To celebrate the National Canadian Film Day, la Cité des Rocheuses organize a movie festival that will take place from April 19 to April 21.
Discover a selection of 4 films. All films are presented in their original version with English and or French subtitles.
The festival is FREE and will take place at la Cité des Rocheuses located at 4800 Richard Road
SW, Calgary, AB, Canada.
32 short films about Glenn Gould by François Girard
1993 | 98 minutes | Canada | Biographical anthology
As the title suggests, this dramatised documentary about the eccentric Canadian pianist Glenn Gould is broken up into thirty-two short films (mirroring the thirty-two part structure of Bach's 'Goldberg Variations', the recording that Gould made famous), each giving us an insight into some aspect of Gould's life and career. Out of respect for the music lead actor Colm Feore is never seen playing the piano, merely reacting to Gould's own recordings, which are extensively featured.
April 19th - 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
FREE
Goodbye happiness by Ken Scott
2021 | 108 min | Canada Comedy/drama
To commemorate the passing of their beloved father, four brothers very much at odds congregate for one final week at their summer house in the Magdalen Islands. As they bid their final goodbyes, the four brothers revisit their past joys and hardships as each one of them struggles to give meaning to their very different lives.
April 19th - 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm
FREE
Rosie by Gail Maurice
2022 | 92 minutes | Canada | Drama comedy
It tells the story of a suddenly orphaned Indigenous girl and her newly chosen family in Montreal in the 1980s. Rosie is a visibly Indigenous, English-speaking, sweet, and headstrong little girl and her mother has just died. A children’s services agent brings her to her only living relative, her Francophone aunt Frédèrique (Mélanie Bray). “Fred” doesn’t have a solid foundation on which to raise a child. She is unprepared — she’s working at an adult entertainment shop and threatened with eviction — and is at first unwilling to take on caring for her adopted sister’s young daughter.
April 20th - 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
FREE
L'arracheuse de temps by Francis Leclerc
2021 | 94 minutes | France
In 1988, in Saint-Élie-de-Caxton, an eleven years old boy is worried for his grandmother's life. Worn out by illness, the old storyteller tries to convince her grandson that the Death no longer exists. Her story will bring back to life the extraordinary people from the village in 1927 who, by using rocambolesque tricks, will eliminate the Death that threatens them. From now on, death will coincide with the birth of legends.
April 21st - 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
FREE
