Directed by Matthew Rankin • 2019 • Canada
Starring Dan Beirne, Sarianne Cormier, Catherine St-Laurent
Canadian history is reimagined as a head-spinning hallucinogenic fantasia in this outrageously warped future cult classic from director Matthew Rankin. In Toronto in 1899, aspiring politician Mackenzie King (Dan Beirne) dreams of becoming the prime minister of Canada. But his romantic vacillation between a British soldier and a French nurse, exacerbated by a fetishistic obsession, may well bring about his downfall. In his quest for power, King must gratify the expectations of his imperious mother, the hawkish fantasies of a warmongering governor-general, and the utopian idealism of a Quebecois mystic before facing a final test of leadership. Inspired by the diary of one of Canada’s most famous politicians, THE TWENTIETH CENTURY melds the influences of German expressionism, studio-era Technicolor melodrama, and midnight-movie camp into a feverishly stylized biopic unlike any other.
Directed by Peter Medak • 2018 • Cyprus
In 1973, comic genius Peter Sellers and his former “The Goon Show” collaborator Spike Milligan traveled to the coast of Cyprus to star in GHOST IN THE NOONDAY SUN, a seventeenth-century-set pirate spoof helmed by up-and-coming director Peter Medak. From th...
Directed by Amjad Abu Alala • 2019 • Sudan
Starring Mustafa Shehata, Islam Mubarak, Mahmoud Elsarraj
Winner of the Lion of the Future Award for best debut film at the Venice Film Festival, Amjad Abu Alala’s revelatory first feature is a visually sumptuous coming-of-death fable. During a child’s ...
