Gimli Film Festival Program 2018 7207 GFF 2018 Program FINAL LR | Page 17

NARRATIVE
FILMS
ASPIRE THEATRE | 3 PM | THURS, JULY 26
ASPIRE THEATRE | 12:30 PM | SAT, JULY 28
A CIAMBRA
14A | ITALY / BRAZIL / GERMANY / FRANCE | 2017 | 118 m
Italian | English Subtitles | Premiere: Manitoba
JONAS CARPIGNANO
Pio Amato is in a hurry to grow up. He follows his older brother everywhere,
learning to hustle and navigate life on the streets. But things go wrong in a series
of events that will forever change the way he sees the world.
ASPIRE THEATRE | 8 PM | THURS, JULY 26
ARCHANGE L
14A | MANITOBA | 1990 | 90 m | English
*screens with The Heart of the World, dir. Guy Maddin | MB | 6 m | 2000
GUY MADDIN **FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE**
An amnesiac soldier, seeking his lost love, arrives in Archangel in northern Russia
to help the townsfolk in their fight against the Bolsheviks, all quite unaware that
the Great War ended three months ago.
ASPIRE THEATRE | 12:30 PM | THURS, JULY 26
ASPIRE THEATRE | 12:30 PM | FRI, JULY 27
AVA
PG | CANADA / IRAN / QATAR | 2017 | 103 m | Farsi | English Subtitles
Premiere: Manitoba | Awards: Mention, Best Canadian Feature, TIFF 2017;
8 Nominations, Best First Feature Winner, Canadian Screen Awards 2018
SADAF FOROUGHI
In Tehran, upper-middle-class teen Ava abides by a strict routine of school, violin
lessons, and curfew. When Ava’s mistrustful and overprotective mother questions
her relationship with a boy Ava is stunned by this violation of privacy which
escalates her rebellious behaviour, to life-altering effect.
ASPIRE THEATRE | 10 AM | FRI, JULY 27
ASPIRE THEATRE | 3 PM | SAT, JULY 28
BE FORE ANY THING YOU SAY
PG | MANITOBA | 2017 | 61 m | English
Premiere: Canada | Awards: Best Director, Intl. Film Festival of World Cinema,
Milan 2017
SHELAGH CARTER **FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE**
Married couple Isobel and Jack work through hurt feelings and misunderstanding
as they attempt to reconcile their lives and love in Paris after Jack announces his
intent to pursue a job opportunity that would take him to Bangkok for five years.