Barrie Film Festival

KEDI - 1PM
2018-02-04 13:00 - 14:20 (America/Toronto) | Annual Barrie Film Festival
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Sunday, February 4, 1:00 pm
Directed by: Ceyda Torun
Documentary, G, 80 min. Language: Turkish with English subtitles (Turkey/USA)

“A cat’s-eye view of the world that showcases both the warm-hearted people of this ancient Turkish city and the seamless integration of its felines into everyday life.” – Kathryn Laskaris, Toronto Star

“Gives us a synoptic vision of Istanbul as filtered through one of that ancient city’s most unique traits, the enormous population of quasi-domestic cats roaming its streets.” – Tim Brayton, Alternate Ending

Hundreds of thousands of cats roam the metropolis of Istanbul freely. For thousands of years they’ve wandered in and out of people’s lives, becoming an essential part of the communities that make the city so rich. Claiming no owners, these animals live between two worlds – neither wild nor tame – and they bring joy and purpose to those people they choose to adopt. In Istanbul, cats are the mirrors to the people, allowing them to reflect on their lives in ways nothing else could.

Awards:
Won, Best First Documentary, Critics Choice Documentary Awards, 2017
Won, Most Compelling Living Subject, Critics Choice, Documentary Awards, 2017
Nominated, Allan King Documentary Award, Toronto Film Critics Association Awards, 2017
Nominated, CFCA Award for Best Documentary, Chicago Film Critics Association Awards, 2017
Won, Best Family Film, Sidewalk Film Festival, 2016

TAKE EVERY WAVE - 7:30PM
2018-02-03 19:30 - 21:28
TAKE EVERY WAVE:
THE LIFE OF LAIRD HAMILTON – Buy Tickets Now!

Saturday, February 3, 7:30 pm
Directed by: Rory Kennedy
Documentary/Sport, PG language may offend, not recommended for young children, 118 min. (USA)

“This is Kennedy’s profile in courage, a film about the connection between the great man and the “incorrigible egomaniac.” For all the awesome surfing footage, Take Every Wave is a serious film about the death-or-glory attitude of an extreme athlete.” – Liam Lacey, Original Cin

“The line between dedication and addiction is a thin one, and … that line is even thinner for the surfer who’s the subject of this involving documentary.” – Mark Dujik, Mark Reviews Movies

This exciting film tracks the remarkable life and legendary career of big-wave surfer Laird Hamilton. Much admired by the public (though often disdained or ignored by the surf industry itself), Hamilton is a unique sports icon. He’s an athlete who has refused to compete professionally, yet has dominated big-wave surfing as no other figure has ever done. Transcending the surf genre, this in-depth portrait of a hard-charging athlete explores the fear, courage and ambition that push a man to greatness as well as the cost that comes with it. Threaded throughout is a revealing, deeply personal interview with Hamilton himself, as well conversations with the family members, friends, collaborators and detractors who know him best.

Awards:
Won, Most Compelling Living Subject, Critics Choice Documentary Awards, 2017 Nominated, Best Sports Documentary, Critics Choice Documentary Awards, 2017

BOMBSHELL: THE HEDY LAMARR STORY - 5:15M
2018-02-03 17:15 - 18:45
BOMBSHELL: THE HEDY LAMARR STORY – Buy Tickets Now!

Saturday, February 3, 5:15 pm
Written and Directed by: Alexandra Dean
Documentary/Biography, PG for mature content and nudity in a non-sexual context, 90 min. (USA)

“What makes “Bombshell” intriguing is not just Lamarr’s gift for invention, it’s also what a fiery individualist she was, someone who had no regrets about her eventful life (“You learn from everything”), not even its racy, tabloid elements.” – Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

“Recognition (and compensation) proved elusive in Lamarr’s lifetime, but in this marvelous documentary, a brilliant woman – “I’m a very simple, complicated person” – finally gets her due.” – Chuck Wilson, Village Voice

Hollywood star Hedy Lamarr was known as the world’s most beautiful woman – Snow White and Cat Woman were both based on her iconic look. However, her arresting beauty and glamorous life stood in the way of her being given the credit she deserved as an ingenious inventor, whose pioneering work helped revolutionize modern communication.
Weaving interviews and clips with never-before-heard audio tapes of Hedy speaking about her incredible life combined with intimate reflections from her children, closest friends, family and admirers, Bombshell (executive produced by Susan Sarandon, Michael Kantor, Regina Scully) finally gives Hedy Lamarr the chance to tell her own story.

Awards:
Won, Audience Award, Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival, 2017
Won, Excellence in Filmmaking Award, Nantucket Film Festival, 2017
Won, Audience Award, San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, 2017
Won, Audience Award/Best Film, Scottsdale International Film Festival, 2017
Nominated, Audience Favourite, Aspen Filmfest, 2017
Nominated, Best Documentary, Dallas Video Festival, 2017
Nominated, Best Documentary, Jerusalem Film Festival, 2017
Won, Audience Award-Feature, Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival, 2017

BRIMSTONE & GLORY - 3:30PM
2018-02-03 15:30 - 16:37
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Saturday, February 3, 3:30 pm
Directed by: Viktor Jakovleski
Documentary, PG, 67 min.
Language: Spanish with English subtitles (Mexico/USA)

“Brimstone & Glory is community as catharsis, and you can’t stop staring in stupefied astonishment.” – Tim Grierson, Paste Magazine

“A movie that repays being seen on a big reflective screen, one on which the image is projected rather than one from which the image emanates.” – Glenn Kenny, RogerEbert.com

The National Pyrotechnic Festival in Tultepec, Mexico is a site of festivity unlike any other in the world. In celebration of San Juan de Dios (the patron saint of firework makers), conflagrant revelry engulfs the town for ten days. More than three quarters of Tultepec’s residents work in pyrotechnics, and the festival anchors a way of life built around the generations-old, homegrown business of making fireworks by hand. For the town’s citizens, this extraordinary event is explosive celebration and unrestrained delight… combined with genuine peril.

Awards:
Won, Special Mention, Sheffield International Documentary Festival, 2017
Won, Best Documentary Feature, San Francisco International Film Festival, 2017
Won, Special Citation, San Francisco Film Critics Circle, 2017
Won, Best Director/Best Picture, Austin Fantastic Fest, 2017

PAST LIFE - 1PM
2018-02-03 13:00 - 14:49
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Saturday, February 3, 1:00 pm
Written and Directed by: Avi Nesher
Drama, 14A for nudity and disturbing content, 109 min., Language: English and German, Polish, Hebrew with English subtitles (Israel/Poland)

“A striking and thought-provoking picture.” – Glenn Kenny, RogerEbert.com

“While so many films have examined the war and the Holocaust that took such an egregious toll on the Jewish community, Past Life looks at it from a novel perspective, examining the possible “crimes” committed by a survivor.” – Bruce Demara, Toronto Star

Based on actual events and set in the late 1970s, Past Life centers on the daughters of Holocaust survivors: combative liberal journalist Nana and her younger sister Sephi, a soprano and aspiring composer. After a performance in West Berlin, Sephi is accosted by an elderly Polish woman who angrily accuses her father of murder. Traumatized by the startling encounter, the sisters launch an investigation, attempting to discover what really happened to their father in Poland during the war. As guilty secrets and troubling revelations are dredged up, the story boldly charts dangerous emotional territory as Nana and Sephi unravel the shocking truth about their father’s murky wartime experiences.

Awards:
Nominated, Best Actress / Supporting Actress / Art Direction / Costume Design / Music, Israeli Film Academy, 2017

HUMAN FLOW - 7PM
2018-02-02 19:00 - 21:20
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Friday, February 2, 7:00 pm
Directed by: Ai Weiwei
Documentary, PG for mature themes including a disturbing image, 140 min. Language: English (Germany)

“The imagery encourages viewers to adopt a global perspective in considering the subject matter.” – Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader

“Ai Weiwei has made something beautiful: Human Flow is neither indulgent nor pedantic, but clear-eyed in its view of the enormity of the crisis too vast for most of us to comprehend.” – Murray White, Toronto Star

Over 65 million people around the world have been forced from their homes to escape famine, climate change and war in the greatest human displacement since World War II. Human Flow, an epic film journey led by the internationally renowned artist Ai Weiwei, gives a powerful visual expression to this massive human migration. The documentary elucidates both the staggering scale of the refugee crisis and its profoundly personal human impact. Captured over the course of an eventful year in 23 countries, the film follows a chain of urgent human stories that stretches across the globe.

Awards:
Won, Courage, Bambi Awards, 2017
Won, 4 Awards, Venice Film Festival, 2017
Nominated, Best Documentary, Detroit Film Critic Society, 2017

PECKING ORDER - 4PM
2018-02-02 16:00 - 17:28
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Friday, February 2, 4:00 pm
Sunday, February 4, 7:30 pm
Written and Directed by: Slavko Martinov
Documentary, PG, 88 min. (New Zealand)

“An absolutely hilarious and very pointed exploration of politics and culture on the smallest possible scale. And a lot of good-lookin’ chickens.” – Mary Ann Johanson, Flick Filosopher

“This is quirkily compulsive viewing.” – David Aldridge, Radio Times

“As feathers are ruffled by ego and envy, the film doubles as a surprisingly affecting fable of fun turning fowl.” – Simon Kinnear, Total Film

“A documentary about New Zealand’s leading chicken breeders may not immediately seize the imagination, but, like Best in Show, the mockumentary it often resembles, Slavko Martinov’s film is often hilarious.” – Ed Potton, Times (UK)

This feel good feather-ruffling flockumentary takes you into the distinctly Kiwi world of competitive poultry pageantry, inhabited by a group of understated, witty and likable chicken lovers hell-bent on victory at the New Zealand National Poultry Show.
This heart-warming film about the circle of life, power struggles and the need for progress, follows members of the Christchurch Poultry, Pigeon and Bantam Club struggling to peak at nationals while decades of club infighting threaten to tear their 148-year-old club apart. Who will ‘Rule the Roost’?

Awards:
Nominated, Best Documentary, Adelaide Film Festival, 2017
Nominated, Best Documentary, Edinburgh International Film Festival, 2017
Nominated, Best Foreign Documentary Trailer, Golden Trailer Awards, 2017
Nominated, People’s Choice Award – Best Documentary, Melbourne International Film Festival, 2017

In Search of Fellini - 7PM
2018-01-18 19:00 - 20:33
In Search of Fellini

Screening: Thursday, January 18, 2018 – 4pm, 7pm
Uptown Theatre, 55 Dunlop St. W., Barrie
Directed by: Taron Lexton
Cast: Ksenia Solo, Maria Bello and Mary Lynn Rajskub
Drama/Adventure, 14A for sexuality/nudity and language, 93 minutes (USA/Italy)

“Cinephiles should appreciate this nostalgic coming-of-age drama that finds its own modest niche while capturing the spirit of the legendary Italian filmmaker.” – Todd Jorgenson, Cinemalogue.com

Lucy (Ksenia Solo) has never kissed a boy, never had a job, and never really had friends. Her best friend is her mother Claire (Maria Bello), who has shielded her from all the bad in the world, including Claire’s own terminal illness. Claire’s sister, Kerri (Mary Lynn Rajskub), urges Claire to break her silence and tell Lucy the truth before it’s too late. Lucy leaps into adulthood and onto her Vespa to Cleveland for an ill-fated job interview. There, she stumbles into a bizarre and wonderful festival of the films of Federico Fellini, the great Italian director, where she sees his Oscar-winning La Strada – a movie that doesn’t have the happy ending she’s used to. In a burst of courage, she leaves her small-town home and sets off on a journey across Italy to find the filmmaker and unlock his mysterious enigma and her own.

Awards:
Won, Best Feature (USA), Best Director (Taron Lexton) and Best Actress (Ksenia Solo), Ferrara Film Festival, 2017

Film tickets: $10 for Adults, $8 for Seniors/Students

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In Search of Fellini - 4PM
2018-01-18 16:00 - 17:33

Tulipani - 7PM
2018-01-04 19:00, 2018-01-03 19:00
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Tulipani: Love, Honour and a Bicycle
(Tulipani: Liefde, Eer en een Fiets)

Screening:
Wednesday, January 3 – 4pm, 7pm
Thursday, January 4 – 4pm, 7pm
Location: Uptown Theatre, 55 Dunlop St. W., Barrie

Directed by: Mike van Diem
Principle Cast: Ksenia Solo, Giancarlo Giannini, Gijs Naber, Lidia Vitale and Donatella Finocchiaro
Comedy/Drama, 14A, 90 minutes, Language: English/Dutch/Italian with English subtitles (Netherlands)

TULIPANI tells the story of a romantic Dutch farmer named Gauke (Gijs Naber) who after losing his farm during the floods of 1953 is determined to never ever have wet socks again. He cycles to the sizzling hot south of Italy to start a new life and ends up at the outskirts of a small village in Puglia. Due to his fairylike and miraculous tulip trade, his passionate love-life and his turbulent scuffles with the dubious local business practices, he becomes a living legend – to then suddenly disappear. Thirty years later, an Italian police inspector (Giancarlo Giannini) attempts to unravel the story, but struggles to distinguish fact from fiction. With the help of the young Canadian Anna (Ksenia Solo) he discovers what truly happened.

Award:
Won, Best International Film/Festival Prize, Terra di Siena Film Festival, 2017

Tulipani - 4PM
2018-01-04 16:00, 2018-01-03 16:00

Don't Talk To Irene - 7PM
2017-12-21 19:00
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Don’t Talk To Irene

Screening: Thursday, December 21, 2017 – 4pm, 7pm
Uptown Theatre, 55 Dunlop St. W., Barrie
Written and Directed by: Pat Mills
Cast: Michelle McLeod, Geena Davis, Bruce Gray, Anastasia Phillips, Scott Thompson, Deborah Grover
Comedy, 14A – coarse language, some sexual content, bullying, 90 minutes (Canada)

“There’s a warm-hearted tale here suffused with wit and a positive and life-affirming message about having the confidence to achieve your goals in the face of adversity.” – Bruce Demara, Toronto Star
“From first tentative rehearsals to road trip, you can see where the “let’s put on a show” gumption is going. But the newly empowered teenage choreographer and her ragtag troupe ride their own giddy momentum.” – Sheri Linden, Hollywood Reporter

When Irene gets suspended, she must endure two weeks of community service at a retirement home. Following her passion for cheerleading, she secretly signs up the senior residents to audition for a dance-themed reality show to prove that you don’t need to be physically “perfect” to be perfectly awesome.

Awards:
Won, Audience Award, Austin Film Festival, 2017
Won, Jury Award, Austin Film Festival, 2017

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Don't Talk To Irene - 4PM
2017-12-21 16:00

Lost In Paris - 7PM
2017-12-07 19:00, 2017-12-06 19:00
Lost In Paris (Paris pieds nus)

Screening:
December 6, 2017 – 4pm, 7pm
December 7, 2017 – 4pm, 7pm
Location: Uptown Theatre, 55 Dunlop St. W., Barrie

Written and Directed by: Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon
Principle Cast: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Emmanuelle Riva, Pierre Richard and Frédéric Meert
Comedy/slapstick, PG – language may offend, not recommended for young children, 83 minutes, Language: English/French with English subtitles (France/Belgium)

“LOST IN PARIS does for slapstick what LA LA LAND does for musicals… Resurrecting the spirit of classic slapstick… mining territory ranging from Charlie Chaplin to Jacques Tati”
– Indiewire
“Always inventive… defiantly marching to a different drummer than anyone else at the moment…”
– The Hollywood Reporter
“A comedy of the absurd that’s always entertaining”
– Wall Street Journal

Filmed in Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon’s signature whimsical style, LOST IN PARIS stars the filmmakers as a small-town Canadian librarian and a strangely seductive, oddly egotistical vagabond. When Fiona’s (Gordon) orderly life is disrupted by a letter of distress from her 88-year-old Aunt Martha (delightfully portrayed by Academy Award®-nominee Emmanuelle Riva) who is living in Paris, Fiona hops on the first plane she can and arrives only to discover that Martha has disappeared. In an avalanche of spectacular disasters, she encounters Dom (Abel), the affable, but annoying tramp who just won’t leave her alone. Replete with the amazing antics and intricately choreographed slapstick that has come to define their work, this film is a wondrously fun and hectic tale of peculiar people finding love while lost in the City of Lights.

Awards:
Won, Rare Pearl Award, Denver International Film Festival, 2016
Won, Audience Award, Mill Valley Film Festival, 2016
Won, Audience Award Honorary mention, Philadelphia Film Festival, 2016

Lost In Paris - 4PM
2017-12-07 16:00, 2017-12-06 16:00

Sami Blood - 7PM
2017-11-16 19:00 - 20:50
Sami Blood

Screening: Thursday, November 16, 2017 – 4pm, 7pm
Uptown Theatre, 55 Dunlop St. W., Barrie
Written and Directed by: Amanda Kernell
Cast: Lene Cecilia Sparrok, Mia Erika Sparrok, Maj Doris Rimpi, Julius Flesichandrl
Drama, 14A, 110 minutes, Language: South Sàmi and Swedish with English subtitles
(Sweden/Denmark/Norway)

“Sami Blood” is a beautiful, haunting film, anchored by a startlingly accomplished lead performance. It has the feeling of a distant memory – one that is neither entirely pleasant nor painful, but persistent.” – Michael O’Sullivan, Washington Post

“Composed and compelling in its many forms: as a snapshot of Scandi cultural conflict; [and] as a character study of a girl finding her way in an unkind world.” – Sarah Ward, ArtsHub

A 14-year-old girl (Lene Cecilia Sparrok) belonging to the Sami people, a Scandinavian ethnic minority, is subjected to racism and eugenic scrutiny in the 1930s when she is removed from her family and sent to a state-run school that aims to reeducate her into Swedish culture. She must soon choose between new academic opportunities or staying true to her cultural identity, all while weathering the storms of adolescence.

Awards:
Won, Best Nordic Film, Best Cinematography, Göteborg Film Festival, 2017
Nominated, Best Feature Film, Hamburg Film Festival, 2016
Won, Audience Award, Kosmorama, Trondheim Internasjonale Filmfestival, 2017
Won, Youth Jury Award, Luxembourg City Film Festival, 2017
Won, Audience Award/Foreign Feature, Newport Beach Film Festival, 2017
Won, Best Director, Riviera International Film Festival, 2017
Won, Best Actress (Lene Cecilia Sparrok )/Best Feature Film, Seattle International, 2017

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Film tickets: $10 for Adults, $8 for Seniors/Students
Advance tickets are available one week before screening online and at the Uptown Theatre box office (in the evenings an hour before their first screening). HST is included in the ticket price.

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Sami Blood - 4PM
2017-11-16 16:00 - 17:50

Viceroy's House - 7PM
2017-11-02 19:00 - 20:46, 2017-11-01 19:00 - 20:46
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Viceroy’s House

Screening:
November 1, 2017 – 4pm, 7pm
November 2, 2017 – 4pm, 7pm
Location: Uptown Theatre, 55 Dunlop St. W., Barrie

Directed by: Gurinder Chadha
Principle Cast: Gillian Anderson, Hugh Bonneville, Manish Dayal and Huma Qureshi, Michael Gambon, Simon Callow, Lily Travers
Historical Drama, 14A – violence and some disturbing content, 106 min. (UK/India/Sweden)

“There’s something pleasantly old-fashioned about “Viceroy’s House.” It feels like a Merchant Ivory period piece posing cultural questions within a safely cushioned environment. There are no guessing games, but also very little subtext.”
– Katie Walsh, Tribune News Service

“Personally poignant, Gurinder Chadha reveals a cultural legacy that still reverberates today.” – Susan Granger, SSG Syndicate

New nations are rarely born in peace… India, 1947: Lord Mountbatten (Hugh Bonneville) is dispatched, along with his wife Edwina (Gillian Anderson), to New Delhi to oversee the country’s transition from British rule to independence. Taking his place in the resplendent mansion known as the Viceroy’s House, Mountbatten arrives hopeful for a peaceful transference of power. But ending centuries of colonial rule in a country divided by deep religious and cultural differences proves no easy undertaking, setting off a seismic struggle that threatens to tear India apart. With sumptuous period detail, director Gurinder Chadha brings to life a pivotal historical moment that re-shaped the world.

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Viceroy's House - 4PM
2017-11-02 16:00 - 17:46, 2017-11-01 16:00 - 17:46

Becoming Bond - 8PM
2017-10-22 20:00 - 21:32
Becoming Bond [Festival Closer]

Directed by: Josh Greenbaum
Cast: George Lazenby, James Walsh, Jason Maybaum, Josh Lawson and Nathan Lovejoy
USA / Documentary/Comedy / 2017 / 14A for mature thematics and sexual content, 92 min.

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“Becoming Bond is a delightful dip into someone’s own version of their past. It might be light on tuxedo talk, but the biggest takeaway is how much more there is learn.” – Steven Greene, indieWire
“Much of the film is hilarious and Lazenby is a remarkable storyteller.” – Dave Schilling, Birth .Movies.Death

A unique documentary/narrative hybrid chronicling the stranger-than-fiction true story of George Lazenby, a poor Australian car mechanic who, through an unbelievable set of circumstances, landed the role of James Bond in “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” (1969), despite having never acted a day in his life. Then after being offered the next six Bond films and a $1 million signing bonus, he turned it all down…

Nominated – Best Documentary, Hot Docs Canadian International
Documentary Festival, 2017
Won – Visions Audience Award, SXSW Film Festival, 2017
Nominated – SXSW Adam Yauch Hornblower Award, SXSW Film Festival, 2017

Faces Places - 6PM
2017-10-22 18:00 - 19:29
Faces Places (Visages Villages)
Directors: JR and Agnés Varda and Laurent Levesque
France / 2017/ Documentary / PG for brief nude images, thematic elements / French with English subtitles / 89 min.

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“Exquisite” – THE NEW YORK TIMES
“Sheer perfection. French New Wave veteran Agnes Varda and the young photographer JR leap fearlessly into the art of making art in the year’s best and most beguiling doc.” – Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE
“Magnificently Moving, Funny and Altogether Wonderful” – INDIEWIRE

89-year old Agnes Varda, one of the leading figures of the French New Wave, and acclaimed 33 year-old French photographer and muralist JR teamed up to co-direct this enchanting documentary/road movie. Kindred spirits, Varda and JR share a lifelong passion for images and how they are created, displayed and shared. Together they travel around the villages of France in JR’s photo truck meeting locals, learning their stories and producing epic-size portraits of them. The photos are prominently displayed on houses, barns, storefronts and trains revealing the humanity in their subjects, and themselves. Faces Places documents these heart-warming encounters as well as the unlikely, tender friendship they formed along the way.

WON – People’s Choice (Documentary), Toronto International Film Festival, 2017
WON – Golden Eye Prize, Cannes Film Festival, 2017
NOMINATED – Grierson Award, Best Documentary, London Film Festival, 2017
NOMINATED – People’s Choice (Documentary), Melbourne International Film Festival, 2017
NOMINATED – Best Documentary, Adelaide Film Festival, 2017

Porcupine Lake - 4PM
2017-10-22 16:00
Porcupine Lake – Added screening
Sunday, October 22, 4:00 pm
Uptown Theatre, 55 Dunlop St. W., Barrie, screen 1
Filmed in Port Severn, Barrie, Parry Sound, Ontario!
Written and Directed by: Ingrid Veninger
Cast: Charlotte Salisbury, Delphine Roussel, Lucinda Armstrong Hall, Christopher Bolton and Maxime Robin
Canada / 2017 / Drama / PG / 85 min.

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“Influenced by John Cassavetes and Mike Leigh, Canadian filmmaker Ingrid Veninger is developing an approach to her humanist form of dramatic cinema that is clearly all hers.” – Greg Klymkiw, Canadian Film Corner

Somewhere between Toronto and Parry Sound, between childhood and adolescence, 13-year-old Bea (Charlotte Salisbury) is on the edge of growing-up, and isn’t sure she likes what she sees, especially with her parents inching ever closer towards a divorce. This summer starts out feeling lonely, same as it ever was, until she meets the outspoken and boisterous Kate (Lucinda Armstrong Hall). Though Bea and Kate are seemingly opposites, they somehow fit together. Under Kate’s influence (and sometimes in spite of her), Bea starts to find her courage. But being brave has a price, especially when it means making a difficult choice between “never squealing” and speaking out. In the end, Bea stops being afraid, and in the process realizes that adults are sometimes just like kids, that best friends can be much more than friends and that, ultimately, love makes you stronger.

Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool - 3:30PM
2017-10-22 15:30 - 17:15
Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool
Directed by: Paul McGuigan
Cast: Annette Bening, Jamie Bell, Stephen Graham, Julie Walters and Vanessa Redgrave
United Kingdom / 2017 / Drama/Biography/Romance / Not rated / 105 minutes

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“First rate performances from the two leads, and a fine supporting cast, confirms this as an awards season contender.” Wendy Ide, SCREEN INTERNATIONAL
“It’s a beguiling story and Bell and Bening are tremendous as the star-crossed lovers.” – Peter Bradshaw, GUARDIAN

Based on Peter Turner’s memoir, the film follows the playful but passionate relationship between Turner (Jamie Bell) and the eccentric Academy Award®-winning actress Gloria Grahame (Annette Bening) in 1978 Liverpool.
What starts as a virant affair between a legendary femme fatale and her young lover quickly grows into a deeper relationship, with Turner being the person Gloria turns to for comfort. Their passion and lust for life is tested to the limits by events beyond their control.

CANADIAN PREMIERE – Toronto International Film Festival, 2017

Racer and the Jailbird - 3PM
2017-10-22 15:00 - 17:10
Racer and the Jailbird (Le Fidéle)
Co-written and Directed by: Michaël R. Roskam
Cast: Matthias Schoenaerts, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Stefaan Degand and Sam Louwyck
France/Belgium/Netherlands / 2017 / Crime/Thriller / French with English subtitles / Rated 18A / 130 min.

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Gigi Vanoirbeek (Matthias Schoenaerts) belongs to a notorious Brussels gang responsible for a string of expertly executed, high-net-worth robberies. Under the cover of his luxury automobile import-export business he meets Bibi Delhany (Adèle Exarchopoulos), a gorgeous and glamorous race-car driver with roots more respectable than his own. Despite their wildly different backgrounds, this unlikely pair falls for each other, fast and hard. Gigi manages to shield Bibi from his illicit activities and begins to wonder what another life might look like. But already deep into the planning of his next heist with his all-too-eager associates, and with law enforcement hot on their heels, will it be too late?
The Racer and the Jailbird has screened out of competition at the 74th Venice International Film Festival and is selected as the Belgian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards®.
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE – Toronto International Film Festival, 2017
