The 24th Annual Cinema CNC Film Festival....We're Back!

 

Cafe Daughter. March 17th at 9:30 pm

Showing March 17th at 9:30 pm

March 17th: 9:30 pm CAFE DAUGHTER

Shelley Niro CANADA, 2023 English 97 minutes Principal Cast: Star Slade, Violah Beauvais, Sera-Lys McArthur

A young half-Cree, half-Chinese girl living in Saskatchewan with her family is instructed to keep her Indigenous identity hidden by her ailing mother in order to escape prejudice from their community. Based on the story of retired-Canadian Senator Lillian Dyck, the film follows a nine year-old Yvette and she navigates childhood in her parent’s café identifying as both Chinese and Cree. As the only Chinese family in town, they are constantly victims of racist taunts and actions. However, Yvette’s mother, Cree herself, instructs her children to not tell anyone of their Indigenous identity, as this would only make things worse. After her mother’s death, Yvette seeks to figure out what it means to be someone on the margins of this small Saskatchewan city. Brave, intelligent, and moving, this film weaves together a poignant tale about rising amid adversity.

THE TRAILER:

There is no official trailer out, yet, for this movie... it's that new. Here's a link to a description of the stage play that is the basis of the film:

Ru. March 17th at 7 pm

 Showing March 17th at 7 pm

March 17th: 7:00 pm RU 

Charles-Olivier Michaud CANADA, 

2023 French, Vietnamese 116 minutes 

Principal Cast: Chloé Djandji, Chantal Thuy, Jean Bui

Based on the Governor General’s Award–winning novel by Kim Thúy, Ru is the story of the arduous journey of a wealthy family fleeing from Vietnam in 1975 after the fall of Saigon, then spending time at a refugee camp in Malaysia, before landing in Quebec. This film adaptation, directed by Charles-Olivier Michaud, tracks the events through the eyes of the daughter of the family, Nguyen An Tinh. She’s trying to make sense of her new French-speaking life while also fully aware of the horrors that she and her family have escaped. A stunningly beautiful film, Ru doesn’t shy away from devastating flashbacks of fleeing and hiding in buildings, friends and family left behind, and a dark and scary passage by boat. These flashbacks are juxtaposed with images of the family in snowy Quebec, trying to find their footing in a very different world than the one they’re used to, making friends, and working restaurant jobs amid culture clashes. Ru is a sombre examination of forced migration, isolation, and newfound belonging, told through rich visuals and an orchestral score.

THE TRAILER:

Days of Happiness. March 17th at 1 pm

 Showing March 17th at 1 pm

March 17th: 1:00 pm DAYS OF HAPPINESS

Chloé Robichaud CANADA, 2023 French 118 minutes Principal Cast: Sophie Desmarais, Vincent Leclerc, Nour Belkhiria, Sylvain Marcel

Days of Happiness, the latest drama from Montreal-based writer-director Chloé Robichaud, is an emotionally complex, visually assured drama about a young orchestra conductor who finds herself at a crossroads in her life and career. Charismatic, gifted Emma (Sophie Desmarais, who starred in Robichaud’s breakout, Sarah Prefers to Run, TIFF ’13) is on track to become a major player on the Quebec classical music scene. Audiences are enraptured by her work, but her career is very closely managed by her controlling father, Patrick (Sylvain Marcel), who’s also her agent. After years of acquiescing to his demands, Emma is finally in a position to re-evaluate both their professional and personal relationship — and that’s when cellist and single mother Naëlle (Nour Belkhiria) enters her life, offering her the chance to experience an entirely different type of family dynamic. Comparisons to Todd Field’s Tár are likely inevitable, but this is a very different project. For a start, Robichaud is much more sympathetic to her characters, and far more invested in their mental and emotional well-being. Cinematographer Ariel Méthot and artistic consultant Yannick Nézet-Séguin (music director and principal conductor of Montreal’s Orchestre Métropolitain) give the film a visual and aural texture all its own. And Desmarais is uniquely compelling in the role of Emma, who’s only just beginning to realize she can have the life she deserves, if she fights for it. “Robichaud’s films don’t fit the traditional mold, [...] but it’s led to her being one of the truly most exciting filmmakers in the world. –Stephen Saito, The Moveable Feast

THE TRAILER:

Les Filles du Roi. March 16th at 9:30 pm

 Showing March 16th at 9:30 pm

March 16th: 9:30 pm LES FILLES DU ROI

Corey Payette  CANADA 2023 French 102 minutes 

Julie McIsaac, Kaitlyn Yott, Raes Calvert

Director Corey Payette—who also directed the original production, wrote the music, plays hand-drum for the score, and co-wrote the script and lyrics with actor Julie McIsaac (who plays Marie-Jeanne)—tenderly brings the audience into the film’s world. The story is seen through the eyes of Marie-Jeanne, Mohawk youth Kateri (Kaitlyn Yott), and Jean-Baptiste (Raes Calvert), who, like much of the rest of the cast, also reprise their roles from the original stage production. Marie-Jeanne has come to Canada with an idealized concept of what her life would be, and quickly comes to realize the fort isn’t what she wants.

The film embraces the medium shift, mixing scenes in physical locations with elements that feel more theatrical: a limited chorus, occasional synchronized dance numbers, and some sections presented evocatively in a studio-esque space rather than photographically. Lighting helps ground scenes: the stark blueness of winter casts cool shadows within the fort, contrasting with suffused warmth outdoors, or the incandescent orange of a hopeful lantern. By reframing history through a feminist, Indigenous lens, examining well-trod colonial stories from other perspectives, the film centres cultural dialogue. Kateri is drawn to the French settlement; Marie-Jeanne to the matrilineal Kanien’kéha:ka society outside the suffocating walls of the fort. This film deals with serious topics and all the complex forces at play, but it is entertaining as well.. and —it’s a musical!

THE TRAILER:

Mr. Dressup: the magic of make-believe. March16th at 7 pm

 Showing March 16th at 7 pm

March 16th: 7:00 pm MR. DRESSUP: 

The Magic of Make-Believe 

Robert McCallum CANADA, 2023 English 90 minutes Featuring: Judith Lawrence, Chris Coombs

Robert McCallum’s documentary looks at the life and work of Ernie Coombs, the nerdy American artist who became one of the CBC’s most beloved children's personalities — a grown-up pal to kids across the country for nearly 30 years, both on his TV show and in innumerable public appearances. The film also explores the love story of Coombs, his wife Lynn, and their kids, who grew up sharing their father with every other child in Canada. McCallum takes an almost cozy approach to the story, recreating the Mr. Dressup set and moving through Coombs’ life chronologically, mixing in archival interviews and behind-the-scenes footage while assembling a who’s who of Canadians influenced by the show: Michael J. Fox, Eric McCormack, Bif Naked, Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, Andrew Phung, Fred Penner, Barenaked Ladies, Graham Greene, Bruce McCulloch, Scott Thompson, Jonathan Torrens, Yannick Bisson, and more. There’s some nostalgia at play here, of course, and it just feels good to see beloved sets and props lovingly revived by McCallum’s team. But there’s more to Mr. Dressup — and this documentary — than a trunk and puppets and tinkly music: it’s about the importance of raising children with kindness, compassion, inclusion, and empathy, and encouraging them to explore the world and make it a little brighter.

THE TRAILER:

You Can Call Me Roger. March 16th at 1 pm

 Showing March 16th at 1 pm

March 16th: 1:00 pm. YOU CAN CALL ME ROGER

Jon Mann CANADA, 2022 English 75 minutes

Following the events of multi-generational abuse and trauma at residential school in Canada, this poignant documentary’s subject Chief Roger Augustine aims to fight for Indigenous rights and sovereignty and heal those affected. Canada’s history with the forced displacement, abuse, and genocide of Indignous peoples has become one of the biggest stories finally coming to light in the past decade. The harrowing situation generations of families had to endure is deftly documented through talking-head style interviews with survivors, their families, and Indigenous lawyers and politicians. Cutting in clips and stories of Roger’s life as a Chief, leader, and healer, we find out the strong need for survivors to process their trauma through cultural practice and Indigenous-led therapy. Sharing both optimism and wariness about the future of Indigenous life in Canada, You Can Call Me Roger shows how persistence and strong leadership are needed in the face of prejudice and violence. “Despite the sometimes horrific memories and stories shared in Halifax filmmaker Jon Mann’s documentary, You Can Call Me Roger, about the life of retired Assembly of First Nations regional Chief Roger Joseph Augustine, there remains an overriding sense of hope and optimism.” –Mark Robins, Halifax Presents

THE TRAILER:

Before the Sun: Aitamaako'tamisskapi Natosi. March 15th 9:30pm

 Showing March 15th at 9:30 pm

March 15th: 9:30 BEFORE THE SUN

AITAMAAKO’TAMISSKAPI NATOSI:

Directed by Banchi Hanuse, 2023, Canada, 88 minutes 

Don’t miss Nuxalk filmmaker Banchi Hanuse’s intimate and thrilling profile of Logan Red Crow, a young Siksika woman in the golden plains of Blackfoot Territory, as she prepares for one of the most dangerous horse races in the world: the Indian Relay. A sport for the truly brave, the Relay’s bareback riders vault from horse to horse in short, exhilarating races. As she prepares to make history by joining the men’s competition at the Calgary Stampede, Logan’s courage is repeatedly put to the test. There’s no hiding from the dangers of North America’s original extreme sport. Gentle and reflective yet unshakable in her determination, Logan is a champion in the making. Besides her skill and sheer grit, she has a loving family, an elite group of horses, and a home on her ancestral lands. Offering the dual pleasures of serenity and suspense – lyrical immersion in rural life alternating with thrilling race footage – the connections explored here are profound and lasting: those between father and daughter, animal and human, family and community, ancestral tradition and contemporary life. Graceful, compelling and uplifting, this inspirational portrait of radiant heroism has won four Leo Awards – including for Best Cinematography – and Audience Awards at the Vancouver and Calgary International Film Festivals. Named Best Documentary at San Francisco’s American Indian Film Festival, it also received a Special Jury Mention at the Port Townsend Film Festival “for capturing the soul of cinema.”

THE TRAILER:

and a clip:

Who's Yer Father? March 15th at 7:00pm

 Showing at 7 pm on March 15

March 15th: 7 pm WHO’S YER FATHER

Jeremy Larter CANADA, 2023 English 110 minutes 

Principal Cast: Chris Locke, Susan Kent, Jess Salgueiro

Who’s Yer Father? is a delightful Canadian crime-comedy with a charming East Coast twist. Directed by Prince Edward Islander Jeremy Larter, this quirky caper is set against the picturesque backdrop of the island's sandy shores and tight-knit community. Larry Constable (Chris Locke) is a down-and-out private investigator. In fact, he’s PEI’s only P.I., though his enthusiasm far outweighs his investigative prowess. When Luke Thorne, a wealthy seafood tycoon, needs help investigating suspicious black-market lobster sales on the other side of the island, he naturally turns to Larry. Plucky but hapless, Larry dives headfirst into the case and finds himself immersed in the scenic rural community of Sandbar Cove. There, he meets Rhonda, a local convenience store clerk (Susan Kent, This Hour Has 22 Minutes) who quickly takes to helping him solve his case. When Larry and Rhonda discover a secret about Thorne’s wife, they hatch a plan to blackmail her and escape to start a new life together, but you know what they say about the best laid plans! An oddball love letter to the East Coast, Who’s Yer Father? masterfully captures the essence of Maritime life, blending genres of humour, crime, and romance. Even the title is a nod to a local colloquialism; “who’s yer father” is a shorthand way for islanders to figure out if they know each other. And in a province of 170,000 people, chances are they do! Larter’s film is a heartwarming and entertaining addition to the Canadian cinema canon.

THE TRAILER:

The 24th Annual Cinema CNC Film Festival [revisited]

 

THE FESTIVAL IS POSTPONED

Dear Friends of Cinema CNC: 

up until 40 minutes ago, the Film Festival was going to go ahead; however, Provincial and Municipal initiatives to address the outbreak of Covid-19 have necessitated cancelling of large events for the near future. This means that there will be no festival this weekend.

It is our intention to postpone the festival until a more disease-free period [early May?] and, ideally, the line-up will remain the same. This means that tickets purchased and passes acquired will remain valid, just for a different day.

These are early minutes, so I haven't completely thought-out how best to proceed with refunds for those who would prefer this. Rest assured, you will be refunded, if that's what you desire.

Otherwise, the festival will happen, as promised, just on different days... stay tuned.

Unless, of course, this is the end-times as prophesied, in which case we will have some other concerns to discuss.

Please share and forward and tell your friends who might not see this message.

With sincere apologies,

Peter

The Twentieth Century - March 15th: 9:30

The Twentieth Century

Director: Matthew Rankin

Cast:: Daniel Beirne, Sarianne Cormier, Mikhaïl Ahooja, 

Year: 2019

Runtime: 90 minutes 

Country: Canada

Language: English

Winnipeg’s Matthew Rankin (The Tesla World Light) doubles down on his signature mode of gonzo history films with this bizarro biopic of William Lyon Mackenzie King, which reimagines the former Canadian Prime Minister’s early life as a series of abject humiliations, both professional and sexual.

Critical Notes

"The movie is full of demonstrative acting and self-consciously verbose dialogue..., but other touches underscore the serious critique beneath the heightened silliness." - Kevin Ritchie, NOW Toronto

 The Trailer!

Antigone - March 15th: 7 pm

Antigone 

Director: Sophie Deraspe 

CANADA, 2019
French w/ English subtitles 109 minutes 

Principal Cast: Nahéma Ricci, Nour Belkhiria, Rawad El-Zein, Rachida Oussaada, Antoine Desrochers, Paul Doucet, Nathalie Tanous, Hakim Brahimi, Benoit Gouin, Kathleen Fortin 

Gripping, powerful, and of-the-moment, Antigone loosely adapts Sophocles’ Greek tragedy and situates it in contemporary Montreal. The latest from critically acclaimed Québécois writer-director Sophie Deraspe (The Wolves, The Amina Profile) is a compassionate family drama that doesn’t hold back on its indictment of the current refugee and immigrant experience in North America. 

Following the murder of their parents, Antigone, her sister Ismène, her brothers Étéocle and Polynice, and their grandmother Ménécée find refuge in Montreal. They live a quiet, modest life in a tiny apartment in a working-class neighbourhood. A straight-A student seemingly destined for greatness, Antigone (masterfully played by Nahéma Ricci in her first leading role) is the glue that holds the family together. Tragedy strikes when Étéocle is wrongfully gunned down by police during the arrest of Polynice, a small-time drug dealer. Motivated by her sense of duty towards her family and fuelled by the memory she cherishes of her dead parents, Antigone decides to jeopardize her own future to preserve that of her family. 

Winner of the Canada Goose® Award for Best Canadian Feature Film at the 44th Toronto International Film Festival, Antigone 

acutely explores familial sacrifice, the burden of responsibility, and the nature of justice with exceptional depth and nuance. Although inspired by a story 2,500 years old, Deraspe’s film is a timely meditation — one that prompts serious reflection on immigrant life in an ostensibly welcoming contemporary Canada. 

“The film is an incisive critique of the power imbalance between citizens and immigrants and the hypocrisy of an unjust justice system. It jolts the viewer out of complacency.” 

—Kelsey Adams, NOW Magazine 

The Trailer:

Il Pleuvait des Oiseaux [and the Birds Rained Down] - March 15th: 2 pm

Il Pleuvait des Oiseaux [And the Birds Rained Down] 

Director: Louise Archambault 

CANADA, 2019

French w/ English subtitles 127 minutes 

Principal Cast: Andrée Lachapelle, Gilbert Sicotte, Rémy Girard, Ève Landry, Éric Robidoux, Louise Portal 

The latest from Louise Archambault (Film Circuit favourite Gabrielle), adapted from the acclaimed novel by Jocelyne Saucier, is an elegiac and charming meditation on the possibilities of living outside modernity. 

As the film opens, we meet three hermits living in cabins in the Quebec countryside, miles from civilization. Tom (Rémy Girard, The Barbarian Invasions, Incendies), Charlie (Gilbert Sicotte, The Salesman), and Ted (Kenneth Welsh, Wet Bum, Adoration) fled society years ago, and have eked out a back-to-the-land existence, selling pot to the closest locals with help from local hotelier Stephen (Éric Robidoux, Love in the Time of Civil War). 

But their lifestyle is increasingly endangered by nature, infirmity, and age. Ted collapses from a heart attack. Photographer and researcher Ange-Aimee (Eve Landry) threatens to disrupt their lives when she starts looking for survivors of a catastrophic blaze that happened decades ago, most notably Ted, whose actions during the fire have assumed heroic stature. 

And the Birds Rained Down is a tribute to the need to live independently and on one’s own terms — and to those courageous enough to pursue this. (It’s also a cry for respect for people and their choices, regardless of age.) Driven by an astonishing cast boasting some of Quebec’s most esteemed performers — including Andrée Lachapelle, whose career stretches back to 1954 — the film features one of the most beautiful musical moments of the year, when Girard’s ailing musician Tom, coaxed into performing at a nearby club, delivers a soulful and heartbreaking rendition of one of Tom Waits’ best tunes. 

“Touching, heartbreaking, and dangerously thought-provoking, And the Birds Rained Down will force you to re-examine your relationship with your- self, the world around you, and the people you love.” 

—Anne T. Donahue,  The Globe and Mail 

The Trailer!

Anne at 13,000 Feet - March 14th: 9:30

Anne at 13,000 ft 

Kazik Radwanski

Canada, USA, 2019

English

75 minutes | 14A

In just two features — TIFF selections Tower (2012) and How Heavy This Hammer (2015) — Kazik Radwanski has emerged as one of the most distinctive young voices in Canadian cinema, with his refreshingly unadorned yet empathic portraits of alienated individuals struggling to keep it together. His latest and best film to date, Anne at 13,000 ft centres on a precarious period in the life of its eponymous Anne, played by an electric Deragh Campbell in one of the year's most staggering performances.

With her best friend Sarah (musician Dorothea Paas), 27-year-old Anne works at a Toronto daycare, where she needlessly bickers with colleagues and is often more interested in fantasizing with the children than in supervising them. For Sarah's bachelorette party, they go skydiving, and Anne seems completely in her element, floating above it all, a true departure from her strained, awkward professional and social interactions (such as the one with new boyfriend Matt, played by filmmaker Matt Johnson). Radwanski's signature hand-held style matches the way Anne fumbles through life. Tight close-ups offer further evidence of Campbell's remarkable, spiky performance, with her character's tremulous shifts in mood and sentiment efficiently portrayed by subtle swings in tone and body language.

Rife with cinematic references, not the least of which is Gena Rowlands' all-out performance in Cassavetes' classic A Woman Under the Influence, Anne at 13,000 ft is raw and unnerving, and a clear evolution in Radwanski's filmmaking. A vivid portrait of volatility, the film provides both clever metaphors and jostling temporal shifts to show the fine line between losing one's ground and wanting, waiting, for one's life to take off.

The Trailer!

One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk - March 14th: 7 pm

One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk 

Director: Zacharias Kunuk 

CANADA, 2019

Inuktitut w/ English subtitles 112 minutes 

Principal Cast: Apayata Kotierk, Benjamin Kunuk, Kim Bodnia 

For decades, Zacharias Kunuk has been one of the most exciting, dynamic, and innovative filmmakers in Canada, and indeed the world. With Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner — a prize winner at Cannes and voted the best Canadian film of all time in a recent TIFF poll — Kunuk introduced a film language that combined myth, history, and folklore, an approach evi- dent in subsequent films like The Journals of Knud Rasmussen and Maliglutit (Searchers). 

His latest, One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk, hinges on a pivotal 1961 encounter on spring sea ice between the title character (Apayata Kotierk, Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, The Journals of Knud Rasmussen) and other community leaders and a government emissary (Kim Bodnia, television’s Killing Eve), who has come to ask them to relocate their families to permanent settlements and send their children to school. Kunuk employs approaches he used in the previous films, but there are also elements of cultural comedy in the contrast between pragmatic Inuit and the odd, incomprehensible expectations of the government agent. 

Those demands will ultimately carry an enormous gravitas. Behind what seems to the hunters to be the government agent’s incoherent requests is a policy that will mean a fundamental rupture in the lives of Inuit. The real Noah Piugattuk was born in 1900 and lived to be 96 years old. In that time, he saw the decline of traditional practices that had persisted for thousands of years and the creation of a new relationship with the Canadian colonial state. In this one day — and this fateful meeting — Kunuk condenses much about Inuit–settler relations. The emotional and historical layers in the film make it one of his finest works. 

“The real-time effect ... is compelling as its languor and its repetitions gradually reveal the deep cultural misunderstanding that is going on.” 

—Kate Taylor,  The Globe and Mail 

The Trailer!

Black Conflux - March 14th: 1 pm

Black Conflux

Director: Nicole Dorsey

Cast:: Ella Ballentine, Ryan McDonald, Olivia Scriven 

Year: 2019

100 minutes. Canada. English

The seemingly separate lives of an anxious, disillusioned teen girl and a troubled, alienated man converge fatefully in this haunting exploration of womanhood, isolation, and toxic masculinity, set in 1980s Newfoundland.

Set in suburban Newfoundland in 1987, Nicole Dorsey's debut feature Black Conflux is a dreamy account of two converging lives. Fifteen-year-old Jackie (Ella Ballentine) is navigating from vulnerable adolescence to impending adulthood. Dennis (Ryan McDonald) is a socially inept loner with a volatile dark streak and delusional fantasies of adoring women at his beck and call.

Critical Notes

"A haunting, humane twist on thriller conventions." - Stephen Dalton, Hollywood Reporter

the trailer!

White Lie - March 13th: 9:30

White Lie 

Directors: Calvin Thomas, Yonah Lewis 

CANADA, 2019   English.    96 minutes 

Principal Cast: Kacey Rohl, Amber Anderson, Martin Donovan, Connor Jessup, Thomas Olajide 

Directed with an assurance that suffuses every frame, the latest feature from Calvin Thomas and Yonah Lewis centres on Katie (Kacey Rohl, television’s Hannibal, Sisters & Brothers), a young woman who has become a literal poster child on her university campus: recently diagnosed with cancer, she’s the focal point of an online funding campaign for both herself and other cancer-related causes. The only problem is, it’s all built on a lie: Katie isn’t sick, and never has been. And as her story slowly begins to unravel, she disastrously decides to double down, unable to give up the real-life fantasy world she’s constructed for herself. 

Rohl dominates the film with her stunning and superbly textured performance as Katie — who variously comes across as an average young woman, a scared, abandoned little girl, and a Machiavellian schemer — and she’s supported by an amazing cast that includes Martin Donovan (Indian Horse) and Connor Jessup (Closer Monster, Blackbird). 

While the film has much to say about social media’s impact on contemporary culture — where compassion and hatred can both burst forth in tsunami-like waves, and where manipulation and falsehood have become the norm — its chief virtue is its insistence that we look at, and empathize with, a protagonist who does the unthinkable. It’s a feat that one rarely sees attempted, let alone succeeded at — but that’s only one of the reasons White Lie is one of the most fearless and emotionally affecting films you’ll see this year. 

“Driven by nuanced, persuasive performances and shot with an urgent, jittery tension, White Lie is a compelling close-up character study of a recklessly needy anti-heroine caught in an impossible dilemma of her own making.” 

—Stephen Dalton,  The Hollywood Reporter 

the Trailer!

It Must Be Heaven - March 13th: 7 pm

It Must Be Heaven 

Director: Elia Suleiman 

FRANCE/QATAR/GERMANY/CANADA/ PALESTINE/TURKEY, 2019

Arabic, English, French w/ English subtitles 101 minutes 

Principal Cast: Elia Suleiman, Gael García Bernal 

A church in Nazareth with a door that won’t open. A deserted Paris. A New York supermarket with as many guns as fresh produce. In his fifth feature — which garnered a Jury Special Mention at Cannes 2019 — Elia Suleiman, a famed figure in Palestinian cinema, explores the world with his trademark, wide-eyed wonder — one that, here, belies an incisive critique of nationalism and identity. 

Suleiman once again stars in his own film, personally investigating the meanings of being in exile and in search of a home. Opening in his native Palestine before moving to Paris and then New York, It Must Be Heaven comprises comedic vignettes, some darker than others. Suleiman embellishes small details in each, his style edging ever closer to the surreal, in an attempt to capture the experience of a perpetual outsider, and to suggest that normality is highly circumstantial — and often absurd. He also points to how biases in the real world are equally present in the film world, as It Must Be Heaven loosely follows Suleiman’s quest to get his film funded with one French producer telling Suleiman his idea “isn’t Palestinian enough.” 

With a screen presence that has been compared to Buster Keaton’s, Suleiman lends a detached bemusement to his observation of the minute oddities of daily life — which, when reflected on, reveal so much more than most would like to admit. 

“Whimsical and wistful yet infused with a yearn- ing for the stability of place, Heaven will have gates opened throughout the European indie circuit and potentially further afield.”

—Jay Weissberg, Variety 

the Trailer!

The 24th Annual Cinema CNC Film Festival!

The 24th Annual Cinema CNC Film Festival

March 13th to 15th, 2020

at the Prince George Playhouse

Eight Great Canadian Movies, Three Days, Lots of Fun!

Passes:

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

Available at Books and Company, the CNC Bookstore, and the UNBC Bookstore.


Single tickets: $8

Available at the door
or from centralinteriortickets.com [surcharges will apply]