HIFF 2021 HELLO AGAIN!!! It’s been a while and we’ve missed you. Good news, things are opening, up, and Film Circuit is coming back after staff shortages. To celebrate, we’ve curated a Virtual Haliburton International Film Festival. Yes, it is that time of year. Cozy sweaters, dark evenings, hunting season, clocks falling back all remind us it’s time to gather to watch films that open our hearts and imaginations while taking us around the world. According to our recent audience survey, for which 200 people responded, the answer was – YES, we want to come back, just not yet. So a Virtual film festival seems to be the appropriate way for HIFF 2021. We’ve picked a line-up mainly from TIFF 2020 and 2021 and you can stream them on Crave, Amazon Prime, and Netflix. Most streaming services offer 30 days free if you don’t already have them. And don’t be dismayed if you can’t find some of the titles when you search them as we even had difficulties with Quebexit. Put them on your Watch List once you find them for easy retrieval. We also kept our choices as upbeat as possible! The program is posted below, on Facebook (HIFF Haliburton International Film Festival & Dock Day) and on our website www.haliburton-movies.com
Let’s talk about the movies! (pretend we are standing in the lobby) 1) We will have intro videos posted on website and Facebook, as well as videos to watch after the movie (interviews with director/cast) 2) Type your comments on Facebook HIFF Haliburton International Film Festival & Dock Day 3) join us for a few zoom chats! Zoom Meeting (same link all meetings) Sat morning 9:30 am - Sat night 9:00 pm - Sun afternoon 1 pm https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84849675617 Meeting ID: 848 4967 5617 One tap mobile +14388097799,,84849675617# Canada Dial by your location +1 647 374 4685 Canada
Line-Up FRIDAY NOVEMBER 5th QUEBEXIT (Amazon PRIME) Original Languages: English, French, Cree Genre: Comedy Running Time: 80 Year: 2020
Following in the footsteps of My Internship in Canada, Joshua Demers’s new Canadian political satire asks: what might happen if Quebec were to declare its independence? Set over the course of a couple of days on a patch of land at the Quebec-New Brunswick border, French and Canadian military — formerly colleagues, and still waiting for their paychecks — fight over who has the right to police the border. Meanwhile, a pair of Indigenous women who regularly cross the border for work must deal with this new bureaucratic nonsense caused by settlers fighting over land that doesn’t belong to them. The film includes dialogue in French, English, and Cree, both celebrating our country’s language diversity and poking fun at the divisions it causes.
ANOTHER ROUND (CRAVE) Original Languages: Danish Genre: Drama, Comedy Running Time: 116 Year: 2020 WINNER BEST FOREIGN FILM 2021
There is a theory that man is born with half a per mille too little. That alcohol in the blood opens the mind to the outside world, problems seem smaller and creativity increases. We know it well; after the first glass of wine, the conversation lifts, the possibilities open up. Martin is a high school teacher. He feels old and tired. His students and their parents want him terminated to increase their average. Encouraged by the per mille theory, Martin and his three colleagues throw themselves into an experiment to maintain a constant alcohol impact in everyday life. If Churchill won World War II in a dense fog of spirits, what could the strong drops do for them and their students?
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 6th ZOOM MORNING COFFEE – 9:30 FILMS (in a suggested, but not necessary order)
ARAB BLUES ( NETFLIX) Original Languages: Danish Genre: Comedy Running Time: 98 2019
After years abroad in Paris, a woman returns home to Tunis with the dream of opening up her own psychotherapy practice.
MINARI – (Amazon PRIME) Original Languages: Korean (South Korea) Genre: Drama Running Time: 115 Winner, Best Support Actress 2021 (First time this has been won by a Korean Actress)
A timeless story of what roots us. Yearning to own a small patch of land and be more than a chicken sexer, the ambitious paterfamilias, Jacob Yi, relocates his Korean-American family: sceptical wife, Monica, and their children, David and Anne, from California to 1980s rural Arkansas, to start afresh and capture the elusive American Dream.
How to Build a Girl (NETFLIX)
Original Languages: English (UK) Genre: Comedy Running Time: 103 2019
Beanie Feldstein stars in this irreverent comedy about Johanna - a girl on the cusp of womanhood desperate to reinvent herself as a rock music critic. Based on the bestselling book.
Black Bear (CRAVE) Original Languages: English (Canada) Genre: Drama Running Time: 104 2019
A filmmaker plays a calculated game of desire and jealousy in pursuit of a work of art that blurs the boundaries between autobiography and invention.
SO PLEASE JOIN US FOR HIFF! Join the conversations and we hope to see you in the Northern Lights sometime this coming winter, if even for just a few screenings. Take care and we will see you at the movies!!!! THE TOM GIRLS