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Help the Revelstoke Performing Arts Centre choose six international films for 2015–16 Movies in the Mountains Film Series presented in partnership with the Revelstoke Multicultural Society.
You can find descriptions of the films below, just click on the title or the image itself to watch the trailers for 10 amazing Toronto International Film Festival films.
In response to requests, this three documentaries have been added to the mix.
The Revelstoke Performing Arts Centre will be giving away two tickets to people who participate in the poll!
When you are ready, vote for your top six favourites via this doodle — just click here to vote!
Red Army
A smash hit at this year’s Cannes, director Gabe Polsky’s exhilarating documentary chronicles the rise and fall of Soviet hockey in the 1980s.
Country: USA/Russia
Language: English/Russian
Jimmy’s Hall
Recounting the incredible true story of activist Jimmy Gralton and his deportation from Ireland during the country’s ‘Red Scare’ of the 1930s. “Lovely [and] heartfelt … infused with a gentle romanticism that buoys the film without cheapening the gravity of its subject.” — Scott Foundas.
Director: Ken Loach
Country: United Kingdom
Wild Tales (Relatos salvajes)
More than living up to its title, director Damián Szifron’s compendium of outrageous, hilarious and truly bizarre anecdotes offers a subversive, blackly comic portrait of contemporary Argentina.
Country: Argentina / Spain
Language: Spanish
Monsoon
A cinematic journey into the terrain where nature, science, belief and wonder converge in one of the most astonishing and breathtaking landscapes on earth, Monsoon is a film that captures the timelessness and rich human drama of our engagement with the natural world.
Country: Canada
Language: English
Leviathan
Lauded Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev (The Return) won the Best Screenplay prize at Cannes for this painterly, primordial tale about a proud patriarch fighting to protect his family home from a corrupt local official.
Country: Russia
Language: Russian
Timbuktu
Following the recent jihadist takeover of northern Mali, a proud cattle herder comes into fateful conflict with the fundamentalist rulers of the provincial capital, in this luminous, lyrical and poetic drama from the great African filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako.
Country: France / Mauritania / Mali
Language: Arabic/French/Tamashek
Sunshine Superman
A heart-racing documentary portrait of Carl Boenish, “the father of BASE jumping,” whose early passion for skydiving led him to ever more spectacular — and dangerous — feats of foot-launched human flight.
Country: USA/Norway/United Kingdom
Language: English
Felix and Meira (Félix et Meira)
A young married woman from Montreal’s Orthodox Jewish community finds freedom from the strictures of her faith through her relationship with a young man who is mourning the death of his estranged father.
Country: Canada
Language: French/English/Yiddish
Force Majeure
An impulsive decision in a moment of crisis drives a wedge between a husband and wife, in Ruben Östlund’s gripping moral drama which became a critical sensation at Cannes 2014.
Country: Sweden/Norway/Denmark/France
Language: Swedish/English/French
Samba
A recent migrant to France (Omar Sy) fights to stay in his adopted country with the help of a rookie immigration worker (Charlotte Gainsbourg), in this winning drama from the directors of the breakout hit Les Intouchables.
Country: France
Language: French
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