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D OCUME NTARY
FILMS
LADY OF THE LAKE THEATRE | 8 PM | WED, JULY 25
LADY OF THE LAKE THEATRE | 8 PM | THURS, JULY 26
GIMLI LUTHERAN CHURCH THEATRE | 10 AM | SAT, JULY 28
690 VOPNAFJÖRÐUR
PG | ICELAND | 2017 | 57 m | English | Premiere: Canada
KARNA SIGURÐARDÓTTIR **FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE**
In the middle of nowhere, the 645 people of Vopnafjörður village in Iceland go
about their daily lives. The fear of depopulation leaves no inhabitant free from
the pressure of protecting the existence of this little village. The film explores the
communal tensions that push people to leave, and how personal identity can be
so profoundly linked to place
LADY OF THE LAKE THEATRE | 5:30 PM | THURS, JULY 26
LADY OF THE LAKE THEATRE | 10 AM | SAT, JULY 28
A SONG FOR JOHN RAMSAY
PG | MANITOBA | 2017 | 62 m | English | Premiere: Canada
*screens with Heimþrá, In Thrall to Home, dir. Erika MacPherson | Manitoba | 33 m | 2018
ANDY BLICQ **FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE**
Indigenous songwriter William Prince is challenged to create a song celebrating
an Indigenous man named John Ramsay who faced tragedy while helping
Icelandic settlers survive.
LADY OF THE LAKE THEATRE | 10 AM | FRI, JULY 27
ASPIRE THEATRE | 5:30 PM | SAT, JULY 28
ABOARD THE NAMAO
G | MANITOBA | 2018 | 63 m | English | Premiere: World
*screens with Bird City Lights, dirs. Kalli Anderson & Zachary Finkelstein | Canada | 17 m | 2017
CAM PATTERSON **FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE**
Filmmaker Cam Patterson can’t stand on the beach and worry about the state of
Lake Winnipeg any longer. The media is calling the lake a lost cause. The only way
to see for himself and to show the world the massive algae blooms he’s only heard
about, is to board the Namao, taking us with him.
LADY OF THE LAKE THEATRE | 10 PM | THURS, JULY 26
LADY OF THE LAKE THEATRE | 12:30 PM | SAT, JULY 28
AF TE RMATH
PG | CANADA | 2018 | 75 m | English | Premiere: North America
MIKE HOOLBOOM
A four-part experimental bio-pic that narrates moments from the lives of Fats
Waller, Jackson Pollack, Janieta Eyre and Frida Khalo. Repurposing archival texts as
audiovisual graffiti, old voices are cropped and replayed as intertitles or voice-over
fragments, lending a historic charge to images that dream across the present.