TRUTH – 7PM

Annual Barrie Film Festival

Truth Screening: Thursday, February 4, 2016 - 7pm Location: Uptown Theatre, 55 Dunlop Street West, Barrie Directed by: James Vanderbilt Cast: Cate Blanchett, Robert Redford, Topher Grace, Bruce Greenwood and Dennis Quaid Drama/Biography, 14A for coarse language and brief non-sexual nudity, 125 minutes (USA/Australia) “The film, one of the best of the year, is strongly recommended […]

HE NAMED ME MALALA – 4PM

Annual Barrie Film Festival

SCREENING: Friday, February 5, 4:00 pm Directed by: Davis Guggenheim Documentary, Rated PG for mature themes, suspenseful situations, non-graphic violence, 88 min. (USA)   He Named Me Malala is an intimate portrait of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai, who was targeted by the Taliban and severely wounded by a gunshot when returning home on […]

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AL PURDY WAS HERE – 7PM

Annual Barrie Film Festival

SCREENING: Friday, February 5, 7:00 pm Directed by: Brian D. Johnson With: Margaret Atwood, Joseph Boyden, Leonard Cohen, Sarah Harmer, Eurithe Purdy Documentary, Rated PG, 92 min. (Canada)   Two-time Governor General’s Award-winner Al Purdy was a charismatic tower of contradictions: a “sensitive man” who whipped out a poem in a bar fight; a factory […]

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HE NAMED ME MALALA – 2PM

Annual Barrie Film Festival

SCREENING: Saturday, February 6, 2:00 pm Directed by: Davis Guggenheim Documentary, Rated PG for mature themes, suspenseful situations, non-graphic violence, 88 min. (USA)   He Named Me Malala is an intimate portrait of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai, who was targeted by the Taliban and severely wounded by a gunshot when returning home on […]

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LIFE – 4PM

Annual Barrie Film Festival

SCREENING: Saturday, February 6, 4:00 pm Directed by: Anton Corbijn Cast: Dane DeHaan, Robert Pattinson, Lauren Gallagher Peter, Joel Edgerton and Sir Ben Kingsley Biography/Drama, Rated 14A for some sexuality/nudity and language, 111 min. (UK/USA/Germany/Canada/Australia)   This drama tells the story of photographer Dennis Stock (Robert Pattinson) who convinced a rebellious young actor on the […]

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MAVIS! – 7PM

Annual Barrie Film Festival

SCREENING: Saturday, February 6, 7:00 pm Written and Directed by: Jessica Edwards With: Mavis Staples, The Staple Singers, Adam Ayres, Gene Barge, Bob Dylan, Levon Helm and Prince Biography/Documentary, Rated G, 80 minutes (USA)   Mavis! is the first documentary on gospel/soul music legend and civil rights icon Mavis Staples and her family group, The […]

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AL PURDY WAS HERE – 9PM

Annual Barrie Film Festival

SCREENING: Saturday, February 6, 9:00 pm Directed by: Brian D. Johnson With: Margaret Atwood, Joseph Boyden, Leonard Cohen, Sarah Harmer, Eurithe Purdy Documentary, Rated PG, 92 min. (Canada)   Two-time Governor General’s Award-winner Al Purdy was a charismatic tower of contradictions: a “sensitive man” who whipped out a poem in a bar fight; a factory […]

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PEGGY GUGGENHEIM: ART ADDICT – 2PM

Annual Barrie Film Festival

SCREENING: Sunday, February 7, 2:00 pm Co-written and Directed by: Lisa Immordino Vreeland Documentary, Rated 14A for sexual content, 96 min. (USA/UK/Italy)   In Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict, Peggy Guggenheim found her unlikely vocation as art impresario while she was looking for her own identity. Her heritage, charisma, and unstoppable energy helped promote the careers […]

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TRUMBO – 4PM

Annual Barrie Film Festival

SCREENING: Sunday, February 7, 4:00 pm Directed by: Jay Roach Cast: Bryan Cranston, Helen Mirren, Diane Lane, Louis C.K. and John Goodman Biography/Drama, Rated 14A for coarse language including some sexual references, 124 minutes (USA)   Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) stars as prolific and embattled screenwriter Dalton Trumbo in this insightful and stirring drama about […]

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UNBRANDED – 7PM

Annual Barrie Film Festival

SCREENING: Sunday, February 7, 7:00 pm Directed by: Phillip Baribeau With: Ben Masters, Ben Thamer, Jonny Fitzsimons and Thomas Glover Documentary, Rated 14A, 105 minutes (USA)   Ben Masters, a young Texas horseman, set out to inspire adoptions for 50,000 wild horses and burros living in government captivity. He gathered three friends and hatched an […]

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