NEWS RELEASE
GUELPH FILM FESTIVAL
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The Guelph Film Festival is back with another amazingly powerful lineup of documentaries, showcasing international, national, and local films, along with visiting directors/filmmakers, community discussions, and an ever-growing film series for children, including a new series of short documentaries by local kid filmmakers (Tiny Docs by Tiny People).
The festival aims to inspire community engagement and appreciation of the arts by connecting people with stories of global reach and local relevance. The focus on themes of social justice, the environment, and community building make the Guelph Film Festival a unique destination for groundbreaking and hard-hitting films. The festival’s commitment to showcasing stories of marginalized people and communities make it an important event for southern Ontario.
New co-directors Nathan Lawr and Kimber Sider are excited to bring you a compelling lineup of films over the nine days of the festival, along with a special pre-festival opener in partnership with Guelph Spoken Word, Don’t Be Nice, on Thursday, Nov.1.
This year, the programming focuses on diverse voices and includes a new afternoon series of short docs, which showcases multiple perspectives on a specific theme: Identity and Belonging (Nov 3), Artistic Interventions (Nov 4), Indigenous Voices (Nov 10). The festival also has two Canadian premiers (Algo Mio and Coe Hill), and Bry Webb’s documentary-installation Royal City Summer 2000, as well as many exciting events throughout the 10 days.
Opening and closing parties, food and film pairings, roller derby, and panel discussions will make this an amazing time in our city. Come join us!
Films
Feature-length:
• Don’t Be Nice (Max Powers, USA)
• Royal City Summer 2000, (Bry Webb, CAN)
• War and Cheese (Ben Garfield, USA)
• The Haircut (Maya Annik Bedward, CAN)
• Warrior Women (Christina D. King and Elizabeth A. Castle, USA)
• Nuuca (Michelle Latimer, CAN/USA)
• Pick of the Litter (Dana Nachman and Don Hardy, USA)
• What is Democracy? (Astra Taylor, CAN)
• The Silver Branch (Katrina Costello, IRELAND)
• United Skates (Yana Winkler and Tina Brown, USA)
• Algo Mio – Argentina’s Stolen Children (Jenny Hellman and Regina Mennig (GERMANY)
• The Strange Sound of Happiness (Diego Pascal Panarello, ITALY/GERMANY)
• Inventing Tomorrow (Laura Nix, USA)
• Anthropocene (Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal, and Nicholas de Pencier, CAN)
Rebels on Pointe (Bobbi Jo Hart, CAN)
Shorts:
• Black Sheep (Ed Perkins, UK)
• Suzanne Gauthier: One Thing Leads to Another (Ariella Pahlke, CAN)
• Salaam B’y (Amar Wala, CAN)
• Beauty (Christina Willings, CAN)
• Why I’m Here (Joao Franca, CAN)
• Prince’s Tale (Jaime Miller, CAN)
• Coe Hill (Matt Greyson and Adam Crosby, CAN)
• The Song and the Sorrow (Millefiore Clarkes, CAN)
• Shift (Kely Milner, CAN)
• Three Thousand (Asinnajaq, CAN)
• Turning Tables (Chrisann Hessing, CAN)
• Holy Angels (Jay Cardinal Villeneuve, CAN)
• dukʷibəɫ swatixʷtəd (Changer’s Land) (Tracy Rector, USA)
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