POSSIBLE WORLDS – 3rd CANADIAN FILM FESTIVAL.
November 24th 2008 04:27
The festival opens with Academy Award® winning director Denys Arcand’s (The Barbarian Invasions) DAYS OF DARKNESS, a cerebral comedy focusing on Western Society. This from the same man who brought us Jesus of Montrealand The Decline of the American Empire. Immediately following is MY WINNIPEG which ran <i>In Competition</i> at this years Sydney Film Festival.
Young People F***ing
On Monday December 1, the festival heads off in a different direction with a documentary by Kenton Vaughan – The Museum. Budgets are blown, ego’s get trampled and the citizens of Toronto are outraged as the new director attempts to bring the Royal Ontario Museum, with the help of celebrity architect Daniel Libeskind (Ground Zero – New York), into the 21st century. Screened at the Australian Museum, this is a chance to get in early, check out some of the exhibits on display and then settle in for the fun.
Other films screening over this Canuck fest include EMOTIONAL ARITHMATIC starring Susan Sarandon, Gabriel Byrne, Max von Sydow and Christopher Plummer, TORONTO STORIES, vignettes form four thirty-something directors and NITRO bringing a Canadian variety fast and furious action to the screen.
Two other must sees are MA FILLE MON ANGE ( My Daughter, My Angel) focusing on a father’s attempts to save his daughter from falling into the clutches of the Montreal porn industry while THE BANQUET looks at the ripple effects of student protests in Quebec.
Films will be screened in both French and English throughout the 6 days of the festival with two directors Kenton Vaughan, and Simon Reynolds (ONLY) already slated to present their films at the festival and just to add to the fun, Air Canada has come on board to offer the chance to win the ultimate Canadian Holiday. And the best thing about this competition is that all you have to do is vote for your favourite film. It’s that simple. Gives you an excuse to see some more films! More about that later on!
As Dee Jefferson from <i>Senses of Cinema</i> avows "Possible Worlds, Sydney’s Canadian Film Festival has, unforeseeably, become amongst the best of the city’s burgeoning annual “international” film festivals (…).The Festivalists, comprised of Mathieu Ravier and Marianne Alla, have done something that most of Sydney’s other film festivals can’t or don’t do: they have made the festival accessible, interactive, engaging and relevant. While it is increasingly easy to get most foreign films on DVD, we rely on festivals like Possible Worlds to keep curating the emerging and obscure, the challenging and inspiring, the entertaining and the esoteric.”
With a vote of confidence like this how could you not get to at least one of the screenings?
Below is the full schedule for this year’s festival with some sessions fast selling out so head to
POSSIBLE WORLDS
The festival closes on December 2nd with the debut drama about teenagers caught in the aftermath of a brutal tragedy. TOUT EST PARFAIT (Everything is Fine) is currently taking the festival circuit by storm and is an impressive film to finish on.
2008 POSSIBLE WORLDS FILM FESTIVAL
A celebration of Canadian Cinema.
Festival Program.
Thursday 27 November
6:30pm | Opening Night Reception Days of Darkness | Dendy Opera Quays
8:45pm | My Winnipeg | Dendy Opera Quays
Friday 28 November
6:30pm | Nitro | Dendy Opera Quays
8:30pm | Young People F***ing After Party | Bobbi’s Pole Studio
Saturday 29 November
4:00pm | Emotional Arithmetic | Dendy Opera Quays
6:30pm | Toronto Stories | Dendy Opera Quays
6:30pm | Global Metal After Party | Utopia Records
MA FILLE MON ANGE
Sunday 30 November
3:30pm | Shake Hands With The Devil Q&A | Dendy Opera Quays
6:30pm | My Daughter My Angel | Dendy Opera Quays
8:30pm | Stuck | Dendy Opera Quays
Monday 1 December
6:30pm | The Museum Q&A | Australian Museum
6:30pm | The Wild Horse Redemption | Dendy Opera Quays
8:30pm | The Banquet | Dendy Opera Quays
Tuesday 2 December
10:30am | Afghanistan: Between Hope and Fear Q&A | Dendy Opera Quays
6:30pm | Only | Dendy Opera Quays
8:30pm | Everything’s Fine | Dendy Opera Quays
Tickets available through : MOSHTIX,
1300 GET TIX (438 849) and all Moshtix outlets.
More information on the Festival
is available at POSSIBLE WORLDS
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