Gimli Film Festival Program 2018 7207 GFF 2018 Program FINAL LR | Page 19

GIMLI THEATRE | 3 PM | THURS, JULY 26
GIMLI LUTHERAN CHURCH THEATRE | 5:30 PM | FRI, JULY 27
SWAN, THE (SVANNURINN)
14A | ICELAND / ESTONIA / GERMANY | 2017 | 91 m
Icelandic | English Subtitles | Premiere: Western Canada
ÁSA HELGA HJÖRLEIFSDÓTTIR **FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE**
A wayward nine-year-old girl is sent to the countryside to work and mature, but
finds herself instead deeply entangled in a drama she can hardly grasp.
ASPIRE THEATRE | 8 PM | FRI, JULY 27
ASPIRE THEATRE | 5:30 PM | SUN, JULY 29
SWE E T COUNTRY
R | AUSTRALIA | 2017 | 113 m | English | Premiere: Manitoba
Awards: Platform Prize, TIFF 2017 ; Special Jury Prize - Venice Film Festival 2017
WARWICK THORNTON
It’s 1929 on the vast, desert-like Australian Outback. Sam Kelly, a middle-aged
Aboriginal man, works the land of a kind preacher, Fred Smith. After an ill-
tempered bully arrives in town and Kelly kills him in self-defense, Kelly and his
wife Lizzie go on the run as a posse gathers to hunt him down.
ASPIRE THEATRE | 10 PM | THURS, JULY 26
ASPIRE THEATRE | 10 PM | FRI, JULY 27
TE RROR NULLIUS
14A | AUSTRALIA | 2017 | 57 m | English
*screens with Erodium Thunk, dir. Winston Hacking | Canada | 3 m | 2018
SODA_JERK
Hitch a ride into the dark heart of Australia with Soda_Jerk’s Terror Nullius, a
blistering, badly-behaved sample-based film that confronts the horror of our
contemporary moment. Equal parts political satire, eco-horror and feminist road
movie, the film is a rogue remapping of national mythology that uses the country’s
popular images to interrogate, re-appropriate, and disintegrate.
GIMLI THEATRE | 12:30 PM | THURS, JULY 26
GIMLI THEATRE | 10 AM | SUN, JULY 29
UNDE R THE TRE E (UNDIR TRÉ NU)
14A | ICELAND / FRANCE | 2017 | 89 m | Icelandic | English Subtitles
Premiere: Manitoba
HAFSTEINN GUNNAR SIGURðSSON
The shade from a front-yard tree brings the already simmering tensions between
two families in an Icelandic suburb to a boiling point, in this hilariously absurd
and psychologically astute comedy from director Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson.
GIMLI LUTHERAN CHURCH THEATRE | 3 PM | THURS, JULY 26
GIMLI LUTHERAN CHURCH THEATRE | 8 PM | SAT, JULY 28
WESTE RN
PG | GERMANY / AUSTRIA / BULGARIA | 2017 | 119 m
German / Bulgarian / English | English Subtitles | Premiere: Manitoba
VALESKA GRISEBACH
A group of German construction workers start a job in the remote Bulgarian
countryside. The foreign land awakens the men’s sense of adventure, but they are
also confronted with their own prejudice and mistrust. The stage is quickly set for
a showdown when they begin to compete for attention from the locals.