July / August 2019 new world documentaries NÎPAWISTAMÂSOWIN: WE WILL STAND UP Restoration Tuesdays HARD TICKET TO HAWAII special Events 5TH INDIA FILM FESTIVAL OF ALBERTA www.winnipegcinematheque.com July 2019 TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY 2 3 4 5 6 7 Cream of the Crap: nîpawistamâsowin: nîpawistamâsowin: nîpawistamâsowin: India Film Fest: nîpawistamâsowin: Hard Ticket to Hawaii / 7 pm We Will Stand Up / 7 pm We Will Stand Up / 7 pm We Will Stand Up / 7 pm And the Oscar Goes To… / 11 am We Will Stand Up / 3 pm & 7 pm Sir / 9 pm Sir / 9 pm Sir / 9 pm Pather Panchali / 3 pm Sir / 5 pm Reva / 5:30 pm 3 Seconds Divorce / 9 pm 9 10 11 12 13 14 Restoration Tuesdays: Sir / 7 pm Official Venue for the Winnipeg Fringe Festival Hard Ticket to Hawaii / nîpawistamâsowin: (July 11 – 29) 7 pm & 9 pm We Will Stand Up / 9 pm 16 17 18 19 20 21 Official Venue for the Winnipeg Fringe Festival (July 11 – 29) 23 24 25 26 27 28 Official Venue for the Winnipeg Fringe Festival (July 11 – 29) 30 31 Restoration Tuesdays: McDonald at the Movies: Hard Ticket to Hawaii / A Night with The Kids in 7 pm & 9 pm the Hall / 7 pm & 9 pm August 2019 TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY 1 2 3 4 Diane / 7 pm Diane / 7 pm Diane / 3 pm & 7:30 pm Diane / 3 pm & 7:30 pm Her Smell / 9 pm Her Smell / 9 pm Her Smell / 5 pm & 9:30 pm Her Smell / 5 pm 6 7 8 9 10 11 Restoration Tuesdays: McDonald at the Movies: Diane / 7 pm The Public / 7 pm The Public / 2 pm & 9 pm The Public / 2:30 pm Between the Lines / 7 pm Gregory’s Girl / 7 pm Her Smell / 9 pm The Raft / 9:15 pm The Raft / 7 pm Diane / 5 pm Her Smell / 9 pm The Raft / 7 pm 13 14 15 16 17 18 Restoration Tuesdays: Be Natural: The Untold Story There are No Fakes / 7 pm There are No Fakes / 7 pm There are No Fakes / Be Natural: The Untold Story The Fate of Lee Khan / 7 pm of Alice Guy-Blaché / 7 pm Be Natural: The Untold Story Be Natural: The Untold Story 2:30 pm & 7 pm of Alice Guy-Blaché / 3 pm Between the Lines / 9 pm The Raft / 9 pm of Alice Guy-Blaché / 9:15 pm of Alice Guy-Blaché / 9:15 pm Be Natural: The Untold The Visionary Cinema Story of Alice Guy-Blaché / of Alice Guy-Blaché / 5 pm 5 pm & 9:15 pm There are No Fakes / 7 pm 20 21 22 23 24 25 Restoration Tuesdays: Shella Record — Afro Prairie Film Festival: Meeting Gorbachev / 7 pm Shella Record — Meeting Gorbachev / 3 pm & 5 pm Between the Lines / 7 pm A Reggae Mystery / 7 pm Hyenas / 7 pm Shella Record — A Reggae Mystery / 3 pm & 9 pm Shella Record — The Fate of Lee Khan / 9 pm Be Natural: The Untold Story Shella Record — A Reggae Mystery / 9 pm Meeting Gorbachev / 5 pm & 7 pm A Reggae Mystery / 7 pm of Alice Guy-Blaché / 9 pm A Reggae Mystery / 9:30 pm BLACK LODGE: Cream of the Crap / 7 pm 27 28 29 30 31 Restoration Tuesdays: Meeting Gorbachev / 7 pm Gordon Lightfoot: If You Gordon Lightfoot: If You Gordon Lightfoot: If You The Fate of Lee Khan / 7 pm Shella Record — Could Read My Mind / 7 pm Could Read My Mind / 7 pm Could Read My Mind / 3 pm & 7 pm Between the Lines / 9 pm A Reggae Mystery / 9 pm Meeting Gorbachev / 9 pm Meeting Gorbachev / 9 pm Meeting Gorbachev / 5 pm Shella Record — A Reggae Mystery / 9 pm New World Documentaries nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up The Raft Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché Directed by Tasha Hubbard Directed by Marcus Lindeen Directed by Pamela Green 2019, Canada, 98 min 2018, USA, 97 min 2018, USA, 103 min Wednesday – Friday, July 3 - 5 / 7 pm Friday, August 9 / 9:15 pm Wednesday, August 14 / 7 pm Sunday, July 7 / 3 pm & 7 pm Saturday & Sunday, August 10 & 11/ 7 pm Thursday & Friday, August 15 & 16 / 9:15 pm Wednesday, July 10 / 9 pm Wednesday, August 14 / 9 pm Saturday, August 17 / 5 pm & 9:15 pm Sunday, August 18 / 3 pm July 7, 7 pm screening introduced by Producer Jon Montes. “An extraordinary demonstration of the human spirit-including Wednesday, August 21 / 9 pm sex, furious arguments and deep friendship.” “This powerful film provides an intimate look at Colten Boushie — Nico Hines, The Daily Beast How could Alice Guy-Blaché, a contemporary of Edison, the and his family’s fight for justice.”— Radheyan Simonpillai, NOW Lumières, and Méliès, who wrote, directed or produced a In the summer of 1973, a young international crew of six women *Best Canadian Feature — Hot Docs Canadian thousand films and had a career longer than any of them, reach and five men embarked together on a most unusual sea International Documentary Festival (2019) the heights of fame in France and financial success and then be voyage—a trip across the Atlantic from Spain to Mexico on a forgotten? Narrated by Jodie Foster, this is the story of the first * Colin Low Award for Canadian Documentary — free-floating raft christened the Acali. The project was initiated female filmmaker who was shut out from the very industry she DOXA Documentary Film Festival (2019) by Mexican anthropologist Santiago Genovés, who proposed helped create. Alice Guy-Blaché was a prolific filmmaker working to use the group as guinea pigs in his investigation of the On August 9, 2016, a young Cree man named Colten Boushie in nearly every genre who tackled groundbreaking subject matter origins of violent conflict and dynamics of sexual attraction. died from a gunshot to the back of his head after entering such as child abuse and female empowerment. She also etched a Contentious from the get-go and mislabelled by the media as farmer Gerald Stanley’s rural property with his friends. The place in history by making the earliest known surviving narrative ‘The Sex Raft’, the Acali mission stayed afloat for 101 days—and jury’s subsequent acquittal of Stanley captured international film with an all-black cast. Interviewing everyone from Agnes now, more than forty years later, the surviving crew members attention, raising questions about racism embedded within Varda to Walter Murch, Green has dedicated more than eight reunite to reenact and recollect their experience. What results Canada’s legal system and propelling Colten’s family onto the years of research in order to discover the real story of Guy-Blaché is a document of the thin line between science and cultism in national and international stages in their pursuit of justice. (1873–1968) — not only highlighting her pioneering contributions the early ‘70s, a touching story of female camaraderie and, in Sensitively directed by Tasha Hubbard, this film weaves to the birth of cinema but also her acclaim as a creative force and the character of Genovés, an unforgettable portrait of oblivious, a profound narrative encompassing the filmmaker’s own entrepreneur in the earliest years of movie-making. adoption, the stark history of colonialism on the Prairies, and a toxic masculinity. vision of a future where Indigenous children can live safely on Plays with: Camera Test / Directed by Joyce Wong, 2019, their homelands. Canada, 5 min / What gets lost when female voices are stymied during the creative process? Pairing intimate interviews with absurdist re- enactments, Joyce Wong crafts a tartly subversive look at patriarchy and racism in the film industry. There Are No Fakes Meeting Gorbachev Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind Directed by Jamie Kastner Directed by Werner Herzog & André Singer Directed by Joan Tosoni & Martha Kehoe 2019, Canada, 114 min 2018, UK/US/Germany, 90 min 2019, Canada, 91 min Russian, German, and English with subtitles Thursday & Friday, August 15 & 16 / 7 pm Thursday & Friday, August 29 & 30 / 7 pm Saturday, August 17 / 2:30 pm & 7 pm Friday, August 23 / 7 pm Saturday, August 31 / 3 pm & 7 pm Sunday, August 18 / 7 pm Saturday, August 24 / 5 pm & 7 pm From the song he refuses to perform to his admiration for Sunday, August 25 / 3 pm & 5 pm “ A mesmerizing art-world exposé. There Are No Fakes can be seen Drake, a songwriting legend reflects on his lyrics and longevity Wednesday, August 28 / 7 pm as a nuts-and-bolts investigation of what one gallery owner with candour and humour. Personal archive materials and Thursday & Friday, August 29 & 30 / 9 pm calls “a massive art scam,” but there’s something else boiling studio sessions paint an intimate picture of an artist in his Saturday, August 31 / 5 pm underneath—an understanding of, and revulsion at, the way element, candidly revisiting his idealistic years in Yorkville’s Canada’s white power structure consumes and perverts the The USSR’s last leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, steps back into the limelight coffeehouses, up through stadium tours and the hedonistic work of Indigenous artists, even after they’re gone.” in this riveting documentary focused on a life that changed history. ‘70s. Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Barbra Streisand are only a — Norm Wilner, Now Weekly Now 87 and in precarious health, Gorbachev nevertheless possesses handful of the stars whose recordings of “Early Morning Rain” a mind as sharp as ever as he parries Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man, and other hits helped Lightfoot’s artistry leap across borders, Born in 1931, Norval Morrisseau was the first Indigenous Canadian Cave of Forgotten Dreams) in a series of interviews.