GRAB YOUR SNACKS CINÉFEST 2019 IS HERE!

Attention all film lovers its that time of year again! Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival is kicking off its 31^st season with tons of new flicks for you to check out. The Cinefest program runs the gamut from documentaries, Canadian Features, Wold Film, and even shorts. With over 100 films to choose from we defy you not to find one, you’ll be raving about! The festival runs from September 14^th to 22^nd at Silvercity Sudbury and offers a unique chance for you to see films from all sorts of different perspectives and from all over the world that otherwise might not make it to Sudbury screens. Special guests including actors, directors, producers are on hand for many of the films and available for Q&A’s after the film – when else would you have the chance to grill the people directly involved with a movie you just finished watching? For an extra special treat check out their daily Gala presentations at 7PM which features a cocktail party with special guests and audience members alike (after taking in a world class film of course). We’ve scoured this years offerings in preparation for our own viewing pleasure so here’s a few of the films we’re most excited to check out!

Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival runs from September 14^th – 22^nd at Silvercity Sudbury. For tickets and more information visit: www.cinefest.com

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Youth Unstoppable

Monday, September 16^th 10:00 AM, Cinema 9 Prime Time

Directed by: Slater Jewell-Kemker

Youth Unstoppable captures the vibrant untold story of the global youth climate movement. Decisions made today are shaping the world they will live in, and they are no longer willing to sit idly as the planet is degraded for the short term gain of the older generations. Director Slater Jewell-Kemker has been interviewing celebrities and politicians about the environment since the age of ten, now she is telling the stories of these remarkable young people on the front lines of climate change. The feature documentary also gives life to a thriving online community, already forming, that will continue as a youth-focused environmental social network. This is the story of the youth of today fighting for their planet, their future.

Ask for Jane

Monday, September 16^th 1:30 PM, Audience Choices from Around the World

Directed by: Rachel Carey

Chicago, 1969. Imagine a world where abortion is punishable by prison, and getting birth control is nearly impossible. As a result, women die every day from taking matters into their own hands. When a pregnant student at the University of Chicago attempts to take her own life, Rose (Cortelyou) and Janice (Horn) find a doctor willing to perform the procedure in secret to save the woman’s life. Sparked by this experience, Rose and Janice form the Jane Collective: a secret organization to help other women obtain safe and illegal abortions. Operating like a spy network, complete with blindfolds and code names, the Janes help thousands of women, but they can’t hide from the police forever. Ask for Jane is based on a true story.

Riot Girls

Tuesday, September 17^th 1:30 PM, #GenXY

Directed by: Jovanka Vuckovic

Scratch (Kwiatkowski) and her girlfriend Nat (Iseman) fend for themselves with a band of friends and family in an alternative, mid-‘90s, post-apocalyptic world in which the adult population has been decimated by a deadly plague. When Nat’s brother Jack (Bourgeois) is captured by a rival gang led by the devious jock Jeremy (Chambers), Nat, Scratch, and the lovable new member of the community Sony (Friese) set out to save him. The three young punks now must brave enemy territory and face off against an armed-to-the-teeth squadron of fascist jocks sporting letterman jackets and a whole lot of squarehead hatred.

James vs. His Future Self

Tuesday, September 17^th 4:00 PM, Special Presentations

Directed by: Jeremy LaLonde

James (Chernick) is an uptight time-traveling obsessed young scientist, with a secret crush on his best friend Courtney (Coleman), and a younger sister Meredith (Pirie), who is stuck looking after him since their parents died. James’s tunnel vision determination to become the world’s first-time traveler has taken over every aspect of his life, and the only two people who care about him at all—Courtney and Meredith—are almost ready to give up on him. When James is visited by Jimmy, his nihilistic future self, he’s told that he needs to give up his dream of becoming the world’s first-time traveler, or else suffer the unimaginably lonely consequences. But when he won’t go along with the plan, it becomes a wicked battle of man versus himself—literally. This science-fiction comedy is Jeremy LaLonde’s fifth feature film and was filmed in Sudbury.

Vivarium

Tuesday, September 17^th 8:00 PM, World Cinema

Directed by: Lorcan Finnegan

Gemma (Poots) is a young woman who, along with her boyfriend Tom (Eisenberg), is in desperate search of the perfect starter home. After following a mysterious real estate agent to Yonder, a new housing development on the outskirts of the city, the couple finds themselves trapped in a constantly changing and yet frustratingly identical suburban neighborhood with no means of contacting the outside world. As their new home restricts them more and more, it threatens to create a rift between Gemma and Tom. Vivarium is a thriller revealing an eerie, chilling suburban dystopia that resonates with the anxieties of the current day.

Jeune Juliette

Thursday, September 19^th 3:30 PM, Features Canada

Directed by: Anne Émond

Fourteen-year-old Juliette(Jamieson) lives in the country with her father and her older brother. When Juliette was younger, her mother left the family to pursue her career in New York and from that moment, Juliette started to gain weight. Today, she’s not obese, but she’s clearly the heaviest girl at her high school. This doesn’t stop her from being vivacious, funny, and unrepentantly rebellious. Juliette has big dreams: she wants to throw the best parties, move to New York to live with her mother, and date the most gorgeous guy in her school, an older boy who is about to graduate. In short, she wants everything she can’t have—which sometimes makes her forget to appreciate those who really love her. Jeune Juliette follows this brazen and endearing girl during her hectic last few weeks before summer vacation, as she does some growing up—but not too much.

Castle in the Ground

Thursday, September 19^th 4:00 PM, In Full View: Crisis. Conflict. Conscience

Directed by: Joey Klein

Henry (Wolff) is the primary caretaker for his chronically ill single mother Rebecca (Campbell) right up until the moment of her untimely death. With his girlfriend set to leave for college and his ascetic Jewish relatives ostensible strangers, Henry is left alone with a crippling grief, a burgeoning sense of guilt, as well as an unfinished bottle of Oxycontin 80s… The only person in his life that isn’t placating to his loss is his loud, subversive neighbour ANA (Poots), who has just moved in across the hall. As she tries to manage her own drug habit, as Henry begins to develop his own, the two of them form an unlikely friendship just as they become embroiled in a dangerous situation involving a missing bag of drugs. Castle in the Ground was filmed in Sudbury.

The Farewell

Thursday, September 19^th 7:00 PM, Gala Film Presentations

Directed by: Lulu Wang

The Farewell follows a Chinese family who, when they discover their beloved grandmother has only a short while left to live, decide to keep her in the dark and schedule an impromptu wedding to gather before she passes. Billi (Awkwafina), feeling like a fish out of water in her home country, struggles with the family’s decision to hide the truth from her grandmother. The Farewell made a lasting impression when it premiered at Sundance Film Festival and is based on writer and director Lulu Wang’s true family story.

White Lie

Friday, September 20^th 4:00 PM, Indie-Can

Directed by: Yonah Lewis

Katie (Rohl), a dance major, makes everyone believe that she’s fighting against cancer. When her eligibility for a university bursary is jeopardized unless she provides medical records within the week, she scrambles to forge them, begging her father for money to pay for them. He quickly sees through her façade and refuses to help, pleading with her to come clean before he reveals her crime to her crowdfunders.

The Lodge

Saturday, September 21^st 9:30 PM, Special Presentations

Directed by: Severin Fiala & Veronika Franz

A bone-chilling nightmare from the directors of Goodnight Mommy, The Lodgefollows a family who retreat to their remote winter cabin over the holidays. When the father (Armitage) is forced to abruptly depart for work, he leaves his children, Aidan (Martell) and Mia (McHugh) in the care of his new girlfriend, Grace (Keough). Isolated and alone, a blizzard traps them inside the lodge as terrifying events summon specters from Grace’s dark past.