In Fabric - 7:30pm
2019-10-20 19:30 - 21:28 (America/Toronto) | Annual Barrie Film Festival
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In Fabric
Written and Directed by: Peter Strickland
Cast: Hayley Squires, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Leo Bill, Julian Barratt, Steve Oram and Gwendoline Christie
Comedy/Horror | 18A for strong sexual content including a scene of aberrant behaviour, and some bloody images | 118 min. | English/French with English subtitles | United Kingdom
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SCREENING:
Sunday, October 20 – 7:30 pm
Saturday, October 26 – 7:00 pm

“Deliciously retro, nastily funny, but siding with those wrung out by the cycle of labor and consumption, In Fabric deserves a spot next to Sorry to Bother You in the hall of great anti-capitalist comedies.”– Joule Zelman, THE STRANGER (Seattle, WA)
“Glamorously surreal, darkly funny, and avidly maniacal, this effort is uplifted by a turbulent and surprising finale.” – Filipe Freitas, ALWAYS GOOD MOVIES

Recently separated from her husband, a lonely woman (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), visits a bewitching London department store in search of a dress that will transform her life. She’s fitted with a perfectly flattering, blood-red gown… which in time will come to unleash a malevolent curse of unstoppable evil threatening all who cross its path. From acclaimed horror director Peter Strickland (The Duke of Burgundy) comes a truly nightmarish film, at turns frightening, seductive, and darkly humorous. Channeling voyeuristic fantasies of high fashion and bloodshed, In Fabric is Strickland’s most twisted and brilliantly original vision yet.

8 WINS, 13 NOMINATIONS:
WON – Best Director, Austin Fantastic Fest, 2018
WON – Best Narrative Feature, Calgary Underground Film Festival, 2019
WON – Audience Award, Cinetopia Film Festival, 2019
WON – International Fantasy Film Award, Special Jury Prize, Fantasporto, 2019
WON – 20 Minutes of Audacity Prize, Best Cinematography, Les Arcs European
Film Festival, 2018
NOMINATED – Best Feature Film, Imagine Film Festival, NL, 2019
NOMINATED – Best Films Opening 2019, Indiewire Critics’ Poll, 2018
NOMINATED – Best Film, London Film Festival, 2018
NOMINATED – People’s Choice Award, Montréal Festival of New Cinema, 2018

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Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am - 4:00pm
2019-10-21 16:00 - 18:00 | Annual Barrie Film Festival
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Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
Directed by: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
With: Toni Morrison, Oprah Winfrey, Angela Davis, Russell Banks and Fran Lebowitz
Documentary | PG for some disturbing images/thematic material and language | 120 min. | USA

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SCREENING:
Monday, October 21 – 4:00 pm
Sunday, October 27 – 3:30 pm

“This rousing documentary celebrates the acts of writing and reading, and of language itself as an immortal expression of innate humanness.” – Ken Eisner, Georgia Straight
“Toni Morrison was a treasure, and “The Pieces I Am” paints a luminous portrait of this cherished writer.” – Adam Lubitow, Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)

Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am offers an artful and intimate meditation on the life and works of the legendary storyteller and Nobel prizewinner. From her childhood in the steel town of Lorain, Ohio to ‘70s-era book tours with Muhammad Ali, from the front lines with Angela Davis to her own riverfront writing room, Toni Morrison leads an assembly of her peers, critics and colleagues on an exploration of race, America, history and the human condition as seen through the prism of her own literature. Inspired to write because no one took a “little black girl” seriously, Morrison reflects on her lifelong deconstruction of the master narrative. Woven together with a rich collection of art, history, literature and personality, the film includes discussions about her many critically acclaimed works, including novels “The Bluest Eye,” “Sula” and “Song of Solomon,” her role as an editor of iconic African-American literature and her time teaching at Princeton University.

3 WINS, 1 NOMINATION:
WON – Audience Award-U.S. Documentary, Cinetopia Film Festival, 2019
WON – Local Heroes Competition, Cleveland International Film Festival, 2019
WON – Audience Award-Best Documentary Feature, Wisconsin Film Festival, 2019
NOMINATED – Best Documentary, Miami Film Festival, 2019

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The Biggest Little Farm - 4:30pm
2019-10-21 16:30 - 18:02 | Annual Barrie Film Festival
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The Biggest Little Farm
Director: John Chester
Documentary | PG for mild thematic elements | 92 min. | USA
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SCREENING:
Saturday, October 19 – 1:00 pm
Monday, October 21 – 4:30 pm

“Very warm. A family film in the best sense of the words.” – Charles Solomon, FILMWEEK
“In its modest way, “The Biggest Little Farm” offers hope, and even suggests a way forward.” – G. Allen Johnson, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

The Biggest Little Farm chronicles the eight-year quest of John and Molly Chester as they trade city living for 200 acres of barren farmland and a dream to harvest in harmony with nature. Through dogged perseverance and embracing the opportunity provided by nature’s conflicts, the Chesters unlock and uncover a bio diverse design for living that exists far beyond their farm, its seasons, and our wildest imagination. Featuring breathtaking cinematography, captivating animals, and an urgent message to heed Mother Nature’s call, The Biggest Little Farm provides us all a vital blueprint for better living and a healthier planet.

11 WINS, 8 NOMINATIONS:
NOMINATED – People’s Choice Award, Documentary, Toronto International Film Festival, 2018
WON – Audience Award for Best Documentary, Sarasota Film Festival, 2019
WON – Director’s Choice Award for Best Documentary, Sedona International Film Festival, 2019
WON – Best Feature Documentary & Feature Length Film, Boulder International Film Festival, 2019
WON – Best Documentary, Film Club’s The Lost Weekend, 2019
WON – Truly Moving Picture Award, Heartland Film, 2019
WON – Audience Award, Culinary Film, Newport Beach Film Festival, 2019
WON – Audience Award/American Independents, AFI Fest, 2018
NOMINATED – Best Documentary, Denver International Film Festival, 2018

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Before You Know It - 7:30pm
2019-10-21 19:30 - 21:08 | Annual Barrie Film Festival
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Before You Know It
Co-written and Directed by: Hannah Pearl Utt
Cast: Hannah Pearl Utt, Jen Tullock, Judith Light, Mike Colter, Alec Baldwin, Mandy Patinkin
Comedy/Drama | PG for language | 98 min. | USA
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SCREENING:
Monday, October 21 – 7:30 pm
Sunday, October 27 – 8:15 pm

“A noteworthy work from an upcoming dynamic duo, co-writers Hannah Pearl Utt and Jen Tullock, who have a chemistry that you want to see in more films, especially if they’re like Before You Know It.” – Nick Allen, RogerEbert.com

“Before You Know It shifts seamlessly from quirky to sad to mysterious to wacky to surreal within just the space of a few days, so much so that you’d never know it’s director Hannah Pearl Utt’s feature filmmaking debut.” – Christy Lemire, RogerEbert.com

“The story is one of insecurity, veracity, and vulnerability, a little movie with a natural sincerity that you won’t find in huge studio films.” – Louisa Moore, Screen Zealots

Stage manager Rachel Gurner still lives in her childhood apartment—along with her off-kilter actress sister, Jackie; eccentric playwright father Mel; and deadpan preteen niece Dodge—above the tiny theatre they own and operate. Level-headed and turtleneck-wearing Rachel is the only thing standing between her family and utter chaos. Then, in the wake of a sudden family tragedy, Rachel and Jackie learn their presumed-deceased mother is actually alive and thriving as a soap-opera star. Now the sisters’ already-precarious balance turns upside down, and Rachel must figure out how to liberate herself from this surreal scenario.

3 Nominations:
Nominated – Best American Independent Feature Film, Cleveland International Film Festival, 2019
Nominated – Narrative Feature Competition, Dallas International Film Festival, 2019
Nominated – Grand Jury Prize for Dramatic, Sundance Film Festival, 2019

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nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up - 4pm
2019-10-22 16:00 - 17:38 | Annual Barrie Film Festival
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nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up
Written and Directed by: Tasha Hubbard
Documentary | Not Rated (PG) | 98 min. | English/Cree with English subtitles | Canada
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SCREENING:
Tuesday, October 22 – 4:00 pm
Sunday, October 27 – 4:00 pm

“By weaving in a personal story, Hubbard elevates this documentary from a summary of the case to a poignant exploration of how to maintain Indigenous identity in a settler society.” – Brett Pardy, Seventh Row

“This is an extremely powerful and important film that has taken on a life of its own.” – Annie Brodie, What She Said

“Using Boushie’s murder as a jumping off point, Hubbard’s film opens a greater conversation about how the roots of racism are dug deep into the soil of Canadian history.” – Courtney Small, That Shelf

On August 9, 2016, a young Cree man named Colten Boushie died from a gunshot to the back of his head after entering Gerald Stanley’s rural property with his friends. The jury’s subsequent acquittal of Stanley captured international attention, raising questions about racism embedded within Canada’s legal system and propelling Colten’s family to national and international stages in their pursuit of justice. Sensitively directed by Tasha Hubbard, nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up weaves a profound narrative encompassing the filmmaker’s own adoption, the stark history of colonialism on the Prairies, and a vision of a future where Indigenous children can live safely on their homelands.

3 Wins, 1 Nomination:
Won – Best Canadian Documentary, DOXA Documentary Film Festival, 2019
Won – Best Canadian Documentary, Hot Docs Canadian International
Documentary Festival, 2019
Won – Audience Choice, Gimli Film Festival, 2019
Nominated – Checkpoints Award, Bergen International Film Festival, 2019

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Killing Patient Zero - 4:30pm
2019-10-22 16:30 - 18:10 | Annual Barrie Film Festival
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Killing Patient Zero
Written and Directed by: Laurie Lynd
Documentary | 14A for mature thematics | 100 min. | Canada
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SCREENING:
Sunday, October 20 – 4:00 pm [Q&A]
Tuesday, October 22 – 4:30 pm

“Lynd has restored Dugas to imperfect flesh and blood. That is achievement enough.” – Stephen Rodrick, Globe and Mail
“An exposé of a long ago “fake news” story, and an uncomfortable reminder of an uncomfortable era. AIDS may now be treatable, but the fire of ignorance and moral judgment are still in our social DNA.” – Jim Slotek, Original Cin

After the Stonewall riots and at the height of the gay liberation movement in America, an entire generation busy celebrating its newfound emancipation was unaware of an impending epidemic – a disease that proved to be largely ignored by politicians and the mainstream media. Gaetan Dugas was a French-Canadian flight attendant who offered to help early scientific research into the origins of this new disease but an unfortunate series of events followed, and he would eventually be vilified as Patient Zero, the man who gave society AIDS. Based on Richard McKay’s groundbreaking book, Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic, this feature documentary clears Dugas of being anything other than a highly sexually active gay man, someone who – like hundreds of other gay men – refused to be re-pathologized by the scientists and doctors of the time. Many gay men and women who lived through that terrible time were also interviewed here, most notably, Fran Lebowitz.

NOMINATED – Audience Award, Best Documentary, Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, 2019

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The Peanut Butter Falcon - 7:00pm
2019-10-22 19:00 - 20:33 | Annual Barrie Film Festival
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The Peanut Butter Falcon
Written and Directed by: Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz
Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Dakota Johnson, Zack Gottsagen, Jon Bernthal, John Hawkes, Thomas Haden Church and Bruce Dern
Adventure/Comedy/Drama | PG due to coarse language throughout, some violence and smoking | 93 min. | USA
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SCREENING:
Tuesday, October 22 – 7:00 pm
Sunday, October 27 – 6:00 pm

“Writer-directors Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz team up to bring you what is quite possibly the feel-good movie of the year, for good and ill.” – Matthew Lickona, San Diego Reader

“Endlessly charming thanks to the terrific chemistry between LaBeouf and Gottsagen, a bonafide find by the writing-directing team of Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz.” – Al Alexander, The Patriot Ledger

A modern Mark Twain style adventure story, The Peanut Butter Falcon tells the story of Zak (Zack Gottsagen), a young man with Down syndrome, who runs away from a residential nursing home to follow his dream of attending the professional wrestling school of his idol, The Salt Water Redneck (Thomas Haden Church). A strange turn of events pairs him on the road with Tyler (Shia LaBeouf), a small time outlaw on the run, who becomes Zak’s unlikely coach and ally. Together they wind through deltas, elude capture, drink whisky, find God, catch fish, and convince Eleanor (Dakota Johnson), a kind nursing home employee charged with Zak’s return, to join them on their journey.

6 WINS, 2 NOMINATIONS:
WON – Audience Award, Deauville Film Festival, 2019
WON – Truly Moving Picture Award, Heartland Film, 2019
WON – Audience Award-Narrative Feature/Best of Fest Award, Nantucket Film Festival, 2019
WON – Audience Award-Narrative Spotlight, SXSW Film Festival, 2019
Nominated -Grand Special Prize, Deauville Film Festival, 2019
Nominated – Art Cinema Award, Best Feature, Hamburg Film Festival, 2019

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Mademoiselle De Joncquieres - 7:30pm
2019-10-22 19:30 - 21:19 | Annual Barrie Film Festival
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Mademoiselle De Joncquières (Lady J)
Written and Directed by: Emmanuel Mouret
Cast: Cécile de France, Edouard Baer, Alice Isaaz and Natalia Dontcheva
Drama | 14A for mature thematics and sexuality | 109 min. | French with English subtitles | France
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SCREENING:
Tuesday, October 22 – 7:30 pm
Saturday, October 26 – 1:30 pm

“The director Emmanuel Mouret manipulates our sympathies effortlessly as the story zigzags its way to an ultimately surprising and quite satisfying resolution.” – Helen T. Verongos, THE NY TIMES

“Anyone who loves “Dangerous Liaisons” – in any of its iterations – should rush to cue up “Lady J,” a period romance with a similarly wicked sense of comic melodrama. ” – Noel Murray, LOS ANGELES TIMES

1750, Louis XV reigns over the kingdom of France. The Marquis des Arcis (Edouard Baer), an assumed libertine, falls madly in love with Madame de La Pommeraye (Cécile de France), an attractive widow withdrawn from the world. She resists him for years, and finally gives in to her secret desire. Yet the Marquis quickly tires of her and proposes after two short years to split remaining good friends. Mad with sorrow, the vengeful Madame sets about orchestrating her revenge, with the beautiful, young Mademoiselle de Joncquières (Alice Isaaz) as her instrument.

1 WIN, 14 NOMINATIONS:
WON – Best Costume Design/Nominee – Best Actress/Best Actor/Best Adapted Screenplay/Best Cinematography, César Awards, France, 2019
NOMINATED – Best Film/Best Actress, Globes de Cristal Awards, France, 2019
NOMINATED – Best Film/Best Actress/Best Screenplay/Best Cinematography, Lumiere Awards, France, 2019
NOMINATED – Platform Prize, Toronto International Film Festival, 2018

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All is True - 4:00pm
2019-10-23 16:00 - 17:35 | Annual Barrie Film Festival
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All is True
Written and Directed by: Kenneth Branagh
Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Jack Colgrave Hirst, Lolita Chakrrabarti and Ian McKellen
Biography/Drama | PG for suggestive material and language | 101 min. | United Kingdom

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SCREENING:
Sunday, October 20 – 1:00 pm
Wednesday, October 23 – 4:00 pm

“Ben Elton’s well-researched and cleverly built script offers plenty of delights for fans of the Bard, further enhanced with Branagh’s fine direction and its wonderful cast.” – Cate Marquis, We Are Movie Geeks
“These guys know their Bard, and they’ve come up with a wonderful homage – witty, atmospheric, at times heartbreaking – to both the towering genius of myth and the oh-so-fallible man within.” – Lisa Jensen, Good Times Santa Cruz

The year is 1613 and William Shakespeare is acknowledged as the greatest writer of the age. When disaster strikes after his renowned Globe Theatre burns to the ground, the playwright is devastated and returns to Stratford, where he must face his troubled past and a neglected family. Haunted by the death of his only son Hamnet, Shakespeare struggles to mend the broken relationships with his wife and daughters and in so doing, is ruthlessly forced to examine his failings as a husband and father. His very personal search for the truth uncovers secrets and lies hidden within the binding ties of a family at war.

1 Win, 3 Nominations:
Won – Best Supporting Actress (Judi Dench), ARP Movies for Grownups Awards, 2019
Nominated – Best Director (Kenneth Branagh), Best Supporting Actor (Ian McKellen), Best Grown Up Love Story, ARP Movies for Grownups Awards, 2019

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Maiden - 4:30pm
2019-10-23 16:30 - 18:07 | Annual Barrie Film Festival
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Maiden
Written and Directed by: Alex Holmes
With: Tracy Edwards, Jeni Mundy, Mikaela Von Koskull
Documentary | PG for coarse language and some suggestive content | 97 min. | United Kingdom
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SCREENING:
Wednesday, October 23 – 4:30 pm
Saturday, October 26 – 3:00 pm

“Using archival footage and fresh recollections, director Alex Holmes offers an illuminating look into the weird world of jibs and rigging in a film that transcends the action of the sport.” – Brad Wheeler, GLOBE AND MAIL

“For anyone who doesn’t boat much, it’s hard to grasp how yachting can be athletic, harrowing, admirable, or lethal. Maiden… makes a good case for the prowess, invention, and perseverance required.” – George Elkind, METRO TIMES, DETROIT

Maiden tells the story of how a 24-year-old cook working on charter boats became the skipper of the first-ever all-female crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World in 1989. Tracy Edwards’ inspirational dream was opposed on all sides: her male competitors thought an all-women crew would never make it, the chauvinistic yachting press took bets on her failure, and potential sponsors rejected her, fearing that all aboard would not survive and generate bad publicity. However, Tracy refused to give up: she remortgaged her home and bought a second-hand boat, putting everything on the line to ensure that the team made it to the starting line. Although blessed with tremendous belief in herself, Tracy was also beset by crippling doubts and was only able to make it through – and ultimately astonish the sports world – with the support of her remarkable crew.

2 WINS, 1 NOMINATION:
WON – Audience Award/Best Film, Dublin International Film Festival, 2019
WON – Audience Award/International Feature, Northwest Fest, 2019
NOMINATED – Best Documentary, Seattle International Film Festival, 2019

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Official Secrets - 7:00pm
2019-10-23 19:00 - 20:52 | Annual Barrie Film Festival
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Official Secrets
Co-written and Directed by: Gavin Hood
Cast: Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Rhys Ifans, Matt Smith, Ralph Fiennes
Thriller/Biography/Drama | PG for coarse language, violence | 112 min. | United Kingdom/USA
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SCREENING:
Wednesday, October 23 – 7:00 pm
Saturday, October 26 – 7:30 pm

“A rock-solid docudrama.” – Chris Bumbray, JoBlo’s Movie Emporium

“This sturdy, entertaining political thriller pushes all the right buttons and triggers all the right outraged reactions.” – Tim Grierson, Screen International

She risked everything to stop an unjust war. Her government called her a traitor. Based on world-shaking true events, Official Secrets tells the gripping story of Katharine Gun (Keira Knightley), a British intelligence specialist whose job involves routine handling of classified information. One day in 2003, in the lead up to the Iraq War, Gun receives a memo from the NSA with a shocking directive: the United States is enlisting Britain’s help in collecting compromising information on United Nations Security Council members in order to blackmail them into voting in favour of an invasion of Iraq. Unable to stand by and watch the world be rushed into an illegal war, Gun makes the gut-wrenching decision to defy her government and leak the memo to the press. So begins an explosive chain of events that will ignite an international firestorm, expose a vast political conspiracy, and put Gun and her family directly in harm’s way.

2 WINS, 2 NOMINATIONS:
WON – Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature, Provincetown International Film Festival, 2019
WON – Audience Award, Best Foreign Fiction, Traverse City Film Festival, 2019
NOMINATED – Best Film, Seattle International Film Festival, 2019
NOMINATED – Art Cinema Award, Best Narrative Feature, Hamburg Film Festival, 2019

Sponsored by: Park Place

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Une Colonie - 7:30pm
2019-10-23 19:30 - 21:12 | Annual Barrie Film Festival
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Une colonie (A Colony)
Written and Directed by: Geneviève Dulude-De Celles
Cast: Émilie Bierre, Irlande Côté, Jacob Whiteduck-Lavoie, Robin Aubert and Noémie Godin-Vigneau
Drama | 14A | 102 min. | French with English subtitles | Canada
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SCREENING:
Wednesday, October 23 – 7:30 pm
Friday, October 25 – 4:00 pm

“It’s an exceptional teen film, but also one of the most important and pointed Canadian films of the year.” – Andrew Parker, THE GATE

“While this coming-of-age narrative hits all the familiar beats… A Colony also showcases an emotional sensitivity and cultural specificity that gives it a strong individual identity.” – Nikki Baughan, SCREEN INTERNATIONAL

This Québécois gem, the fiction-feature debut from Geneviève Dulude-De Celles, is a fresh, beautifully rendered, and radically optimistic take on the coming-of-age genre. Une Colonie is a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age drama about finding your voice. Set in rural Quebec, it follows 12-year-old Mylia (Emilie Bierre), who has a history of being bullied and is trying to find her bearings at a new school while navigating a turbulent home life. She finds friends in her classmates Jacinthe, her popular older cousin, and Jimmy, who lives on a neighbouring Abenaki reserve. From there, Mylia must figure out how to handle the pressure of conformity and find her sense of self in spite of it. An apt exploration of identity that will speak to the pre-teen in all of us, Une Colonie reminds us that we should aim not only to survive in life, but also to thrive.

10 WINS, 8 NOMINATIONS:
WON – Crystal Bear for Best Film, Berlin International Film Festival, 2019
WON – Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (Bierre)/Best Motion Picture, Best First Feature Film, Canadian Screen Awards, 2019
WON – Audience Award/Grand Jury Prize, Quebec City International Film Festival, 2018
WON – Best Canadian Feature/Best Performance (Bierre)/Best Director, Whistler Film Festival, 2018
WON – Best Director, Athens International Film Festival, 2019
NOMINATED – Michel Award, Hamburg Film Festival, 2019

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Ask Dr. Ruth - 4:00pm
2019-10-24 16:00 - 17:41 | Annual Barrie Film Festival
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Ask Dr. Ruth
Directed by: Ryan White
With: Ruth Westheimer, Susan Brown, Jonathan Capehart, Leora Einleger
Documentary/Biography | 14A for sexual language | 100 min. | USA
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SCREENING:
Thursday, October 24 – 4:00 pm
Sunday, October 27 – 1:30 pm

“A long-overdue bio-doc that, in its spirited way, is as affirming as last year’s paean to another important octogenarian Ruth, RBG.” – Robert Abele, TheWrap

“Whether it’s Ruth reflecting on the details of her three marriages with her characteristic frankness or her family unpacking her political stances, it offers up insight into a woman who helped so many others truly know themselves.” – Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly

“America’s favorite nonagenarian sex therapist, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, entertains and educates America in this delightful documentary.” – Tim Appelo, AARP Movies for Grownups

Ask Dr. Ruth chronicles the incredible life of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, a Holocaust survivor who became America’s most famous sex therapist. With her diminutive frame, thick German accent, and uninhibited approach to sex therapy and education, Dr. Ruth transformed the conversation around sexuality. As she approaches her 90th birthday and shows no signs of slowing down, this remarkable woman revisits her painful past and the unlikely path that led to a career which placed her at the forefront of the sexual revolution.

1 Win, 2 Nominations:
Won – Audience Award, Best Documentary Feature, Calgary Underground Film Festival, 2019
Nominated – Audience Award, Best Documentary, Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, 2019
Nominated – Best Documentary, Miami Film Festival, 2019

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Pavarotti - 4:30pm
2019-10-24 16:30 - 18:24 | Annual Barrie Film Festival
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Pavarotti
Directed by: Ron Howard
Documentary/Biography | PG for coarse language | 114 min. | USA/United Kingdom

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SCREENING:
Sunday, October 20 – 7:00 pm
Thursday, October 24 – 4:30 pm

“It’s an engaging film, filled with vintage snapshots, interviews with friends and former colleagues, and, most of all, that marvelously distinctive voice, with all the emotion it could convey.” – Sarah Bryan Miller, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“It is done respectfully and lovingly, with the occasional criticism that he could be demanding.” – Alison Rowat, The Herald (Scotland)
“Ron Howard’s documentary doesn’t just make you miss the singer. It makes you miss, of all things, a robust music industry.” – Glenn Kenny, RogerEbert.com

The award-winning filmmaking team behind the hit documentary The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years turns to another musical phenomenon with Pavarotti, an in-depth, no holds barred look at the life, career and lasting legacy of a musical icon. Dubbed “The People’s Tenor,” Pavarotti was the rare combination of personality, genius and celebrity, using his prodigious gifts to spread the gospel of opera as entertainment and a genre to be enjoyed by music lovers of all kinds. Featuring never-before-seen footage and rare interviews with his family and colleagues, the film brilliantly demonstrates that through the sheer force of his talent, Pavarotti ultimately commanded the great stages of the world in addition to capturing the hearts of audiences everywhere. This look at a remarkable man and musical giant is directed by Academy Award® winner Ron Howard.

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The Last Black Man in San Francisco - 7:00pm
2019-10-24 19:00 - 21:01 | Annual Barrie Film Festival
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The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Co-written and Directed by: Joe Talbot
Cast: Jimmie Fails, Jonathan Majors, Finn Wittrock, Tichina Arnold, Mike Epps, Danny Glover
Drama | 14A for coarse language, brief nudity and drug use | 121 min. | USA
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SCREENING:
Thursday, October 24 – 7:00 pm
Saturday, October 26 – 7:15 pm

“The Last Black Man in San Francisco is a poetic and picturesque ode to the title city, to friendship and to the universal urge to find a place to call home.” – Peter Howell, Toronto Star

“The Last Black Man in San Francisco” is poignant filmmaking with an invigorating spirit.”– Adam Graham, Detroit News

“There is something irrepressibly original and exciting in the collaboration that results between Talbot, Fails and co-writer Rob Richert – a cinematic vision that feels as fresh as it does necessary.” – Barry Hertz, Globe and Mail

Jimmie Fails dreams of reclaiming the Victorian home his grandfather built in the heart of San Francisco. Joined on his quest by his best friend Mont, Jimmie searches for belonging in a rapidly changing city that seems to have left them behind. As he struggles to reconnect with his family and reconstruct the community he longs for, his hopes blind him to the reality of his situation. A wistful odyssey populated by skaters, squatters, street preachers, playwrights, and other locals on the margins, The Last Black Man in San Francisco is a poignant and sweeping story of hometowns and how they’re made—and kept alive—by the people who love them.

2 WINS, 3 NOMINATIONS:
NOMINATED – Best Film, Locarno International Film Festival, 2019
WON – Directing Award/U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award, Nominee – Grand Jury Prize/Dramatic, Sundance Film Festival, 2019
NOMINATED – First Feature Competition, London Film Festival, 2019

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Menteur - 7:30pm
2019-10-24 19:30 - 21:21 | Annual Barrie Film Festival
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Menteur (Compulsive Liar)
Co-written and Directed by: Émile Gaudreault
Cast: Louis-José Houde, Antoine Bertrand, Catherine Chabot, Anne-Élisabeth Bossé, Luc Senay, Patrice Coquereau, Marie-Lise Pilote, Sonia Vachon, Didier Lucien and Vitali Makarov
Comedy | PG | 111 min. | French with English subtitles | Canada
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SCREENING:
Thursday, October 24 – 7:30 pm
Sunday, October 27 – 8:30 pm

For Simon, a public relations manager at a major aerospace company, lying is a way of life, almost a raison d’être. His family aren’t fooled by his lies and have learned, somehow, to shut their eyes to his nonsense. But when Russian industrialists come to negotiate a contract that could save the struggling aircraft company where his brother also works, Simon’s behavior becomes an important issue. Fearing that one lie too many will make everything fall apart, his relatives serve him an ultimatum. The same evening, a strange cosmic event propels Simon into a parallel universe, where all his fabrications seem to have come true.

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Une Colonie - 4:00pm
2019-10-25 16:00 - 17:42 | Annual Barrie Film Festival

Peanut Butter Falcon - 4:30pm
2019-10-25 16:30 - 18:03 | Annual Barrie Film Festival
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The Peanut Butter Falcon
Written and Directed by: Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz
Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Dakota Johnson, Zack Gottsagen, Jon Bernthal, John Hawkes, Thomas Haden Church and Bruce Dern
Adventure/Comedy/Drama | PG due to coarse language throughout, some violence and smoking | 93 min. | USA
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SCREENING:
Friday, October 25 – 4:30 pm
Sunday, October 27 – 6:00 pm

“Writer-directors Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz team up to bring you what is quite possibly the feel-good movie of the year, for good and ill.” – Matthew Lickona, San Diego Reader

“Endlessly charming thanks to the terrific chemistry between LaBeouf and Gottsagen, a bonafide find by the writing-directing team of Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz.” – Al Alexander, The Patriot Ledger

A modern Mark Twain style adventure story, The Peanut Butter Falcon tells the story of Zak (Zack Gottsagen), a young man with Down syndrome, who runs away from a residential nursing home to follow his dream of attending the professional wrestling school of his idol, The Salt Water Redneck (Thomas Haden Church). A strange turn of events pairs him on the road with Tyler (Shia LaBeouf), a small time outlaw on the run, who becomes Zak’s unlikely coach and ally. Together they wind through deltas, elude capture, drink whisky, find God, catch fish, and convince Eleanor (Dakota Johnson), a kind nursing home employee charged with Zak’s return, to join them on their journey.

6 WINS, 2 NOMINATIONS:
WON – Audience Award, Deauville Film Festival, 2019
WON – Truly Moving Picture Award, Heartland Film, 2019
WON – Audience Award-Narrative Feature/Best of Fest Award, Nantucket Film Festival, 2019
WON – Audience Award-Narrative Spotlight, SXSW Film Festival, 2019
Nominated -Grand Special Prize, Deauville Film Festival, 2019
Nominated – Art Cinema Award, Best Feature, Hamburg Film Festival, 2019

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La Belle Epoque - 7:00pm
2019-10-25 19:00 - 20:55 | Annual Barrie Film Festival
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La Belle Époque
Written and Directed by: Nicolas Bedos
Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Guillaume Canet, Doria Tillier, Fanny Ardant
Comedy/Drama | 100 min. | 14A for mature thematics | 115 min. | French with English subtitles | France
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SCREENING:
Friday, October 25 – 7:00 pm [GALA NIGHT]
Sunday, October 27 – 1:00 pm

“A sweet, inventive Richard Curtis-style romantic-comedy crowdpleaser that deftly balances hearty laughs and heartwarming emotion.” – Allan Hunter, SCREEN INTERNATIONAL

“Where so many high-concept romantic comedies squander their one big idea, “La Belle Époque” leverages its own to remind how and why we fall in love in the first place…” – Peter Debruge, VARIETY

Ingenious and hilarious by turns, actor-turned-director Nicolas Bedos’ marvellous dramatic comedy takes the sci-fi concept of time travel, brings it down to earth, and gives it a sexy dose of flesh and blood in a very smart and provocative (even “meta”) fashion. Cynical 70ish cartoonist Victor (a superb Daniel Auteuil), his marriage to the tart-tongued Marianne (Fanny Ardant) in shambles, and his best days seemingly behind him, becomes intrigued by his son’s friend Antoine’s (Guillaume Canet) latest successful enterprise. Antoine’s “Time Travellers” troupe offers clients the chance to go back in time to any moment they wish, and the TT team of actors and technicians guarantees a completely realistic immersion in the era chosen. Victor accepts Antoine’s offer of a free trial – and chooses to go back to the day in 1974 when he originally met Marianne in a raucous Lyon bistro. Suffice it to say that when the shaggy-haired “younger” Victor goes back to said Lyon bistro and meets waitress Margot (Doria Tillier, Bedos’ real-life companion), who happens to be Antoine’s partner when she’s not acting, more than just sparks fly… (VIFF 2019)

NOMINATED – Best Feature, Hamburg Film Festival, 2019
NOMINATED – Best International Film, Haifa International Film Festival, 2019

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The After Party - 9:00pm
2019-10-25 21:00 | Common Good Café & Social House, 85 Bayfield Street, Ground Level, Barrie, ON, L4M 3A7, Canada
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The After Party
Friday, October 25, 9:00 pm
Common Good Café & Social House, 85 Bayfield Street, Ground Level, Barrie
Film: $10 | Party: $35
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Kicking off the evening at Uptown Theatre, we present our gala screening of La Belle Époque, a charming high-concept romantic-comedy that was featured as a Special Presentation at this year’s TIFF.
Following the film, be sure to join us at Common Good Café & Social House for a fun-filled evening of dancing, delicious food and great conversation.

The After Party is the buzzworthy festival event-of-the-season!

Film tickets are sold separately.

Sponsored by:

Music Sponsored by:

Catering/Venue:

Entertainment/Music: DJ Casey George

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Poisoning Paradise - 1:00pm
2019-10-26 13:00 - 14:17 | Annual Barrie Film Festival
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• Environment Series

Poisoning Paradise

Directors: Keely Shaye Brosnan and Teresa Tico
With: John Aana, Alita Atay and Paul Achitoff
Documentary, Not Rated, 77 min. | USA
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SCREENING: Saturday, October 26 – 1:00 pm

“Fascinating, angering and important.” – Shelia Weller, New York Times best selling author and contributor to Vanity Fair
“An eye-opening … well-researched documentary.” – MALIBU SURFSIDE NEWS

Journey to the seemingly idyllic world of Native Hawaiians, where communities are surrounded by experimental test sites and pesticides are being sprayed upwind of their neighbourhoods. Poisoning Paradise details the ongoing struggle to advance bold new legislation governing the fate of their island home. In an attempt to diversify an economy that was overly reliant on tourism, policymakers in both Hawaii and Washington, D.C. encouraged the world’s largest biotech companies to utilize Kauai’s favourable climate and fertile soil to test genetically engineered seeds and crops. Interviews with local residents, scientists, and healthcare professionals reveal the hardships and ecological dangers of intensive and continuous pesticide applications and the environmental injustice thrust upon people living in one of the most sacred, biologically unique and diverse locations on earth. Award-winning investigative journalist Paul Kolberstein describes Kauai as “one of the most toxic agricultural environments in all of American agriculture.”

7 WINS:
WON – Brosnan Award, Hawaii European Cinema Film Festival, 2017
WON – Feature Documentary Award of Recognition, Hollywood International Independent Documentary Awards, 2017
WON – Best Documentary Film, Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival, 2017
WON – Best Feature Film, Irvine International Film Festival, 2018
WON – Audience Choice Award, Malibu Film Festival, 2018

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Mademoiselle De Joncquieres - 1:30pm
2019-10-26 13:30 - 15:19 | Annual Barrie Film Festival

Maiden - 3:00pm
2019-10-26 15:00 - 16:37 | Annual Barrie Film Festival

Pain and Glory - 4:30pm
2019-10-26 16:30 - 18:23 | Annual Barrie Film Festival
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Pain and Glory (Dolor y gloria)
Written and Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Asier Etxeandia, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Julieta Serrano and Penelope Cruz
Drama | 14A for mature thematics, drug use, some nudity and coarse language | 113 min. | Spanish with English subtitles | Spain

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SCREENING:
Saturday, October 19 – 7:30 pm
Saturday, October 26 – 4:30 pm

“Pain and Glory is Almodóvar’s best work for years, marvellously framed and composed, comparatively restrained for him, hugely enjoyable moment by moment.” – David Sexton, London Evening Standard
“While we’re never quite sure how much is direct autobiography, the result is revealing, hugely emotive and arguably his most mature work to date.” – Trevor Johnston, Radio Times

Pain and Glory presents a series of re-encounters experienced by Salvador Mallo, a film director in his physical decline. Some of them in the flesh, others remembered: his childhood in the 60s, when he emigrated with his parents to a village in Valencia in search of prosperity, the first desire, his first adult love in the Madrid of the 80s, the pain of the breakup of that love while it was still alive and intense, writing as the only therapy to forget the unforgettable, the early discovery of cinema, and the void, the infinite void that creates the incapacity to keep on making films. Pain and Glory talks about creation, about the difficulty of separating it from one’s own life and about the passions that give it meaning and hope. In recovering his past, Salvador finds the urgent need to recount it, and in that need he also finds his salvation.

4 WINS, 10 NOMINATIONS:
Won – Best Actor (Antonio Banderas), Best Composer/Nominee Palme d’Or/Queer Palm, Cannes Film Festival, 2019
Won – Prix du Jury/Best Actor (Banderas), International Cinephile Society Awards, 2019
NOMINATED – Best International Film, Jerusalem Film Festival, 2019
NOMINATED – Best Film, Sydney Film Festival, 2019

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David Crosby: Remember My Name - 5:15pm
2019-10-26 17:15 - 18:50 | Annual Barrie Film Festival
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David Crosby: Remember My Name
Director: A.J. Eaton
With: David Crosby, Jackson Browne, Cameron Crowe
Documentary | PG for language, drug material, nudity and brief violence | 93 min. | USA
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SCREENING:
Saturday, October 19 – 3:30 pm
Saturday, October 26 – 5:15 pm

“Crosby presents a reflective, irascible, observant and irresistibly candid figure in a documentary that ostensibly chronicles one of his many comeback tours but becomes something far more introspective.” – Ann Homaday, WASHINGTON POST
“Rarely have we seen such an unvarnished, unflattering and revealingly real portrait of a music star.” – Jon Bream, Minneapolis Star Tribune

A triumph at Sundance, this inspired collaboration between director A.J. Eaton and producer Cameron Crowe coaxes singer-songwriter Crosby – a member of three major groups in music history: The Byrds; Crosby, Stills & Nash; and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – into unflinching candour as he confronts his mortality and assesses the damage of earlier days. At the same time, his redemptive journey back to performing is universally inspiring and uplifting, bearing an emotional impact that transcends the rock documentary genre. Taking viewers through soaring career highs, along with the chemical variety that led to ravaging addictions and serious prison time, this intimate cinematic portrait explodes myths and sheds profound new light on all the music, politics, and personalities encountered on his incredible — and ongoing — journey.

1 Win, 2 Nominations:
Won – Best Music Documentary, Boulder International Film Festival, 2019
Nominated – Best Documentary Film, Santa Barbara International Film Festival, 2019
Nominated – Grand Jury Prize Documentary, Sundance Film Festival, 2019

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In Fabric - 7:00pm
2019-10-26 19:00 - 20:58 | Annual Barrie Film Festival

The Last Black Man in San Francisco - 7:15pm
2019-10-26 19:15 - 21:16 | Annual Barrie Film Festival

Official Secrets - 7:30pm
2019-10-26 19:30 - 21:22 | Annual Barrie Film Festival

La Belle Epoque - 1:00pm
2019-10-27 13:00 - 14:55 | Annual Barrie Film Festival
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La Belle Époque
Written and Directed by: Nicolas Bedos
Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Guillaume Canet, Doria Tillier, Fanny Ardant
Comedy/Drama | 100 min. | 14A for mature/sexual content | 115 min. | French with English subtitles | France
Click Here to Buy Tickets
SCREENING:
Friday, October 25 – 7:00 pm [GALA NIGHT]
Sunday, October 27 – 1:00 pm

“A sweet, inventive Richard Curtis-style romantic-comedy crowdpleaser that deftly balances hearty laughs and heartwarming emotion.” – Allan Hunter, SCREEN INTERNATIONAL

“Where so many high-concept romantic comedies squander their one big idea, “La Belle Époque” leverages its own to remind how and why we fall in love in the first place…” – Peter Debruge, VARIETY

Ingenious and hilarious by turns, actor-turned-director Nicolas Bedos’ marvellous dramatic comedy takes the sci-fi concept of time travel, brings it down to earth, and gives it a sexy dose of flesh and blood in a very smart and provocative (even “meta”) fashion. Cynical 70ish cartoonist Victor (a superb Daniel Auteuil), his marriage to the tart-tongued Marianne (Fanny Ardant) in shambles, and his best days seemingly behind him, becomes intrigued by his son’s friend Antoine’s (Guillaume Canet) latest successful enterprise. Antoine’s “Time Travellers” troupe offers clients the chance to go back in time to any moment they wish, and the TT team of actors and technicians guarantees a completely realistic immersion in the era chosen. Victor accepts Antoine’s offer of a free trial – and chooses to go back to the day in 1974 when he originally met Marianne in a raucous Lyon bistro. Suffice it to say that when the shaggy-haired “younger” Victor goes back to said Lyon bistro and meets waitress Margot (Doria Tillier, Bedos’ real-life companion), who happens to be Antoine’s partner when she’s not acting, more than just sparks fly… (VIFF 2019)

NOMINATED – Best Feature, Hamburg Film Festival, 2019
NOMINATED – Best International Film, Haifa International Film Festival, 2019

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Ask Dr. Ruth - 1:30pm
2019-10-27 13:30 - 15:11 | Annual Barrie Film Festival
