seifert C8’s harmful effects, DuPont con- poration’s secret could no longer be Documentary | PG taminated the environment with contained. In a class-action lawsuit chemical waste, failed to warn their that led to a landmark decision, res- The DuPont corporation revolutionized employees about health risks and idents learned the true extent of the home cooking with Teflon’s non-stick continued marketing Teflon prod- irreversible damage DuPont caused. cookware and its key chemical ingredi- ucts as safe. But when two DuPont ent, C8—now found in the bloodstream employees gave birth to babies with From the directors who exposed the of 99 percent of Americans. similar severe medical conditions, a truth about sugar in Fed Up and bot- local farmer lost his livelihood with tled water in Tapped, The Devil We Parkersburg, West Virginia is ground the death of his cattle and West Vir- Know is a horrifying lesson on the zero for Dupont’s toxic dumping. ginian residents witnessed their chil- depths of corporate greed.

ARMOURIES NOVEMBER 3, 8:20 PM | NOVEMBER 4, 4:00 PM 46 DO NO HARM: THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC 2017 | USA | English | 90 min

Directed by Harry Wiland Responsible Opioid Prescribing), to take appropriate responsibility for Documentary | NR the new feature documentary Do No the crisis; traces what monies legis- Harm: The Opioid Epidemic exposes lators have received; and focuses on Today’s opioid addiction epidemic is how this catastrophic man-made pub- those who fight back with effective, the worst man-made public health ep- lic health crisis began. Filmed in the long-lasting treatment programs. idemic in American history. Every year, opioid epidemic ground zeros of Se- the United States loses more people attle, Kentucky and New Hampshire, Narrated by Golden Globe®-winning to opioid addiction deaths than were the film features poignant stories from actor Ed Harris, this documentary killed in the entire Vietnam War. recovering addicts and families with unravels the unintentional web of losses; reveals the insights of leading co-conspirators and sheds light on the Working closely with Dr. Andrew doctors and law enforcement officers; suspicious circumstances that have Kolodny and PROP (Physicians for reports the failure of drug companies led to the opioid crisis.

PENTASTAR NOVEMBER 4, 1:30 PM

DOGMAN 2018 | Italy, France | Italian | Subtitled | 103 min

Directed by Matteo Garrone Marcello (Marcello Fonte) is a de- money for his voracious appetites Drama | NR voted single father who scrapes out sends their shaky friendship in an un- Oscar submission best foreign a living amidst a small strip of store- expected (and bloody) direction. language film fronts by grooming dogs - and selling Director Matteo Garrone (Gomorrah) cocaine on the side in order to give Fonte delivers a performance for the ventures into the grimy and brutal his teenage daughter the best life he ages as the loyal-only-to-a-point dog reality of the Italian underworld by can. Marcello’s nemesis is his best groomer, but it is Garrone’s remark- drawing on a true-crime story that customer, Simoncino (Edoardo Pesce), able grasp of narrative and conflict fascinated Italy in the 1980s. The ac- a hulking, unleashed id of a man who that makes this realist filmmaking at tion unfolds along a seedy beachside deploys brutal violence when con- its best. wasteland of tumbledown houses in fronted by any situation he does not Castel Volturno. like. Simoncino’s plan to raise more KELLY OCTOBER 31, 3:40 PM | NOVEMBER 1, 8:25 PM 47 LES FILMS Francophones

DUMPED 2018 | France | French | Subtitled | 95 min

Directed by Eloïse Lang French mother and wife. They do siblings struggle to re-connect with Comedy | NR not agree on anything except for their own mother and with each their mother, Françoise (Miou Miou). other. Things do not go exactly as Rose (Camille Cottin) and Alice (Ca- The latter has just been left behind planned. mille Chamoux) are sisters, but they by their father, who has chosen could not be more different from to continue his life with a younger In this fast-paced comedy, Miou each other. Rose is a thirty-some- woman. Rose and Alice decide that Miou plays to perfection the thing, singleton who has shunned a the best solution is to take her to re-awakening of a woman in her six- job and family ties in favour of all- an all-inclusive resort on the island ties to love and romance. night clubbing and one-night stands. of Réunion. Thrown together in an She is the polar opposite of her sis- attempt to pull their mother out of ter who is a textbook, middle-class her post-separation depression, the

CHRYSLER OCTOBER 30, 11:35 AM & 1:30 PM

LES FILMS Francophones

FAMILY IS FAMILY 2018 | France | English French | Partially Subtitled | 107 min

Directed by Dany Boon However, Valentin, who has always mise his ability to obtain a certain Comedy | PG claimed to be an orphan, is horrified big contract, Constance’s father, when his mother, his brother and sis- the principal investor in the couple’s As one of the hottest furniture deter-in-law turn up. Valentin’s family design firm, arranges an ‘accident’. signers in Paris, Valentin (Dany runs an auto salvage lot. They drink, Boon) is about to enjoy a retrospec- fight and speak in a slang (Ch’ti) When Valentin comes out of the tive of the works he created with that requires subtitles, even for coma, he behaves and speaks as if his girlfriend Constance (Laurence French people. he were 17 years old again, a situa- Arné), with whom he runs a fancy tion that could be permanent. His design firm known for making mini- To prevent the media from finding Parisian persona is forgotten and malist, barely usable chairs and ta- out about the existence of his un- the Ch’ti in him returns. bles that the elite all want to own. couth family, which could compro-

CHRYSLER OCTOBER 31, 3:40 PM 48 Hot docs SHOWCASE THE FEELING OF BEING WATCHED 2018 | USA | English Arabic | Partially Subtitled | 87 min Directed by Assia Boundaoui FBI.” So ingrained was the feeling of footage, Boundaoui shines a light Documentary | PG being watched, the now-journalist and not only on the disturbing trajectory Best Canadian Feature filmmaker had shrugged off childhood of American racial profiling and Toronto International Film Festival 2018 warnings about strange cars parked in xenophobia, but the life-altering

“Operation Vulgar Betrayal” was the the neighbourhood. effects of the death of privacy. largest pre-9/11 counter-terrorism By filing requests under the Freedom Equal parts angry and anxious, surveillance undertaking in history. of Information Act, speaking to Boundaoui’s smart, unsettling One night in a quiet Arab-American neighbours, and taking the FBI documentary functions as a real-world suburb of Chicago, 16-year-old Assia to court, Boundaoui uncovers conspiracy thriller and a personal Boundaoui is awakened by men “Operation Vulgar Betrayal”. Among reflection on the psychological strain working on the telephone line outside the thousands of pages of documents, of being made to feel an outsider in her window. She woke her mother emotional recollections of friends and one’s own home. who replied, “It’s probably just the neighbours and unsettling archival ARMOURIES NOVEMBER 2, 2:00 PM | NOVEMBER 3, 10:40 PM

FERRIS’S ROOM 2017 | Canada | English | 77 min

Directed by Ryan Mains is an extension of his larger-than-life with the room in virtual reality. For Documentary | NR personality, a place to explore his the film, director Ryan Mains docu- interests, and of course, to cook up ments Sarah’s process as she tracks Step inside the mind of one of the schemes. down replicas of Ferris’s prized pos- coolest teenagers ever with Ferris’s sessions, packs up her car for the Room. Recreated by Canadian artist Sar- cross-border trip, and works against ah Keenlyside as part of the 30th the clock to get Ferris’s Room ready Like most teenagers, Ferris Bueller’s anniversary celebrations of Ferris in time. Along the way, she faces bedroom is much more than a place Bueller’s Day Off in Chicago in 2016, unexpected challenges, meets su- to sleep. A sanctuary, laboratory, re- every inch of Ferris’s room was pho- perfans who keep the spirit of Ferris cording studio, office, and shrine to tographed to create a 3D model, Bueller alive, and reveals how art the bands he loves, Ferris’s bedroom allowing people to visit and interact brings us together.

ARMOURIES NOVEMBER 3, 2:00 PM & 6:20 PM 49 LES FILMS Francophones

THE FIREFLIES ARE GONE 2018 | Canada | English French | PartiallySubtitled | 96 min

Directed by Sébastien Pilote Fireflies focuses on the relationships With exquisite close-ups and dreamy Drama | NR Léo has with the various father fig- musical flourishes that harken back to ures in her life: her biological dad, an classic melodramas, director Sébas- Set in a small harbour town in Que- idealistic union organizer whom she tien Pilote creates an evocative pop bec, Léo (Karelle Tremblay) is a stag- idolizes even though he was chased fantasy amidst the customary political geringly hip but eminently likeable kid out of town; her mom’s new boyfriend, tensions in a small Quebec town. who finds herself at that infuriating a libertarian radio presenter and local moment in a young person’s life when celebrity whom she despises; and her one thinks they know everything but new guitar teacher Steve (Pierre-Luc is taken seriously by nobody. It is sum- Brillant), an affable metal-head twice mer and the end of classes in an old her age who still lives in his mother’s industrial city at the edge of a bay. basement.

PENTASTAR OCTOBER 29, 9:30 AM | OCTOBER 31, 3:40 PM

FIREWORKS, SHOULD WE SEE IT FROM THE SIDE OR THE BOTTOM? 2017 | Japan | Japanese | Subtitled | 90 min

Directed by Akiyuki Shinbô rose). But Nazuna, unhappy over her her flight. The runaway pair are Nobuyuki Takeuchi mother’s decision to remarry, plans discovered at the train station, but Animation, Family, Drama | NR to run away, and has silently chosen a glowing multi-coloured ball Norim- Norimichi to accompany her. ichi finds in the sea has the power to Akiyuki Shinbo’s animated film ‘Fire- Meanwhile, Norimichi, Yusuke and reset the clock and give them a sec- works, Should We See It from the their buddies are arguing over an ond chance to be together. But each Side or the Bottom?’ begins with odd question: Do fireworks look reset adds new complications and two school pals — the shy-but-spir- round or flat when seen from the takes the young lovers farther and ited Norimichi (Masaki Suda) and side? farther away from the real world — the voluble Yusuke (Mamoru Miya- Before they find the answer at a lo- until they risk losing sight of reality no) -- both goo-goo-eyed over the cal summer fireworks display, Nazu- altogether. same classmate, Nazuna (Suzu Hi- na induces Norimichi to join her in

PENTASTAR OCTOBER 31, 7:45 PM 50 WIFF NEXT WAVE

FREE SOLO 2018 | USA | English | 97 min

Directed by E. Chai Vasarhelyi, achieve his lifelong dream: climbing take: “If you’re pushing the edge, even- Jimmy Chin the face of the world’s most famous tually you find the edge.” Honnold has Documentary | PG rock…the 3,000ft El Capitan in Yo- long been a loner, living out of his van People’s Choice Award, Documentary - semite National Park…without a rope. for years and focusing on his climbing, Toronto International Film Festival 2018 but as his lifestyle changes with a new From award-winning documentary The filmmakers follow Honnold over girlfriend we wonder how that might filmmaker E. Chai Vasarhelyi and two years as he tests the limits of his affect his concentration. world-renowned photographer and ambition. “If you’re seeking perfection, mountaineer Jimmy Chin comes Free free soloing is as close as you can get,” You don’t need to be a climbing enthu- Solo, a stunning, intimate and unflinch- Honnold declares. But Chin, an experi- siast to marvel at the wonders of both ing portrait of the free soloist climb- enced adventure photographer who’s humans and nature captured in Free er Alex Honnold, as he prepares to cheated death before, has a different Solo’s extraordinary cinematography. PENTASTAR NOVEMBER 2, 10:30 PM | NOVEMBER 4, 6:00 PM

SPECIAL EVENT

FROZEN SING-ALONG 2013 | USA | English | 120 min

Directed by Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee kick reindeer Sven on an epic jour- Join us for a truly magical experi- Animation | G ney to find Anna’s sister Elsa, the ence – A full screening of Disney’s Snow Queen, and put an end to Frozen with lyrics on screen to help Let your inner princess out and Sing- her icy spell. Encountering mystical you sing along with Anna and Elsa Along with the now modern classics trolls, a funny snowman named Olaf, during the film. Remember to dress Let It Go, Do You Want To Build A Everest-like extremes and magic at up as your favourite character and Snowman and more! every turn, Anna and Kristoff battle be a snow queen, Sven the reindeer the elements in a race to save the or Olaf, the coolest snowman ever! When a prophecy traps a kingdom kingdom from destruction. It’s the in eternal winter, Anna, a fearless movie that shows you that you would optimist, teams up with extreme do anything for your sister. mountain man Kristoff and his side-

CHRYSLER NOVEMBER 4, 11:40 AM 51 GENERATION WEALTH 2018 | USA | English | 106 min

Directed by Lauren Greenfield observed in her own work as harbin- veau riche in Moscow. The result- Documentary | R gers of our imminent destruction. ing portrait is an entertaining and eye-opening look at the erosion of Artist-photographer-filmmaker In her latest and most epic project the American Dream and pervasive Lauren Greenfield (The Queen of to date, she holds up a mirror to the influences of materialism, greed and Versailles) has made a career chron- super-rich, brilliantly capturing the fame. Greenfield’s work becomes a icling the excesses of America’s im- human consequences of the bust- cautionary morality tale about our age-obsessed culture. She makes a or-boom economy. Follow Green- unquenchable desire for more. How compelling argument for a society field on a globe-spanning journey society will react to the concentra- on the brink of precipitous decline, inside the lives of the international tion of so much money in the hands choosing to interpret the runaway wealthy elite—from child beauty of so few is the one billion dollar vanity and rampant materialism queens in Los Angeles to the nou- question.

KELLY NOVEMBER 1, 10:25 PM | NOVEMBER 3, 11:10 AM

WIFF NEXT WAVE

GIANT LITTLE ONES 2018 | Canada | English | 93 min

Directed by Keith Behrman Franky Winter (Josh Wiggins) and intimate coming-of-age story about Drama | NR Ballas Kohl (Darren Mann) have friendship, self-discovery and the been best friends since childhood. power of love without labels. Franky Franky, the hero of Keith Behr- They are high school royalty: hand- and his friends are forced to decide man’s Giant Little Ones, is under some, stars of the swim team and what kind of people they want to be. more pressure than most. His life popular with girls. They live a per- was altered when his father (Kyle fect teenage life – until the night of A sensitive and touching look at that MacLachlan) left his mother (Maria Franky’s epic 17th birthday party, point in adolescence when freedom Bello) for a man. Franky is left con- when Franky and Ballas are in- is both intoxicating and terrifying. fused and angry toward his father volved in an unexpected incident for breaking up the family. that changes their lives forever. Giant Little Ones is a heartfelt and

PENTASTAR NOVEMBER 1, 9:3O AM | NOVEMBER 2, 4:00 PM 52 WIFF NEXT WAVE

THE GIRL IN THE FOG 2017 | Italy, Germany, France | Italian | Subtitled | 128 min

Directed by Donato Carrisi mountain village where the Avechot nothing is what it seems Crime, Thriller | NR inscrutable Detective Vogel (Toni and nobody tells the whole truth. In Servillo) is investigating the sudden this mystery, every deception hides A hazy mountain village, a tight- disappearance of a teenage girl. another more perverse one. knit community and an enigmatic Two days before Christmas, fifteen- detective. Donato Carrisi makes his year-old Anna Lou disappears in Served by multi-award winning directorial debut with this riveting the mountains of Avechot, leaving actors and a storyline just as cunning adaptation of his best-selling no clues behind. But the fog that as its characters, The Girl in the Fog eponymous novel, The Girl in the has swallowed her hides a greater is an entertaining and complex story Fog. mystery. There is a car accident where misleading red herrings and and the man at the wheel is alone, brilliant twists keep you guessing The story takes place in a remote unharmed but covered in blood. In until the very end.

KELLY NOVEMBER 1, 3:50 PM | NOVEMBER 3, 10:45 PM

2018 | France, Belgium, Georgia, Switzerland GIRLS OF THE SUN French Kurdish English Arabic | Subtitled | 115 min

Directed by Eva Husson as sex slaves, by Daesh following Husson challenges our notions of Drama, War | NR the massacre of their husbands and the roles of women both on the bat- the kidnapping of their children. tlefield and behind the camera and, Girls of the Sun follows an impas- Seamlessly weaving between the through her characters’ unrelenting sioned war correspondent, Mathilde harrowing pasts that brought them pursuit of freedom, reminds us to (Emmanuelle Bercot), into the Daesh together and their perilous present, never give up hope. She consistent- battleground of northwestern Iraqi Director Eva Husson highlights the ly chooses to highlight the camara- Kurdistan, where she is embedded shared suffering that strengthens derie shared by the female fighters with a unit of female peshmerga their bond and their will to fight to over the violence they inflict; her fighters. Led by Bahar (Golshifteh get their village, and their families, characters are soldiers, yes, but they Farahani), the unit is made up of back. are also women, and people, first. women formerly held captive, many

PENTASTAR OCTOBER 31, 9:00 AM | NOVEMBER 2, 11:30 AM 53 LES FILMS Francophones 2017 | France, Myanmar | French English Italian GODARD MON AMOUR Partially Subtitled | 107 min

Directed by Michel Hazanavicius his new muse, the woman he loves, the-wall, destructive, brilliant, he will Biography, Comedy, Drama | 14A Anne Wiazemsky (Stacy Martin). pursue his choices and his beliefs to They are happy, attractive, in love. the breaking point. Capturing the In 1967 Paris, Jean-Luc Godard They marry. But when his new film human struggle behind the art there (Louis Garrel), the leading is met with indifference it unleashes is much to enjoy in this political, filmmaker of his generation, finds a profound self-examination in philosophical and biographical himself undergoing a profound Jean-Luc which, coupled with roller coaster. artistic crisis. With the end of his French civil unrest in May ‘68 that As he did with The Artist, Academy marriage to Anna Karina, muse threatens to overturn the republic, Award® winning director Michel of his early groundbreaking films, reveals deep-rooted conflicts and Hazanavicius delivers another Godard embarks on a new film. misunderstandings that will change tribute to classic cinema, both wildly He is shooting La Chinoise with him irrevocably. Revolutionary, off- funny and deeply moving. KELLY NOVEMBER 4, 8:20 PM

THE GRIZZLIES 2018 | Canada | Inuktitut English | Partially Subtitled | 104 min

Directed by Miranda de Pencier cial issues facing the youth, all as a ates a sense of pride and purpose in Drama, Biography | PG result of the massive legacy of col- themselves and their community. onization on their families and com- In 1998, first-time teacher, Russ munities. Russ introduces a lacrosse Based on a true story, The Grizzlies Sheppard (Ben Schnetzer), moves program in the school. Although the is a testament to the spirit, tenacity, north for a job at a local school in program is at first met with skepti- and leadership of Inuit youth, per- Kugluktuk, a town struggling with cism and resistance, Russ’s commit- sisting in spite of immense pressure one of the highest suicide rates in ment begins to win the trust of the and hardship. North America. With no previous students and together they form the experience or knowledge of life Grizzlies lacrosse team. Through the in the north, Russ is shocked and sport, the youth find a vital outlet overwhelmed by the numerous so- for their emotions and the team cre-

KELLY NOVEMBER 2, 8:00 PM | NOVEMBER 4, 9:00 AM 54 WIFF NEXT WAVE

THE GUILTY 2018 | Denmark | English Danish | Partially Subtitled | 85 min

Directed by Gustav Möller from a kidnapped woman who then Danish thriller uses a single location Thriller | NR disconnects abruptly. Asger, confined to great effect, ratcheting up the Oscar submission best foreign language film to the police station, is forced to use tension as twists pile up and secrets Audience Award - Sundance Film Festival others as his eyes and ears as the are revealed. Director Gustav Möller severity of the crime slowly becomes expertly frames the increasingly When police officer, Asger Holm more clear. The search to find the messy proceedings against the clean (Jakob Cedergren), is demoted to missing woman and her assailant will Scandinavian sterility of the police desk work in this multiple award- take every bit of his intuition and skill, department, while Cedergren’s winning Danish thriller, he expects as a ticking clock and his own personal strong performance anchors the film a sleepy beat as an emergency demons conspire against him. and places the audience squarely dispatcher. Everything changes when in Holm’s tragically flawed yet well- he answers a panicked phone call This innovative and unrelenting intentioned mindspace.

CHRYSLER NOVEMBER 2, 10:20 PM | NOVEMBER 3, 10:40 PM

WIFF NEXT WAVE 2018 | UK, Belgium, Italy, Germany THE HAPPY PRINCE English Italian French | Partially Subtitled | 105 min

Directed by Rupert Everett profound writing and most intimate Douglas (Colin Morgan), whose Drama, History | NR experiences. provocations brought Wilde to ruin. Fading health, dwindling funds, Rupert Everett wrote, directed and Sequestered at a remote seaside and still more betrayals await Wil- stars in this portrait of the final hotel in France by faithful friends de, who relentlessly seeks love and years of fallen literary genius Oscar (played by Edwin Thomas and Col- creative outlets in whatever taverns Wilde, exiled to continental Europe in Firth), a buoyant Wilde is soon and alleyways still welcome him. It’s following his notorious trial and restlessly traversing Europe under here that Everett particularly shines, imprisonment. The Happy Prince assumed names, beset by familiar, evoking the spirit of the once-cele- recounts Wilde’s life following his warring impulses: to reunite with his brated fallen genius who finds divine release from incarceration—a peri- estranged wife (Emily Watson) or light even in the darkest corners of od encompassing some of his most his former lover Sir Alfred “Bosie” life.

CHRYSLER OCTOBER 30, 5:30 PM | NOVEMBER 1, 4:00 PM 55 WIFF NEXT WAVE • LES FILMS Francophones

THE INTOUCHABLES 2011 | France | English French | Partially Subtitled | 112 min

Directed by Olivier Nakache, job to ensure that he keeps getting Eric Toledano When a paragliding accident leaves welfare payments. Biography, Comedy, Drama | 14A him paralyzed from the neck down, Philippe (François Cluzet) requires a Based on a true story of friendship With 36 awards and 40 nomina- caregiver to assist him with his daily between a handicapped millionaire tions, this irreverent, uplifting come- physical needs. With the help of his and his street smart ex-con caretak- dy about friendship, trust and human assistant Magalie (Audrey Fleurot), er, The Intouchables depicts an un- possibility is one of the top-rated he interviews a number of highly likely camaraderie rooted in honesty movies of all time. The Intouchables qualified candidates, all of whom and humor between two individuals is also WIFF’s most successful film to he subsequently rejects in favour of who, on the surface, would seem to date, with sold-out screenings every Driss (Omar Sy), a recently released have nothing in common. year. ex-con who has only applied for the

PENTASTAR NOVEMBER 1, 11:25 AM

JOURNEY’S END 2017 | UK | English | 108 min

Directed by Saul Dibb is imminent, and the officers (Paul to serve under Stanhope, his former Drama, War | 14A Bettany, Stephen Graham, Tom school house monitor and the object Sturridge) and their cook distract of his sister’s affections. Each man is Journey’s End is based on the semi- themselves in their dugout with talk trapped, the days ticking by, the ten- nal British play about WWI, set in a of food and their past lives. Stan- sion rising and the attack drawing trench in Aisne in 1918. hope, meanwhile, soaks his fear in ever closer… whisky, unable to deal with his dread It is March, 1918. C-company ar- of the inevitable. A young new offi- Journey’s End brings R.C. Sherriff’s rives to take its turn in the front-line cer, Raleigh (Asa Butterfield), has 90-year-old play to the screen with trenches in northern France, led by just arrived, fresh out of training and thrilling power. the war-weary Captain Stanhope abuzz with the excitement of his first (Sam Catlin). A German offensive real posting – not least because he is

CHRYSLER NOVEMBER 1, 11:25 AM | NOVEMBER 3, 9:00 AM 56 JULIET, NAKED 2018 | USA | English | 105 min

Directed by Jesse Peretz Tucker’s hit record from 25 years correspondence develops between Comedy, Drama, Music | 14A ago surfaces, its release leads to a Annie and Tucker. Annie becomes life-changing encounter. closer to her boyfriend’s idol than he Annie (Rose Byrne) is stuck in a has ever been. As Annie becomes long-term relationship with Duncan Duncan is ecstatic with the demo, interested in Tucker, Duncan starts (Chris O’Dowd) – an obsessive fan of but Annie (who never shared her to drift away, utterly unaware of her obscure rocker Tucker Crowe (Ethan boyfriend’s unhealthy obsession connection to Tucker. Hawke). Crowe is an enigma, a Jeff with the musician) writes a dismis- Buckley type who only released one sive review online — which prompts Based on the novel by Nick Hornby, album. He is now the stuff of legend the reclusive Tucker to email her to Juliet, Naked is a comic account of and speculation on a fan site run by say he agrees with her negative as- life’s second chances. Duncan. When an acoustic demo of sessment. Soon an unlikely pen-pal

CHRYSLER OCTOBER 30, 7:40 PM | NOVEMBER 2, 8:00 PM | NOVEMBER 3, 6:10 PM

LES FILMS Francophones

THE JUNGLE BUNCH 2017 | France | French | Subtitled | 97 min

Directed by David Alaux honed while heading up a team of Together they try to stop whatever Animation, Comedy | NR vigilante mammals known as “The crime or misdemeanor comes their Aces.” way, until taking on their greatest After an action-packed opening, Once he grows up, Maurice forms nemesis: the arch-evil koala Igor we meet Maurice (Philippe Bozo), his own gang of do-gooders, joining (Richard Darbois), whose sidekick is an orphaned little penguin who was hands with creatures like the silly an enslaved crab and whose weap- raised by the tigress, Natacha (Maik gorilla Miguel (Pascal Casanova), ons of choice are mushrooms that Darah). Even if by nature he’s a bird, the Yoda-esque primate Gilbert turn into colorful exploding bombs. Maurice really wants to be a tiger (Laurent Morteau), the she-bat Ba- The Jungle Bunch - to the rescue! like his mother, covering himself in tricia (Celine Monsarrat) and a pair orange war paint and adopting Na- of comic relief toads named Al (Em- tacha’s combat skills — which she manuel Curtil) and Bob (Paul Borne).

KELLY NOVEMBER 2, 9:45 AM 57 LES FILMS Francophones

JUST A BREATH AWAY 2018 | France, Canada | English French | Partially Subtitled | 89 min

Directed by Daniel Roby Duris) and Anna (Olga Kurylenko) tainment unit. They need to change Sci-Fi | NR have a teenage daughter, Sarah the unit’s battery every five hours or (Fantine Harduin), who suffers from so, but as the gas slowly but surely The day a strange deadly mist sub- a strange disease. She is forced to rises, they also need to figure out a merges Paris, survivors find ref- live in a bubble machine, which pro- way to find more permanent safety uge on the upper floors and roofs tects her from the dangers of the for the whole family. Driven by un- of buildings. Without information, outside world. When the toxic gas in- conditional love for their daughter, without electricity, without water or vades the city, Sarah’s parents take they embark on a deserted and con- food, a small family tries to survive refuge on the top floor of their build- taminated city to save her. this disaster. ing, hoping the mist will dissipate, but in doing so leave behind their Estranged couple Mathieu (Romain daughter locked in the filtered con-

CHRYSLER OCTOBER 29, 9:30 AM | NOVEMBER 1, 9:30 AM

THE LAST SUIT 2017 | Argentina, Spain | Spanish | Subtitled | 92 min

Directed by Pablo Solarz ment home, and disagree on how to Argentina to Spain, across Germany Drama | 14A handle his fading health. But Abra- and finally to Poland, Abraham is on ham survived the Holocaust, made a his own but also accompanied by This charming road movie delivers successful life in a foreign land, and the eccentric characters he meets an uplifting message about life, fam- isn’t about to quietly fade away. In- along the way, who both help him ily and the kindness of strangers. stead, he plots a secret one-way trip and need his help. to Poland, where he plans to find the At 88, Abraham Bursztein (Miguel Christian friend who saved him from Angel Sola) is seeing his place in certain death in Auschwitz at the the world rapidly disappear. His end of World War II, and to keep his kids have sold his Buenos Aires resi- promise to return one day. Comedic dence, set him up to move to a retire- and poignant in equal measure, from

KELLY OCTOBER 29, 11:35 AM 58 LES FILMS Francophones

LE BRIO 2017 | France, Belgium | French Arabic | Subtitled | 95 min

Directed by Yvan Attal Mazard (Daniel Auteuil), who is petition to demonstrate that he’s not Comedy, Drama | 14A known for his provocative behaviour a complete bigot. Neïla is far from and his verbal tirades. In his not so enthusiastic about the unexpected Neïla Salah (Camellia Jordana) is politically correct way, he immedi- commitment. And yet, over time, an Arab girl who grew up in the proj- ately berates the young student in they manage to look behind each ects. She was accepted at the presti- front of the whole class with a rac- other’s brittle facade and discover gious Paris Assas Law School and is ist rant that quickly goes viral. As a that there is a lot to learn from one on her way to finally fulfilling her big result, Mazard is given a choice by another. dream of becoming a lawyer. the university administration: either he leaves the university or he On her first day Neïla arrives late smoothes the waves by coaching for the lecture of Professor Pierre Neila for a prestigious rhetoric com-

PENTASTAR OCTOBER 29, 11:30 AM | OCTOBER 30, 3:30 PM

LEVEL 16 2018 | Canada | English | 102 min

Directed by Danishka Esterhazy virtues” by Miss Brixil (Sara Can- many years ago. But after they re- SciFi, Thriller | NR ning), a Stepford-like headmistress. unite in their last year at the school, They believe that all of the intense in Level 16, Sophia shares the knowl- Markham Street Films returns with grooming regimens and strict edge that she has secretly acquired, Level 16, a sci-fi thriller directed by sleep schedules they’ve endured and they begin to question what fate Danishka Esterhazy. have been in the service of making awaits them when they age out of them ideal adoptive daughters for the institution. Teenagers Vivien (Katie Douglas) high-society families. Rebellious ten- and Sophia (Celina Martin) are dencies have been suppressed and As their world breaks down so do locked away in a sterile, secret friendships discouraged. In fact, the truths they’ve been told. And boarding school where they’re Vivien holds a special enmity for now they must escape or die trying. taught the finer points of “feminine Sophia, who she feels betrayed her

KELLY NOVEMBER 3, 8:20 PM | NOVEMBER 4, 1:35 PM 59 LIZZIE 2018 | USA | English | 105 min

Directed by Craig William Macneill well-researched script concentrates chance for intimacy that blossoms Drama, Biography | 14A less on how and more on why. into a wicked plan and a dark, unsettling end. The elegantly lurid but compelling An unmarried woman of 32 and Lizzie is a psychological thriller that a social outcast, Lizzie (Chloë Director Craig William Macneill reveals many layers of the strange Sevigny) lives a claustrophobic explores the days leading up to and fragile Lizzie Borden, who stood life under her father’s cold and the savage crimes in a dark tale accused of the infamous 1892 axe domineering control. When Bridget of repression, exploitation and murder of her family in Fall River, Sullivan (Kristen Stewart), a young thwarted dreams. Lizzie scrutinizes Massachusetts. With the main bullet maid desperate for work, comes the inner workings of the household points of what happened known by to live with the family, Lizzie finds leading up to the murders and their most audience members, Bryce Kass’ a sympathetic, kindred spirit and a immediate aftermath.

CHRYSLER OCTOBER 31, 7:45 PM | NOVEMBER 4, 8:15 PM

Hot docs SHOWCASE

LOVE, GILDA 2018 | Canada, USA | English | 88 min

Directed by Lisa Dapolito Love, Gilda summarizes Radner’s (Radner died of ovarian cancer in Documentary | PG entire life, starting with her upper- 1989.) middle-class childhood in Detroit Narrated by Radner herself (via the – concerned about her weight, her Director Lisa D’Apolito does a fine audiobook of her autobiography It’s mother put her on Dexedrine at job of coordinating the material and Always Something) with latter-day the age of 10, sparking a lifetime letting Radner speak for herself. Saturday Night Live cast members of food and health issues – and And as the end draws near, the film like Amy Poehler, Bill Hader and rolling through her time in Toronto, is honest about that too, with home Maya Rudolph reading from her incandescent SNL run, her videos of Radner and Wilder that’ll her letters and notebooks, it’s a subsequent movie career and break your heart. chronological look at the comedian’s relationship with Gene Wilder, a short life and brilliant career. love story that ended far too soon.

KELLY OCTOBER 31, 6:00 PM 60 MARIA BY CALLAS 2017 | France | English French Italian | Partially Subtitled | 113 min

Directed by Tom Volf necessary corrective to decades of story of an exceptional life. Reveal- Documentary | PG bad press. ing a personality both inflamed and vulnerable, the film presents a very “There are two people in me, Maria For the first time, 40 years after her personal vision of the diva´s life that and La Callas ...” death, the most famous opera sing- shows the conflict between her two er ever tells her own story. Featuring personalities: the woman who want- Maria by Callas: In Her Own Words previously unknown footage, un- ed to live a simple life and the artist is a definitive, intimate look at the seen photographs, personal Super who pursued worldwide fame and life and work of the Greek-American 8 films, private live recordings, inti- was surrounded by some of the most opera singer. An unalloyed tribute to mate letters and rare behind-the- important personalities of her time. her as a musical genius who gave all scenes archival footage, for the first of herself to the public, it stands as a time in colour, Maria by Callas is the

PENTASTAR NOVEMBER 4, 11:00 AM

LES FILMS Francophones

THE MIDWIFE 2017 | France, Belgium | French | Subtitled | 117 min

Directed by Martin Provost come to rely on each other as they We also learn that the 70-something Drama | PG cope with the unusual circumstance Beatrice has been diagnosed with that brought them together in this terminal brain cancer and doesn’t Two of French cinema’s biggest stars sharp character study from the César- have more than a year to live. shine in this bittersweet drama about award winning director Martin Provost the unlikely friendship that develops Provost’s film is a story about between Claire (Catherine Frot), a Claire receives a call from Beatrice, attaining the wisdom that comes from talented but tightly wound midwife, who was a lover of Claire’s dad several forgiveness and the acceptance of and Béatrice (Catherine Deneuve), decades ago. We soon learn that those things - namely the past and the the estranged, free-spirited mistress Beatrice ruined Claire’s life when she future - that none of us can control. of Claire’s late father. Though polar skipped town and broke her father’s opposites in almost every way, the two heart, which resulted in his suicide.

CHRYSLER NOVEMBER 3, 11:15 AM 61 WIFF NEXT WAVE • LES FILMS Francophones

MY SON 2017 | France, Belgium | French | Subtitled | 87 min

Directed by Christian Carion site where his 7-year-old son Ma- Mathys, who’s been suffering in his Drama, Thriller | NR thys went missing a day earlier. A absence. The guilt that hangs over teary-eyed talk with his ex, Marie Julien is evident when he tries to During a stopover in France, Julien (Melanie Laurent) and an anxious reconnect with the family he left (Guillaume Canet) discovers a mes- interview with a gendarme (Moham- behind. There is a nervously eerie sage from his ex-wife, in tears, on med Brikat), reveal the facts: Julien feel to the film that’s grounded in the answering machine: their son moved out of town a few years ago Canet’s gripping turn as a dad out has disappeared during a mountain after separating from Marie, who’s to do good for his estranged family. camping trip with his class. now hooked up with a local named Gregoire (Olivier de Benoist). Since Julien drives along winding moun- then he’s been working abroad and tain roads to arrive at the camp- maintains minimal contact with

PENTASTAR OCTOBER 29, 4:20 PM | OCTOBER 30, 1:30 PM

Hot docs SHOWCASE JUSTICE? ON FILM

NETIZENS 2018 | USA | English | 97 min

Directed by Cynthia Lowen high-profile privacy invasion and women: victims’ rights attorney Car- Documentary | 14A harassment. Online death and rape rie Goldberg, feminist media critic threats, privacy violations, stalking, Anita Sarkeesian, and activist and The ubiquity of important move- impersonation, non-consensual por- survivor Tina Raine, each of whom ments like #MeToo and Time’s Up nography and more have caused has had personal experience with may make it seem like the war women to silently suffer through harassment. Though the film main- against harassment and assault is fi- lost jobs, thwarted education and ly focuses on their stories, the full nally being won. Unfortunately there countless hours devoted to con- picture of systemic harassment and is much that still needs to be done. taining attacks against a backdrop abuse online is painted, and it feels This explosive documentary expos- of mounting legal fees and psycho- like we are seeing the stories of mil- es the victims caught between the logical distress. Netizens focuses lions. In many ways, we are. fight for freedom of speech and primarily on the stories of three

PENTASTAR OCTOBER 29, 2:00 PM | NOVEMBER 1, 2:00 PM 62 Hot docs SHOWCASE

OUR NEW PRESIDENT 2018 | USA | Russian English | Partially Subtitled | 77 min

Directed by Maxim Pozdorovkin horrifying and hilarious, Our New news media source in the country. Documentary | PG President uses stock footage from Journalism is now used to shape Special Jury Prize - news media and online sources to values and morals, propaganda Sundance Film Festival 2018 expose Russia’s meddling in the is overt and facts are replaced This revealing and impishly 2016 US presidential elections. with “informational pancakes” infuriating documentary presents Impressive and irreverent use of and “alternative information”. This a heady lesson in how fake news music and sound enlivens footage fascinating view of Russia and really works — and how far back it that reveals an empire of fake Trump through a media house of stretches. news and the tactics of information mirrors forces you to question what warfare now being deployed in you know, what information you The story of Donald Trump’s election international politics. “The time of trust and where journalism, truth, is told entirely through the use detached, unbiased journalism is history and memory are headed in of Russian propaganda. By turns over,” asserts Russia Today, the single the future.

ARMOURIES NOVEMBER 1, 3:55 PM

PAD MAN 2018 | India | Hindi | Subtitled | 140 min

Directed by R. Balki turned innovator from South India. papers, rags and sawdust. The Indi- Biography, Drama | PG Muruganantham developed a ma- an ministry of health estimates that chine to manufacture low cost, envi- 70% of women are at risk of severe Lakshmi is a newly married welder ronmentally friendly menstrual pads infection because of this. One in 53 who causes a stir in his East Indian upon discovering that his wife had to women in India will be diagnosed village when he tries to revolutionize use dirty rags during her period be- with cervical cancer in her lifetime, the manufacturing of sanitary nap- cause they couldn’t afford sanitary compared with one in 135 in the UK. kins for women. napkins. His quest took an emotional toll: he Pad Man tells the real-life story of In India, only 12% of women have was ostracised by his village and his Arunachalam Muruganantham (Ak- access to sanitary products; the rest wife left him for several years, unable shay Kumar), a poor college dropout struggle to improvise, using old news- to cope with the humiliation.

CHRYSLER NOVEMBER 1, 8:30 PM 63 PECKING ORDER 2017 | New Zealand | English | 88 min

Directed by Slavko Martinov kumentary Best in Show must surely at nationals as their 148-year old Documentary | NR have been the inspiration for this club crumbles around them. As you’d quirkily entertaining documentary expect, the chicken fanciers are an Chicken breeders fear fowl play! about the world of competitive chick- endearingly eccentric bunch, and Fierce rivalries, club infighting, prob- en breeding. Director Slavko Martin- Martinov affectionately mocks their lematic birds and irregular judging ov follows the deadly serious prepa- foibles without being mean or pok- are just some of the challenges faced rations for the New Zealand chicken ing fun. Saving the best for last, the by a group of zealous Kiwi chicken championships by the Christchurch judging of this chicken beauty con- breeders hell bent on victory at the Poultry and Pigeon Club. This feel- test is a joy to watch. Pecking Order 2015 National Poultry Show. good, feather-ruffling flockumentary is a hilarious, unique, heart-warming follows a group of witty and distinc- slice of Kiwiana which will delight and Christopher Guest’s dog-show moc- tive poultry obsessives trying to peak surprise audiences of all ages.

KELLY OCTOBER 31, 7:55 PM | NOVEMBER 1, 6:30 PM

THE PRICE OF EVERYTHING 2018 | USA | English | 98 min

Directed by Nathaniel Kahn iel Kahn’s brilliant and captivating lectors who are the ones snapping Documentary | PG documentary about how the art up all the paintings — a global demi- world got converted into a money monde of connoisseur/investors With unprecedented access to piv- market. The movie gazes, with a who, over the last three decades, otal artists and the white-hot market good amount of woe, at what the art have made the art market into a de surrounding them, The Price of Ev- world has become: the staggering facto stock market, complete with erything dives deep into the contem- auctions at Sotheby’s and Christie’s, trading and flipping and commodi- porary art world, holding a mirror up where masterpieces, old and new, ties futures. to our values and our times—where are put on the block to be sold at everything can be bought and sold. prices that are 10 times higher than what they would have fetched just The Price of Everything, is Nathan- 15 years ago; the elite private col-

ARMOURIES OCTOBER 31, 11:20 PM | NOVEMBER 2, 6:00 PM 64 LES FILMS Francophones

PROMISE AT DAWN 2018 | France | French | Subtitled | 131 min

Directed by Eric Barbier Gainsbourg and Pierre Niney star in Director Eric Barbier offers a sweep- Drama, Biography, Romance | NR the story of a man driven to great- ing narrative that takes us from ness while in search of maternal Gary’s difficult childhood in Poland, French writer and diplomat, Romain approval. Gary owed his drive and to his adolescent years as a student Gary, lived an extraordinary life—a ambition to his mother Nina. It was in Paris, and his training as a pilot decorated military officer and two- his overwhelming love of his endear- during World War II in Africa. time winner of the Prix Goncourt ing and eccentric mother that made (France’s highest literary award). him one of the major novelists of the Gary’s book, Promise at Dawn, pub- twentieth century, to live a life full of lished in 1960, is a work of fiction twists, passions and mysteries. But inspired by his own life. In this sen- this boundless maternal love was sational film adaptation, Charlotte also his burden for life.

PENTASTAR NOVEMBER 2, 9:00 AM

PUZZLE 2018 | USA | English | 103 min

Directed by Marc Turtletaub husband Louie (David Denman) and champion competitive puzzler look- Drama | PG kids don’t appreciate her; it’s just ing for a new partner, and for the that her only worth seems to be first time, Agnes begins to fight for Puzzle is a sweetly endearing char- tied to them, and Agnes has found what she wants. As she experiences acter study of an unassuming house- herself drowning in contentment. independence, she begins to view wife who finds meaning in the simple When she unwraps a present of her value and the pieces of her own and unexpected pleasure of putting a 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle, she life in a whole new light. all the pieces together. discovers the great satisfaction of being good at something, and has a Agnes (Kelly Macdonald) has spent sudden desire to do more. Venturing her adult life quietly catering to the to a specialty puzzle store in the city needs of her family. It’s not that her leads her to Robert (Irfan Khan), a

Directed by Naomi Kawase her interpretations and competence. kamori develops in poignant tandem Drama, Romance | NR Initially upset, Misako’s dismay soon with his deteriorating sight. And the makes way for sympathy, and an un- issue of care and dependence is Misako (Ayame Misake) is a sighted likely relationship develops between complicated by the fact that Misa- young woman who writes commen- the pair. Misako discovers Kamori’s ko’s elderly mother is suffering from tary text to accompany films for blind photographs which recall long-bur- dementia and may have to go into a people. A committee of the visually ied memories from her own child- care home. impaired offers constructive criticism hood, while in turn, she is able to help of her work. But photographer, Na- the bitter artist regain his apprecia- Misako and Nakamori together learn kamori (Masatoshi Nagase) who is tion for the world around him. to see the radiant world that was pre- gradually losing his sight, is abrupt viously invisible to her eyes. and disagreeable as he challenges The relationship of Misako and Na-

ARMOURIES OCTOBER 31, 9:05 AM | NOVEMBER 1, 1:40 PM

WIFF NEXT WAVE

RAFIKI 2018 | Kenya, S. Africa, Germany | English Swahili | Partially Subtitled | 83 min

Directed by Wanuri Kahiu native Nairobi in all its vibrancy. Kahiu’s filmic eye, where their love Drama | NR isn’t anything other than an expres- Oscar submission best foreign When Kena and Ziki first lock eyes, sion of their commitment to each language film it’s genuine love at first sight despite other. The space they create howev- A love story between two young the fact their families are political er, isn’t immune to the biases of the women (played by newcomers rivals. The young women grow close, outside world. Rafiki is a celebration Samantha Mugatsia and Sheila but as they are not able to show of love. Munyiva) in a society that still bans their attraction in public — or even to homosexuality, Rafiki is saturated their relatives and friends — they are Originally banned in Kenya, the film with joy, heartbreak, and a richly forced to sneak small moments in was allowed to screen for 7 days effervescent cinematography that private. Together they create their to be eligible for submission to the showcases director Wanuri Kahiu’s own world, vividly evoked through 2019 Academy Awards. KELLY OCTOBER 29, 5:15 PM | NOVEMBER 2, 4:00 PM 66 2018 | Singapore, Japan, France | English Japanese Mandarin RAMEN SHOP Cantonese | Partially Subtitled | 90 min

Directed by Eric Khoo tionally distant father, he chances Ramen Shop is told skillfully through Drama | NR upon a suitcase of memorabilia and flashbacks to the courtship of Ma- a red notebook left behind by his sato’s parents and his own broken Masato (Takumi Saito), a young ra- Singaporean mother who died when home. Family reconciliation is inter- men chef, leaves his hometown of he was just ten years old. Acting on woven with his exploration of local Takasaki in Japan to embark on a a hunch, he takes off for Singapore delicacies in his uncle’s steaming culinary journey to Singapore to find with the notebook, hoping to piece restaurant, and in outings with a out the truth about his past. He un- together the story of his life, as well food blogger who guides him, and covers a lot more than family secrets as that of his parents. He’s puzzled the audience, through some very ex- and delicious recipes. why he has never met his grand- otic dishes. mother or other relatives living in After the sudden death of his emo- Singapore.

PENTASTAR OCTOBER 30, 5:40 PM | NOVEMBER 2, 2:00 PM

WIFF NEXT WAVE

RBG 2018 | USA | English | 98 min

Directed by Julie Cohen, Betsy West defied all expectations of women in also by a determination to use the Documentary | PG the legal profession. As a lawyer, law as an instrument of change. she argued sex-discrimination cases Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the sec- before the Supreme Court based on The film also chronicles her mar- ond woman appointed to the Unit- the theory that the equal protec- riage to Martin Ginsburg. They met ed States Supreme Court, but she’s tion clause of the 14th Amendment as undergraduates at Cornell, and probably the first justice to become should apply to women and could for the next 63 years, Mr. Ginsburg a full-fledged pop-cultural phenom- be used to remedy discrepancies in (who died in 2010) was his wife’s enon - at the age of 85. hiring, business practices and pub- tireless supporter and champion, a lic policy. She usually won. Justice man whose commitment to domestic The daughter of Russian Jewish Ginsburg’s career has been marked egalitarianism was extraordinary in immigrants, Ruth Bader Ginsburg by intense intellectual ambition and his time and far from common today.

PENTASTAR OCTOBER 30, 7:30 PM 67 ROOBHA 2017 | Canada | English Tamil | Partially Subtitled | 91 min

Directed by Lenin M. Sivam ran kicks Gokul out of the house. romance springs up between the two. Drama | 18A Things take a nasty turn when Antho- Broke and desperate, Gokul winds ny’s family finds out about his affair. Mahoharan’s (Sornalingam Vaira- up on the streets of Toronto as a Having an affair is one thing, but hav- muthu) son, Gokul (Amrit Sandhu), sex worker named Roobha. When ing an affair with a trans-woman is who had run away when the family she is brutally beaten by thugs, she totally another. was in India, wishes to finally return. survives the attack but her resolve is Manoharan is incensed to discover broken. All she yearns for is security Roobha weaves a unique romantic Gokul behaving like a woman. When and stability which she finds in the tale that deals with the complexities Gokul expresses his intention of be- form of Anthony (Jesuthasan Anto- of personality and gender identity coming a woman by undergoing gen- nythasan), a family man in his forties. within the South-Asian community. der reassignment surgery, Manoha- Despite their differences, a beautiful

KELLY OCTOBER 30, 3:25 PM | NOVEMBER 3, 4:10 PM

MIDNIGHT MADNESS WIFF NEXT WAVE

THE ROOM 2003 | USA | English | 99 min

Directed by Tommy Wiseau The film centers on Johnny, a man tive charms weakening. Mean- Drama | NR who has it all: great friends, a good while, local orphan Denny looks job, and a gorgeous fiancée named up to Johnny, and needs the older A bona fide classic of midnight cin- Lisa (Juliette Danielle). But Lisa’s in- man’s help after the teen rips off a ema! nocent act masks the fact that she’s drug dealer. What kind of drugs? looking to bring Johnny down, and It doesn’t matter. Then guys play When Greg Sestero, an aspiring film her manipulations are tearing John- football in tuxedos, because you can actor, meets the weird and myste- ny apart. As Lisa informs her can- play football anywhere. rious Tommy Wiseau in an acting cer-ridden mother, Claudette, that class, they form a unique friendship Johnny hit her (which he certainly and travel to Hollywood to make did not), Johnny’s best friend, Mark, their dreams come true. finds his resistance to Lisa’s seduc-

PENTASTAR NOVEMBER 2, 11:59PM (START TIME 12:30 AM) 68 THE RUSSIAN FIVE 2018 | USA, Canada, Russia | English | 109 min

Directed by Joshua Reihl nicknamed the team “the Dead military and icons of the regime’s Documentary | NR Wings” after enduring fifteen sports supremacy, closely watched Audience Award seasons of futility. However, for fear they might defect to the Traverse City Film Festival 2018 newly hired general manager, high paying NHL. Through a number Sports and politics clash in this Jim Devellano came up with an of covert encounters reminiscent of compelling documentary about five audacious plan to infuse new talent an espionage film, Devellano and Russian hockey stars who defected into the club, turning his attention his talent scouts enticed first Sergei to America to join the Detroit Red toward the Russian Red Army Fedorov, Vladimir Konstantinov, Wings in the 1980s, leading to the team, one of the most dominant and Viacheslav Fetisov, and team’s back-to-back Stanley Cup collections of hockey talent ever later Vyacheslav Kozlov and Igor championships. assembled. The team’s hockey Larionov, to defect to America and The team’s fans and rivals alike players were members of the join the Red Wings organization. PENTASTAR NOVEMBER 3, 1:35 PM & 8:20 PM | NOVEMBER 4, 8:20 PM

SAY HER NAME: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF SANDRA BLAND 2018 | USA | English | 103 min

Directed by Kate Davis, became a poster child for activists na- fore-told details about the case, the David Heilbroner tionwide, leaving millions to question, film is punctuated by Sandra’s own Documentay | NR “What really happened to Sandra passionate and moving commentary In 2015, Sandra Bland, a politically Bland?” through her empowering online video series, “Sandy Speaks”. active 28-year-old black woman from Ten days after Sandra’s death, Acad- Chicago was arrested for failing to emy Award-nominated filmmakers, signal a lane change in Waller County, Part legal thriller, part parable, Say Kate Davis and David Heilbroner be- Her Name is a vigorous, unflinching Texas. Three days later, Sandra was gan working closely with the family’s found hanging from a noose in her jail case study of racial justice in America legal team, tracking the two-year bat- and takes viewers deep inside a story cell. Though ruled a suicide, her death tle between Sandra’s aggrieved family sparked allegations of racially-mo- that galvanized activists across the and Texas authorities, in the search for country. tivated police murder and Sandra answers. With disturbing, never-be- ARMOURIES NOVEMBER 2, 9:00 AM 69 WIFF NEXT WAVE

SHARKWATER: EXTINCTION 2018 | Canada | English | 88 min

Directed by Rob Stewart thrilling exposé on the illegal shark- finning has been banned in most Documentary | NR fin industry and a rousing call to of the world. Yet these magnificent save an imperiled animal from the creatures — one of the world’s oldest Over 100 million sharks are killed edge of extinction. and most important predators — are every year, decreasing the world’s in more danger than ever. shark population by 90 percent Sharkwater: Extinction updates and in the last 30 years. An entire expands on the fight by Stewart and Completed by the production team species — and a cornerstone of our others to halt the hunting of sharks, after Stewart died while making the ecosystem — hangs in the balance. which are often killed just for their film, Sharkwater: Extinction explores fins. Since the release of his previous the myriad ways sharks continue to Late filmmaker and conservationist film, Sharkwater, and the growing be placed in peril. Rob Stewart’s last documentary is a awareness it helped foster, shark

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SHOPLIFTERS 2018 | Japan | Japanese | Subtitled | 121 min

Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda in a merciless urban environment. Shopping for food and other essentials Crime, Drama | NR The Shibata family of five—father is accomplished by way of shoplifting, Oscar submission best foreign and father and son are slick experts on language film Osamu (Franky Lily), mother Nobuyo an awesome scale. Palme d’Or - Cannes Film Festival 2018 (Ando Sakura), their pre-teen son Shota (Jyo Kairi), Nobuyo’s younger Shoplifters is an unforgettable The latest multiple award-winning sister Aki (Matsuoka Mayu), and their testament to the notion that the family film from Japanese master, Hirokazu crusty granny (Kirin Kiki)—seems who steals together stays together. Kore-eda, begins with the mischief normal up to a point. They live on This tender, wise, suspenseful film and intrigue of a heist movie, but the precarious edge of insolvency is an incisive social critique and Shoplifters is much more. The film in granny’s tiny apartment, and characteristically nuanced family follows a small band of marginalized depend on her social security check portrait delivered with breathtaking misfits struggling to make ends meet to supplement meager incomes. grace. KELLY OCTOBER 29, 9:00 AM | NOVEMBER 4, 11:10 AM 70 THE SILENT REVOLUTION 2018 | Germany | German Russian | Subtitled | 111 min

Directed by Lars Kraume West to put flowers on Kurt’s grand- boys, their parents, nor the school’s Drama, History | NR father’s grave. While there they administration are prepared for sneak into a cinema. A newsreel of the reactions that their expression This multiple award-winning film is the ongoing uprising in Budapest of solidarity unleashes. The school set in 1956 Stalinstadt, five years offers a very different take than the principal tries to dismiss the inci- before the Berlin Wall went up, at propaganda at home. Returning to dent as juvenile mischief and deal a time when it was still possible for school inspired by the thought of a with it internally, but the pupils find East Germans to travel to the West Soviet-bloc nation rising up against themselves snared in the political provided they had good reasons. the occupier, they convince their machinery of a state determined to classmates to hold a minute’s si- make an example of them. Students Kurt (Tom Gramenz) and lence in class for the victims of the Theo (Leonard Scheicher) head Hungarian struggle. Neither the

KELLY NOVEMBER 1, 11:20 AM

LES FILMS Francophones

SINK OR SWIM 2018 | France | French | Subtitled | 122 min

Directed by Gilles Lellouche life crisis when they learn of the ginie Efira), the group sets out on an Comedy | NR existence of a team of male syn- unlikely adventure. They get to know chronised swimmers at their local each other in depth, exposing their Directed by Gilles Lellouche and pool. Amateurs are welcome, which flaws in the privacy of the changing starring some of France’s best male is just as well given that the rum rooms or in the bar after training in actors (Guillaume Canet, Mathieu bunch of current members are nei- the pool, before setting themselves Amalric and Jean-Hugues Anglade) ther very synchronised nor especial- an overambitious objective: repre- wearing Speedos, Sink or Swim is ly professional. senting France in the world champi- pure feel-good entertainment. onships in Norway. On the way they Braving the skepticism and ridicule rediscover a little self-esteem and a A group of depressed middle-aged of those around them, and trained lot about themselves and each other. men address their collective mid- by fallen champion Delphine (Vir-

Directed by Rohena Gera ding has been called off after his in a city that has grown from its co- Drama | NR fiancee was found to have had an af- lonial roots into a burgeoning world fair. Left alone to work for his dad’s capital. Sir is a thoughtful study of Ratna (Tillotama Shome) is a young company and brood a lot around class and the way it can both re- widow who travels from her small the house, Ashwin will slowly devel- strain and empower. Writer-director village in the countryside to the op a bond with Ratna that extends Rohena Gera has crafted an intelli- megalopolis of Mumbai, where beyond a mere master-servant rela- gent romance within the confines of she’s employed by a wealthy family tionship into something more. upper-crust Indian society. of builders to serve as a chamber- maid for their son, Ashwin (Vivek It is a classic setup where forbidden Gomber). Ashwin is about to get love between two lost souls is used to married, but we learn that the wed- explore questions of class and caste,

ARMOURIES OCTOBER 30, 9:10 AM | NOVEMBER 1, 9:00 AM

SKATE KITCHEN 2018 | USA | English | 106 min

Directed by Crystal Moselle Instagram, Camille heads to New Skate Kitchen captures the experi- Drama | 14A York City, board in hand. She falls in ence of women in male-dominated with the in-crowd, has a falling-out spaces and is an authentic take on Camille (Rachelle Vinberg), is an with her mother, and falls for a mys- one young woman’s road to self-dis- introverted teenage skateboarder terious skateboarder (Jaden Smith), covery as she learns the importance from Long Island who spends most but a relationship with him proves of female friendship and doing what of her days skateboarding alone. Af- to be trickier to navigate than a you love. The film impressively stars ter a serious injury, Camille’s single kickflip. Camille comes to under- real-life members of Skate Kitchen, a mother finds her daughter’s hobby stand the complexities of the group skateboarding collective co-found- too dangerous and forces her to dynamic when she befriends a boy ed by Vinberg and friends during the quit. When she discovers an all-girl from a rival group of skaters. group’s high-school years. skate crew, “The Skate Kitchen”, on

KELLY OCTOBER 31, 9:00 AM | NOVEMBER 2, 10:05 PM 72 LES FILMS Francophones

SORRY, ANGEL 2018 | France | French | Subtitled | 133 min

Directed by Christophe Honoré with AIDS, and is in a less advanced gether, especially in light of all the Drama, Romance | NR condition of the illness himself. None obligations — to friends, family, of which keeps Arthur, eagerly em- school and work — that have a way Set in 1993, Sorry Angel tells the sto- bracing his own sexual awakening, of looming into the frame. ry of a 35-year-old Parisian writer, from throwing himself into their re- Jacques (Pierre Deladonchamps), lationship sans reservations. Chalk Director Christophe Honoré’s film and the bond he forges with a it up to his feelings of youthful invin- is a frank treatment of its charac- 22-year-old Breton student, Arthur cibility, or perhaps the era’s rapidly ters’ sexuality, representing a major (Vincent Lacoste), whom he meets shifting, destigmatizing attitudes stride in the treatment of gay rela- on an out-of-town trip. toward AIDS. Or perhaps it’s simply tionships on-screen. that these two men are determined Jacques is looking after an ex-lover to make the most of their time to-

KELLY OCTOBER 30, 9:00 AM

SPLINTERS 2018 | Canada | English | 94 min

Directed by Thom Fitzgerald Belle (Sofia Banzhaf) has come years. She is reluctant to rekindle her Drama | 18A home to rural Nova Scotia for her mother’s traditional expectations father’s funeral. She came out as a of her and backpedal on hard-won Halifax based director, teenager but has never reconciled battles to assert her identity. But the Thom Fitzgerald, explores that fact with her conservative secret becomes harder to hide when interconnections of sexual identity, mother, Nancy (Shelley Thompson). Rob shows up to be the supportive family, and small-town Nova Amidst the family’s grief, Nancy’s boyfriend. Scotia life, in this intimate drama disapproval of Belle hangs in the Based on the stage play by Lee- about a young lesbian reassessing air like a dark cloud. Belle neglects Anne Poole, Splinters is a beautifully her relationship with her mother to mention to her family that she realized portrait of a young woman’s following the death of her father. has been dating a man named Rob complicated relationship with her (Callum Dunphy) for the past two family, her past, and her home. KELLY OCTOBER 29, 1:40 PM | NOVEMBER 2, 1:50 PM 73 STRAY 2018 | New Zealand | English | 104 min

Directed by Dustin Feneley young man on parole for grievous ity, very far from home and seeking Drama | NR bodily harm, holes up in a cabin refuge. Grace’s own private strug- somewhere in Central Otago. It’s gles linger beneath her attraction Stray is the statement-making fea- not clear whether he’s trying to to Jack. These lonely, enigmatic ture debut of writer/director Dustin forget the past or reconcile with it, strangers drift into a relationship Feneley. Set in the wintry south of although his hesitancy with locals that promises to either heal or hurt. New Zealand, this bracingly spare suggests he’s much closer to the Stray – deliberately both noun and character drama frames Aotearoa’s scene of the crime than he’d care verb – is an understated fable of oft-filmed landscapes in a clear and to admit. Locked away in a prison loss, alienation, banishment and – startling new light. of his own making, one evening Jack maybe – hope. encounters Grace (Arta Dobroshi), a Jack (Kieran Charnock), a taciturn woman just out of a psychiatric facil-

ARMOURIES NOVEMBER 3, 11:20 AM

STUDIO 54 2018 | USA | English | 98 min

Directed by Matt Tyrnauer redefined the nightclub, but also By the end of 1978, Studio had be- Documentary | 14A came to symbolize an entire era. Its come the most famous club in the co-owners, Ian Schrager and Steve world, but only 33 months after There aren’t many nightclubs that Rubell, seemed to come out of no- opening, an IRS investigation ended change the world. Studio 54 was a where to suddenly preside over a with Schrager and Rubell each sen- wild space that welcomed queer cul- new kind of New York society. Now, tenced to three and a half years in ture at a time of rampant homopho- 39 years after the velvet rope was prison. Even so, the club party they bia and made headlines with its ce- first slung across the club’s thresh- threw the night before they went to lebrity guest lists. old, a feature documentary tells the jail was as recklessly incandescent a real story behind the greatest club blowout as the opening night. Studio 54 was the epicenter of 70s of all time. hedonism--a place that not only

ARMOURIES OCTOBER 31, 10:00 PM 74 SUMMER 1993 2017 | Spain | Catalan | Subtitled | 97 min

Directed by Carla Simón six-year old Frida (Laia Artigas) is of her mother’s death casts a shad- Family Drama | G transplanted from bustling Barce- ow over how the local community lona to the Catalan provinces to treats Frida. Carla Simon’s autobiographical de- live at the rural home of her Uncle but is an evocative and profoundly Esteve (David Verdaguer), his wife Carefully put together and wonder- affecting depiction of childhood and Marga (Bruna Cusí) and younger fully acted, Summer 1993 is a beau- family lost and found. Summer 1993 cousin, Anna (Paula Robles). They tiful film reflecting on the fearful is also about the AIDS crisis in the welcome Frida with open arms, but period of the 90s and the genera- 90s seen through a child’s eye. unable to verbalize her pain, Frida tion it affected but also highlighting starts to take out her feelings on the unconditional love of a tight-knit Following the death of her mother Anna. Even as the new family begins family overcoming tragedy. (her father died sometime earlier), to find a fragile balance, the source

PENTASTAR NOVEMBER 1, 4:15 PM

SUMMER OF 84 2018 | Canada | English | 106 min

Directed by François Simard, Davey Armstrong (Graham Ver- buddies that the killer is his across- Anouk Whissell chere) is convinced that suburbia is the-street neighbor — bachelor cop, Horror | 14A home to America’s greatest terrors. Officer Mackey (Rich Sommer), a He’s a conspiracy nut, but this week friendly but lonely-seeming man “Every serial killer is somebody’s a real horror has come to his corner who has known Davey’s family for neighbour” is hauntingly true, which of Oregon. Police have announced years. The boys begin stalking the raises an important question – how that the “Cape May Strangler” has man, trailing him around town and well do we know our neighbours and killed over a dozen boys in neigh- digging through his trash, looking if we do, do we really pay attention bouring towns. And Davey is sure for clues. Is this a case of success- to the things that happen around he knows who the villain is. Working ful amateur sleuthing, or simply an us? with some very dubious evidence, overactive imagination fueled by Davey tries to convince his three Reagan-era paranoia?

KELLY OCTOBER 31, 9:45 PM 75 TEA WITH THE DAMES 2018 | UK | English | 84 min

Directed by Roger Michell At the country home Plowright Television and Film. This is basically Documentary | NR shared with her late husband, Lau- an Avengers: Infinity War of theatri- rence Olivier, the ladies discuss cal anecdotery: outrageously camp, Tea With the Dames is a unique cel- their insecurities, stage fright and with sensational stills and archival ebration of the lives and careers anxiety over their looks as well as is- footage and very brisk assessments of four of our most iconic actress- sues associated with aging. All four of the past – utterly unsentimental. es: Dame Eileen Atkins, Dame Judi have gone from fledgling actresses Dench, Dame Joan Plowright and in the 1950s to acting royalty. The Candid, funny, caustic, irreverent, Dame Maggie Smith. The laughter film invites you to spend time with poignant and utterly engrossing, and pure hysteria are infectious in these acting legends as they talk this film proves there is truly nothing this wildly enjoyable film. about their lives and their profes- like a Dame. sional experiences in the Theatre,

CHRYSLER OCTOBER 29, 3:55 PM | NOVEMBER 2, 4:00 PM | NOVEMBER 4, 4:10 PM

TENDERNESS 2017 | Italy | Italian | Subtitled | 103 min

Directed by Gianni Amelio and grumpy, the retired lawyer feeling of empathy. But there are Drama | NR who has been living estranged hints that all is not fine with the from his family and the rest of the people next door. Back from the hospital where he has world, would normally leave her been treated after a heart attack, to her fate but he mellows under Adapted from Lorenzo Moreno’s Lorenzo (Renato Carpentieri) is her spontaneous charm. He helps novel The Temptation to Be Happy, on his way upstairs to his top-floor her, gradually becoming friends this multiple award-winning film apartment in Naples when he meets not only with her but with her is beautifully shot with nervous Michela (Micaela Ramazzotti). The husband Fabio (Elio Germani) and tracking shots of Neapolitan street charming young woman, who has their children. For once, the self- life capturing the beauty of a just moved to the facing apartment, declared misanthropist seems to magnificent old Mediterranean city has forgotten her keys. Cynical be experiencing the long forgotten long past its heyday.

PENTASTAR OCTOBER 30, 11:25 AM | NOVEMBER 4, 9:00 AM 76 Hot docs SHOWCASE WIFF NEXT WAVE

THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS 2018 | UK | English | 96 min

Directed by Tim Wardle identical triplets, separated at birth. secret that gives this bizarre and Documentary | PG For three teenage boys living in New charming tale a mysterious and Special Jury Prize York in the 1980s, what starts as an troubling origin story. Sundance Film Festival 2018 uncanny resemblance quickly turns The triplets became celebrities, into an extraordinary stranger- Returning by popular demand, this appearing on talk shows, gaining than-fiction story. The discovery multiple award-winning documentary access to the upper echelons of that Bobby, Eddy and David were sold out at the WIFF 365 screening in New York City nightlife and opening triplets separated at birth and August. a hugely successful restaurant. adopted by three different families Things take a more sinister turn as Three Identical Strangers reveals the catapults the former strangers the triplets gradually uncover the story of three complete strangers who to international fame. But their circumstances of their separation accidentally discover that they are incredible reunion also unlocks a and placement. KELLY OCTOBER 29, 7:00 PM

Hot docs SHOWCASE

TIME FOR ILHAN 2018 | USA | English Somali | Partially Subtitled | 89 min

Directed by Norah Shapiro Trump Nation. Omar made the deci- shows how gender bias, cultural tra- Documentary | PG sion to run for office after observing dition and fake news play a part in an increasing disconnect between all levels of contemporary American Rising political star, Ilhan Omar, the Somali citizens in her community politics. As much a campaign drama a charismatic Somali Muslim and and the public officials who repre- as a personal portrait, Time for Ilhan young mother of three, seeks elec- sented them. stresses the need for citizens to ex- tion to the Minnesota House of ercise their right to vote, the impor- Representatives in an attempt to un- Filmmaker Norah Shapiro chronicles tance of passion and oratory skills seat the 43-year female incumbent, the hard-fought three-way race for for leadership, and how essential defeat the Somali male candidate state representative in the United it is to a community and country of she previously worked for, and beat States’ largest Somali communi- immigrants that government repre- back increasing Islamophobia under ty. With tension and urgency, she sentation be diverse.

ARMOURIES OCTOBER 30, 11:30 AM | NOVEMBER 3, 9:15 AM 77 Hot docs SHOWCASE

TRANSFORMER 2018 | Canada | English | 78 min

Directed by Michael Del Monte Matt “Kroc” Kroczaleski was publicly unable to do so, living one day as Documentary | 14A outed as being transgender. The an alpha male and the next day as Audience Award - Hot Docs Canadian reaction was universal: her sponsors a delicate girl. This multiple award- International Film Festival 2018 abandoned her, she was disowned winning documentary follows Janae

From white trash kid, to decorated by her parents, banned from -- a cancer survivor, published U.S. marine, to bodybuilder, to world competing, and she changed her author, licensed pharmacist, model, record powerlifter, Matt Kroczaleski name to Janae. and proud parent of three teenage faces his most powerful feat of sons -- as she copes with her strength yet: becoming a woman. Initially wanting to strip off the parents’ reactions, undergoes vocal muscle she had worked so hard to and facial feminization surgery, and In the summer of 2015, former US gain and become a much smaller attempts to find her own identity Marine and world record weightlifter looking woman, she found herself and her place in society.

KELLY OCTOBER 29, 3:35 PM | NOVEMBER 2, 6:10 PM

LES FILMS Francophones

THE TROUBLE WITH YOU 2018 | France | French | Subtitled | 108 min

Directed by Pierre Salvadori corrupt, taking bribes to finance a innocent employee, Antoine (Pio Drama | NR lifestyle a mere cop’s wages never Marmaï), for the theft. Antoine has could have bought. Suddenly discov- spent eight years in prison while his This screwball cops ‘n’ criminals ering the fruits of habitual graft all wife Agnes (Audrey Tautou) waited comedy follows Yvonne (Adèle around her, the scrupulously clean faithfully. On his release, Yvonne Haenel), a police officer on desk Yvonne questions whether she knew tries to make amends by involving duty in the French Riviera who, fol- him at all. herself in his life. Their encounter lowing the death of her cop husband leads to a sequence of frantic and Santi (Vincent Elbaz), inadvertently But his corruption had a human cost. farcical complications when she and discovers he was far from the cru- Santi had conspired with a high-end the rumpled Antoine inevitably be- sading hero he’s literally memori- jewelry store to stage a robbery for come attracted to each other. alized as. In fact, Santi was deeply the insurance, and had framed an

CHRYSLER OCTOBER 31, 1:30 PM 78 TRANSIT 2018 | Germany, France | German French | Subtitled | 101 min

Directed by Christian Petzold adopts an ambivalence about leaving Drama | NR Georg (Franz Rogowski) is a German the continent, and develops an obses- refugee who escapes to Marseille, a sive desire for the mysterious Marie In this adaptation of Anna Seghers’ port for migrants looking to flee an — herself suspended in the city. Tran- 1942 novel, German auteur Christian unspecified, spreading war. He car- sit, evoking shades of Hitchcock and Petzold, takes a brazen, bounding ries the documents of a famous writer, Casablanca, is an unlikely, wrenching risk by stripping its story — about a Weidl: a manuscript, the promise of an love story as much as a sly, unsettling German concentration camp survivor elusive transit pass from the Mexican thriller and a film about ghosts, mem- seeking passage to North America in embassy, and letters from the writer’s ory, and historical trauma. Nazi-occupied France — of any exter- wife, Marie (Paula Beer). Discover- nal period trappings, relocating it to a ing that Weidl has taken his own life, kind of liminal, sunburned present day. Georg assumes the author’s identity,

ARMOURIES OCTOBER 30, 5:35 PM | NOVEMBER 2, 11:45 AM

TWO WOMEN 1960 | Italy, France | Italian German | Subtitled | 101 min

Directed by Vittorio De Sica phia Loren, then 26) takes her an- (Jean-Paul Belmondo) who also Drama, War gelic 13-year-old daughter Rosetta bonds with Rosetta. The villagers (Eleonora Brown) back to her birth- are heartened when Il Duce is jailed A bleak but powerful drama, Two place in the rural village of Sant Eu- and the Germans are retreating, but Women won Sophia Loren a much femia, thinking they’ll be safer there. before leaving they take Michele deserved Best Actress Oscar, the by force to be their guide. Cesira first for a foreign language film. In her village Cesira finds she can’t makes the unwise decision to return escape the war. The Allies are still to Rome with Rosetta before the ar- The story takes place in Italy during bombing the villages, food is scarce rival of the Americans and pays a the last phases of WW II. Fed up and the German soldiers are brutal. severe price for that decision. with the daily bombings in Rome, the She becomes attracted to a sensi- thirtysomething widow Cesira (So- tive and intelligent man, Michele

KELLY NOVEMBER 4, 4:00 PM 79 Hot docs SHOWCASE SPOTLIGHT ON ARCHITECTURE

UNARMED VERSES 2017 | Canada | English | 86 min

Directed by Charles Officer At the centre of the story is Francine of view beyond her years, Francine Documentary | G Valentine, a remarkably astute and and other neighbourhood children Best Canadian Documentary - Hot Docs luminous 12-year-old girl whose turn to creative expression, as they Canadian Documentary Film Festival poignant observations about life, the prepare to record music and poetry The acclaimed winner of the Best soul, and the power of art give voice at a local studio. Using an elegant Canadian Feature Documentary to those rarely heard in society. She observational style and respectful Award at Hot Docs 2017, Unarmed is just one of many people facing tone, Jamaican-Canadian director Verses tells the story of an urban eviction from a low-income housing Charles Officer crafts a moving community in city-planning flux and block in Toronto’s north-east end local coming-of-age story about a poetic young black girl working to due to the impending demolition of community, adversity, economic find her strength and voice. their homes. With her creative spirit, disparity and identity that celebrates love for art and perceptive point our bonds and ability to persevere.

ARMOURIES NOVEMBER 4, 11:15 AM

UNDER THE SILVER LAKE 2018 | USA | English | 139 min

Directed by David Robert Mitchell just begun getting to know each the super rich. Under the Silver Lake Comedy, Crime, Drama | NR other when she suddenly vacates shapes the distinctive geography and her apartment, takes all her stuff and architecture of socially stratified Los Under the Silver Lake is a down-the- vanishes without a trace. Sam embarks Angeles into an alluring canvas, by rabbit-hole movie, at once gripping on a surreal quest across Los Angeles turns glittering and murky. A delirious and baffling, fueled by erotic passion to decode the secret behind her neo-noir fever dream about one and dread. disappearance, leading him into the man’s search for the truth behind Sam (Andrew Garfield) is a murkiest depths of mystery, scandal the mysterious crimes, murders and disenchanted 33-year-old who and conspiracy in the City of Angels. disappearances in his East L.A. discovers a mysterious woman, neighborhood, Under the Silver Lake Sarah (Riley Keough), frolicking in his Sam is sucked into a web of pop- is a sustained homage to David Lynch. apartment’s swimming pool. They’ve cultural enigmas and cultish secrets of

PENTASTAR OCTOBER 30, 9:35 PM | NOVEMBER 1, 10:30 PM 80 2017 | Iceland, Poland, Denmark, Germany, France UNDER THE TREE Icelandic | Subtitled | 89 min

Directed by has been thrown out by his wife and pets mysteriously go missing, securi- Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson she does not want him to see their ty cameras are being installed and Comedy, Drama | 14A daughter Ása anymore. He moves there is a rumor that the neighbour in with his parents, Baldwin (Sig- was seen with a chainsaw… There are branches but none of urður Sigurjónsson) and Inga (Edda them are olive in Under the Tree, an Björgvinsdóttir), who are involved in Under the Tree is an exhilarating- Icelandic drama darker than a Reyk- a bitter dispute over their big and ly sly dark comedy about ordinary javik winter. Apparently inspired by beautiful tree that casts a shadow suburbanite folk going from unglued a real-life incident, the story starts on the neighbours’ deck. As Atli to unhinged to ultimately undone. with the titular tree. fights for the right to see his daugh- It moves from black satire to a hor- ter, the dispute with the neighbours ror-thriller so smoothly you don’t Atli (Steinþór Hróar Steinþórsson) intensifies - property is damaged, even realize it’s happening.

CHRYSLER OCTOBER 29, 1:45 PM

WHAT KEEPS YOU ALIVE 2018 | Canada | English | 98 min

Directed by Colin Minihan right angle into something else ies: each other. Jackie clearly has Thriller | 14A entirely. a past at this house that she hasn’t fully shared with Jules. And when Colin Minihan’s stylish film takes On the eve of their one-year wed- an old friend named Sarah (Mar- the old adage of “You never know ding anniversary, spending a few tha MacIsaac) stops by one night, who you’ll fall in love with” and days in an old family cabin once the mystery deepens. As violence twists it into a horrifying relation- occupied by Jackie’s family, Jules rains down upon their idyllic forest ship nightmare. What Keeps You (Brittany Allen) and Jackie (Han- getaway, the women engage in vi- Alive is a tense thriller with a truly nah Emily Anderson) become em- cious psychological warfare that clever turn that starts feeling like broiled in a merciless battle when will test the limits of their instinct it’s taking the audience in one di- they find themselves pitted against to survive. rection and then takes a sharp the most unexpected of adversar-

KELLY OCTOBER 29, 11:05 PM | NOVEMBER 4, 10:30 PM 81 WHITNEY 2018 | USA, UK | English | 122 min

Directed by Kevin Macdonald scandals and death at age 48. in Macdonald unravels the mystery Documentary, Biography, Music | 14A behind “The Voice” that thrilled mil- Whitney is an intimate, unflinching lions even as she struggled to make Whitney Houston broke more mu- portrait of Houston and her family peace with her own troubled past. sic industry records than any other that probes beyond familiar tabloid female singer in history. With over headlines and sheds new light on Beyond reminding us of what a 200 million album sales worldwide, the spellbinding trajectory of Hous- powerful and transformative singer she was the only artist to chart sev- ton’s life. Using never-before-seen Whitney Houston was, Whitney does en consecutive U.S. No. 1 singles. archival footage, exclusive demo re- something more essential: it plunges She also starred in several block- cordings, rare performances, audio into the “Why?” and comes up with a buster movies before her brilliant archives and original interviews with shatteringly convincing answer. career gave way to erratic behavior, the people who knew her best, Kev-

CHRYSLER OCTOBER 30, 9:40 PM

THE WIFE 2017 | UK, Sweden, USA | English | 100 min

Directed by Björn Runge As the significance sinks in and the band has been a self-obsessed part- Drama | 14A full implications bear down, Joan ner, an inattentive father, and has abruptly stops celebrating and had a string of affairs over the years Joan (Glenn Close), is the wife of a leaves the room. Once they arrive — and those deficiencies don’t even newly-announced Nobel Prize-win- in Sweden in preparation for the scratch the surface. Complicating a ning novelist, Joseph (Jonathan Stockholm ceremony, Joan is clearly tense situation further, an aggres- Pryce), whose career she has sup- deeply annoyed by something and sive biographer (Christian Slater), ported while setting her own ambi- we can only guess what. who’s intent on chronicling Joe’s tions aside. life, has stalked them all the way to As more and more troubling details Stockholm. He knows this couple’s The film opens with the news that gradually spill forth, we learn more biggest secret and is threatening to Joseph has won The Nobel Prize. about their lives together. Her hus- expose it.

PENTASTAR NOVEMBER 1, 6:30 PM | NOVEMBER 3, 4:10 PM 82 2018 | Turkey, France, Germany, Bulgaria, Sweden THE WILD PEAR TREE Turkish | Subtitled | 188 min

Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan his birthplace, the Turkish seaport next phase of his life. He is planning Drama | NR of Çanakkale. to become a teacher like his father, Oscar submission best foreign but first wants to complete an exper- language film Returning home from college, Sinan imental novel. (Aydin Dogu Demirkol) must re-enter Following up on 2014’s award-win- a difficult family situation with a fa- This is a film of discovery, of Sinan ning Winter Sleep, Nuri Bilge Ceylan ther who is restless and intransigent, working out his next steps and wres- has directed another hypnotic and and whose gambling addiction has tling with issues of the old and new, compelling piece of cinema. Using Sinan’s mother and sister at their all dissected in a series of brilliant landscape as part of his expressive wits’ end. He struggles to reorient set pieces. And hovering in the back- palette, Ceylan takes the protago- himself within the family dynamic ground is the enormous shadow that nist of The Wild Pear Tree back to while trying to come to grips with the his father still casts over his life.

KELLY OCTOBER 31, 11:25 AM

WIT 2001 | USA | English | 99 min

Directed by Mike Nichols Professor Vivian Bearing (Emma that will serve his research agenda. Drama | NR Thompson), an expert on the work of The stoic Vivian bears this therapy 17th-century British poet John Donne, and degrading study by Kelekian’s Emma Thompson and Mike Nichols’ has spent her adult life contemplating team, including her former student Ja- adaptation of Margaret Edson’s intel- religion and death as literary motifs. son Posner (Jonathan M. Woodward). lectual anti-intellectual play Wit, which At age 48, Vivian is diagnosed with But as her condition grows worse and won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize, movingly Stage IV ovarian cancer by prominent her fear increases, Vivian starts to explores a tough but emotionally physician Harvey Kelekian (Christo- question her assumptions about what homeless scholar’s confrontation with pher Lloyd). By appealing to their com- matters in life. Wit is a powerful drama a life-threatening illness. It also ruth- mon commitment to rigorous scholarly about dying and death. lessly deconstructs the modern medi- discipline, he gets her to agree to ag- cal research establishment. gressive, debilitating chemotherapy

KELLY OCTOBER 30, 5:30 PM 83 WOMAN AT WAR 2018 | Iceland, France, Ukraine | Icelandic | Subtitled | 101 min

Directed by Benedikt Erlingsson terrorist — an undercover eco-terrorist ter she has yet to meet and may never Action, Thriller | NR to be exact. The proliferation of heavy if she’s apprehended. Oscar submission best foreign industry, urged on by unscrupulous language film politicians, has been ruining Iceland’s The film drills deep into the inevitable rugged landscape and she’s taken ac- dilemmas plaguing almost everyone Halla (Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir) is a tion. Dubbed the Mountain Woman, committed to the greater good. The choirmaster who loves her job. And Halla soon becomes the scourge of political satire here is precise and rich she’s just learned she’s been approved the aluminum industry. Halla is deter- as evident in the sleazy Fox News– to adopt a child from a war-torn area mined to see things through… but she style way the government demonizes in Ukraine, a long-time dream of hers. can’t help wondering if it would be Halla but there’s also a sense of hu- more fulfilling to save hypothetical fu- mour percolating though Woman at The only hitch is that Halla is also a ture lives or one actual life: the daugh- War.

KELLY NOVEMBER 3, 9:00 AM | NOVEMBER 4, 6:10 PM

LES FILMS Francophones

THE WORKSHOP 2018 | France | French | Subtitled | 113 min

Directed by Laurent Cantet later on, but as the story in the film group, but also intrigued. The event Drama, Mystery | NR unravels, the movie itself grows is fictional, but his descriptions more and more fraught with tension. are both unnervingly realistic La Ciotat is a town near Marseille and thematically apt. Antoine where a writing workshop has Antoine (Matthieu Lucci), understands the killer too well. been set up under the guidance of provocative and aggressive, stands well-known novelist, Olivia Dejazet out for his systematic opposition to Cantet makes an enthralling return (Marina Fois), to help a group of all, including Olivia. When he reads to form with this topical fusion of seven young people integrate aloud a chilling writing sample political debate session and socially into the world of work. The class is depicting a mass shooting on a conscious thriller. supposed to work on a collective yacht at the local harbor, Olivia is crime novel that will be published alarmed, along with the rest of the

ARMOURIES OCTOBER 31, 7:45 PM | NOVEMBER 4, 9:00 AM 84 MONDAY OCTOBER 29 9:30AM-10:59AM JUST A BREATH AWAY CHRYSLER 9:30AM-11:06AM THE FIREFLIES ARE GONE PENTASTAR 9:00AM-11:01AM SHOPLIFTERS KELLY 11:25AM-1:22PM C’EST LA VIE CHRYSLER 11:30AM-1:05PM LE BRIO PENTASTAR 11:35AM-1:07PM THE LAST SUIT KELLY 1:45PM-3:14PM UNDER THE TREE CHRYSLER 2:00PM-3:37PM NETIZENS PENTASTAR 1:40PM-3:14PM SPLINTERS KELLY 3:55PM-5:19PM TEA WITH THE DAMES CHRYSLER 4:20PM-5:47PM MY SON PENTASTAR 3:35PM-4:53PM TRANSFORMER KELLY 5:15PM-6:38PM RAFIKI KELLY 6:00PM CAPERNAUM CHRYSLER 7PM-8:36PM THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS KELLY 8:55PM-10:19PM BABY BLUES KELLY 9:15PM-10:49PM THE CONTROL CHRYSLER 10:15PM-12:12AM AMERICAN ANIMALS PENTASTAR 11:05PM-12:43AM WHAT KEEPS YOU ALIVE KELLY

85 TUESDAY OCTOBER 30 9:00AM-10:53AM THE BOOKSHOP CHRYSLER 9:00AM-10:57AM AMERICAN ANIMALS PENTASTAR 9:00AM-11:13AM SORRY, ANGEL KELLY 9:10AM-10:49AM SIR ARMOURIES 11:35AM-1:10PM DUMPED CHRYSLER 11:25AM-1:08PM TENDERNESS PENTASTAR 11:35AM-1:09PM CUSTODY KELLY 11:30AM-12:59PM TIME FOR ILHAN ARMOURIES 1:30PM-3:05PM DUMPED CHRYSLER 1:30PM-2:57PM MY SON PENTASTAR 1:30PM-3:04PM CUSTODY KELLY 1:25PM-2:55PM 93QUEEN ARMOURIES 3:25PM-5:10PM THE CHILDREN ACT CHRYSLER 3:30PM-5:05PM LE BRIO PENTASTAR 3:25PM-4:56PM ROOBHA KELLY 3:25PM-4:52PM BATHTUBS OVER BROADWAY ARMOURIES 5:30PM-7:15PM THE HAPPY PRINCE CHRYSLER 5:40PM-7:10PM RAMEN SHOP PENTASTAR 5:30PM-7:09PM WIT KELLY 5:35PM-7:16PM TRANSIT ARMOURIES 7:40PM-9:18PM JULIET, NAKED CHRYSLER 7:30PM-9:08PM RBG PENTASTAR 7:30PM-9:10PM WIFF LOCAL SHORTS 1 KELLY 7:45PM-9:12PM BATHTUBS OVER BROADWAY ARMOURIES 9:40PM-11:42PM WHITNEY CHRYSLER 9:35PM-11:54PM UNDER THE SILVER LAKE PENTASTAR 9:30PM-11:20PM WIFF LOCAL SHORTS 2 KELLY 9:50PM-12:22AM ASH IS PUREST WHITE ARMOURIES

86 WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 31 9:00AM-10:43AM PUZZLE CHRYSLER 9:00AM-10:55AM GIRLS OF THE SUN PENTASTAR 9:00AM-10:56AM SKATE KITCHEN KELLY 9:05AM-10:46AM RADIANCE ARMOURIES 11:15AM-1:03PM ANGEL FACE CHRYSLER 11:10AM-1:12PM SINK OR SWIM PENTASTAR 11:25AM-2:33PM THE WILD PEAR TREE KELLY 11:20AM-12:58PM THE PRICE OF EVERYTHING ARMOURIES 1:30PM-3:18PM THE TROUBLE WITH YOU CHRYSLER 1:35PM-3:09PM CLAIRE DARLING PENTASTAR 1:30PM-2:57PM BATHTUBS OVER BROADWAY ARMOURIES 3:40PM-5:27PM FAMILY IS FAMILY CHRYSLER 3:40PM-5:16PM THE FIREFLIES ARE GONE PENTASTAR 3:40PM-5:23PM DOGMAN KELLY 3:40PM-5:20PM 3 FACES ARMOURIES 5:50PM-7:17PM ANTHROPOCENE CHRYSLER 5:50PM-7:24PM CLAIRE DARLING PENTASTAR 6:00PM-7:28PM LOVE, GILDA KELLY 5:45PM-7:22PM BLOWIN’ UP ARMOURIES 7:45PM-9:30PM LIZZIE CHRYSLER 7:45PM-9:15PM FIREWORKS, SHOULD WE SEE...? PENTASTAR 7:55PM-9:23PM PECKING ORDER KELLY 7:45PM-9:38PM THE WORKSHOP ARMOURIES 10:00PM-11:36PM ARMY OF DARKNESS CHRYSLER 9:45PM-11:50PM AKIRA PENTASTAR 9:45PM-11:29PM SUMMER OF 84 KELLY 10:00PM-11:38PM STUDIO 54 ARMOURIES

87 THURSDAY NOVEMBER 1 9:30AM-10:59AM JUST A BREATH AWAY CHRYSLER 9:30AM-11:03AM GIANT LITTLE ONES PENTASTAR 9:20AM-10:50AM AMERICAN CHAOS KELLY 9:00AM-10:39AM SIR ARMOURIES 11:25AM-1:12PM JOURNEY’S END CHRYSLER 11:25AM-1:17PM THE INTOUCHABLES PENTASTAR 11:20AM-1:11PM THE SILENT REVOLUTION KELLY 11:20AM-1:12PM CRIME + PUNISHMENT ARMOURIES 1:40PM-3:33PM THE BOOKSHOP CHRYSLER 2:00PM-3:37PM NETIZENS PENTASTAR 1:30PM-3:33PM BECOMING ASTRID KELLY 1:40PM-3:21PM RADIANCE ARMOURIES 4:00PM-5:45PM THE HAPPY PRINCE CHRYSLER 4:15PM-5:52PM SUMMER 1993 PENTASTAR 3:50PM-5:58PM THE GIRL IN THE FOG KELLY 3:55PM-5:12PM OUR NEW PRESIDENT ARMOURIES 6:15PM-7:43PM SHARKWATER: EXTINCTION CHRYSLER 6:30PM-8:10PM THE WIFE PENTASTAR 6:30PM-7:58PM PECKING ORDER KELLY 8:30PM-10:50PM PAD MAN CHRYSLER 8:30PM-10:12PM BEL CANTO PENTASTAR 8:25PM-10:08PM DOGMAN KELLY 10:30PM-12:49AM UNDER THE SILVER LAKE PENTASTAR 10:25PM-12:11AM GENERATION WEALTH KELLY

88 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2 9:20AM-11:08AM ANGEL FACE CHRYSLER 9:00AM-11:11AM PROMISE AT DAWN PENTASTAR 9:45AM-11:22AM THE JUNGLE BUNCH KELLY 9:00AM-10:43AM SAY HER NAME: THE LIFE AND... ARMOURIES 11:40AM-1:33PM AT WAR CHRYSLER 11:30AM-1:25PM GIRLS OF THE SUN PENTASTAR 11:55AM-1:30PM CHRISTMAS & CO KELLY 11:45AM-1:26PM TRANSIT ARMOURIES 1:55PM-3:38PM PUZZLE CHRYSLER 2:00PM-3:30PM RAMEN SHOP PENTASTAR 1:50PM-3:24PM SPLINTERS KELLY 2:00PM-3:27PM THE FEELING OF BEING... ARMOURIES 4:00PM-5:24PM TEA WITH THE DAMES CHRYSLER 4:00PM-5:33PM GIANT LITTLE ONES PENTASTAR 4:00PM-5:23PM RAFIKI KELLY 3:55PM-5:25PM 93QUEEN ARMOURIES 5:45PM-7:30PM THE CHILDREN ACT CHRYSLER 5:55PM-7:27PM ALWAYS AT THE CARLYLE PENTASTAR 6:10PM-7:28PM TRANSFORMER KELLY 6:00PM-7:38PM THE PRICE OF EVERYTHING ARMOURIES 8:00PM-9:45PM JULIET, NAKED CHRYSLER 7:45PM-10:15PM 48HR FF PENTASTAR 8:00PM-9:44PM THE GRIZZLIES KELLY 8:10PM-9:51PM 1991 ARMOURIES 10:20PM-11:45PM THE GUILTY CHRYSLER 10:30PM-12:07AM FREE SOLO PENTASTAR 10:05PM-11:51PM SKATE KITCHEN KELLY 10:20PM-11:57PM BLOWIN’ UP ARMOURIES 12:30AM-2:09AM THE ROOM PENTASTAR

89 SATURDAY NOVEMBER 3 9:00AM-10:47AM JOURNEY’S END CHRYSLER 9:00AM-10:53AM BACK TO BURGUNDY PENTASTAR 9:00AM-10:41AM WOMAN AT WAR KELLY 9:15AM-10:44AM TIME FOR ILHAN ARMOURIES 11:15AM-1:12PM THE MIDWIFE CHRYSLER 11:10AM-1:12PM SINK OR SWIM PENTASTAR 11:10AM-12:56PM GENERATION WEALTH KELLY 11:20AM-1:04PM STRAY ARMOURIES 1:35PM-3:20PM THE CHILDREN ACT CHRYSLER 1:35PM-3:24PM THE RUSSIAN FIVE PENTASTAR 1:35PM-3:38PM BECOMING ASTRID KELLY 2:00PM-3:17PM FERRIS’ ROOM ARMOURIES 3:55PM-5:22PM ANTHROPOCENE CHRYSLER 4:10PM-5:50PM THE WIFE PENTASTAR 4:10PM-5:41PM ROOBHA KELLY 4:00PM-5:52PM CRIME + PUNISHMENT ARMOURIES 6:10PM-7:55PM JULIET, NAKED CHRYSLER 6:15PM-7:57PM BEL CANTO PENTASTAR 6:20PM-7:53PM BIG TIME KELLY 6:20PM-7:37PM FERRIS’ ROOM ARMOURIES 8:20PM-10:17PM C’EST LA VIE CHRYSLER 8:20PM-10:09PM THE RUSSIAN FIVE PENTASTAR 8:20PM-10:02PM LEVEL 16 KELLY 8:20PM-9:48PM THE DEVIL WE KNOW ARMOURIES 10:40PM-12:05AM THE GUILTY CHRYSLER 10:45PM-12:27AM BEST F(R)IENDS VOL 1 PENTASTAR 10:45PM-12:53AM THE GIRL IN THE FOG KELLY 10:40PM-12:07AM THE FEELING OF BEING... ARMOURIES 12:45AM-2:19AM BEST F(R)IENDS VOL 2 PENTASTAR

90 SUNDAY NOVEMBER 4 9:00AM-10:28AM SHARKWATER: EXTINCTION CHRYSLER 9:00AM-10:43AM TENDERNESS PENTASTAR 9:00AM-10:44AM THE GRIZZLIES KELLY 9:00AM-10:53AM THE WORKSHOP ARMOURIES 11:10AM-1:07PM C’EST LA VIE CHRYSLER 11:00AM-12:53PM MARIA BY CALLAS PENTASTAR 11:10AM-1:11PM SHOPLIFTERS KELLY 11:15AM-12:41PM UNARMED VERSES ARMOURIES 1:40PM-3:40PM FROZEN SING-ALONG CHRYSLER 1:30PM-3:00PM DO NO HARM: THE OPIOID... PENTASTAR 1:35PM-3:17PM LEVEL 16 KELLY 1:30PM-3:26PM THE CONFESSION ARMOURIES 4:10PM-5:34PM TEA WITH THE DAMES CHRYSLER 3:45PM-5:38PM BACK TO BURGUNDY PENTASTAR 4:00PM-5:41PM TWO WOMEN KELLY 4:00PM-5:28PM THE DEVIL WE KNOW ARMOURIES 6:00PM COLD WAR CHRYSLER 6:00PM-7:37PM FREE SOLO PENTASTAR 6:10PM-7:51PM WOMAN AT WAR KELLY 6:00PM-7:27PM BATHTUBS OVER BROADWAY ARMOURIES 8:15PM-10:00PM LIZZIE CHRYSLER 8:20PM-10:09PM THE RUSSIAN FIVE PENTASTAR 8:20PM-10:08PM GODARD MON AMOUR KELLY 8:20PM-10:00PM 3 FACES ARMOURIES 10:20PM-12:07AM BEAST CHRYSLER 10:45PM-12:41AM BLACK TIDE PENTASTAR 10:30PM-12:08AM WHAT KEEPS YOU ALIVE KELLY 10:20PM-12:44AM THE APPARITION ARMOURIES

91 ARGENTINA TRANSFORMER 78 THE INTOUCHABLES 56 THE LAST SUIT 58 UNARMED VERSES 80 THE JUNGLE BUNCH 57 WHAT KEEPS YOU ALIVE 81 JUST A BREATH AWAY 58 BELGIUM LE BRIO 59 BLACK TIDE 40 CHINA MARIA BY CALLAS 61 C’EST LA VIE 41 ASH IS PUREST WHITE 34 THE MIDWIFE 61 CHRISTMAS & CO 43 MY SON 62 THE CONFESSION 44 DENMARK PROMISE AT DAWN 65 GIRLS OF THE SUN 53 BECOMING ASTRID 37 RADIANCE 66 THE HAPPY PRINCE 55 BIG TIME 39 RAMEN SHOP 67 LE BRIO 59 THE GUILTY 55 SINK OR SWIM 71 THE MIDWIFE 61 UNDER THE TREE 81 SIR 72 MY SON 62 SORRY, ANGEL 73 FRANCE TRANSIT 79 BULGARIA ANGEL FACE 32 THE TROUBLE WITH YOU 78 THE WILD PEAR TREE 83 THE APPARTITION 33 TWO WOMEN 79 ASH IS PUREST WHITE 34 UNDER THE TREE 81 CANADA AT WAR 35 THE WILD PEAR TREE 83 1991 29 BACK TO BURGANDY 36 WOMAN AT WAR 84 ANTHROPOCENE... 33 BLACK TIDE 40 BABY BLUES 35 C’EST LA VIE 41 GEORGIA THE CONTROL 45 CHRISTMAS & CO 43 GIRLS OF THE SUN 53 FERRIS’S ROOM 49 CLAIRE DARLING 43 THE FIREFLIES ARE GONE 50 COLD WAR 44 GERMANY GIANT LITTLE ONES 52 THE CONFESSION 44 THE BOOK SHOP 41 THE GRIZZLIES 54 CUSTODY 46 THE GIRL IN THE FOG 53 JUST A BREATH AWAY 58 DOGMAN 47 THE HAPPY PRINCE 55 LEVEL 16 59 DUMPED 48 RAFIKI 66 LOVE, GILDA 60 FAMILY IS FAMILY 48 THE SILENT REVOLUTION 71 ROOBHA 68 THE GIRL IN THE FOG 53 TRANSIT 79 SHARKWATER... 70 GIRLS OF THE SUN 53 UNDER THE TREE 81 SPLINTERS 73 GODARD MON AMOUR 54 THE WILD PEAR TREE 83 SUMMER OF ‘84 75

92 ICELAND POLAND USA UNDER THE TREE 81 COLD WAR 44 93QUEEN 30 WOMAN AT WAR 84 UNDER THE TREE 81 ALWAYS AT THE CARLYLE 31 AMERICAN ANIMALS 31 INDIA SINGAPORE AMERICAN CHAOS 32 RAMEN SHOP 67 PAD MAN 63 ARMY OF DARKNESS 34 SIR 72 BATHTUBS OVER... 36 SOUTH AFRICA BEL CANTO 38 RAFIKI 66 IRAN BEST F(R)IENDS VOL 1 38 3 FACES 29 SPAIN BEST F(R)IENDS VOL 2 39 THE BOOK SHOP 41 BLOWIN’ UP 40 ITALY THE LAST SUIT 58 CAPERNAUM 42 DOGMAN 47 SUMMER 1993 75 CRIME + PUNISHMENT 45 THE GIRL IN THE FOG 53 THE DEVIL WE KNOW 46 THE HAPPY PRINCE 55 SWEDEN DO NO HARM... 47 TENDERNESS 76 BECOMING ASTRID 37 THE FEELING OF BEING... 49 TWO WOMEN 79 THE WIFE 82 FREE SOLO 51 THE WILD PEAR TREE 83 FROZEN SING-ALONG 51 JAPAN GENERATION WEALTH 52 SWITZERLAND AKIRA 30 JULIET, NAKED 57 GIRLS OF THE SUN 53 ASH IS PUREST WHITE 34 LIZZIE 60 FIREWORKS, SHOULD... 50 TURKEY LOVE, GILDA 60 RADIANCE 66 THE WILD PEAR TREE 83 NETIZENS 62 RAMEN SHOP 67 OUR NEW PRESIDENT 63 SHOPLIFTERS 70 UK THE PRICE OF EVERY... 64 AMERICAN ANIMALS 31 PUZZLE 65 KENYA BEAST 37 RBG 67 RAFIKI 66 THE BOOK SHOP 41 THE ROOM 68 THE CHILDREN ACT 42 THE RUSSIAN FIVE 69 COLD WAR 44 LEBANON SAY HER NAME... 69 THE HAPPY PRINCE 55 CAPERNAUM 42 SKATE KITCHEN 72 JOURNEY’S END 56 STUDIO 54 74 TEA WITH THE DAMES 76 MYANMAR TIME FOR ILHAN 77 THREE IDENTICAL... 77 GODARD MON AMOUR 54 UNDER THE SILVER LAKE 80 THE WIFE 82 WHITNEY 82 NEW ZEALAND UKRAINE THE WIFE 82 PECKING ORDER 64 WOMAN AT WAR 100 WIT 83 STRAY 74

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