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The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Play Three: Women of a Certain Age

Eight months after we first meet the Gabriels, Patricia, the family matriarch, joins her children and daughters-in-law as they prepare a meal from the past and consider the future of their country, town and home. Paying tribute to the difficult year behind them, the Gabriels compare notes on the search for empathy and authenticity at a time when the game seems rigged and the rules are forever changing.

The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Play Three: Women of a Certain Age

NR 2017
The Journey

Sara enters Baghdad station with sinister intentions for its reopening ceremony. As she braces to commit an unthinkable act, her plans are drastically altered by an unwanted and awkward encounter with Salam, a self-assured and flirtatious salesman. With Salam now hostage to Sara’s confused and deluded plan, he battles desperately to appeal to her humanity and sway her decision. In a moment of consideration and with her convictions crumbling before her, Sara is given the opportunity to witness the life and innocence she was so willing to destroy. But is this a second chance or an admission of guilt?

The Journey

5.8 2017
Nimki Phulki

Nimki and Phulki are two mischievous sisters- one tomboyish and the other docile. Their mischief has terrorized the people of Nakulpur village. But their intentions are noble. Their courage helps them to fight against all the wrong done to the villagers. Two wealthy old men in the village, who were cheating the villagers of their belongings, were also their target. These men come to complain against Nimki Phulki to their parents but ends up liking the sisters and proposes to marry them. Overwhelmed by this proposal, their parents agree immediately, thinking that their daughters would be well off with these men despite their age gap. Following futile protests, the sisters eventually succumb to this marriage proposal. But on the day of the wedding, they both run away from the village in their wedding attire. A chain of events follow and they land up in Kolkata. Nimki Phulki go through a makeover and take up jobs to survive in the city.

Nimki Phulki

NR 2017
Strange Rituals

After a night of heavy drinking, Jeanne and Deb take an empty road through the backwoods to avoid traffic where they unexpectedly hit a mysterious woman that quickly vanishes into a field. Plagued with guilt and unable to go to the police, the girls decide to investigate with the help of some friends. But when their peers start to die or inexplicably vanish, it becomes clear that a bigger, sinister force is at work as Jeanne is thrown into a bizarre conflict with the undead and a sinister voodoo priest with malicious intentions.

Strange Rituals

3.0 2017
Tales from the Winnipeg Film Group

The explosive story of how a stubborn band of independent filmmakers started a film co-operative that became the most highly respected and mythologized film centre in Canada. Tales outlines the tremendous importance and impact of Winnipeg on the national filmmaking scene. Packed with rare archival footage, dynamic film excerpts, and hilarious interviews, this documentary traces the history of the legendary Winnipeg Film Group. We hear candid behind the scenes stories that illuminate the storied rise of acclaimed filmmakers like John Paizs (Crime Wave), Guy Maddin (Tales From The Gimli Hospital, My Winnipeg) Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan (We’re Talking Vulva, Good Citizen, Betty Baker) and Caroline Monnet (Ikwe). Often mired in controversy, the Film Group has been acclaimed at film festivals around the world – attested to by several Toronto film luminaries in the film – for subversive, original filmmaking. This documentary continues that tradition of bold, exuberant work.

Tales from the Winnipeg Film Group

NR 2017
Soul of an Artist

Everyone is creative in one way or another. But for some, their journey reaches a fork in the road where they must leave their old, safe life behind and venture into an unfamiliar and risky territory. They are not afraid to take chances and against all odds, they dare to pursue their dreams just to make this world a little bit more beautiful to live in. Every day they wake up without thinking what to eat, or how to pay their bills - they just want to create. And that's why they inspire others. Being a classic Motown artist and having decades of a successful music career, William Goldstein discovers that he posses a very rare talent. A talent of creating instant composition. And that pushes him to start his search for an answer to a very puzzling question - what is A Soul of An Artist?

Soul of an Artist

NR 2017
Cyborgs Among Us

In a few years, technology will merge with our bodies in ways that today seem unimaginable, and will redefine the limits of what is a human being. There are already people who, driven by the desire to experiment, have crossed the biological limits by introducing electronic devices that provide them with capabilities that go beyond what is "normal." They are the first hybrids, and they face the reaction of society, which goes from malignancy to enthusiasm. Today they are only a small minority, and many people consider them as disrupted experimenters, but in the near future we may recognize them as pioneers.

Cyborgs Among Us

7.0 2017
Barrage

After ten years abroad, Catherine returns to Luxembourg, to catch up with her daughter Alba, brought up by Catherine’s mother Elisabeth. Alba is cold and distant with this stranger showing up unexpectedly in her life, so is Elisabeth, keen to keep her protégée to herself. One day, Catherine cannot take it anymore. She kidnaps Alba and takes her on a trip to a lake up North. Begins an unsettling journey into the puzzling world of motherly love, only to find out that sometimes the true opponent is yourself.

Barrage

5.3 2017
Jivari

Jivari, in Indian Classical Music, refers to the overtone-rich sound characteristic of classical Indian string instruments such as Tanpura, Sitar, Surbahar, Rudra Veena and Saraswati Veena. Jivari can refer to the acoustic phenomenon itself and to the meticulously carved bone, ivory or wooden bridges that supports the strings on the sounding-board that produce this particular effect. The film attempts to trace the bridge between the craftsman and the musician by exploring the intimate bond Zakir Bhai and music shop hse with classical music, and how this bond has evolved over the years, interspersed with letters

Jivari

NR 2017