CATCH A FLICK WITH SUDBURY INDIE CINEMA THIS MAY

If you haven’t had a chance to check out Sudbury Indie Cinema‘s new digs yet, what are you waiting for? This May we challenge you to take in a film or two at our new Mackenzie St location for a film experience like no other! We pride ourselves in delivering an amazingly diverse lineup and our ongoing film series highlight underrepresented perspectives in filmmaking. We wanted to take a chance to highlight a few of our most popular screening series #WomenInFilmWednesday and #SamediCinéma which provide an important space for female driven narratives and Francophone film. We’re also very excited to launch our official Sudbury Cinema Club for cinephiles and the film curious to join together in casual guided discussion.

Come visit us at Sudbury Indie Cinema’s new permanent location: 162 Mackenzie Street (Sudbury), just steps away from downtown (and right across the street from Sudbury Secondary). We can’t wait to show you your next favourite film!

#WomenInFilmWednesday

It’s not unusual for a film screening at Indie Cinema to be directed by a woman or to have a predominantly femme cast. However, Indie Cinema is striving to throw a special spotlight on the work of women filmmakers with the programming series #WomenInFilmWednesday — a showcase of the work of women directors that, yes, starts its theatrical run on a Wednesday.

On Wednesday May 8 at 6:30PM, Indie Cinema will screen ‘Keely & Du’. Adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-nominated play, the film is a gripping psychological thriller, directed by Dominique Cardona and Laurie Colbert. Sedated, Keely awakens to find herself captive in a cabin in northern Ontario. Alone with Du, who has been assigned to be her guard, she will be forced to bring her pregnancy to term by an extremist anti-choice faction. Directors Cardona and Colbert will be in attendance at the opening night for an audience Q&A session.

#SamediCinéma

Sudbury Indie Cinema is seeking to bring world-class French cinema to Sudbury. The goal is to enjoy high-quality films rarely seen in Northern Ontario and to bring Francophones, Francophiles and cinephiles under one roof. #SamediCinéma brings French language films to audiences on Saturdays, as the title suggests.

On Saturday May 11 at 6:30PM, Indie Cinema will have the Northern Ontario premiere of ‘Le Rire de ma Mère’ (My Mother’s Laugh). It’s the story of Adrien, an introverted teenager, looking for the courage to act in a school play. All the while he is navigating the relationships with his eccentric parents, who are divorced and remain on good terms as his mother battles illness. The film is the directorial debut of Colombe Savignac and Pascal Ralite and stars Suzanne Clément (Mommy).

Sudbury Cinema Club

May is also the inaugural month of Sudbury Cinema Club (to be facilitated by yours truly, Bennett Malcolmson). So much much of what I enjoy about cinema is the conversation that happens after a film’s credits have rolled, as audiences try to grasp and grapple with the ideas and images that have just been presented to them on screen.

Sudbury Cinema Club is a chance for folks to come under one roof to watch a film and then discuss it afterwards. Much like a book club (but without any of the prep work), it’s a place for cinephiles and the film curious to express their feelings and engage with content critically. There’s no threshold for entry, just an open mind and a willingness to express yourself and listen.

In May there will be two chances to come out to Sudbury Cinema Club; to see a film and talk about it afterwards. On Thursday May 9 at 7:30PM, Indie Cinema will screen ‘3 Faces’, the newest film from director Jafar Panahi. It will be a great chance to discuss Iranian cinema and the 20 years ban on filmmaking the Iranian government has placed on the director (that hasn’t stopped him from making four films).

In ‘3 Faces’, Jafar Panahi and famous Iranian actress Behnaz Jafariuses (playing fictionalized versions of themselves) set out on a road trip to the mountain region in the northwest of Iran to interrogate both the country’s uneasy relationship with its cinema tradition and its enduring patriarchal attitudes.

On Thursday May 23 at 7:00PM, Indie Cinema will screen ‘The Third Wife’, the feature debut of Vietnamese director Ash Mayfair. The film delves into the consequences of arranged marriages and child brides — inextricably linked to patriarchal control. And as the director states, “The characters of this story may belong to a distant past, however, their narrative and struggles are very much present in our contemporary society.”

As described by Mayfair, ‘The Third Wife’ is a coming-of-age story about a child forced to grow into a woman and the consequences of her self-discovery. Set in 19th century Vietnam, May is 14 years old and is given away in an arranged marriage to become the third wife of a wealthy landowner..

To learn more about the Indie Sudbury Cinema and their screenings head to www.sudburyindiecinema.com