Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool - 7PM
2017-10-21 19:00 - 20:45 (America/Toronto) | Annual Barrie Film Festival
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

Brigsby Bear - 7:15PM
2017-10-21 19:15 - 20:55 | Annual Barrie Film Festival
Brigsby Bear
Directed by: Dave McCarey
Cast: Mark Hamill, Claire Danes, Andy Samberg, Kyle Mooney and Greg Kinnear
USA / 2017 / Comedy/Drama / 14A Language may offend, substance abuse / 97 min.
This is not suitable for children.
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“Mooney and his pals have created a love letter to nostalgia. Don’t dismiss this unorthodox ode to cartoons of old — it’s a treasure.” – Jeanne Kaplan, Kaplan v.s. Kaplan
“Brigsby Bear crushes the big blockbusters for entertainment value and for eliciting real human emotions.” – David Kaplan, Kaplan vs. Kaplan

Superfan James is obsessed with the clever if quaintly goofy kids’ show Brigsby Bear to the point of religiosity. A bright, sensitive young adult still living at home, he has grown up with this fantasy series, and the program has grown with him as well — getting more complex over the years. But to say James’ intensely protective parents have kept their son a bit sheltered is an understatement. One dramatic night, James’ insular world is upended. Through the disorienting but sporadically hilarious transition to a new life that follows, Brigsby remains James’ security blanket and, upon learning the series has been cancelled, he adopts the old adage that the show must go on. Family members and authority figures fret over James’ fixation, but by becoming Brigsby Bear’s new creator instead of just a viewer in the dark, he finally accesses all the meaningful connections his life has lacked. By telling his story, James repairs it — producing in the process an inventively offbeat and profoundly uplifting love letter to the redemptive power of creativity.

Awards:
Won – Best Narrative, Provincetown International Film Festival, 2017
Nominated – Golden Camera, Cannes Film Festival, 2017
Nominated – Best Film, Jameson CineFest – Miskolc International Film Festival, 2017
Nominated – People’s Choice (Best Narrative),
Melbourne International Film Festival, 2017
Nominated – Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic), Sundance Film Festival, 2017
Nominated – Audience Award (Best Narrative Feature), Sydney Film Festival, 2017

Rumble - 1PM
2017-10-22 13:00 - 14:43
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
Sunday, October 22, 1:00 pm
Uptown Theatre, 55 Dunlop St. W., Barrie, screen 1
Written and Directed by: Catherine Bainbridge and Alfonso Maiorana
With: Robbie Robertson, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Steven Tyler, Martin Scorsese, Iggy Pop, Link Wray and many more.
Canada / 2017 / Documentary/Music / 14A / 103 min.

RUMBLE will tell the story of a profound, essential, and, until now, missing chapter in the history of American music: the Indigenous influence. Featuring music icons Charley Patton, Mildred Bailey, Link Wray, Jimi Hendrix, Jesse Ed Davis, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Robbie Robertson, Randy Castillo, and others, RUMBLE will show how these talented Native musicians helped shape the soundtracks of our lives.
RUMBLE is inspired by the Smithsonian Institution exhibit “Up Where We Belong: Native Musicians In Popular Culture,” created by Tim Johnson and Stevie Salas for the National Museum of the American Indian.
RUMBLE has a long list of music artists, historians, family members, and experts participating in the film, including: Buddy Guy, Steven Van Zandt, Tony Bennett, Taj Mahal, Cyril Neville, Ivan Neville, Martin Scorsese, John Trudell, David Fricke (Rolling Stone Magazine), Steven Tyler, Derek Trucks, Corey Harris, Guy Davis, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Monk Boudreaux, George Clinton, Jackson Browne, Martha Redbone, James “Hutch” Hutchinson, Joy Harjo, Iggy Pop, Wayne Kramer (MC5), Marky Ramone (The Ramones), Taylor Hawkins (Foo Fighters), Pura Fe Crescioni (Ulali), Dan Auerbach (The Black Keys), Phil Soussan (Ozzy Osbourne), Matt Sorum (Guns ‘N’ Roses), Mike Inez (Alice in Chains), Robert Trujillo (Metallica), Taboo (Black Eyed Peas), Slash (Guns ‘N’ Roses), Charlie Sexton (Bob Dylan), Rhiannon Giddens (Carolina Chocolate Drops), Pat Vegas (Redbone), Robbie Robertson, Buffy Sainte-Marie, and many others.

Awards:
WON – Audience Award: Best Documentary/Best Canadian Documentary,
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, 2017
WON – World Cinema-Documentary, Sundance Film Festival, 2017
WON – Audience Award, Biografilm Festival, 2017
WON – Best Music Documentary, Boulder International Film Festival, 2017
NOMINATED – Music Movies Competition, Cleveland International Film Festival, 2017
NOMINATED – Audience Award: Best Documentary, Sydney Film Festival, 2017

The Sense of an Ending - 1:30PM
2017-10-22 13:30 - 15:18 | Annual Barrie Film Festival
The Sense of an Ending
Directed by: Ritesh Batra
Cast: Jim Broadbent, Charlotte Rampling, Billy Howle, Emily Mortimer, Harriet Watter and Michelle Dockery
United Kingdom / 2017 / Drama/Mystery / 14A for coarse language, sexual content / 109 min.

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“This is a quiet film, but it will make a lot of noise inside your head, inside your heart.” – Stephen Romei, The Australian
“Director Ritesh Batra’s adaptation of Julian Barnes’s my-theme-is-memory novel serves as a grand showcase for star Jim Broadbent as a sour old soul who is ever so gently forced to reckon with his past.” – Matthew Lickona, San Diego Reader

Tony Webster (Jim Broadbent) leads a reclusive and quiet existence until long buried secrets from his past force him to face the flawed recollections of his younger self, the truth about his first love (Charlotte Rampling) and the devastating consequences of decisions made a lifetime ago.

WON – Directors to Watch (Ritesh Batra), Palm Springs International Film Festival, 2017

Racer and the Jailbird - 3PM
2017-10-22 15:00 - 17:10 | Annual Barrie Film Festival
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

Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool - 3:30PM
2017-10-22 15:30 - 17:15 | Annual Barrie Film Festival

Porcupine Lake - 4PM
2017-10-22 16:00 | Annual Barrie Film Festival
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.

Faces Places - 6PM
2017-10-22 18:00 - 19:29 | Annual Barrie Film Festival
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

Becoming Bond - 8PM
2017-10-22 20:00 - 21:32 | Annual Barrie Film Festival
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

Viceroy's House - 4PM
2017-11-01 16:00 - 17:46, 2017-11-02 16:00 - 17:46 | Annual Barrie Film Festival
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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 - 7PM
2017-11-01 19:00 - 20:46, 2017-11-02 19:00 - 20:46 | Annual Barrie Film Festival

Sami Blood - 4PM
2017-11-16 16:00 - 17:50 | Annual Barrie Film Festival
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 - 7PM
2017-11-16 19:00 - 20:50 | Annual Barrie Film Festival

Lost In Paris - 4PM
2017-12-06 16:00, 2017-12-07 16:00 | Annual Barrie Film Festival
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 - 7PM
2017-12-06 19:00, 2017-12-07 19:00 | Annual Barrie Film Festival

Don't Talk To Irene - 4PM
2017-12-21 16:00 | Annual Barrie Film Festival
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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 - 7PM
2017-12-21 19:00 | Annual Barrie Film Festival

Tulipani - 4PM
2018-01-03 16:00, 2018-01-04 16:00 | Annual Barrie Film Festival
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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 - 7PM
2018-01-03 19:00, 2018-01-04 19:00 | Annual Barrie Film Festival

In Search of Fellini - 4PM
2018-01-18 16:00 - 17:33 | Annual Barrie Film Festival
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 - 7PM
2018-01-18 19:00 - 20:33 | Annual Barrie Film Festival

PECKING ORDER - 4PM
2018-02-02 16:00 - 17:28 | Annual Barrie Film Festival
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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

HUMAN FLOW - 7PM
2018-02-02 19:00 - 21:20 | Annual Barrie Film Festival
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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

PAST LIFE - 1PM
2018-02-03 13:00 - 14:49 | Annual Barrie Film Festival
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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
