Thank you to the team at CKPG [particularly Brenda Clotildes] for this great ad.
Monday, 23 February 2015
The 19th Annual Cinema CNC Film Festival TV Ad!
Thank you to the team at CKPG [particularly Brenda Clotildes] for this great ad.
Friday, 13 February 2015
March 8: 9:30 pm: HEARTBEAT
Sunday, March 8: 9:30
HEARTBEAT
Dir: Andrea Dorfman
96 minutes
Cast: Tanya Davis, Stephanie Clattenburg, Stewart Legere, Kristin Langille, Glen Matthews
To say that Justine is stuck in a rut would be an understatement. She hates her mind-numbing job, she can’t stop sleeping with her ex-boyfriend Ben, and not only does she live in her grandma’s old house, but she also wears her granny’s old bras. (Hey, they fit great.)
When things begin to change, (her best friend has a baby, Ben leaves town) she’s forced to deal with her attachment issues and find a way to define her own life. In a series of amusing missteps, Justine recognizes that she has drifted away from her true passion, music, in part because of an embarrassing stage-fright incident.
Once she confronts her fears and reconnects with her music, however, the future suddenly seems full of possibilities.
March 8: 7 pm: MOMMY
Sunday, March 8: 7 pm
MOMMY
Dir: Xavier Dolan
French with English subtitles
134 minutes
Cast: Anne Dorval, Suzanne Clément, Antoine-Olivier Pilon
Steve is a troubled teenager. When his mother, Diane, picks him up from a government institution to care for him at home, it is an act of deep maternal commitment and a huge risk. Although he can be sweet as an angel, Steve is volatile.
As Diane tries to manage her son’s mood swings at home, it’s clear that she’s not exactly serene either. A working-class Quebec woman with a messy personal life, she’s barely keeping it together. When their shy neighbour, Kyla, takes an interest in mother and son, a surprising trio develops.
The same wild energy of Dolan’s earlier films is here, but channelled to greater impact. Dolan is ably assisted by cinematographer André Turpin, himself a notable Quebec filmmaker.
March 8: 2 pm: FELIX & MEIRA
Sunday, March 8: 2 pm
FELIX & MEIRA
Dir: Maxime Giroux 105 minutes
French/English/Yiddish
Cast: Martin Dubreuil, Hadas Yaron, Luzer Twersky
An unusual romance blossoms between two lost souls who inhabit the same neighbourhood but vastly different worlds. Meira, a young Hasidic Jewish mother in Montreal's Mile End district, secretly rebels against her faith by listening to soul music and taking birth control pills; Félix is a loner grieving the recent death of his estranged father.
Intrigued by Meira, Félix hopes her religious devotion will provide insight into his loss, and though she rebuffs him at first, a mutual affection soon arises between the two. As Meira's desire for change becomes harder for her to hide, the young woman is faced with a stark choice: remain within the
community she has always known, or pursue an uncertain future outside of it.
March 7: 9:30 pm: BIG NEWS FROM GRAND ROCK
Saturday, March 7: 9:30
BIG NEWS FROM GRAND ROCK
Dir: Daniel Perlmutter 87 mins
Cast: Ennis Esmer, Peter Keleghan, Leah Pinsent, Aaron Ashmore, Kristin Booth, Gordon Pinsent
Leonard Crane is desperate to save his small-town newspaper. Readership and advertising is at an all-time low as more and more locals, with the notable exception of Leonard’s scatterbrained staff, move into the digital age.
With unemployment on the horizon and the paper about to be sold for scrap to a media conglomerate, Leonard looks to some old movies for escape — and instead finds a wealth of potential news stories that could pull readers back to print.
The plagiarism plan starts to pay off, until a fake headline attracts the attention of ambitious big-city reporter Lucy, who exposes the ruse. When Leonard discovers that one of his phony scoops may actually be true, he enlists Lucy’s help to save the town, the newspaper, and his own tattered reputation.
The Trailer can be found here: https://vimeo.com/115993164
March 7: 7 pm: MONSOON
Saturday, March 7: 7 pm
MONSOON
Dir: Sturla Gunnarsson
Documentary 108 minutes
Monsoon is a visually stunning meditation on the annual rains that descend upon India, and their alternately disastrous and beneficial impact on Indian society, economy, agriculture, and individual lives.
For Gunnarsson, the monsoon functions as a godlike entity, capable of bringing and sustaining life and destroying it — a duality that sparks profound reflections on the nature of order, chaos, creation, and faith in a perpetually mysterious universe.
Chasing the weather system from when it hits land in the south (where a family anxiously awaits its arrival) to its passage through large cities like Calcutta and Mumbai and on into the northern sections of the country, Gunnarsson speaks to Indians from all walks of life about the monsoon’s manifold effects.
March 7: 1 pm: TRICK OR TREATY?
Trick or Treaty?
Dir. Alanis Obomsawin
Documentary
English and Cree with English subtitles
85 mins
Against the backdrop of key recent events, such as Chief Theresa Spence’s hunger strike and the rise of Idle No More, Obomsawin interviews a string of legal, historical, and cultural experts, as well as people whose ancestors were present when the treaty was signed more than a century ago, about the corrupt genesis of Treaty 9.
The deeper she digs, the more disturbing the revelations. It becomes clear that the printed copy of the treaty is not the only valid version. More startling, the First Nations signatories themselves were not able to see the written treaty until decades after the signing, and then in a language they didn’t understand.
As powerful, provocative, and important as any of her previous films, Trick or Treaty? again demonstrates why Obomsawin is one of our most vital cinematic voices.
March 6: 9:30: OCTOBER GALE
Friday, March 6: 9:30
OCTOBER GALE
Dir: Ruba Nadda 91 minutes
Cast: Patricia Clarkson, Scott Speedman, Tim Roth
Toronto doctor Helen Matthews, mourning the death of her husband, retreats to the isolated island cabin where they’d spent some of their most loving moments together. Her reminiscences are cut short when a mysterious man, Will, washes ashore, bleeding profusely from a gunshot wound.
She tends to his injuries; he refuses to explain what happened. But when a nasty storm traps them on the island and Will’s would-be killer returns to finish the job, Helen and Will’s ability to trust each other becomes a matter of survival.
Nadda and cinematographer Jeremy Benning show masterful visual command, carving up the space into stately wide shots and prowling camera moves that will keep you wondering what’s around the next corner — or tree.
March 6: 7 pm: RELATIVE HAPPINESS
RELATIVE HAPPINESS
Dir: Deanne Foley 94 minutes
Cast:: Melissa Bergland, Aaron Poole, Johnathan Sousa
Plus–sized and 30 years old, LEXIE IVY is a feisty Bed & Breakfast owner who desperately needs a date to her sister’s wedding. In small town Nova Scotia, that’s no easy task, especially when the most eligible bachelor is JOSS, the rough handyman fixing her roof.
When ADRIAN, a handsome and charming guest, arrives and seems to take an interest in Lexie, she thinks all her problems are solved. But she misreads the situation and is soon reeling, believing her romantic dream has slipped away, maybe forever.
After a series of hilarious mishaps and a reality check or two, Lexie opens her heart and eyes to see that love may be a lot closer than she thought.
RELATIVE HAPPINESS is a romantic comedy, every bit as feisty as Lexie herself.
The 19th Annual Cinema CNC Film Festival
The 19th Annual
Cinema CNC
Film Festival
is on.
March 6-8, 2015
at
The Prince George Playhouse.
Passes:
Festival: $56 [8 films]
Friday: $14 [2 films]
Saturday: $21 [3 films]
Sunday: $21 [3 films]
All passes include all the fun, pro-rated for the number of films.
Passes are available at
Books and Company,
the CNC Bookstore, and
the UNBC Bookstore
Single Tickets:
$8 and available at the door.
Friday:
RELATIVE HAPPINESS
OCTOBER GALE
Saturday:
TRICK OR TREATY?
MONSOON
BIG NEWS From Grand Rock
Sunday:
FELIX AND MEIRA
MOMMY
HEARTBEAT
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