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5TH ANNUAL ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL

Canadian & International Features

LEVEL 16

Restoration Tuesdays

www.winnipegcinematheque.com

March / April 2019

5 6 7 8 9 10Restoration Tuesdays: The Hitch-Hiker / 7 pmDetour / 8:30 pm

McDonald at the Movies: Some Like It Hot / 7 pmBodied / 9:30 pm

French Film Festival: Amanda / 7 pmSink or Swim / 9 pm

French Film Festival: (Being) Women in Canada / 7 pmIn Safe Hands / 9 pm

Anthropocene: The Human Epoch / 3 pmFrench Film Festival: A Summer’s Tale / 5 pmNon-Fiction / 7 pmKeep an Eye Out / 9 pm

French Film Festival: Mr. Klein / 2:30 pm16 levers de soleil / 5 pmLe samouraï / 7 pm

TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY

March 2019

1 2 3 Black Lodge: Secret Cinema with Damien Ferland / 7 pmAnthropocene: The Human Epoch / 7 pmBodied / 9 pm

Anthropocene: The Human Epoch / 3 pm & 7:15 pmBodied / 5 pm & 9 pm

Anthropocene: The Human Epoch / 5 pmBodied / 7 pm

12 13 14 15 16 17Restoration Tuesdays: Detour / 7 pmThe Hitch-Hiker / 9 pm

Under a Cold War Sky / 7 pm WNDX: Shakedown / 7 pmAnthropocene: The Human Epoch / 9 pm

am-fm: Benjamin Bartlett / 7 pmI Still Hide to Smoke / 9 pm

am-fm: Panel: Gender Roles in Film / 1 pmMalaria Business / 3 pmN.G.O. (Nothing Going On) / 5 pmZizou / 7:15 pmA Day for Women / 9:30 pm

am-fm: Algéria, De Gaulle and the bomb / 2 pmTo the Ghost of the Father / 4 pmKeteke / 6 pm

Restoration Tuesdays: The Hitch-Hiker / 7 pmDetour / 8:30 pm

Best of Gimli: Under The Tree / 7 pmBest of Gimli: Minding The Gap / 9 pm

Best of Gimli: Minding The Gap / 7 pmFalls Around Her / 9 pm

Decasia / 7 pmBest of Gimli: Minding The Gap / 9 pm

Decasia / 3 pmBest of Gimli: Under The Tree / 5 pm & 9 pmFalls Around Her / 7 pm

Falls Around Her / 3 pm & 7 pmBest of Gimli: Minding The Gap / 5 pm

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Restoration Tuesdays: Detour / 7 pmThe Hitch-Hiker / 8:30 pm

FACE | TIME: The Animated Works of Anita Lebeau / 7 pmBorder / 9 pm

Level 16 / 7 pm & 9 pm Level 16 / 7 pmBorder / 9 pm

Level 16 / 3 pm & 9 pmBorder / 5 pm & 7 pm

Border / 3 pmLevel 16 / 5 pm & 7 pm

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9 10 11 12 13 14Restoration Tuesdays: Rocco and His Brothers / 7 pm

McDonald at the Movies: Time Bandits / 7 pmThe House That Jack Built / 9:30 pm

Iranian Cinema: Sheeple / 7 pmThe House That Jack Built / 9 pm

Black Lodge: Secret Cinema with Stephanie Berrington / 7 pmThe Woman Who Loves Giraffes / 7 pmThe House That Jack Built / 9 pm

The House That Jack Built / 2 pm & 9 pmThe Woman Who Loves Giraffes / 5 pm & 7 pm

The House That Jack Built / 2 pmThe Woman Who Loves Giraffes / 5 pm & 7 pm

TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY

April 2019


Level 16 / 7 pmBorder / 9 pm

Border / 7 pmLevel 16 / 9 pm

Level 16 / 7 pmBorder / 9 pm

The Woman Who Loves Giraffes / 3 pm & 5 pmBorder / 7 pmLevel 16 / 9 pm

The Woman Who Loves Giraffes / 3 pmBorder / 5 pm & 7 pm


National Canadian Film Day: Animating the Good and the Bad / 7 pmBurning / 8:30 pm

The Woman Who Loves Giraffes / 7 pmThe House That Jack Built / 9 pm

Burning / 7 pm The Woman Who Loves Giraffes / 3 pmBurning / 5 pmCinematheque’s 4/20 Cartoon Party! / 8 pm

The Woman Who Loves Giraffes / 3 pm & 5 pmBurning / 7 pm

Restoration Tuesdays: Rocco and His Brothers / 7 pm

Burning / 7 pm Burning / 7 pm Canada’s Top Ten: Giant Little Ones / 7 pmBurning / 9 pm

Burning / 2 pm & 9 pmCanada’s Top Ten: Giant Little Ones / 5 pm & 7 pm

Burning / 2 pmCanada’s Top Ten: Giant Little Ones / 5 pm & 7 pm

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Restoration Tuesdays: Rocco and His Brothers / 7 pm

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Monday, April 15The Last Supper: Special Screening & Master Class / 7 pm

Bodied Directed by Joseph Kahn 2017, USA, 120 min

Friday, March 1 / 9 pmSaturday, March 2 / 5 pm & 9 pm Sunday, March 3 / 7 pmWednesday, March 6 / 9:30 pm

Produced by Eminem and directed by world-renowned music video director Joseph Kahn, this is a go-for-the-jugular, hilarious look inside the competitive world of rap battles. Bodied is the satirical story of Adam Merkin, a progressive grad student who accidentally becomes a battle rapper whose success breeds outrage.

Sponsored by Fourth Quarter Records.

Restoration Tuesdays:The Hitch-HikerDirected by Ida Lupino1953, USA, 71 min

Tuesday, March 5 / 7 pm Tuesday, March 12 / 9 pm Tuesday, March 19 / 7 pm Tuesday, March 26 / 8:30 pm

Beyond its obvious cultural significance as the only classic film noir directed by a woman (actress Ida Lupino), The Hitch-Hiker is perhaps better remembered as one of the most nightmarish motion pictures of the 1950s. Inspired by the true-life murder spree of Billy Cook, the film tells the tension-laden saga of two men who are held captive by a homicidal drifter and forced at gunpoint to embark on a grim joyride across the Mexican desert. Representing renegade filmmaking at its finest, the film was independently produced, which allowed Lupino to work from a treatment by blacklisted writer Daniel Mainwaring, and tackle an incident that was too brutal for the major studios to even consider.

Restoration Tuesdays:DetourDirected by Edgar G. Ulmer1945, USA, 69 min

Tuesday, March 5 / 8:30 pm Tuesday, March 12 / 7 pm Tuesday, March 19 / 8:30 pm Tuesday, March 26 / 7 pm

March 12 screening introduced by Guy Maddin with skype call to follow with Ben Crossley-Marra from Janus Films.

From the gutters of Poverty Row came a movie that, perhaps more than any other, epitomizes the dark fatalism at the heart of film noir. As he hitchhikes his way from New York to Los Angeles, a down-on-his-luck nightclub pianist f inds himself with a dead body on his hands and nowhere to run—a waking nightmare that goes from bad to worse when he picks up the most vicious femme fatale in cinema history, Ann Savage’s snarling, monstrously conniving drifter Vera. Working with no-name stars on a bargain-basement budget, B-movie auteur Edgar G. Ulmer turned threadbare production values and seedy, low-rent atmosphere into indelible pulp poetry.

Falls Around Her Directed by Darlene Naponse 2018, Canada, 98 min

Thursday, March 21 / 9 pm Saturday March 23 / 7 pm Sunday, March 24 / 3 pm & 7 pm

March 21st screening introduced by Tina Keeper.

Mary (played by legendary Cree and Métis actor Tantoo Cardinal in her first leading role), a world-famous Anishinaabe musician in her sixties, has had enough. Fleeing the hectic pace of touring, her abusive manager and even the love of her fans, she seeks refuge on her reserve in Northern Ontario. Her sister Betty (Tina Keeper) urges her to reconnect with family and old friends.

Plays with Dear Hatetts / Directed by Kerry Barber, 2017, Canada, 6 min

Border (Gräns)2018, Sweden, 110 min Directed by Ali AbissiSwedish with English subtitles

Wednesday, March 27 / 9 pm Friday, March 29 / 9 pmSaturday, March 30 / 5 pm & 7 pm Sunday, March 31 / 3 pmWednesday, April 3 / 9 pm Thursday, April 4 / 7 pm Friday, April 5 / 9 pm Saturday, April 6 / 7 pm Sunday, April 7 / 5 pm & 7 pm

Co-written by John Ajvide Lindqvist, author of Swedish vampire movie Let the Right One In, Border is the Cannes award winning story of Tina an unusual looking female border guard with a strange talent for smelling human emotions. Tina’s world is upended when she meets a mysterious, yet suspicious man with a smell that confounds her detection. Vore becomes the man of her dreams. But through her affections for Vore, Tina is forced to face certain moral quandaries for humankind. Unique, unforgettable and cathartic, Border is an oddball, but poignant, cult classic in the making.

Level 16Directed by Danishka Esterhazy 2018, Canada, 102 min

Thursday, March 28 / 7 pm & 9 pmFriday, March 29 / 7 pmSaturday, March 30 / 3 pm & 9 pm Sunday, March 31 / 5 pm & 7 pmWednesday, April 3 / 7 pmThursday, April 4 / 9 pmFriday, April 5 / 7 pm Saturday, April 6 / 9 pm

At the Vestalis Academy, sixteen-year-old Vivien and her fellow students follow a regimented program under the watchful eye of stern headmistress Miss Brixil. Fearing an outside world they have never seen, the teens work hard to be perfect young women, both in their cleanliness and domestic aptitude, in the hopes of being adopted. But the school is not all as it seems. Reluctant at first to heed the warnings of former friend Sophia, Vivien begins to realize that sinister motives are at play. Level 16 is a compelling thriller that serves as a powerful metaphor for the unnatural standards society places on women.

Restoration Tuesdays:Rocco and His Brothers Directed by Luchino Visconti1960, Italy, 177 minItalian with English subtitles

Tuesday, April 2 / 7 pmTuesday, April 9 / 7 pmTuesday, April 16 / 7 pmTuesday, April 23 / 7 pmTuesday, April 30 / 7 pm

April 2nd screening features skype conversation with Amy Heller, President of Milestone Films before the screening.

Looking for opportunity, five brothers move north with their mother to Milan. There, Simone and Rocco find fame, in the boxing ring, and love, in the same woman—Nadia. Jealousy mounts, blood is shed, and a striving family faces self-destruction in this incisive, sensuous, emotionally bruising masterwork from director Luchino Visconti. Painstakingly restored in 4K by the Film Foundation and the Cineteca di Bologna, Rocco and His Brothers has never looked or sounded so pristine.

The House That Jack Built (Director’s Cut)Directed by Lars Von Trier 2018, USA, 155 min

Wednesday, April 10 / 9:30 pmThursday & Friday, April 11 & 12 / 9 pmSaturday, April 13 / 2 pm & 9 pmSunday, April 14 / 2 pm Friday, April 18 / 9 pm

The Cannes premiere of Lars von Trier’s masterful provocation sparked both bilious outrage and begrudging admiration. In detailing the murderous exploits of unrepentant serial killer Jack a.k.a. Mr. Sophistication in graphic detail, the Peter Pan of enfants terribles also engages in some perverse but poignant self-reflection (if not outright character suicide). As he marches us to a dizzying climax featuring an astonishingly cinematic depiction of damnation, he once again displays his uncanny talent for eliciting performances completely dialed into his film’s disturbing frequencies.— Vancouver International Film Festival

Special Screening and Master Class:The Last SupperDirected by Cynthia Roberts1995, Canada, 96 min

Monday, April 15 / 7 pm

WFG Executive Director Greg Klymkiw will introduce the film and provide an in-depth script-to-screen case study master class following the screening.

A dancer (Ken McDougall) dying of AIDS choreographs the last ninety minutes of his life before choosing to have euthanasia performed by a compassionate doctor (Daniel MacIvor) to end his suffering. Director Cynthia Roberts and producer/co-screenwriter Greg Klymkiw shot this harrowing drama at the Casey House AIDS Hospice in Toronto. Veteran actor McDougall slipped into a final coma and died four days after shooting was completed. One of the most acclaimed Canadian films ever made. Winner Best Feature Film Teddy Award (Berlin Film Festival), Critics Week Selection (Locarno International Film Festival), and invited to over 200 international film festivals.

All seats for Screening and Master Class: $10.00

Canadian & International Features

Burning (Beoning)Directed by Chang-dong Lee2018, South Korea, 149 minKorean with English subtitles

Wednesday, April 17 / 8:30 pm Friday, April 19 / 7 pmSaturday, April 20 / 5 pm Sunday, April 21 / 7 pmWednesday & Thursday, April 24 & 25 / 7 pm Friday, April 26 / 9 pmSaturday, April 27 / 2 pm & 9 pmSunday, April 28 / 2 pm

Widely regarded as a critical masterpiece, Burning is the South Korean entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards. A psychological thriller wrapped in layers of mystery with a haunting ending. Aspiring writer Jong-su runs into Haemi, who claims to be his childhood classmate. After seducing him, she scoots off to Africa, leaving him to feed her elusive cat. She returns with suave, well-heeled Ben, whose aura of privilege makes the farm boy roil with envy and self-pity. One day, Ben confides in a stoned haze that he has a secret fetish for burning down greenhouses. Soon after that, Haemi disappears.

Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival: Giant Little OnesDirected by Keith Behrman 2018, Canada, 93 min

Friday, April 26 / 7 pmSaturday & Sunday, April 27 & 28 / 5 pm & 7 pmAdolescents face enormous pressure to make life-def ining decisions every day and they want to lock in their identities sooner rather than later. All of this pressure is exacerbated by physical and social changes. Franky, the hero of Keith Behrman’s exquisite and generous Giant Little Ones, is under more pressure than most. His life was altered when his father left his mother for a man. Franky is left confused and angry toward his father for breaking up the family. Things are further confused for Franky when his wild birthday party ends in a sexual encounter no one could have imagined, including his best friend and girlfriend. As Franky’s world crumbles, he and his friends are forced to decide what kind of people they want to be. — TIFF

GENEROUSLY SPONSORED BY William F. White & IATSE 856

Some Like It HotDirected by Billy Wilder 1959, USA, 121 min

Wednesday, March 6 / 7 pm

Introduced by Kevin McDonald.

“One of the enduring treasures of the movies, a f ilm of inspiration and meticulous craft, a movie that’s about nothing but sex and yet pretends it’s about crime and greed. The plot is classic screwball. Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon play Chicago musicians who disguise themselves as women to avoid being rubbed out after they witness the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. They join an all-girl orchestra on its way to Florida. Monroe is the singer, who dreams of marrying a millionaire but despairs, “I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop.” Curtis lusts for Monroe and disguises himself as a millionaire to win her. Monroe lusts after money and gives him lessons in love. Jack Lemmon gets the fuzzy end of the lollipop in the parallel relationship.” — Roger Ebert

Time Bandits Directed by Terry Gilliam 1981, UK, 116 min

Wednesday, April 10 / 7 pm

“An extraordinarily inventive fantasy in which schoolboy Warnock is rescued from a dull suburban existence by a band of renegade dwarfs, who emerge from his wardrobe and whisk him off on an incredible journey through time and space. Guided by a ‘Time Hole Map of the Universe’, Warnock and his diminutive pals gatecrash history, meeting up with Robin Hood and Napoleon, and turning up uninvited in Ancient Rome and on the deck of the ill-fated Titanic. Monty Python animator Terry Gilliam fills the screen with bizarre images, and directs with a breathless ingenuity.” — Time Out

“A cheerfully irreverent lark—part fairy tale, part science fiction and part comedy. It’s a fantastic though wobbly flight through history and legend in the company of a small boy named Kevin and six dwarfs named Randall, Fidgit, Wally, Og, Stutter and Vermin.” — Vincent Canby, New York Times

McDonald at the Movies

Once a month, comedian and co-founder of Kids in the Hall, Kevin McDonald will present a film handpicked from the archives of comic history.

Introduced by Kevin McDonald.

Under the Tree (Undir trénu)Directed by Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson2018, Iceland, 89 minIcelandic with English subtitles

Wednesday, March 20 / 7 pmSaturday, March 23 / 5 pm & 9 pm

“Maintaining an unrelentingly gleeful grip on the film’s tone, the director skillfully whips absurdist comedy and chilling tragedy into a froth of surging hostilities.” — Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times

Under the Tree follows a man who is accused of adultery and forced to move in with his parents. While he fights for custody of his four-year-old daughter, he is gradually sucked into a dispute between his parents and their neighbours over an old and beautiful tree. What starts as a typical spat between suburban neighbours unexpectedly and violently reaches a boiling point, spiraling out of control.

Minding the GapDirected by Bing Liu2018, USA, 93 min

Wednesday, March 20 / 9 pm Thursday, March 21 / 7 pm Friday, March 22 / 9 pmSunday, March 24 / 5 pm

* Winner of Best of Fest Award at 2018 Gimli Film Festival

Minding the Gap has garnered over 50 awards and recognitions, most recently receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary. Three young men bond together over their love of skateboarding to escape their volatile families in their Rust-Belt hometown. As they face adult responsibilities, unexpected revelations threaten their decade-long friendship. Filmmaker Bing Liu returns home to reconnect with his two friends, bringing with him footage he shot over the course of the last 10 years, and prepares for an emotional reckoning.

GIMLI FILM FESTIVAL PRESENTS

BEST OF THE FESTThe Gimli Film Festival and the Winnipeg Cinematheque are proud to present an encore screening of two of the best films from the 18th annual Gimli Film Festival. Minding the Gap won the Festival’s coveted Best of Fest Award, for its emotionally bare and bluntly honest portrayal of domestic abuse in middle America. Alternately, Under the Tree is a pristine example of the wry sense of dark Icelandic humour that GFF so often features in their Northern Lights Film Series.

The evening will include an art talk and audience Q&A with the filmmaker, moderated by visual artist Diana Thorneycroft.


Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art and Cinematheque present the Winnipeg premiere of Anita Lebeau’s new independent animated film FACE | TIME. In this short, Lebeau explores the interplay of time, aging, art, and self-perception, employing her signature blend of photo-realistic and hand drawn images. The evening also features Lebeau’s past work, including her two award-winning films with The National Film Board, Louise and Big Drive. Additionally, Lebeau will offer a sneak peek at her current NFB project, as well as sharing a selection of experimental projects in which she explores a variety of animation styles and software programs. Lebeau uses a multimedia approach to storytelling, where bits of reality share the screen with fully animated characters. Some projects allow hand-drawn animation to take center stage, while others explore concepts using fully-articulated cut-outs of real humans (photographs of them, that is). Lebeau’s art reflects the notion that ‘real’ life is filled with ‘the unreal’ — absurdities — which should be embraced as part of personal experience.

FACE | TIME: THE ANIMATED WORKS OF ANITA LEBEAU

NATIONAL CANADIAN FILM DAY:WINNIPEG FILM GROUP: FOUND IN TRANSLATION TOUR:

ANIMATING THE GOOD AND THE BADWednesday, April 17 / 7 pm / FREE ADMISSION

Introduced by Stephanie Berrington.

The films in this animation program are sometimes funny, sometimes irreverent, and sometimes dystopic in their rejection of normative ideologies. Featuring work by Alain Delannoy, Trevor Kristjanson, Mike Maryniuk, Alison Davis, John Paizs, Patrick Lowe, Murray Toews, Jackie Traverse, and Leslie Supnet.

New World Documentaries

Anthropocene: The Human Epoch Directed by Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky & Nicholas de Pencier 2018, Canada, 87 min

Friday, March 1 / 7 pmSaturday, March 2 / 3 pm & 7:15 pm Sunday, March 3 / 5 pm Saturday, March 9 / 3 pmThursday, March 14 / 9 pm

Back by popular demand, and four years in the making, this stunning new feature documentary is the latest film from the award winning team that created Manufactured Landscapes (2006). The film follows the research of an international body of scientists, who after nearly 10 years of research, are arguing that because of profound and lasting human changes to the Earth, the Holocene Epoch gave way to the Anthropocene Epoch in the mid-twentieth century. From concrete seawalls in China that now cover 60% of the mainland coast, to the devastated Great Barrier Reef in Australia the filmmakers have traversed the globe using high end production values and state of the art camera techniques to document evidence and experience of human planetary domination.

Under a Cold War SkyDirected by Kevin Nikkel2018, Canada, 70 min


Panel discussion to follow the screening.

What do you do with a radar station no one wants anymore? Under a Cold War Sky explores the stories from the communities of Skrunda, Latvia and Hall Beach, Nunavut, Canada—two places on the margins that were home to radar sites built by the Americans and Soviets during the Cold War. The film reveals the stories of those living in places that were swept up in the conflict, people that still have Cold War stories to tell.

Plays with: Magnetic Reconnection / 2016, Canada, 12 min, Directed by Kyle Armstrong / A short documentary film contrasting the Northern Lights with decaying man made debris in Canada’s north.

ShakedownDirected by Leilah Weinraub2018, USA, 82 min

Thursday, March 14 / 7 pm

‘Shakedown’ was a series of parties founded by and for African American women in Los Angeles that featured go-go dancing and strip shows for the city’s lesbian underground scene. Showing the protagonists backstage and in interviews, this intimate chronicle reveals that ‘Shakedown’ was more than just a strip club; as one of the few spaces for lesbian subculture, the club brought together and galvanised a community of freaks and queers of colour.

Presented in partnership with the WNDX Festival of Moving Image.

Decasia Directed by Bill Morrison 2002, USA, 70 min

Friday, March 22 / 7 pmSaturday, March 23 / 3 pm

Often compared to Stan Brakhage, f ilmmaker Bill Morrison created Decasia entirely from decaying old found footage, melded to the music of Bang on a Can’s Michael Gordon performed by the 55 piece Basel Sinfonietta. The result is a mesmerizing film of deteriorating film stock and a moving avant garde masterpiece.

“A stunningly beautiful ode to creation and decay.”— Sundance Film Festival

Sponsored by Groundswell.

The Woman Who Loves GiraffesDirected by Alison Reid2018, Canada, 83 min

Saturday, April 6 / 3 pm & 5 pmSunday, April 7 / 3 pm Friday, April 12 / 7 pm Saturday & Sunday, April 13 & 14 / 5 pm & 7 pm Thursday, April 18 / 7 pm Saturday, April 20 / 3 pm Sunday, April 21 / 3 pm & 5 pm

In 1956, four years before Jane Goodall ventured into the world of chimpanzees and seven years before Dian Fossey left to work with mountain gorillas, 23-year-old Canadian biologist, Anne Innis Dagg, made an unprecedented solo journey to South Africa to become the first person in the world to study animal behaviour in the wild on that continent. In The Woman Who Loves Giraffes, an older, wiser Anne takes us on her first expedition back to Africa where her trail-blazing journey began more than half a century ago. Retracing her original steps, Anne offers an intimate window into her life as a young woman, juxtaposing it with a firsthand look at the devastating reality that giraffes face today. Both the world’s first ‘giraffologist’, whose research findings ultimately became the foundation for many scientists following in her footsteps, and the species she loves have each experienced triumphs as well as suffering some nasty battle scars. The Woman Who Loves Giraffes gives us a moving perspective on both.

AmandaDirected by Mikhaël Hers2018, France, 107 minFrench with English subtitles


Modern-day Paris. Twenty-four-year-old David (Vincent Lacoste) lives in the moment. He juggles a variety of different odd jobs and continues to put off—just for a while longer—the time to make more serious decisions. But the relaxed pace of his life shifts gears when he suddenly must take charge of his seven-year-old niece, Amanda.

Sink or Swim (Le grand bain) Directed by Gilles Lellouche 2018, France, 122 min French with English subtitles


A group of 40-somethings on the verge of a mid-life crisis, decide to form their local pool’s first ever synchronized swimming team—for men. Starring Mathieu Almaric and Guillaume Canet.

Winnipeg Film Group: Found In Translation Tour:(Being) Women in Canada

Friday, March 8 / 7 pm

Introduced by Stephanie Berrington.FREE ADMISSION

This program recognizes and celebrates films from the Winnipeg Film Group’s history that are directed by women. Featuring work by Jessie Short, Danielle Sturk, Tricia Wasney, Shawna Dempsey, Tracy Traeger, Lorri Millan, Erica Eyres, Eve Majzels, Michelle Elrick, Caroline Monnet, Amanda Strong, Leslie Supnet, and Rhayne Vermette.

In Safe Hands (Pupille) Directed by Jeanne Herry 2018, France, 107 minFrench with English subtitles


Abandoned at birth, baby Theo’s uncertain future lies in the hands of child welfare services. Jeanne (Sandrine Kiberlain) is given the responsibility of temporarily looking after Theo while the members of the adoption agency have the difficult task of finding him a home. Alice (Élodie Bouchez), unable to have children of her own, has never stopped fighting to be a mother.

A Summer’s Tale (Conte d’été) Directed by Éric Rohmer1996, France, 113 min French with English subtitles

Saturday, March 9 / 5 pm

Gaspard (Melvil Poupaud) is a young, handsome, completely self-absorbed musician holidaying in Brittany. Awaiting the arrival of his not-quite girlfriend Léna—more a “habit of coincidence,” he clarifies—Gaspard begins courting the affections of sweet, smart, ethnology student Margot, and then Margot’s smitten friend. Léna, of course, shows up, pushing the romancer to choose between his three surprise suitresses.

Non-Fiction (Double vies) Directed by Olivier Assayas 2018, France, 108 min French with English subtitles


Set amidst the intelligentsia of the publishing world, Non-Fiction by Olivier Assayas (Clouds of Sils Maria and Personal Shopper) traces the romantic and emotional fallout that results when a controversial writer uses his real-life love affairs —including a passionate fling with an actress who happens to be married to his editor—as fodder for his explosive new novel. Balancing dry wit with keen observations on the tensions between art, commerce, and technology, Non-Fiction is a breezy delight from a master director at his most effortlessly brilliant. Starring Juliette Binoche and Guillaume Canet.

Keep an Eye Out (Au poste!) Directed by Quentin Dupieux aka Mr. Oizo 2018, France, 73 min French with English subtitles


“A delightful French comedy, with some genuinely hilarious moments… perfect for one hell of a family movie night.” — David Cuevas, On The Clock

Hapless, moustachioed Fuguain (Gregoire Ludig) has been hauled in to give a statement to Commissaire Buron (Man Bites Dog’s Benoît Poelvoorde) about a corpse he found—and it quickly turns into a banal, exhaustive description of his whole evening, involving a cockroach, a bag of chips, and a TV show about horses. When he’s left alone with a paranoid deputy, Fuguain suddenly f inds himself with not one, but two unexplained corpses on his hands.

Mr. Klein Directed by Joseph Losey 1976, France, 123 min French with English subtitles

Sunday, March 10 / 2:30 pm

“Joseph Losey’s Mr. Klein, made in France during the director’s long post-blacklist exile from the U.S., is a chilling parable about identity, fascism, exploitation and oppression… unforgettable.” — Ed Howard, Only The Cinema

Robert Klein (Alain Delon) cannot find any fault with the state of affairs in German-occupied France. He has a well-furnished flat, a mistress, and business is booming. Jews facing discrimination because of laws carried forth by the French government are desperate to sell valuable works of art—and it is easy for him to get them at bargain prices. His comfortable situation is disrupted when he discovers that there is another Robert Klein living in Paris. Also starring Jeanne Moreau.

16 levers de soleilDirected by Pierre-Emmanuel Le Goff 2018, France, 117 min French with English subtitles

Sunday, March 10 / 5 pm

On November 17th 2016, French ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet took off for his first mission on the International Space Station. For six months, 450 kilometres from Earth where the world seems to fade into the unknown, a dialogue is established between the astronaut and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s classic The Little Prince, which he brought with him to the space station. A visually stunning documentary with a lively jazz score by Guillaume Perret, witness a young astronaut’s awe as he realizes his dreams.

Le samouraïDirected by Jean-Pierre Melville1967, France, 101 minFrench with English subtitles


Back by popular demand. In a career-defining performance, Alain Delon plays a contract killer with samurai instincts. A razor-sharp cocktail of 1940s American gangster cinema and 1960s French pop culture—with a liberal dose of Japanese lone-warrior mythology.

5TH ANNUAL ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL

WRONG COPS, JAZZTRONAUTS AND SYNCHRONIZED SWIMMINGAlliance Française du Manitoba is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to teaching and promoting French and its diverse culture. For the 5th time, the Alliance Française’s French Film Festival, curated by Damien Ferland and Alan Nobili, will give Winnipeggers the opportunity to see a diverse selection of French feature-length movies.

Benjamin BartlettDirected by Tope Babalola2018, Canada, 90 min


An introverted student, with incredible deductive reasoning skills, teams up with a spirited artist to help clear the name of their school’s recently disgraced athlete.

Plays with Change Your Heart, Not My Colour (Change Ton Coeur, Pas Ma Couleur) / Directed by Pierre-Antoine Carpentier, 2017, Senegal, 19 min

I Still Hide to Smoke (À mon âge je me cache encore pour fumer)Directed by Rayhana2016, Algeria/France, 90 minArabic and French with English subtitles


Nine women of various backgrounds gather in an Algerian hammam to talk about their lives.

Plays with Beyond That Wall / Directed by Aisha Jabour, 2017, Morocco, 18 min, Arabic with English subtitles

Malaria BusinessDirected by Bernard Crutzen2017, France, 70 minEnglish and French with Subtitles


The controversial story of those who have been trying to fight malaria for the last 50 years.

Plays with Watu Wote: All of us / Directed by Katja Benrath, 2017, Kenya, 22 min, Swahili and Somali with English subtitles

N.G.O. (Nothing Going On)Directed by Aganze Arnold2016, Uganda, 83 min


Two friends jokingly setup a fake NGO and soon realize that getting out of it is harder than getting it started.

Plays with Fallou / Directed by Allasane Sy, 2017, Senegal, 30 min, Wolof with English Subtitles

ZizouDirected by Ferid Boughedir2016, Tunisia, 99 minFrench and Arabic with English Subtitles

Saturday, March 16 / 7:15 pm

In the heat of the Arab Spring, a young unemployed man gets into trouble, falls in love, becomes a political hero, and creates chaos all in very short span of time.

Plays with Hands / Directed by Lea Malle Frank Thierry, 2017, Cameroun, 11 min, French with English Subtitles

A Day for WomenDirected by Kamla Abu Zekry2016, Egypt, 110 minArabic with English Subtitles

Saturday, March 16 / 9:30 pm

The opening of a new swimming pool is the talk of the town – particularly because Sunday has been announced as a day for women.

Plays with Sega / Directed by Idil Ibrahim, 2018, Senegal/USA, 24 min

Algéria, De Gaulle and the bombDirected by Benchiha Larbi2010, Algeria/France, 52 minFrench with English Subtitles


The untold story of nuclear bomb tests in the Sahara desert during the 1960s under the direction of President Charles de Gaulle.

Plays with Angles / Directed by Lea Malle Frank Thierry / 2017, Cameroun, 16 min

To the Ghost of the FatherDirected by Bayala Marie Laurentine2017, Burkina Faso, 50 minFrench with English Subtitles


The story of a Franco-Burkinabe mixed race woman who embarks on a quest to find her long lost father.

Plays with Mukhanya / Directed by Siza Mukhanya, 2018, Zimbabwe, 20 min, Shona with English Subtitles

KetekeDirected by Peter Sedufia2017, Ghana, 98 min


A couple travels by rail to give birth at the next village, but a wrong decision finds them in the middle of nowhere and they must race to make it on time for the delivery.

Plays with Kaniama Show / Directed by Baloji, 2018, DR Congo, 24 min, French with English Subtitles

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4/20 CARTOON PARTY!Saturday, April 20 / 8 pm – 11 pmAdmission: $15 General / $12 Students, Seniors & Members

Things just keep getting curiouser and curiouser here at the Cinematheque, and as an extension to our popular Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Party we’ve now got a special treat cooked up for the adults who want to indulge in their own brand of sweetness while binging on sugary cereal and the cartoons of days gone by. Rest assured, if you are lysergically-inclined, or like a bit of that friendly puf-n-stuf, this show spanning ‘50s hipsville to the spacy ‘70s is for you. From trippy kids shorts made by hippie animators to corporate-funded anti-drug films that co-opt the hallmarks of counterculture filmmaking, these cartoons are made to feed your head!

Iranian CinemaSheeple (Maghzhaye Koochake Zang Zadeh)Directed by Houman Seyyedi 2018, Iran, 110 min Persian with English Subtitles

Thursday, April 11 / 7 pm

Shahin, a loud-mouth fellow adopted years ago, is trying to establish his authority in a family run by the iron hand of his drug lord brother. When a cell phone video of their sister showing her hair to a strange man—a grave sin in that society—starts circulating, things get really crazy. The family’s honour becomes more important than any single member.

An ongoing series of Iranian films presented in conjunction with Amir Ganjavie, president of the Phoenix Cultural Centre of Toronto and CineIran—an annual festival of contemporary Iranian cinema in Toronto.

Giddy up cinema lovers! March and April are an embarrassment of riches at the Cinematheque. I’m particularly excited for the Winnipeg Film Group: Found In Translation Tour which has two programs featuring tons of local cinematic gems made by many of my personal heroes. I’d also like to highlight Bill Morrison’s Decasia which is a meditation on the decay of celluloid f ilm. Decasia pairs well with the continuation of the incredible Restoration Tuesdays series. Of note is the March 12th screening of Detour featuring an introduction from Guy Maddin and Skype conversation with Ben Crossley-Mara from the legendary Janus Films. — Ryan Steel , Cinematheque Box Office

It’s getting harder for me to narrow down my picks to just a few selections each program. This time around, a few of my favourite films of 2018 (Minding the Gap, Burning, The House That Jack Built) butt up against one of my all-time favourites (Rocco and His Brothers) and the return of a favourite local festival (Alliance Francaise French Film Fest). Lots of favourites! March/April will supply us with no shortage of cinematic experimentations: Shakedown, Decasia, and the Anita Lebeau program are sure to expand Winnipeg’s film IQ. We’ve been working hard at building up a head of steam towards a festival of new film restorations in 2020, and have invited professionals in the f ield to share their knowledge on Restoration Tuesdays. Don’t miss the chance to hear from giants Janus Films and Milestone Films. — David Knipe, Cinematheque Operations Manager

The Swedish entry for Best Foreign Film at the Academy Awards, Border (Gräns) is one of the weirdest films I have seen

in ages. I loved it. Part romance, part horror film and deeply moving. Former Winnipeg based director Danishka Esterhazy has created a terrif ic suspense thriller, Level 16, about a boarding school where young girls are being trained in the virtues of obedience and cleanliness. Four years before Jane Goodall, 23-year-old Canadian biologist Anne Innis Dagg was the first person to study animal behavior in the African wild, she is the unsung hero of The Woman Who Loves Giraffes. The Legendary Cree and Métis actor Tantoo Cardinal gives a terrific performance in Darlene Naponse’s new feature Falls Around Her which will be introduced by Tina Keeper who has a great role as her sister Betty. — Dave Barber , Senior Cinematheque Programmer

Nothing has me more excited this program then being able to watch a double dipping of film noir in March with our Restoration Tuesdays screenings of The Hitch-Hiker and Detour. These fantastic pulp films will have you entertained but also showcase the brilliant low budget independent film making showcase of the 40s and 50s in the United States. We are also saying farewell to our Distribution Coordinator Stephanie Berrington in May as she moves away, but before she goes she will be curating our Secret Cinema Series. Come join us in the Black Lodge Studio as we screen her long awaited pick! — Eric Peterson, Cinematheque Head Projectionist

Bill Morrison’s Decasia is on my list of films that I am quite embarrassed to have never seen, so I’m rather thrilled to finally get a chance to be immersed by this magnum opus of decayed celluloid—in a proper setting. Also I’m fairly jealous

that while on vacation in the USA, David got to see a fabled one-night-only screening of Lars Von Trier’s director’s cut of The House That Jack Built, which caused the distributor to get in piping hot water with the MPAA, so we cinema fans should rejoice at the opportunity to see this verboten, perverse and provocative tour de force. Lastly, please join us for a very special edition of Secret Cinema curated by our departing Distribution Coordinator, Stephanie “Cousin Stephie” Berrington, and help us give her a proper Winnipeg send off. — Jaimz Asmundson, Cinematheque Programming Director

The Woman Who Loves Giraffes is going to be a beautiful and wild ride (excuse the pun) and I am excited to learn more about a woman who spent her life passionately studying a majestic creature. I am also extremely excited for Level 16 directed by Danishka Esterhazy, she was one of the first people from the Winnipeg film industry I ever met and I can’t wait to see her new film! — Thomas Hanan, Cinematheque Box Office

Another avalanche of great films in this program. A few that I’ll draw your attention to includes the rare screening of The Last Supper by Cynthia Roberts, the harrowing critically acclaimed, multi-award-winning feature drama about AIDS and euthanasia which won the 1995 Berlinale Best Feature Film Gay Teddy Bear. (This screening is accompanied by a Master Class as part of my Creative Producing Series of workshops.) The restoration of Ida Lupino’s creepy, brilliantly directed 1953 f ilm noir classic The Hitch-Hiker is an absolute must-see as is Winnipeg filmmaker Danishka Esterhazy’s chilling dystopian thriller Level 16.— Greg Klymkiw, Executive Director

March/April Staff Picks

We acknowledge that Cinematheque is on Treaty One land and on the homeland of the Métis.

Left to right: Jaimz Asmundson, David Knipe, Dave Barber, Eric Peterson,

Greg Klymkiw, Conrad Vandenberg, Ryan Steel, Thomas Hanan.

Photo by Jen Doerksen.

STAFF LIST

Greg KlymkiwExecutive [email protected]

CINEMATHEQUE

Jaimz Asmundson Cinematheque Programming [email protected]

Dave BarberSenior Cinematheque Programmer

David KnipeCinematheque Operations Manager

Eric PetersonCinematheque Head Projectionist

DISTRIBUTION CENTRE

Monica LoweDeputy [email protected]

Stephanie BerringtonDistribution Coordinator

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Ben WilliamsProduction Centre Director/Director of Development & [email protected]

Dylan BaillieTechnical and Equipment Manager

Milos MitrovicManager of Programs and Training

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Secret Cinema with Damien Ferland


March’s Secret Cinema will be curated and introduced by Damien Ferland, a filmmaker and the programmer of the Alliance Française du Manitoba’s French Film Festival.

Secret Cinema with Stephanie Berrington

Friday, April 12 / 7 pm

In this edition of Secret Cinema, the films will be selected by Steph Berrington, a cultural worker and curator who has been the WFG’s Distribution Coordinator since 2016. Stephanie will be leaving the Film Group in May, so please join us to bid her adieu!.

In Secret Cinema, our all-celluloid film series, films from our own archive of 16mm film prints are selected by guest curators. The film titles are kept secret until the night of the screening.

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