All screenings @ Zeidler Hall in the Citadel Theatre, 9828 - 101A Ave
February 25th, 2009 12:13 p.m.
Director: Peter Greenaway
France/Netherlands/UK/Japan
1991,
129 min,
35mm
Peter Greenaway's audacious 1991 film
Prospero's Books is the stuff that dreams are made of.
Director: Lukas Moodysson
Denmark/Sweden
2002,
109 min,
35mm
- Feb 27 & 28 @ 7pm
- Feb 27 & 28 @ 9pm
**Lilya 4-Ever** is a brutal look at growing up when the odds are stacked against you. The title character, Lilya (Oksana Akinshina), is a 16 year-old girl living in the broken-down tenements of a small town in Estonia. Abandoned by...
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Director: League of Noble Peers
Sweden
2007,
78 min,
Digital Video
If you have any questions about peer to peer file sharing and the legal, moral, and ethical challenges presented with this technology, these two films will help to illuminate your understanding of this complicated subject. The films explore the popular...
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Director: Anne Aghion
USA
2008,
77 min,
DigiBeta
Unique in the genre of exploration and adventure films, **Ice People** takes you on one of the Earth's most seductive journeys to Antarctica. Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker Anne Aghion spent four months on the ice with modern-day polar explorers, to find...
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Director: Tom Radford
Canada
2008,
45 min,
Join renowned Edmonton filmmaker Tom Radford for an encore screening of his latest film **Inuit Odyssey**. This documentary presents Arctic anthropologist Niobe Thompson on a circumpolar expedition following the path of the Thule, conquerers of the ancient Arctic. Thompson journeys...
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Director: Peter Mettler
Canada/Switzerland
1994,
83 min,
35mm
- Mar 1 @ 5pm
- Mar 2 @ 9pm
- Mar 4 @ 8pm
**Picture of Light** takes the approach of a poetical essay documenting the search for a natural wonder: the mysterious Aurora Borealis. Its incorporeal lights and colours pouring from the sky lure a small film team of six to Canada's arctic....
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Director: Steve Kroschel
USA
2008,
93 min,
DVCam
### Canadian Premiere
With special guest Howard Straus, grandson of Dr. Max Gerson, in attendance for Q & A after both screenings
Garrett is a 15-year old boy living in the Alaskan wilderness with a menagerie of orphaned animals. Growing up close...
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