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TABLE OF
CONTENTS
Tickets & Locations 2
Screening Schedule 3
Festival Director, Director of Programming Message 4
Message from the Board 5
Films: English
STILL MINE 6-7
BLOOD PRESSURE 9
THE CONSPIRACY 9
THE DISAPPEARED 10
THE END OF TIME 10
THE FRUIT HUNTERS 11
HOTEL CONGRESS 11
I DECLARE WAR 13
THE LESSER BLESSED 13
LUNARCY! 14
MY AWKWARD SEXUAL ADVENTURE 14
PICTURE DAY 15
TOWER 15
SHORTS PACKAGE 16
THE WORLD BEFORE HER 16
RECEPTIONS 17
Films: French
CAMION 18
INCH’ALLAH 19
REBELLE 20
TOUT CE QUE TU POSSÈDES 22
WAVEMAKERS 23
LAURENCE ANYWAYS 24-25
IN FOCUS: ANIMATION 26
MASTER CLASS 27
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TICKETS
Only a limited number of passes are sold each year. Passes normally sell out.
VIP PASS: $95 – for full access to all events, including the Opening Reception
and Filmmakers’ Reception. $80 for students/seniors.
3 FILM PASS: $35 – access to any three films with guaranteed admittance.
SINGLE TICKET: $12 – available before each screening in limited quantities.
Arrive early so you won’t be disappointed! Children 5-12 years: $6. Children under 5: free.
LATE NIGHT STUDENT DISCOUNT: 2 for 1 single tickets ($12 for two single
tickets) for any screening starting at 9 pm or later. Student ID required.
TICKET OUTLETS
www.kingcanfilmfest.com
Buy advance passes on the KCFF website! Visa and MasterCard accepted.
The Screening Room The Grand Theatre
Cash sales of VIP and 3 Film Passes Online, telephone and in-person sales of
120 Princess Street VIP and 3 Film Passes
613.542.6080 www.kingstongrand.ca
613.530.2050
218 Princess Street
T
elefilm Canada is proud to be associated
with the Kingston Canadian Film Festival, a
wonderful opportunity to discover the best
EVENT in current Canadian cinema.
Our filmmakers have stories to tell that are
LOCATIONS original, relevant, entertaining and compelling –
stories that enjoy increasing success here at
The Screening Room home and shine on the international scene.
120 Princess Street Canadian films are official selections at film
festivals worldwide, winning major awards –
The Grand Theatre and the hearts of audiences wherever they
218 Princess Street are shown.
Time to Laugh At Telefilm this is great news, since the success of
Comedy Club Canada’s film industry is our primary purpose.
394 Princess Street Our funding and promotion programs support
dynamic film companies and talented creative
Etherington Auditorium, artists everywhere in Canada. We are all working
Queen’s University together to make sure Canadian films are in the
94 Stuart Street spotlight, both here at home and internationally.
The Grizzly Grill Telefilm hopes that this event will help you enjoy
395 Princess Street Canadian cinema – your cinema, which you can
now access on many platforms.
Congratulations to the organizers of the Kingston
Canadian Film Festival and happy viewing!
Carolle Brabant, Executive Director,
Telefilm Canada
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Venues:
BG – Baby Grand
2O13 SCREENING TTL – Time to Laugh Comedy Club
SR1 – Screening Room 1
SCHEDULE SR2 – Screening Room 2
EA – Etherington Auditorium
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 28 TIME VENUE
STILL MINE 7:00 pm BG
Opening Reception 9:00 pm The Grizzly Grill
FRIDAY MARCH 1
MY AWKWARD SEXUAL ADVENTURE 7:00 pm TTL
HOTEL CONGRESS 7:00 pm SR2
THE FRUIT HUNTERS 7:10 pm SR1
PICTURE DAY 7:10 pm BG
INCH’ALLAH 9:40 pm BG
THE END OF TIME 9:40 pm SR1
BLOOD PRESSURE 9:50 pm TTL
TOWER 9:50 pm SR2
SATURDAY MARCH 2
STILL MINE 12:00 pm BG
MASTER CLASS 12:00 pm TTL
THE END OF TIME 12:00 pm SR2
THE FRUIT HUNTERS 12:10 pm SR1
Filmmakers’ Reception 2:00 - 4:00 pm BG
MY AWKWARD SEXUAL ADVENTURE 4:00 pm SR1
BLOOD PRESSURE 4:10 pm SR2
TOUT CE QUE TU POSSEDES 4:10 pm BG
REBELLE 7:00 pm TTL
I DECLARE WAR 7:00 pm SR1
THE DISAPPEARED 7:10 pm BG
SHORTS PACKAGE 7:15 pm SR2
LESSER BLESSED 9:40 pm BG
CAMION 9:40 pm SR2
THE CONSPIRACY 9:45 pm TTL
LUNARCY! 9:50 pm SR1
SUNDAY MARCH 3
THE WORLD BEFORE HER 12:15 pm TTL
THE DISAPPEARED 12:15 pm SR2
SHORTS PACKAGE 12:25 pm SR1
REBELLE 3:00 pm TTL
WAVEMAKERS 3:00 pm SR1
LUNARCY! 3:15 pm SR2
LAURENCE ANYWAYS 7:00 pm EA
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FESTIVAL DIRECTOR
MESSAGE
T
his year is one of many changes. With the closure of a familiar downtown theatre we found
ourselves feeling homeless and a bit unsure of the future. Where would we go? What would the
festival look like now? We stuck to what we knew: program great Canadian films, bring in some
cool Canadian filmmakers and try to keep things close by. It hasn’t been easy but we’re proud to bring
you the 2013 Kingston Canadian Film Festival.
This year’s festival is chock-full of charming, challenging and, above all, entertaining Canadian features
and shorts. Many of these films would not otherwise play in Kingston. That’s why we exist: to bring
Canadian films to Canadians, and Kingstonians. It’s important.
This festival could not happen without the hard work and dedication of many. We were very fortunate
to welcome Marc Garniss as general manager this year. Our staff is amazing, as are our volunteers
and members of our board. Pulling together this festival is a passion for us. I hope enjoying it is a
passion for you.
See you at the movies,
Alison Migneault, Festival Director
DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMMING
MESSAGE
I
s there such a thing as a hat trick in the movie world? Whatever you want to call it, Canadian cinema
put one on the board when REBELLE (WAR WITCH in English) became the third Canadian feature in
three years to clinch an Oscar nomination for best foreign film. In so doing, Kim Nguyen’s powerful
fourth feature about an African child soldier – which KCFF is very pleased to present at this year’s festival
– earned the same honour as INCENDIES and MONSIEUR LAZHAR, two other movies that have raised
the worldwide prominence and prestige of this country’s films.
Nor is REBELLE the only example of a film at this year’s KCFF that has garnered acclaim both inside and
outside our borders. Wildly diverse in nature, these screen sensations include a provocative documen-
tary about the young women of India (THE WORLD BEFORE HER), an audacious action flick with an ado-
lescent cast (I DECLARE WAR), a stylish romance with a gender-bending twist (LAURENCE ANYWAYS)
and an ingenious thriller that toys with the boundary between truth and fiction (THE CONSPIRACY,
a Canadian premiere at KCFF).
Meanwhile, the buzz continues to build for THE LESSER BLESSED and PICTURE DAY, two very different
but equally compelling coming-of-age stories. And speaking of pairs, we have not one but two extraor-
dinary showcases for the team of Sean Garrity and Jonas Chernick: the raucous comedy MY AWKWARD
SEXUAL ADVENTURE and the psychological thriller BLOOD PRESSURE.
Yet even among this bounty of great new films, there’s a special place for KCFF’s opening film, as well as
for its two exquisite lead performances. James Cromwell and Canadian screen legend Geneviève Bujold
bring both grace and tenacity to STILL MINE, the moving story of one man’s efforts to pay tribute to the
woman with whom he’s shared his life. Like so many of the movies at KCFF, it’s the kind of film that cre-
ates a deep connection between the people on screen and those of us out there in the dark. More and
more, that’s a quality the whole world has come to associate with the work we do here.
Jason Anderson, Director of Programming
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MESSAGE FROM THE
BOARD
O n behalf of the Kingston Canadian Film Festival’s board of directors,
welcome to this year’s edition.
Regular Festivalgoers will notice a change in the path that they tread over the next few days,
because of the closure of a downtown cinema that we used over many years. With the help
of our usual venues and new ones, the staff, volunteers, and board intend to continue
offering the best of fests. (Still, if you have a notion to buy a historic movie theatre on
Princess Street and provide space to a spunky little film festival, we can talk.)
The Festival is the occasion when many recent Canadian movies receive their first screenings
in Kingston. Over the past couple of years, some of these festival shows, of INCENDIES and
MONSIEUR LAZHAR, for instance, have turned out to be the first of many releases that
attracted larger, discerning audiences. That may likely be the case for this year’s Oscar
nominee, REBELLE.
In other instances, for films that may not be as well known but are no less creditable,
it’s the only screening in town, and a way for Canadian filmmakers, local or from farther
afield, to reach an engaged viewer enthusiastic about Canadian film.
That’s you.
Enjoy what there is to see and hear.
Blaine Allan,
KCFF Staff
Chair, KCFF Board of Directors Alison Migneault – Festival Director
Marc Garniss – General Manager
Katrina Enros – Development Manager
Andrew Gurney – Production Coordinator
Peter Cassidy – Technical Coordinator
Louisa Nicolaou – Development Intern
Micki Buie – Administrative Intern
Hilary Smith – Hospitality Intern
Eugene Michasiw – Production Intern
KCFF Programming
Committee
Jason Anderson – Director of Programming
Kara Haflidson – Programmer, Shorts
KCFF Board of Directors
Blaine Allan, Chair
Scott Meyers, Vice-Chair
Wendy Huot
Clarke Mackey
Elan Mastai
Mark Thompson
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Still
Mine
6
Thurs Feb 28, 7pm
The Baby Grand
Sat Mar 2, 12pm
The Baby Grand
Rating: 14A
N
ot since AWAY FROM HER has
Canadian cinema produced
such a moving love story as
STILL MINE, which KCFF is proud to
present as this year’s opening film. And
like Sarah Polley’s much-honoured
debut, the latest by writer-director
Michael McGowan (ONE WEEK, KCFF’09)
is distinguished by the presence of two
great actors working at the top of their
craft. James Cromwell and Canadian
screen legend Geneviève Bujold play
Craig and Irene, a couple who’ve lived a
long and happy life together on their
farm in rural New Brunswick. When
Irene’s worsening health makes it
difficult for her to continue living in their
home, Craig’s solution is to use his two
hands to build a more suitable house.
Alas, his carpentry skills far exceed his
patience for the local bureaucrats who
don’t take kindly to Craig’s disdain for
permits and plans. Yet these battles take
a backseat to STILL MINE’s portrayal of
the still-passionate relationship at its
core. Eliciting wonderful performances
by his leads, McGowan has crafted a
screen romance that’s continually
enriched by its moments of humour,
compassion and grace.
Director: Michael McGowan
Screenplay: Michael McGowan
Producers: Michael McGowan,
Avi Federgreen, Jody Colero,
Tamara Deverell
Principal Cast: James Cromwell,
Geneviève Bujold, Rick Roberts,
Campbell Scott
Language: English
Runtime: 102 minutes 7
BLOOD
PRESSURE
A
uniquely talented and prolific filmmaker who was last at the
festival with ZOOEY & ADAM (KCFF’10), Sean Garrity returns
with two new features that couldn’t be more different in style.
Whereas MY AWKWARD SEXUAL ADVENTURE is a raucous sex comedy
he made with his regular collaborator and fellow Winnipeg native
Jonas Chernick (LUCID, KCFF’06), BLOOD PRESSURE is a psychological
thriller full of mystery and tension. Michelle Giroux plays Nicole, an
unhappily married pharmacist whose drab existence takes a more ex-
citing turn when she begins receiving anonymous letters that encour-
age her to perform a series of increasingly risky acts. As her obsession
with her secret (and somewhat sinister) admirer deepens, she begins
to lose her hold on her personal and professional lives. All the while,
Garrity maintains a firmer grip on viewers with his coolly provocative
study of a woman discovering her dark side.
Director: Sean Garrity
Screenplay: Sean Garrity
Producers: Sean Garrity, Matthew Miller Fri Mar 1, 9:50 pm Sat Mar 2, 4:10 pm
Principal Cast: Michelle Giroux, Judah Katz, Time to Laugh Screening Room 2
Jonas Chernick, Tatiana Maslany Comedy Club Unrated
Language: English Runtime: 94 minutes
THE
CONSPIRACY
S
o many movies have blurred the line between fiction
film and documentary in recent years that it’s a shock to
discover one as original and as chilling as this ingenious
first feature by Toronto’s Christopher MacBride. No wonder
audiences at genre-movie festivals in Austin and Sitges were
blown away by THE CONSPIRACY’s eerie tale of two filmmak-
ers who set out to make a movie about a seemingly loopy
conspiracy theorist only to realize that there may be some
truth in what he’s saying about a secretive gathering of pow-
erful people. Thanks to the cunning of MacBride and his lead
actors Jim Gilbert and Aaron Poole (last seen at KCFF’10 in
SMALL TOWN MURDER SONGS), audiences may be similarly
unsure whether these amateur investigators are succumbing
to a paranoid delusion or uncovering a genuine threat. Either
way, THE CONSPIRACY reinvigorates the mockumentary
form by investing it with a palpable sense of menace.
Director: Christopher MacBride
Screenplay: Christopher MacBride
Producers: Lee Kim, Aaron Poole
Principal Cast: Aaron Poole, Jim Gilbert Sat Mar 2, 9:45 pm
Language: English Runtime: 85 minutes Time to Laugh Comedy Club
Unrated
9
THE
DISAPPEARED
W
ith this gripping story of conflict and camaraderie among
a group of fishermen lost at sea, acclaimed Halifax novelist
Shandi Mitchell demonstrates her prowess as a filmmaker,
too. THE DISAPPEARED is equally impressive as a showcase of act-
ing talent, with Newfoundland native Shawn Doyle leading a ster-
ling cast as they tackle the challenging task of conveying the
hopes, fears and growing desperation of six men who find them-
selves drifting in the Atlantic in two lifeboats after the loss of their
fishing vessel. Shot off the coast of Lunenberg, Mitchell’s debut fea-
ture conveys the profound beauty and the stark peril that surround
its characters. Just as unsentimental as the director’s view of the
natural world is her portrayal of men forced to confront the thorny
questions that are part of any battle for survival. Yet the film’s many
moments of warmth and humour demonstrate the human connec-
tions that can also be forged in times of trouble
Director: Shandi Mitchell
Screenplay: Shandi Mitchell
Producers: Gilles Belanger, Ralph Holt, Walter Forsyth
Sat Mar 2, 7:10 pm Sun Mar 3, 12:15 pm
Principal Cast: Billy Campbell, Shawn Doyle, Brian
The Baby Grand Screening Room 2
Downey, Gary Levert, Ryan Doucette, Neil Matheson Unrated
Language: English Runtime: 86 minutes
THE
ENDOF TIME
A
nother mind-expanding documentary by one of Cana-
dian cinema’s most intrepid voyagers, THE END OF TIME
sends viewers to a variety of fascinating and highly
photogenic sites in an effort to provoke some big thoughts on
an even bigger topic. Indeed, this movie’s subject is nothing
less than time itself, though Swiss-Canadian director Peter
Mettler has the good sense to break it down into slightly more
manageable subtopics, like what the smashing of protons in
the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva tells us about the Big
Bang. This all makes for a strange journey but a unique one as
Mettler and his subjects explore an impressive array of ideas
about our relationship to time. And lest this seem like a purely
intellectual exercise, Mettler demonstrates his mastery of
sound and image by providing an uncommonly intense de-
gree of audiovisual stimulation.
Director: Peter Mettler
Screenplay: Peter Mettler
Producers: Cornelia Seitler, Ingrid Veninger, Fri Mar 1, 9:40 pm Sat Mar 2, 12:00 pm
Gerry Flahive, Brigitte Hofer Screening Room 1 Screening Room 2
Language: English Runtime: 114 minutes Rating: G
10 10THE FRUIT
HUNTERS
T
hough you may think you appreciate the overripe objects currently
languishing in your fruit bowl, chances are your dedication to nature’s
sweetest bounty pales next to the ardency expressed by the subjects
in the new doc by Yung Chang, the Montreal-based director of UP THE
YANGTZE (KCFF’08). And who can really blame them, given the ever-so
succulent qualities of the delicacies on display? Based on the book by
Canadian journalist Adam Leith Gollner, THE FRUIT HUNTERS surveys the
very colourful history of mankind’s long love affair with the juicy stuff.
Along the way, viewers meet a memorable gallery of fruit obsessives, the
most recognizable of which is actor Bill Pullman, the proud caretaker of
over 100 fruiting plants at his home in the Hollywood Hills. Yet for all of the
movie’s vitality and good humour, there’s still a serious message at its core
about the importance of defending biodiversity in the face of industrial
farming and environmental degradation. In other words, you may never
look at a mango the same way again.
Director: Yung Chang
Screenplay: Yung Chang, Mark Slutsky
Producers: Mila Aung-Thwin, Kat Baulu, Bob Moore Fri Mar 1, 7:10 pm Sat Mar 2, 12:10 pm
Screening Room 1 Screening Room 1
Language: English, Spanish and Italian with English Unrated
subtitles Runtime: 95 minutes
HOTEL
CONGRESS
A
smart, sly drama about love, sex and the complications
they create for a pair of Torontonians having a rendezvous
away from their respective partners, HOTEL CONGRESS
may be as fascinating for its backstory as it is for its more obvious
virtues. The movie was created as part of the $1K Feature Film
Challenge, a remarkable initiative by Toronto filmmaker and pro-
ducer Ingrid Veninger that financed five new feature-length films
budgeted at $1,000 apiece. Proving that the right location makes
all the difference when money’s so tight, HOTEL CONGRESS was
shot in a historic Tucson hotel that John Dillinger once used as a
hideout. Another clear benefit is the witty and insightful script by
Nadia Litz, an actor and filmmaker well known for roles in movies
like MONKEY WARFARE (KCFF’07). Litz also co-directed HOTEL
CONGRESS with Michel Kandinsky and co-stars with Philip Riccio.
That a film with so much style and savvy was made with such
modest means is just one reason to be impressed.
Directors: Nadia Litz, Michel Kandinsky
Screenplay: Nadia Litz
Producers: Nadia Litz, Michel Kandinsky, Philip
Riccio, Daniel Bekerman Fri Mar 1, 7:00 pm
Principal Cast: Nadia Litz, Philip Riccio Screening Room 2
Language: English Runtime: 71 minutes Unrated
11
11I DECLARE WAR
S
ome games are to be taken very seriously – just ask the
young characters in I DECLARE WAR. For these adoles-
cents, a game of war one afternoon after school be-
comes a conflict of truly epic proportions, especially when
the players resort to adult levels of ruthlessness. An auda-
cious spin on the action flick by Queen’s grad Jason Lapeyre
(COLD BLOODED, KCFF’12) and co-director Robert Wilson, I
DECLARE WAR is what a Rambo movie might be like if it were
ever remade as a very special episode of Degrassi Junior
High. That might be an unlikely combination but the result is
wild, imaginative and thrilling. That’s due in large part to the
film’s talented cast of young performers, who attack their
roles (and their opponents) with an energy that proves to be
totally infectious.
Directors: Jason Lapeyre, Robert Wilson
Screenplay: Jason Lapeyre
Producers: Lewin Webb, Robert Wilson,
Patrick Cameron Sat Mar 2, 7:00 pm
Principal Cast: Siam Yu, Gage Munroe, Screening Room 1
Michael Friend, Aidan Gouveia Unrated
Language: English Runtime: 94 minutes
THE LESSER
BLESSED
A
dapted from the much admired young-adult novel by
Richard Van Camp, THE LESSER BLESSED portrays the lives of
its teenage characters in a manner that feels tough, tender
and heartbreakingly true. Joel Nathan Evans stars as Larry, a Tlicho
Indian growing up in a rough northern town where he’s largely ig-
nored by his peers and indifferent to the efforts of his mother Verna
(Tamara Podemski) and her boyfriend Jed (Benjamin Bratt) to draw
him out of his shell. That changes after Larry forms a friendship
with Johnny Beck (Kiowa Gordon), a Métis classmate who has all
the brashness and boldness that he seems to lack. Larry’s long-time
crush on local teen-dream Juliet (Chloe Rose) also comes to a head
when Johnny woos her instead. Meanwhile, disturbing flashbacks
suggest the truth about the past trauma that may be the real cause
of Larry’s retreat from the world. It all makes for an unusually affect-
ing coming-of-age story, handled with great sensitivity and artistry
by writer-director Anita Doron (THE END OF SILENCE, KCFF’06,
LATE FRAGMENT, KCFF’08) and her remarkable cast.
Director: Anita Doron
Screenplay: Anita Doron
Producer: Christina Piovesan
Principal Cast: Joel Nathan Evans, Benjamin Bratt, Kiowa Sat Mar 2, 9:40 pm
The Baby Grand
Gordon, Chloe Rose, Tamara Podemski, Adam Butcher
Unrated
Language: English Runtime: 86 minutes 13LUNARCY!
F
or many of us here on Earth, space remains the final
frontier. And since it’s the first stop on that journey
into the great beyond, the moon has long been the
focus of so much of our attention and fascination. Several
of its biggest admirers are the subjects of LUNARCY!, an
often wryly comic but warm-hearted documentary by
Toronto’s Simon Ennis. Through his portraits of such lunar
obsessives as Dennis Hope, a savvy entrepreneur who sells
off plots of moon land to future colonizers, and Christopher
Carson, a young man who dreams of being the moon’s first
full-time resident, Ennis is able to craft a wider parable
about human aspirations and limitations. Smart, funny and
surprisingly sweet, LUNARCY! celebrates the value of big
dreams and the people who dare to dream them.
Director: Simon Ennis
Screenplay: Simon Ennis
Producer: Jonas Bell Pasht Sat Mar 2, 9:50 pm Sun Mar 3, 3:15 pm
Screening Room 1 Screening Room 2
Language: English Runtime: 80 minutes Unrated
MY AWKWARD
SEXUAL ADVENTURE
R
are is the sex comedy that provides useful answers to
all those questions you’ve been afraid to ask. There are
plenty more reasons to recommend this affably lewd
and surprisingly sweet movie by actor-writer Jonas Chernick
and director Sean Garrity (ZOOEY & ADAM, KCFF’10), the
Winnipeg-bred and now Toronto-based team that returns to
KCFF with two new features this year (we’re just as excited to
present BLOOD PRESSURE, a new psychological thriller). MY
AWKWARD SEXUAL ADVENTURE stars Chernick as Jordan, a
sheepish accountant who’s desperate to improve his love
skills after his girlfriend Rachel (Sarah Manninen) dumps him
for being so lousy in bed. His search for guidance leads him
to Julia (Emily Hampshire, SNOW CAKE, KCFF’07), a stripper
who agrees to be his “sex Yoda.” Judging by the often hilari-
ous scenarios that ensue, she’ll need more than the Force to
whip him into shape. Of course, this is very good news for
viewers who like their comedies a little naughty.
Director: Sean Garrity
Screenplay: Jonas Chernick
Producers: Juliette Hagopian, Jonas Chernick
Principal Cast: Jonas Chernick, Emily Hamp- Fri Mar 1, 7:00 pm Sat Mar 2, 4:00 pm
shire, Sarah Manninen, Vik Sahay Time to Laugh Screening Room 1
14 Language: English Runtime: 98 minutes Comedy Club Rating: 18APICTUREDAY
O
ne of Canada’s most startling new screen talents, Tatiana
Maslany makes a big impression as the brash heroine of
PICTURE DAY, a similarly audacious take on the teen flick by
Toronto’s Kate Melville. Seen elsewhere at this year’s KCFF in BLOOD
PRESSURE, Maslany plays Claire Paxton, a young woman who’s happy
to find herself stuck between the worlds of adolescence and adult
responsibilities as she repeats her final year of high school. Showing
little interest in changing the behaviour that caused her to flunk the
year before, Claire would rather spend her days and nights with James
(Steven McCarthy), her newly minted and considerably older musician
boyfriend. She also finds time to toy with Henry (Spencer Van Wyck), a
geeky boy who she used to babysit. But for all of Claire’s confidence,
she’s more troubled than she lets on. Thanks to Maslany’s bold perform-
ance and Melville’s skillful script and direction, PICTURE DAY is a com-
ing-of-age story of great energy and surprising complexity.
Director: Kate Melville
Screenplay: Kate Melville
Producers: Kate Melville, Lauren Grant, Peter Harvey,
Aeschylus Poulos Fri Mar 1, 7:10 pm
Principal Cast: Tatiana Maslany, Spencer Van Wyck, The Baby Grand
Steven McCarthy, Susan Coyne Unrated
Language: English Runtime: 93 minutes
TOWER
A
startling and artistically audacious first feature by
Toronto’s Kazik Radwanski after the young director’s
string of justly acclaimed short films with his pro-
ducer Dan Montgomery, TOWER wrings something major
out of one very minor existence. Derek (Derek Bogart) is a
34-year-old wannabe animator who still lives at home with
his parents and has yet to develop much in the way of so-
cial skills. Nevertheless, he is forced to engage with the
world in discomfiting new ways due to such develop-
ments as his almost-romance with a similarly lonely
woman (Nicole Fairbairn) and a battle with some pesky
raccoons. With its agile camerawork, intense performances
and skillful editing, TOWER presents this unlikely hero with
impressive urgency and poignancy.
Director: Kazik Radwanski
Screenplay: Kazik Radwanski
Producer: Dan Montgomery
Principal Cast: Derek Bogart, Nicole Fairbairn Fri Mar 1, 9:50 pm
Language: English Runtime: 78 minutes Screening Room 2
Rating: 14A
15Sat Mar 2, 7:15 pm
Screening Room 2
Sun Mar 3, 12:25 pm
Screening Room 1
SHORTS Unrated
PACKAGE
T
he Academy Awards, Alan Cumming and
the green Power Ranger all intersect in
this year’s SHORTS PACKAGE. The only
Canadian entry in the 2013 Academy Awards® Best Live
Action Short Category, HENRY (TIFF’12) tells the story of
LIFE DOESN’T FRIGHTEN ME
a great concert pianist who has his life thrown in
turmoil the day the love of this life, Maria, disappears
mysteriously. Narrated by Alan Cumming, THE MONEY
PET is a modern day fable about one man’s relationship
with his pet. THE TAPE (TIFF’12) directed by green Power
Ranger now turned filmmaker Matt Saduski, explores a
distinctly 21st-century problem: how to play a VHS?
THE TAPE
THE WORLD
BEFORE HER
A
much-deserving prizewinner at festivals such as Tribeca
and Hot Docs in Toronto and a selection in Canada’s Top
Ten, THE WORLD BEFORE HER delves into the often very dif-
ferent lives of its young subjects to shed light on women’s rights in
India, an issue that’s become headline news in recent months.
Filmmaker Nisha Pahuja introduces viewers to several contestants
in a beauty pageant in Bombay as they vie for the honour of rep-
resenting one kind of modern Indian womanhood. Among those
who vehemently oppose such displays are the militant Hindu fun-
damentalists who have other ideas about women’s roles. Indeed,
they are actively instilling these ideas into a new generation of
girls at controversial camps like the one that Pahuja investigates in
a far less glitzy corner of the country. But whether they’re contem-
plating plastic surgery to perfect their bodies or training for hand-
to-hand combat, the young women presented here share one
thing in common: a struggle for some form of self-determination
in a turbulent and often socially-repressive society.
Director: Nisha Pahuja
Screenplay: Nisha Pahuja
Producers: Cornelia Principe, Nisha Pahuja Sun Mar 3, 12:15 pm
Language: English and Hindi with English Time to Laugh Comedy Club
16 subtitles Runtime: 90 minutes Rating: PG
16RECEPTIONS
B
efore, after and in between films celebrate Canadian cinema
in style. Our catered receptions are intimate and engaging
and often include a few visiting filmmakers.
Opening Reception
Thursday February 28, 9 pm
The Grizzly Grill
395 Princess Street
Get in: VIP Pass, 3 Film Pass, Opening Film Rush Ticket, Sponsor Pass
Filmmakers’ Reception
Saturday March 2, 2:00 pm
The Grand Theatre, 218 Princess Street
Get in: VIP Pass, Sponsor Pass
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tragic accident causes three members of a long-estranged
family to forge new bonds in this affecting drama by one of
Quebec’s most gifted young filmmakers. Headed by writer-di-
rector Rafaël Ouellet – who won the Best Director prize at the Karlovy
Vavy festival for his efforts here – CAMION casts veteran actor Julien
Poulin as Germain, a trucker and widower whose recent misfortunes
prompt his sons to make a somewhat return to their hometown in
rural Quebec. Listlessly making a living as a janitor in Montreal,
Samuel (Patrice Dubois) is compelled to face up to the ambitions and
desires of his younger self, a process that includes looking up an ex-
flame. While the womanizing Alain (Stéphane Breton) may seem to
share little with his younger brother, his restless ways disguise deeper
insecurities, much in the same way that the low-key nature of Ouel-
let’s film belies the richness of the characters and storytelling at hand.
Director: Rafaël Ouellet
Screenplay: Rafaël Ouellet
Producer: Stéphanie Morissette
Principal Cast: Julien Poulin, Patrice Dubois, Sat Mar 2, 9:40 pm
Stéphane Breton Screening Room 2
Language: French with English subtitles Unrated
Runtime: 94 minutes
U
n accident tragique amène trois membres d'une
famille aux liens distendus a renouer dans ce
drame émouvant par un des plus talentueux je-
unes cinéastes du Québec. Réalisé par l'auteur-réalisateur
Rafaël Ouellet – qui a remporté le prix du meilleur réalisa-
teur au festival Karlovy Vavy pour cet ouevre – CAMION
met en vedette l'acteur vétéran Julien Poulin dans le rôle
de Germain, un camionneur veuf dont les récents mal-
heurs incitent ses fils à se retrouver
dans leur ville natale du Québec rural. En gagnant sa vie
avec indifférence comme concierge à Montréal, Samuel
(Patrice Dubois) est obligé de faire face aux ambitions et
désirs de sa jeunesse ce qui inclut revoir son ex-flamme.
Tant que le séducteur Alain (Stéphane Breton) semble
avoir peu en commun avec son jeune frère, ses plus pro-
foundes insécurités le pousse à être volage, tout comme la
nature subtile du film par Ouellet viens démentire la
richesse des personnages et du conte.
Réalisateur: Rafaël Ouellet
Scénario: Rafaël Ouellet
Producteur: Stéphanie Morissette
Distribution principale: Julien Poulin,
Patrice Dubois, Stéphane Breton
Langue: français avec sous-titres en anglais
Durée: 94 minutes
18
18INCH’ALLAH
T
his arresting and provocative second feature by Quebec’s Anaïs Bar-
beau-Lavalette is the latest drama by the producers of INCENDIES
(KCFF’11) and MONSIEUR LAZHAR (KCFF’12). But whereas those
justly celebrated predecessors told the stories of exiles in Canada who
struggle with the effects of traumas suffered in long-departed homelands,
INCH’ALLAH forces us to consider the physical perils and ethical chal-
lenges that face Canadians working in conflict zones. Evelyne Brochu gives
an intense lead performance as Chloé, a French-Canadian doctor working
in a women’s health clinic in a Palestinian community in the West Bank.
Chloé’s life is as divided as the society around her – when not enjoying
clubs and cafés on the other side of the barrier with her Israeli soldier pal
Ava (Sivian Levy), she gets closer to the family of Rand (Sabrina Ouazani), a
pregnant patient. Chloé’s burgeoning romance with Rand’s brother Faysal
(Yousef Sweid) is one of several developments that compel the good doc-
tor to question her non-partisan position, a grave struggle that Barbeau-
Lavalette portrays with rare insightfulness.
Director: Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette
Screenplay: Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette
Producers: Luc Déry, Kim McCraw
Principal Cast: Evelyne Brochu, Sabrina Fri Mar 1, 9:40 pm
Ouazani, Sivian Levy, Yousef Sweid The Baby Grand
Language: French, Arabic, Hebrew and English Rating: 14A
with English subtitles Runtime: 101 minutes
C
e deuxième long métrage saisissant et provocateur réal-
isé par la québecoise Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette est le plus
récent drame par les producteurs D'INCENDIES (KCFF’11)
et MONSIEUR LAZHAR (KCFF’12). Tandis que ces célèbres
prédécesseurs racontaient les histoires d'exils au Canada qui se
battent contre les éffets des traumatismes qu'ils aient subi dans
leurs anciennes patries, INCH'ALLAH nous oblige a imaginer les
dangers physiques et les défis éthiques dont les Canadiens qui
travaillent dans les zones de conflit font face. Evelyne Brochu
offre une performance intense dans le rôle principale de Chloé,
médecin canadienne-française qui travaille dans une clinique
spécialisée pour les femmes, située en Palestine dans une com-
munauté de la Cisjordanie. La vie de Chloé est aussi divisée que
la société qui l'entoure – quand elle ne prend pas plaisir dans les
clubs et les cafés de l'autre côté du mur avec sa voisine Ava (Si-
vian Levy) une soldate israélienne, Chloé se lie d’amitié avec la
famille de Rand (Sabrina Ouazani), une patiente enceinte.
L'amour naissant avec Faysal (Yousef Sweid), le frère de Rand, est
un des nombreux dévelopements qui obligent la docteure à
remettre en question sa position non-partisane, un déchirement
que Barbeau-Lavalette démontre avec une grande perspicacité.
Réalisateur: Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette
Scénario: Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette
Producteurs: Luc Déry, Kim McCraw
Distribution principale: Evelyne Brochu,
Sabrina Ouazani, Sivian Levy, Yousef Sweid
Langue: français, arabe, hébreu et anglais avec
sous-titres en anglais Durée: 101 minutes 19
19REBELLE
C
anada’s third film in the last three years to earn an Oscar
nomination for best foreign-language feature, REBELLE is
a powerful portrait of a corner of the world whose trou-
bles and terrors may feel remote to many people living here. In
this fourth feature by Montreal’s Kim Nguyen, Rachel Mwanza
plays Komona, a teenage girl who is abducted from her home in
an unnamed sub-Saharan African country and forced into the
brutal life of a child soldier. Yet Komona’s fate is anything but
sealed by this turn of events, especially once her captors become
convinced that the girl has mystical powers (hence the film’s
English title, WAR WITCH). Mixing scenes of harrowing realism
with others that tip into the surreal, Nguyen conveys not just the
horrors that exist in lives like Komona’s but other aspects as well,
including the possibility of human connection and compassion
that somehow survives even in the worst of circumstances.
Director: Kim Nguyen
Screenplay: Kim Nguyen
Producers: Pierre Even, Marie-Claude Poulin
Principal Cast: Rachel Mwanza, Alain Bastien, Sat Mar 2, 7:00 pm Sun Mar 3, 3:00 pm
Serge Kanyinda, Mizinga Mwinga, Ralph Prosper Time to Laugh Time to Laugh
Language: French, English and Lingala with Comedy Club Comedy Club
English subtitles Runtime: 90 minutes Rating: 14A
L
e troisième film canadien en trois ans a récolter une
nomination pour l'Oscar du Meilleur film en langue
étrangère, REBELLE est le portrait puissant d'une par-
tie du monde donc les troubles et les terreurs peuvent
nous sembler éloignés. Dans ce quatrième long métrage
par le montréalais Kim Nguyen, Rachel Mwanza interprète
le rôle de Komona, une adolescente qui est enlevée de son
domicile en Afrique subsaharienne et qui est entrainée de
force à devenir enfant-soldate. Le sort de Komona est loin
d'être scellé par ce drame, surtout quand ses ravisseurs de-
viennent convaincus que la jeune fille est douée de pou-
voirs mystiques (d'où vient le titre anglais, WAR WITCH).
En mélangeant des scènes réalistes poignantes avec des
scènes qui franchissent la limite du surréal, Nguyen
raconte non seulement les horreurs qui existent pour cer-
taines personnes comme Komona mais aussi l'espoir que
la compassion et les liens humains peuvent survivre mal-
gré les pires circonstances.
Réalisateur: Kim Nguyen
Scénario: Kim Nguyen
Producteurs: Pierre Even, Marie-Claude Poulin
Distribution principale: Rachel Mwanza, Alain
Bastien, Serge Kanyinda, Mizinga Mwinga, Ralph Propser
Langue: français, anglais et lingala avec sous-titres en
anglais Durée: 90 minutes
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20TOUT CE QUE TU
POSSÈDES
I
n the latest drama by Bernard Émond – one of Canada’s mas-
ter filmmakers and a nominee in the Best Director category at
the Canadian Screen Awards – a melancholy man makes a
retreat from the world only to discover that some ties are not
so easily broken. An academic at a Montreal university, Pierre
Leduc (Patrick Drolet) gives up his job as a lecturer in order to
devote his time to translating the works of Edward Stachura,
a Polish poet whose words help give voice to Pierre’s own sor-
rows. Yet the intrusions of two figures into this cloistered exis-
tence – Pierre’s estranged father and a daughter he never knew
he had – compel both this sullen figure and Émond’s film to
open up in unexpected ways. The result is one of Émond’s most
richly nuanced and emotionally moving features to date.
Director: Bernard Émond
Screenplay: Bernard Émond
Producer: Bernadette Payeur
Principal Cast: Patrick Drolet, Sat Mar 2, 4:10 pm
Isabelle Vincent, Gilles Renaud, Sara Simard The Baby Grand
Language: French with English subtitles Rating: PG
Runtime: 91 minutes
D
ans ce dernier drame par Bernard Émond, un des
maїtres cinéastes du Canada, nominé dans la caté-
gorie du meilleur réalisateur ce weekend aux Prix
Écrans canadiens – un homme mélancolique se met en
retrait du monde et se rend compte que certains liens se
brisent moins facilement. Enseignant à l'Université de
Montréal, Pierre Leduc (Patrick Drolet) abandonne tout
pour se consacrer à la traduction des oeuvres d'Edward
Stachura, un poète Polonais et source d'inspiration pour la
tristesse de Pierre. Parcontre, l'intrusions de deux person-
nes dans son existence cloîtrée – le père absent de Pierre
ainsi que sa fille dont il ignorait l'existence - obligent le per-
sonnage maussade et le film d'Émond à s'ouvrir de façons
inattendus. Le résultat est un des plus nuancés et émou-
vants long métrages par Émond à ce jour.
Réalisateur: Bernard Émond
Scénario: Bernard Émond
Producteur: Bernadette Payeur
Distribution principale: Patrick Drolet,
Isabelle Vincent, Gilles Renaud, Sara Simard
Langue: français avec sous-titres en anglais
Durée: 91 minutes
22
22WAVEMAKERS
A
wide world of sound awaits viewers of this captivating
new documentary by Caroline Martel, a Montreal film-
maker who specializes in unusual quests. In the case of
WAVEMAKERS, it’s an investigation into the history of one of the
20th century’s most fascinating musical instruments, a forerun-
ner of the electronic synthesizer known as the ondes Martenot.
Capable of producing sounds both eerie and beautiful, this pe-
culiar invention of a former WWI radio telegrapher continues to
attract a diverse coterie of devotees, including Radiohead’s
Jonny Greenwood (he’s one of many musicians who appears in
the film). Yet the instrument’s rarity and fragility makes it espe-
cially precious both to its players and protectors like Jean-Louis
Martenot, the elderly son of its inventor. Thanks to their efforts,
the ondes Martenot maintains a place in an increasingly noisy
planet, a feat that WAVEMAKERS is right to celebrate.
Director: Caroline Martel
Producers: Caroline Martel, Colette Loumède
Language: French and English with English Sun Mar 3, 3:00 pm
Screening Room 1
subtitles Runtime: 95 minutes
Unrated
U
n vaste monde du son se réserve aux spectateurs
du nouveau documentaire captivant par Caroline
Martel, une cinéaste montréalaise qui se spécialise
en recherches inhabituelles. Dans le cas de WAVEMAKERS,
c'est une plongée au coeur de l’histoire d'un des instru-
ments musicaux les plus fascinants du 20e siècle, un
précurseur au synthétiseur, les ondes Martenot. Pouvant
produire des sons à la fois intrigants et magnifiques, cette
invention particulière d'un ancien télégraphiste de la Pre-
mière Guerre Mondiale continue a attirer un groupe divers
de passionnés, incluant Jonny Greenwood, de Radiohead
(l'un des nombreux musiciens à apparaître dans le film).
La rareté et la fragilité de l'instrument le rend particulière-
ment précieux à ceux qui le jouent et à ses protecteurs tel
que Jean-Louis Martenot, le fils agé de l'inventeur. Grâce à
leurs efforts, l'onde Martenot maintient sa place sur une
planète de plus en plus bruyante, un exploit que WAVE-
MAKERS a raison de célébrer.
Réalisateur: Caroline Martel
Producteurs: Caroline Martel, Colette Loumède
Langue: français et anglais avec sous-titres en anglais
Durée: 95 minutes
23
23FREE SCREENING LAURENCE ANYWAYS 24
A
child actor who became an acclaimed auteur at the
tender age of 20, Xavier Dolan set the Canadian
film scene on its ear when his first feature J’AI TUE
MA MERE (KCFF’10) became the toast of Cannes. But even the
most flamboyant moments of that debut and its follow-up LES
AMOURS IMAGINAIRES cannot compare with the contents of
LAURENCE ANYWAYS, his most ambitious and abundantly
emotional film to date. The lead performances by Melvil
Poupaud and Suzanne Clément continually energize Dolan’s
epic melodrama about a thirty-something writer’s decision to
restart his life as a woman, much to the chagrin of the girlfriend
who still lives with him/her. As wild and passionate as the love
story at its core, LAURENCE ANYWAYS uses provocative
questions about gender and identity to forge a very different
and eminently stylish kind of screen romance.
Co-presented by Reelout queer film + video festival.
Director: Xavier Dolan
Screenplay: Xavier Dolan
Producers: Lyse Lafontaine, Nathanaël Karmitz,
Charles Gillibert Principal Cast: Melvil Poupaud,
Suzanne Clément, Nathalie Baye, Monia Chokri
Language: French with English subtitles
Runtime: 161 minutes
U
n enfant acteur devenu cinéaste célèbre au jeune âge de
20 ans, Xavier Dolan a bouleversé la scène
cinématographique canadienne quand son premier
long métrage J'AI TUÉ MA MÈRE (KCFF’10) est devenu la
coqueluche de Cannes. Même les moments les plus flamboyants
de ce premier film et du film suivant LES AMOURS IMAGINAIRES
ne peuvent se comparer avec le contenu de LAURENCE
ANYWAYS, son plus ambiteux et émotionnel film à ce jour. Les
rôles principaux interprètés par Melvil Poupaud et Suzanne
Clément alimentent continuellement le mélodrame épique de
Dolan. Laurence, un écrivain dans la trentaine décide de
recommencer sa vie en femme au grand désarrois de sa petite
amie avec qui il/elle vie toujours. Tant que la passion soit au coeur
de cette histoire d'amour, LAURENCE ANYWAYS pose des
questions provocantes sur l'idenité sexuelle pour créer un roman
d'amour très différent et avec style.
Co-présénté par Reelout queer film + video festival.
Réalisateur: Xavier Dolan
Sun Mar 3, 7:00 pm
Scénario: Xavier Dolan Etherington Auditorium
Producteurs: Lyse Lafontaine, NathanaEl Rating: 14A
Karmitz, Charles Gillibert
Distribution principale: Melvil Poupaud,
Suzanne Clément, Nathalie Baye, Monia Chokri
Langue: français avec sous-titres en anglais
Durée: 161 minutes 25IN FOCUS:
ANIMATION WORKSHOPS
F
ree filmmaking workshops have long
been part of KCFF. A key piece of the
Local Filmmaking Initiative –
a program that supports and nurtures
filmmaking in the city – animation work-
shops have served as a fun and hands-on
way to introduce children to the craft of
filmmaking.
With the support of a special grant from
The Community Foundation for Kingston
& Area, KCFF will be offering a series of
animation workshops for the general
public and for special organizations in
the city throughout this year’s festival.
Visit kingcanfilmfest.com/events
to learn more about this year’s workshops.
JASON NOBREGA:
A PASSION FOR
COMMUNITY-BASED ARTS
Animation Workshop Instructor
J
ason Nobrega has a passion for working with children and
a great interest in the arts. He has recently completed a BFA
from Ontario College of Art and Design with a focus on
video post-production and painting. He maintains artistic
practice through portrait painting and both traditional and
computer based animation.
Jason has 10 years of experience working with children in com-
munity-based arts and recreation programs. Jason continually
seeks to merge his love for the arts and children’s programing
by establishing more creative and experiential educational
outlets for children within the community.
26Sat Mar 2, 12 pm
Time to Laugh MASTER CLASS with
Comedy Club SEAN GARRITY & JONAS CHERNICK
KCFF is proud to present a master class session with one of the most talented
duos in Canadian film. Given that they’re back with two new features at this
year’s festival – the naughty but sweet comedy MY AWKWARD SEXUAL ADVEN-
TURE and the more darkly hued psychological thriller BLOOD PRESSURE – they
certainly qualify as one of the most prolific, too.
Native Winnipeggers who’ve often worked in close collaboration, writer and di-
rector Sean Garrity and actor and writer Jonas Chernick first made an impression
on movie audiences with INERTIA (2001), an edgy black comedy written and di-
rected by Garrity and starring Chernick that won the Best Canadian First Feature
prize at the Toronto International Film Festival. They’d next pair up on LUCID GARRITY
(KCFF’06), an unnerving thriller that they wrote and produced together featur-
ing Chernick in the lead role of a man losing his grasp on reality. After various
solo ventures – including Garrity’s micro-budget drama ZOOEY & ADAM
(KCFF’10) and regular starring roles for Chernick on THE BORDER and DEGRASSI:
THE NEXT GENERATION – they have once again collaborated on their two most
impressive and warmly received film ventures yet. For KCFF’s master class, they’ll
discuss the nature of their creative process, both together and apart.
Every KCFF includes workshops and events with some of Canada’s most talented
and groundbreaking filmmakers. Many events are free!
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