Upcoming Films
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COMING MAY 6-9 2010
CHESTER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
FEATURING INTERNATIONAL AND CANADIAN FILMS
Shorts, Workshops and Special guests.
Check back soon for the full lineup and schedule of events. |
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World Fall Film Series 2009
November 7, 14 & 21, 2009 at 7:30pm
Admission tickets for the Film Series 2009 are available at the Chester Playhouse theatre door for all films.
Box Office opens at 6:00pm on day of show.
General admission is $ 8 adults / $5 students.
For Media Inquires, please contact:
GG Geddes, CIFF Founder | Film Programming Director,
email: filmsciff2009@gmail.com - Skype: gggeddes
Erick Bickerdike, General Manager,
email: info@chesterplayhouse.ca - Tel: (902)275-3933
Please join us each Saturday at 7:30 on November 7, 14 & 21, 2009, as we offer entertaining evenings of unique and diversified feature and short films, spanning the world globe with films showcased from Belgium, China, Mongolia, Ireland, U.K., Scotland and our very own talented Atlantic Canada, Newfoundland and Nova Scotia during our World Fall Film Series 2009.
The Ondaatje Room at the Chester Playhouse will open at 7.00pm for refreshments prior to the film screenings. Our many CIFF restaurant partners, Nicki's Inn (Thu-Sun, 5pm-8:30pm) and The Rope Loft (Thu-Sun, 12pm-9pm & bar to 11pm) located in Chester and Trellis Cafe located in Hubbards (Every Day, 8am-9pm) will be open to serve delicious food.
Thank you for supporting the Magic of Film and we look forward to seeing you at the movies!
Please SAVE THE DATES, May 6, 7, 8 & 9, 2010 for the 2nd edition of the Chester International Film Festival (CIFF) and check back for CIFF's 2010 festival updates.
The following is the program schedule for the World Fall Film Series 2009
November 7, 2009 at 7:30 pm
LORNA'S SILENCE
Directors: Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne
Belgium | France | Italy | Germany, 2008, 105min
French | Albanian with English Subtitles
Atlantic Canada Premier
Consistent award-winning recipients, the Dardenne Brothers latest film extends the theme of the renowned Belgian filmmakers' earlier work by offering an insight of the challenges borne by society's less privileged. "Lorna's Silence" focuses on Lorna (Arta Dobroshi, a talented new actress from Pristina, Kosovo) a determined young Albanian immigrant woman desperate for a better life and with the desire to stay in the Belgium city of Li¸ge. Lorna seeks a normal life and dreams of owning her own snack bar. She is confronted with major life decisions when she is wooed by the schemes of an unscrupulous gangster (Fabrizio Rongione, Dardenne's "L'enfant|The Child" and "Rosetta") who is involved in precarious immigration scams. The Dardenne brothers cleverly demonstrate a steadfast talent for crafting deeply emotional content while avoiding gratuitous sentimentality and providing the audience with a film experience that greatly surpasses your expectations.
Winner: Cannes Film Festival 2008 Best Screenplay | Lumiere Awards 2009, France Best French Language Film | Toronto International Film Festival, Masters Special Presentation.
Nominated: Cannes Golden Palm, France 2009 | Cesar Awards, France 2009 Best Foreign Film | European Film Awards 2008 Best Actress.
Preceded by:
THE JOE AND CURIOUS SHOW
Director Daniel Trainor-McKinnon
Canada, 2009, 3min
English
Chester, Nova Scotia Premier
A clever animated short recently screened at AFF's 2009 Viewfinders and dedicated to two fine gerbils.
Preceded by:
I NEED MY MOCHA
Director Anthony Lucero
USA, 2007, 3.35min
Canada Premier
When a women needs more than just a cuppa coffee
November 14, 2009 at 7:30 pm
TUYA'S MARRIAGE | Tuya de hun shi
Director: Quanan Wang
China | Inner Mongolia, 2007, 86min
Mandarin with English Subtitles
Atlantic Canada Premier
Tuya (impressively played by Yu Nan) is a beautiful and self-confident shepherdess in the vast rural windswept steeps ringed by imposing slate-blue mountains of the northwestern region of Inner Mongolia. China's industry is expanding and the government is pressuring Mongolian shepherds to give up their nomadic way of life that has existed for centuries and move to nearby towns and settle down as farmers. Tuya passionately refuses to abandon her pastureland, her disabled husband Bater and their two young children. Bater tries to convince her to divorce him and remarry so she could pursue an easier and modern life. An unforeseen event happens in Tuya's life and she realizes that the best way of preserving her family is to follow Bater's suggestion. When word spreads of her decision, she is besieged by suitors near and far. The film keenly observes the fascinating and unique rites of courtship as Tuya narrows-down her martial companion with the daunting marriage condition that her newly selected husband agrees to take care of Bater and the children. Director, Quanan Wang and his screenwriting collaborator Lu Wei ("Farewell My Concubine") brilliantly capture a world that, apart from its challenges is thoroughly recognizable in its human complexity.
Winner: Berlin International Film Festival 2007 Golden Berlin Bear and Prize of the Ecumenical Jury | Chicago International Film Festival 2007 Silver Hugo for Best Actress and Special Jury Prize.
Preceded by:
WATER
Director Daniel Trainor-McKinnon
Canada, 2009, 2 minutes
Chester, Nova Scotia Premier
Tranquility and thoughtfulness are explored via the Halifax/Dartmouth, Nova Scotia waterfront.
Preceded by:
BUSHIDO: THE WAY OF THE WARRIOR
Director Susan Jacobson
U.K 2007, 7min
English
Canada Premier
An elegant presentation depicting a Samurai torn between honour and revenge.
November 21, 2008 at 7:30 pm
LOVE & SAVAGERY
Director: John N. Smith
Canada | Ireland, 2009, 97min
English
Chester, Nova Scotia Premier
Set during the late 1960's in the lush and wild village of Ballyvaughan, County Clare on the rocky west coast of Ireland, Newfoundlander geologist and poet Michael (Newfoundland's Allan Hawco) is there to examine the 'Burren', a geological wonder. Michael quickly becomes impressed by a local beauty, a raven-haired barmaid Cathleen (Ireland's Sarah Green). They are smitten with each other but destiny may not be in their favour as Cathleen is bound for the convent. This complicates their evolving love as well as disturbs the village's protective townspeople who do not take lightly to an educated whipper-snapper from afar distracting their beautiful and pure Cathleen who is devoted to their almighty. Complete with toe-tapping and haunting music as director John N. Smith ("Boys of Saint Vincent") beautifully captures the timeless visuals of Ireland's breathtaking landscape and the life-choices between passionate love of the heart and spiritual love of the divinity.
Special Presentations: 2009 Toronto International Film Festival | Atlantic Film Festival | Montreal Film Festival
Preceded by:
HOMECOMING
Director Zak Hanif
Scotland, 2009, 13.15min
Arabic & English with English subtitles
Atlantic Canada Premier
On the celebration of the holiday of Eid, a British Asian family is surprised by a sudden visit.
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