Anthropocene – March 2nd: 7 pm

March 2nd: 7 pm: ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch 

Directors: Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, Edward Burtynsky 

CANADA, 2018

English, Russian, Mandarin, Cantonese, Italian, German w/ English subtitles
87 minutes With: Alicia Vikander 

ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch is the third collaboration between award-winning photographer Edward Burtynsky and acclaimed filmmakers Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier following Manufactured Landscapes and Watermark. In breathtaking tableaus, their latest documentary continues their exploration of industrialization and extraction in astonishing scale and perspective. 

In recent years, some scientists have argued that the Holocene Epoch — the nearly 12,000-year period since the last Ice Age — has ended, and we have now entered into the Anthropocene Epoch. The new label reflects the dominance of humans on the planet, causing mass extinction and climate change and altering the Earth more than all natural processes combined. 

Spanning numerous countries, the film reveals in stunning images how our mania for conquest defines our relationship to the Earth — and how we have created a global epidemic. In Kenya, mounds of elephant tusks burn in a devastating display of the impact of 

poaching (chillingly reminiscent of the bison skulls that were piled high in the clearing of the Canadian plains for settlement). In Russia and Germany, mining operations transform terrains into otherworldly industrial waste- lands as hypnotic, colossal, lifelike machines endlessly extract on an unfathomable scale. 

ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch is a mesmerizing and disturbing rumination on what drives us as a species, and a call to wake up to the destruction caused by our domi- nance. These startling dystopian visions are not future projections; they reflect a reality that is already here, and if we are to change course, the first step will be a revolutionary shift in consciousness. 

“To say that there are no easy answers to planetary woes is to state the obvious. But the film seeks to reveal rather than lecture, in the hope that our eyes will convince our brains to act before it’s too late.” —Peter Howell, Toronto Star 

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Roads in February – March 2nd: 1pm

March 2nd: 1pm: Roads in February 

Director: Katherine Jerkovic 

CANADA/URUGUAY, 2018 Spanish w/ English subtitles 82 minutes 

Principal Cast: Arlen Aguayo Stewart, Gloria Demassi 

Winner of the 2018 City of Toronto Award for Best Canadian First Feature Film at the Toronto International Film Festival, Roads in February follows a young woman’s journey back to her roots. 

Mourning the recent death of her father, Sarah (Arlen Aguayo Stewart) leaves her adoptive home of Montreal to visit her paternal grandmother, Magda (Gloria Demassi), in a sleepy village in rural Uruguay. Sarah and her parents left Uruguay over a decade ago and never returned. Driven by childhood memories, she hopes to renew her relation- ship with Magda and with her birthplace. But as soon as Sarah arrives, a quiet unease forms. Magda doesn’t understand why her son never returned to see her and must now live with the fact that he never will. The tension comes as a surprise to Sarah, who must come to terms with both her grief over her father and the distance she feels between herself, her family, and her Uruguayan homeland. 

Director Katherine Jerkovic skilfully infuses each scene with an intimate yet powerful tone as Sarah struggles to reconcile the gulf between past and present, ideals and reality. The stifling heat and torpid pace of rural life in Uruguay heightens her growing sense 

of alienation. Aguayo Stewart and Demassi deliver beautifully subtle performances, where the gravity lies in what remains unsaid between them. An evocative slice of life with an assured visual style, Roads in February is an enthralling debut that firmly establishes Jerkovic as one of Canada’s bright new talents. 

“Jerkovic is a gifted, intuitive storyteller who doesn’t need to oversell her story’s emotional undercurrents; she trusts her audience to understand what’s going on simply by paying attention to her actors’ faces.”  —Norman Wilner, NOW Magazine 

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Giant Little Ones – March 1st: 9:30

March 1st: 9:30:   Giant Little Ones

Director:Keith Behrman 

CANADA, 2018 English  93 minutes 

Principal Cast: Josh Wiggins, Maria Bello, Darren Mann,Kyle MacLachlan, Taylor Hickson, Niamh Wilson, Peter Outerbridge 

Adolescents face enormous pressure to make life-defining decisions every day and they want to lock in their identities sooner than later. All of this pressure is exacerbated by physical and social changes. 

Franky (Josh Wiggins, Mean Dreams), the hero of Keith Behrman’s exquisite and gener- ous Giant Little Ones, is under more pressure than most. His life was altered when his father (Kyle MacLachlan, television’s Twin Peaks) left his mother (Maria Bello, A History of Violence, Prisoners) for a man. Franky is left confused, feeling like he has to figure out his sexuality right away to avoid the disruption he blames his father for. 

Determined to hide his uncertainty from his best friend and his girlfriend, Franky doesn’t realize he’s not the only one who doesn’t know where he stands. When a wild party ends up in a way none of them could have expected, Franky and his friends are forced to decide what kind of people they want to be. 

Giant Little Ones is a sensitive and touching look at that point in adolescence when free- dom is both intoxicating and terrifying — and feelings are both elegiac and erotic. It’s driven by extraordinary young talents, along with 

great work from veterans MacLachlan, Bello, and Peter Outerbridge (television’s Orphan Black) and the subtle, evocative directorial touch of Behrman, whose Flower & Garnet won the 2002 Canadian Screen Award for Best First Feature. 

“The film belongs to [Josh] Wiggins, who brings an openness and sincerity to Franky’s struggles that help suggest to what extent his character’s specific story has elements that everybody will be able to relate to.” 

—Boyd van Hoeji, The Hollywood Reporter 

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The Edge of the Knife – March 1st: 7 pm

March 1st: 7 pm:    Edge of the Knife – Sgaaway K'uuna 

Directors: Gwaai Edenshaw, Helen Haig-Brown 

CANADA, 2018           Content Advisory: This film contains explicit violent content. 

Haida w/ English subtitles 100 minutes 
Principal Cast: Tyler York, William Russ, Adeana Young 

The first feature film made entirely in the Haida language — a critically endangered language spoken fluently by fewer than 20 people — Edge of the Knife is a stunning cinematic achievement and a spellbinding tale of pride, tragedy, and remorse set in Haida Gwaii in the 1800s. 

Two extended families meet at their annual fishing camp one summer on the shores of Haida Gwaii, in Canada’s Pacific Northwest. Charming Adiits’ii is close to the family of his best friend Kwa and an ardent teacher to Kwa’s young son. The boy looks up to him, but Kwa’s wife, Hlaaya, is concerned that Adiits’ii’s appetite for challenges may lead to reckless choices. Tragedy strikes when a storm hits the small encampment and Adiits’ii becomes estranged from the group. Presuming him dead, they return to their winter home without him. Adiits’ii creeps deep into the forest and begins his ominous transforma- tion into a Gaagiid/ Gaagiixiid — the legendary Haida Wildman. 

In this spectacular rendering of a classic Haida story, life on the land is shaped by the power of the elements, where natural and supernatural forces co-exist. Co-directed by Haida filmmaker Gwaai Edenshaw and Tsilhqot’in filmmaker Helen Haig-Brown, this ambitious project was a collaboration with Isuma, the team behind the landmark film Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner. Made with a Haida cast and in collaboration with the Haida Council, Edge of the Knife proves that cinema can be at once a powerful vessel for riveting storytelling and a vital act of Indigenous lan- guage and culture revitalization. 

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23rd Annual Cinema CNC Film Festival – March 1st to 3rd!

It's almost upon us – the 23rd Annual Cinema CNC Film Festival will take place March 1st to 3rd at the Prince George Playhouse.

We will be screening 8 great Canadian feature films and a bunch of shorts, as well as serving up much fun and good spirits!

We will be selling passes at Books and Company, the CNC Bookstore, and the UNBC Bookstore.

Full Festival Passes: $48 [8 films]
Friday Passes: $14 [2 films]
Saturday Passes: $21 [3 films]
Sunday Passes: $21 [3 films]

Single tickets are $8 and will be available at the door.

Tell your friends! Passes make excellent gifts! The more the merrier!

Fall Films 2018

Our Fall Series is here; 8 great films for your viewing pleasure.

All showtimes are 7 + 9:30 pm in
room 1-306 at The College of New Caledonia

November 24th: THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST

The Miseducation of Cameron Post

Director: Desiree Akhavan
USA, 2018 English 90 minutes
Principal Cast: Chloë Grace Moretz, Jennifer Ehle, Sasha Lane, Forrest Goodluck

After her clandestine romance with her female best friend is revealed, Cameron Post’s (Chloë Grace Moretz, Brain on Fire; The Clouds of Sils Maria) conservative aunt and guardian sends her away to undergo conversion therapy.

Despite dealing with the tragedy of losing her parents in a car crash, Cameron seemingly fits in well with her conservative Montana community: she performs well at school, holds a place on the track team, participates in her local youth group, and has a picture-perfect boyfriend on her arm. However, when she and her best friend Coley are caught embracing after a high school dance, Cameron’s life quickly comes crashing down around her.

Cameron is immediately sent to pray away her “same-sex attraction” at God’s Promise, an evangelical conversion therapy camp, where she’s forced to wrestle with her identity and sexual orientation among a group of similarly stranded youths. After making a real connec- tion with fellow campers Jane Fonda (Sasha Lane, American Honey; Hearts Beat Loud) and Adam Red Eagle (Forrest Goodluck, Indian Horse; The Revenant) and seeing some of the devastating effects of the camp’s program on others, Cameron is forced to question the legitimacy of the camp’s dogmatic teachings and decide for herself who she really is.

Winner of the US Grand Jury Prize for best dramatic feature at Sundance, The Miseducation of Cameron Post deftly explores how identities, families, and communities are intertwined through its stellar cast of up-and-coming actors and Desiree Akhavan’s skilled and thoughtful direction.

“Chloë Grace Moretz puts in a career-best turn as a teen sent to ‘pray away the gay’ at a Christian camp in Desiree Akhavan’s compassionate LGBT story.”
– Jordan Hoffman, The Guardian


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