film programme

September 21 to 30
Art Gallery of Hamilton
BMO WORLD FILM FESTIVAL
schedule
screening locations
EJS Empire Jackson Square 6 Cinemas, 2 King St. West, Hamilton
905.526.8132
W Westdale Theatre, 1014 King St. West, Hamilton | 905.522.7173
A Ancaster SilverCity, 771 Golf Links Road, Ancaster | 905.304.5888
AGH Art Gallery of Hamilton, 123 King Street West, Hamilton | 905.527.6610
DA Design Annex, 118 James St. North, Hamilton | 905.667.6620
TA Theatre Aquarius, 190 King Willian St. Hamilton | 905.522.7529
Top Billing: Opening Night Celebration and Screening
Friday, Sept. 21 at 7 pm | EASY MONEY (18A) EJS
Friday, Sept. 21 at 9 pm | AFTER PARTY - SALSA STYLE! AGH
Saturday, Sept. 22 at 1 pm | THE SALT OF LIFE (PG) W
Saturday, Sept. 22 at 4 pm | TO ROME WITH LOVE (PG) W
Saturday, Sept. 22 at 7 pm | BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD (PG) EJS
Sunday, Sept. 23 at 1 pm | NORWEGIAN WOOD (14A) W
Sunday, Sept. 23 at 4 pm | 2 DAYS IN NEW YORK (14A) W
Sunday, Sept. 23 at 7 pm | HYSTERIA (PG) EJS
Sunday, Sept. 23 at 7 pm | FLAMENCO, FLAMENCO (G) AGH
Monday, Sept. 24 at 1 pm | YOUR SISTER’S SISTER (14A) A
Monday, Sept. 24 at 4 pm | WHERE DO WE GO NOW? (14A) A
Monday, Sept. 24 at 7 pm | MOONRISE KINGDOM (PG) A
Monday, Sept. 24 at 7 pm | FAREWELL, MY QUEEN (PG) EJS
Tuesday, Sept. 25 at 7 pm | INESCAPABLE (NYR) EJS
Tuesday, Sept. 25 at 7 pm | HOW MUCH DOES YOUR BUILDING WEIGH, MR. FOSTER?
(NYR) AGH
Wednesday, Sept. 26 at 1 pm | WE HAVE A POPE (PG) A
Wednesday, Sept. 26 at 4 pm | THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL (PG) A
Wednesday, Sept. 26 at 7 pm | SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED (14A) A
Wednesday, Sept. 26 at 7 pm | COSMOPOLIS (14A) EJS
Wednesday, Sept. 26 at 8 pm | TALK: BUILDING SPACES: INTERSECTIONS BETWEEN
ARCHITECTURE AND FILM DA
Thursday, Sept. 27 at 7 pm | THE INTOUCHABLES (14A) EJS
Thursday, Sept. 27 at 7 pm | URBANIZED (NYR) AGH
Friday, Sept. 28 at 7 pm | TRISHNA (14A) EJS
Friday, Sept. 28 at 7 pm | ALIVE FROM THE DIVIS FLATS (NYR) AGH
Friday, Sept. 28 at 8 pm | EVENT: SCRIPT SHOWCASE DA
Friday, Sept. 28 at 9 pm | HEADHUNTERS (14A) EJS
Saturday, Sept. 29 at 1 pm | MARÉCAGES (Wetlands) (14A) W
Saturday, Sept. 29 at 4 pm | TAKE THIS WALTZ (18A) W
Saturday, Sept. 29 at 7 pm | THE LADY (PG) EJS
Sunday, Sept. 30 at 1 pm | THE WORLD BEFORE HER (NYR) W
Sunday, Sept. 30 at 4 pm | BOY (14A) W
Sunday, Sept. 30 at 6:30 pm | RECEPTION: CINEMA HAMILTON INCITE AWARDS TA
Sunday, Sept. 30 at 7 pm | PINA Presented in 3D (G) EJS
Sunday, Sept. 30 at 7:30 pm | EVENT: CINEMA HAMILTON INCITE AWARDS TA
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Welcome
Welcome to the AGH BMO Financial Group World Film Festival!
This year we are particularly proud to introduce BMO Financial Group as our new presenting partner. Now in its fourth year, the Festival continues to enjoy growth in corporate and community support. Thank you to BMO Financial Group and to all our
sponsors for enabling us to bring the best of world cinema to Hamilton.
Whether you take in a comedy, or the films shown in the Urban Revival Films: Explorations in City Planning, Design and Architecture series presented in partnership with
Renew Hamilton, attend our opening and After Party celebrations, or the Cinema
Hamilton Incite Awards – thank you for supporting the Festival.
The success of the AGH BMO Financial Group World Festival is due in large part to
the visionary leadership of Festival Director Annette Paiement and the support of
AGH staff, Volunteers and partners. My thanks to them for their commitment and
creativity, which shine through in all facets of the Festival.
We believe that film is the most accessible visual art form: it touches us, transports
us to another time and place, challenges us, astonishes, provokes and inspires. We
wish you a wonderful journey over the next 10 days.
Louise Dompierre
President and CEO
BMO Financial Group is proud to join with the Art Gallery of Hamilton as the presenting partner of the 2012 AGH BMO World Film Festival. We are delighted to welcome
you to an exciting 10-day showcase of outstanding award-winning films from around
the world.
At BMO Financial Group, we are committed to supporting communities where our
customers live and work. We believe that investing in cultural events such as the
AGH BMO World Film Festival helps promote cultural understanding and fosters local
creative talent and artistic excellence.
We hope that you enjoy many of the films and special events and other activities
that the AGH BMO World Film Festival offers.
Rick Jaques
Divisional Vice-President, South Central Ontario
BMO Bank of Montreal
On behalf of the City of Hamilton, I am pleased to welcome festival-goers, industry
members, and filmmakers to the AGH BMO World Film Festival. Over the next ten
days, I know film lovers from Hamilton and beyond will be inspired by an exciting
schedule of internationally-acclaimed feature films and documentaries, multimedia
performances, events, and post-screening celebrations.
The level of corporate, community, and regional support for the Festival is equally
inspiring. The City of Hamilton recognizes the role that cultural initiatives play in enhancing the quality of life in our community. A vibrant cultural community also makes
good economic sense, attracting investment and new residents to our city. Festivals
such as this one truly demonstrate the economic development potential of Hamilton’s cultural sector.
Congratulations to the AGH staff, sponsors, community partners, and volunteers for
your outstanding work. I look forward to celebrating the power of film with you all.
Yours Sincerely,
Robert Bratina
Mayor | City of Hamilton
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Top Billing: Opening Night
Screening and Celebration
Friday, September 21 at 7 pm
Screening at the Empire Jackson Square 6
Cinemas, Hamilton
EASY MONEY
Dir. Daniel Espinosa (presented by Martin Scorsese),
2012, Sweden, 119 min. Swedish w/English subtitles.
Rated 18A | CRIME/DRAMA
Presented by
Preview Screening before Wide Release.
Lower-class business student JW (Joel Kinnaman from AMC’s The Killing
falls in love with a sexy heiress while living a double life mingling with
Stockholm's wealthy elite. To keep up the façade of his lifestyle, he's
lured into a world of crime. Jorge is a petty fugitive on the run from both
the police and Serbian mafia. He hopes that brokering a massive cocaine
deal will allow him to escape for good. Mafia enforcer Mrado is on the
hunt for Jorge, but his efforts are complicated when he's unexpectedly
saddled with caring for his young daughter. As JW's journey ventures
deeper into the dark world of organized crime, the fate of all three men
becomes entangled and ends with a dramatic struggle for life and death.
Opening Night Celebration – Salsa Style!
Free admission!
Friday, September 21 at 9 pm at the Art Gallery of Hamilton. Cash bar.
After the screening, join us for sangria, tapas and a tropical dance party
with DJ Suave. Salsa lessons provide by Nuvitzo Dance. Drumming and
street dancing with Impact Percussion. Salsa, pasa doble and bachata
dance presentations by Hammer City Salsa and Nuvitzo Dance.
Tickets purchased for the Opening Night screening of Easy Money
receive a complimentary drink ticket for the after party.
Saturday September 22 at 1 pm
Screening at Westdale Theatre, Hamilton
THE SALT OF LIFE
(Pranzo di Ferragosto)
Dir. Gianni Di Gregorio, 2011, Italy, 90 min.
Italian w/English subtitles. Rated PG | COMEDY
Presented by
Programming Partner: Cinema Insieme
In The Salt of Life, Gianni (Gianni Di Gregorio) plays a middle-aged retiree
who has become invisible to most everyone around him. He contends
with an aristocratic, spendthrift mother; a wife who is more patronizing
friend than romantic partner; a daughter with a slacker boyfriend whom
Gianni unwillingly befriends; and a wild young neighbor who sees him
merely as her dog walker. Watching his "codger" friends snare beautiful
younger women on the sun-kissed cobblestones of Trastevere, Gianni
tries his polite, utterly gracious best to generate some kind of extracurricular love life-with both hilarious and poignant results.
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Saturday, September 22 at 4 pm
Screening at Westdale Theatre, Hamilton
TO ROME WITH LOVE
Dir. Woody Allen, 2012, USA, 112 min.
Rated PG | COMEDY
Presented by
Programming Partner: Renew Hamilton
Screened as part of the Urban Revival Film Series:
Explorations in City Planning, Design and Architecture
To Rome With Love is a kaleidoscopic comedy movie set in one of the
world's most enchanting cities. The film brings us into contact with a
well-known American architect reliving his youth; an average middleclass Roman who suddenly finds himself Rome's biggest celebrity; a
young provincial couple drawn into separate romantic encounters; and an
American opera director endeavoring to put a singing mortician on stage.
Saturday, September 22 at 7 pm
Screening at the Empire Jackson Square 6
Cinemas, Hamilton
BEASTS OF THE
SOUTHERN WILD
Dir. Benh Zeitlin, 2012, USA, 91 min.
Rated PG | DRAMA
Presented by
Programming Partner: CLiC and Hamilton Hive
Caméra d’Or, Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize
In a forgotten but defiant bayou community cut off from the rest of the
world by sprawling levee, a six-year old girl exists on the brink of orphanhood. Buoyed by her childish optimism and extraordinary imagination,
she believes that the natural world is in balance with the universe until a
fierce storm changes her reality. Desperate to repair the structure of her
world in order to save her ailing father and sinking home, this tiny hero
must learn to survive unstoppable catastrophes of epic proportions.
After Party at Acclamation Bar & Grill
Join us after the screening at Acclamation Bar & Grill, 191 James Street
North, downtown Hamilton.
Sunday, September 23 at 1 pm
Screening at Westdale Theatre, Hamilton
NORWEGIAN WOOD
(Noruwei no mori)
Dir. Tran Anh Hung, 2010, Japan, 133 min.
Japanese w/English subtitles.
Rated 14A | DRAMA/ROMANCE
Programming Partner: The Japan Foundation
Tokyo, the late 1960s. Students around the world are uniting to
overthrow the establishment and Toru Watanabe's personal life is
similarly in tumult. At heart, he is deeply devoted to his first love,
Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman. But their complex
bond has been forged by the tragic death of their best friend years
before. Watanabe lives with the influence of death everywhere.
That is, until Midori, a girl who is everything that Naoko is not — outgoing,
vivacious, supremely self-confident — marches into his life and Watanabe
must choose between his past and his future.
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Sunday, September 23 at 4 pm
Screening at Westdale Theatre, Hamilton
2 DAYS IN NEW YORK
Dir. Julie Delpy, 2012, France, 91 min.
Rated 14A | COMEDY
Presented by
Hip talk-radio host and journalist Mingus
(Chris Rock) and his French photographer
girlfriend, Marion (Julie Delpy), live cozily in a New York apartment with
their cat and two young children from previous relationships. But when
Marion's jolly father (played by Delpy's real-life dad, Albert Delpy), her
oversexed sister, and her sister's outrageous boyfriend unceremoniously
descend upon them for an overseas visit, it initiates two unforgettable
days of family mayhem. The visitors push every button in the couple's
relationship, truly putting it to the test. How will the couple fare... when
the French come to New York?
Sunday, September 23 at 7 pm
Screening at the Empire Jackson Square 6
Cinemas, Hamilton
HYSTERIA
Dir. Tanya Wexler, 2012, UK, 95 min.
Rated PG | COMEDY/ROMANCE
Hysteria, a mischievously inspired romantic
comedy set in the late 19th century, is based
on the surprising truth of how Mortimer
Granville came up with the world’s first
electromechanical vibrator in the name of medical science. The film
stars Academy Award nominee Maggie Gyllenhaal and Hugh Dancy,
alongside Jonathan Pryce, Rupert Everett, and Felicity Jones.
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Sunday, September 23 at 8 pm
Screening at the Art Gallery of Hamilton
FLAMENCO,
FLAMENCO
Dir. Carlos Saura, 2010, Spain, Spanish w/English
subtitles, 101 min. Rated G | MUSIC/DANCE
Programming Partner: Hot Docs
Carlos Saura, director of such masterpieces as
Cria Cuervos and Tango, performs a tribute to
the music, songs, and dances of flamenco, the famous Andalusian art. In
twenty-one paintings, the director convenes the greatest masters and
new generations of performers. Bringing such prestigious names as
Vittorio Storaro (cinematographer of Apocalypse Now) and Isidro Muñoz
(music consultant), Flamenco, Flamenco offers a journey into the heart
of a beautiful art, their faces, and colors. Gorgeous!
Monday, September 24 at 1 pm
Screening at SilverCity Ancaster Cinemas
YOUR SISTER’S
SISTER
Dir. Lynn Shelton, 2011, USA, 91 min.
Rated 14A | COMEDY/DRAMA
Programming Partner: Ancaster Film Festival
Emily Blunt, Rosemarie Dewitt, and Mark
Duplass star in this comedy about romance,
grief, and sibling rivalry. A year after his brother Tom's death, Jack
(Duplass) is still struggling emotionally. When he makes a scene at a
memorial party, Tom's best friend Iris (Blunt) offers up her family cabin
on an island in the Pacific Northwest so Jack can seek catharsis in
solitude. Once there, however, he runs into Iris' sister Hannah (Dewitt)
who is reeling from the abrupt end of a seven-year relationship and finds
solace in Tom's unexpected presence. The film becomes a twisted tale of
ever-complicated relationships set in motion with raw, hilarious, and
emotional performances from the all-star cast.
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Monday, September 24 at 4 pm
Screening at Ancaster SilverCity,
Ancaster
WHERE DO WE
GO NOW?
Dir. Nadine Labaki, 2011, France, 110 min.
Arabic, Russian, English w/English subtitles.
Rated 14A | COMEDY/DRAMA
Presented by
Programming Partners: Ancaster Film Festival and Multicultural Institute of
Canada (MIC)
Winner, People’s Choice Award, TIFF 2011
Set in a remote village where the church and the mosque stand side by
side, Where Do We Go Now? follows the antics of the town’s women to
keep their blowhard men from starting a religious war. Women heartsick
over sons, husbands, and fathers lost to previous flare-ups unite to
distract their men with clever ruses, from faking a miracle, to hiring a
troop of Ukrainian strippers.
Monday, September 24 at 7 pm
Screening at Ancaster SilverCity,
Ancaster
MOONRISE KINGDOM
Dir. Wes Anderson, 2012, USA, 93 min.
Rated PG | COMEDY/DRAMA/ROMANCE
Presented by
Programming Partner: Ancaster Film Festival
Moonrise Kingdom is the new movie directed by two-time Academy
Award-nominated filmmaker Wes Anderson (The Royal Tenenbaums,
Fantastic Mr. Fox, Rushmore). Set on an island off the coast of New
England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two
12-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together
into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a
violent storm is brewing off-shore—and the peaceful island community
is turned upside down in every which way. Starring, Bruce Willis,
Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton,
Jason Schwartzman, and Bob Balaban.
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Monday, September 24 at 7 pm
Screening at Empire Jackson Square 6
Cinemas, Hamilton
FAREWELL, MY QUEEN
(Les adieux à la reine)
Dr. Benoît Jacquot, 2012, France, 100 min. French
w/English subtitles. Rated PG | HISTORY/DRAMA
Farewell, My Queen marks the return of acclaimed
director Benoît Jacquot and brilliantly captures the
passions, debauchery, occasional glimpses of
nobility and ultimately the chaos that engulfed the
court of Marie Antoinette in the final days before the full-scale outbreak of the
Revolution. Based on the best-selling novel by Chantal Thomas, the film stars
Léa Seydoux as one of Marie's ladies-in-waiting, seemingly an innocent but
quietly working her way into her mistress's special favours, until history tosses her
fate onto a decidedly different path. With the action moving effortlessly from the
gilded drawing rooms of the nobles to the back quarters of those who serve them,
this is a period film at once accurate and sumptuous in its visual details and
modern in its emotions.
Tuesday, September 25 at 7 pm
Screening at Empire Jackson Square 6
Cinemas, Hamilton
INESCAPABLE
Dir. Ruba Nadda, 2012, Canada, 90 min. Not Yet
Rated | DRAMA/THRILLER
Presented by Kate and Carl Turkstra
Director Ruba Nadda will be in attendance.
Advance Screening before Wide Release.
One afternoon, on a typical day at work, Adib is confronted with
devastating news: his eldest daughter, Muna, has gone missing in
Damascus. Now Adib, who has not been back in over 30 years, must
return to Syria and deal with his secret past in order to find her.
Inescapable is a thriller about a father's desperate search for his
daughter and the chaos of the Middle East he left behind.
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Tuesday, September 25 at 7 pm
Screening at the Art Gallery of
Hamilton/Joey and Toby Tanenbaum
Pavilion
HOW MUCH DOES
YOUR BUILDING
WEIGH, MR. FOSTER?
Dirs. Carlos Carcas & Norberto López Amado, 2012 ,
USA, 78 min.
Not Yet Rated | DOCUMENTARY/BIOGRAPHY
Presented by Urban Renewal Section, City of Hamilton
Programming Partner: Hot Docs and Renew Hamilton
Screened as part of the Urban Revival Film Series: Explorations in City Planning,
Design and Architecture.
Born in Manchester, England, on the wrong side of the tracks, Norman
Foster rose from a humble working class background to become one of
the premiere modern architects of our time. Beautifully filmed in over
ten countries and homing in on his most iconic works, (London's Swiss
Re Tower, New York's Hearst Building, Berlin's Reichstag, Beijing Airport's
International Terminal and the breathtaking Millau Viaduct, France),
How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster? is an unprecedented
exploration of an architect whose quest is to improve the quality of life
through design, and his work, which offers striking solutions to humanity's increasing demands.
Wednesday, September 26 at 1 pm
Screening at Ancaster SilverCity, Ancaster
WE HAVE A POPE
(Habemus Papam)
Dir. Nanni Moretti, 2011, Italy, 104 min. Italian w/
English subtitles, Rated PG | COMEDY/DRAMA
Programming Partner: Ancaster Film Festival and
Cinema Insieme
Nanni Moretti (The Son’s Room, Caro Diario)
joins forces with the great French actor Michel Piccoli (Contempt, I’m
Going Home) to tell the story of Melville, a cardinal who suddenly finds
himself elected as the next Pope. Never the front runner and completely
caught off guard, he panics as he's presented to the faithful in St. Peter's
Square. To prevent a worldwide crisis, the Vatican's spokesman calls in
an unlikely psychiatrist who is neither religious nor all that committed,
(played by Moretti), to find out what is wrong with the new Pope. As the
world nervously waits outside, inside the therapist tries to find a solution. But Cardinal Melville is adamant: he does not want the job, or at
least needs time to think it over.
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Wednesday, September 26 at 4 pm
Screening at Ancaster SilverCity, Ancaster
THE BEST EXOTIC
MARIGOLD HOTEL
Dir. John Madden, 2012, UK, 123 min.
Rated PG | COMEDY/DRAMA
Presented by
Programming Partner: Ancaster Film Festival
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel follows a group of British retirees who
decide to "outsource" their retirement to less expensive and seemingly
exotic India. Enticed by advertisements for the newly restored Marigold
Hotel and bolstered with visions of a life of leisure, they arrive to find the
palace a shell of its former self. Though the new environment is less
luxurious than imagined, they are forever transformed by their shared
experiences, discovering that life and love can begin again when you let
go of the past.
Wednesday, September 26 at 7 pm
Screening at Ancaster SilverCity, Ancaster
SAFETY NOT
GUARANTEED
Dir. Colin Trevorrow, 2012, USA, 85 min.
Rated 14A | COMEDY
Presented by
Programming Partner: Ancaster Film Festival
When an unusual classified ad inspires three cynical Seattle magazine
employees to look for the story behind it, they discover a mysterious
eccentric named Kenneth, a likeable put paranoid supermarket clerk,
who believes he has solved the riddle of time travel and intends to
depart again soon. Together, they embark on a hilarious, smart, and
unexpectedly heartfelt journey that reveals how far believing can take
you. From the producers of Little Miss Sunshine.
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Wednesday, September 26 at 7 pm
Screening at Empire Jackson Square 6
Cinemas, Hamilton
COSMOPOLIS
Dir. David Cronenberg, 2012, Canada, 108 min.
Rated 14A | DRAMA
Presented by Downtown Hamilton BIA
Riding across Manhattan in a stretch limo in
order to get a haircut, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager’s day
devolves into an odyssey with a cast of characters that start to tear his
world apart. Director David Cronenberg adapts author Don DeLillo’s novel
about a Manhattan billionaire (Robert Pattinson) who finds his quest to
get a haircut from his father’s old barber complicated by the presidential
motorcade, a gang of violent anarchists, and a funeral procession for a
famous hip-hop star. Meanwhile, the wealthy 28-year-old’s vast fortune
rests on the value of the yen, which he continually monitors from the
comfort of the stretch limo. Keira Knightly, Paul Giamatti, and Juliette
Binoche co-star.
Wednesday, September 26 at 8 pm
Special Event at the AGH Design Annex
BUILDING SPACES: INTERSECTIONS
BETWEEN ARCHITECTURE AND
FILM
Programming Partner: Renew Hamilton
An interactive panel discussion devoted to examining the complementary
disciplines of filmmaking and architecture. Featuring "The Value of
Investing in Canadian Downtowns" by the Canadian Urban Institute and
panel discussion looking at how filmmakers and architects are creating
new environments and experiences for us to explore and, how filmmakers,
urban designers and architects are collaborating to spark an urban revival.
Opening Remarks by Richard Allen
(founder/director of The Renew Hamilton Project)
Moderated by Dr. Alex Sévigny
(Program Director of the McMaster-Syracuse Master of Communications
Management Program)
Presentation by Glenn R. Miller and Katherine Morton of Canadian Urban
Institute
PANEL MEMBERS
Sarah Glenn
(Senior Producer/Partner, Project Video Inc.)
Paul Johnson
(Director, Neighbourhood Development Strategies, City of Hamilton)
Naz Goshtasbpour
(Production Designer)
Holland Young
(Master of Architecture Professional Degree student –
Thesis: The Architecture Narrative of Harry Potter)
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Thursday, September 27 at 7 pm
Screening at Empire Jackson Square 6
Cinemas, Hamilton
THE INTOUCHABLES
Dirs. Olivier Nakache & Eric Toledano, 2011, France,
112 min. French w/ English subtitles.
Rated 14A | COMEDY/DRAMA
César Award (2012) for Best Actor (Omar Sy)
A rich quadriplegic, living in a mansion in
Paris, requires a live-in caregiver. A young offender turns up for an
interview, but he is not really looking to get the job. However, to his
surprise, he is hired. Based on a true story of friendship between a
handicap millionaire (Francois Cluzet) and his street smart ex-con caretaker (Omar Sy), The Intouchables depicts an unlikely camaraderie
rooted in honesty and humor between two individuals who, on the surface, would seem to have nothing in common. This film has broken box
office records in its native France and across Europe.
Thursday, September 27 at 7 pm
Screening at the Art Gallery of Hamilton
URBANIZED
Dir. Gary Hustwit, 2011, USA/UK, 82 min.
Not Yet Rated | DOCUMENTARY
Presented by
Programming Partners: Hot Docs and Renew
Hamilton
Screened as part of the Urban Revival Film Series:
Explorations in City Planning, Design and
Architecture.
Urbanized is a feature-length documentary about the design of cities,
looking at the issues and strategies behind urban design and featuring
some of the world’s foremost architects, planners, policymakers,
builders, and thinkers. Over half the world’s population now lives in an
urban area, and 75% will call a city home by 2050. But while some cities
are experiencing explosive growth, others are shrinking. Who is allowed
to shape our cities, and how do they do it? Unlike many other fields of
design, cities aren’t created by any one specialist or expert. There are
many contributors to urban change, including ordinary citizens who can
have a great impact improving the cities in which they live. By exploring
a diverse range of urban design projects around the world, Urbanized
frames a global discussion on the future of cities.
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Friday, September 28 at 7 pm
Screening at Empire Jackson Square 6
Cinemas, Hamilton
TRISHNA
Dir. Michael Winterbottom, 2012, UK, 108 min.
Rated 14A | DRAMA
Transplanting the well-loved tragic romance of
Thomas Hardy's classic novel Tess of the
D'Urbervilles to India, Michael Winterbottom
(A Mighty Heart, The Trip) trains his masterful
lense towards one of the brightest young stars of a generation, Freida
Pinto (Slumdog Millionaire). Pinto stars as the eldest daughter of a poor
family in Rajasthan, India. She works in a nearby resort to help pay the
bills. Jay is the wealthy son of a property developer who takes up managing the resort at his father's request. When he meets Trishna at a dance,
their fates become intertwined. Jay finds every opportunity to win
Trishna's affection and she accepts his efforts with shy curiosity.
But when the two move to Mumbai and become a couple, Jay's deep
family bond threatens the young lovers' bliss.
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Friday, September 28 at 7 pm
Screening at the Art Gallery of Hamilton
ALIVE FROM THE
DIVIS FLATS
Dir. Eleanor McGrath, 2012, Ireland/Canada.
Not Yet Rated | BIOGRAPHY/DOCUMENTARY/
COMEDY
Presented by
Programming Partners: Hot Docs, Canadian Celtic
Arts Association and Renew Hamilton.
Director Eleanor McGrath and artist Hugo Straney will be in attendance.
Hugo Straney is an Irish Canadian from Belfast Northern Ireland. He has
been in show business for over 30 years waiting for that big break. Every
week Hugo goes to the bars, weddings, hosts a radio show—all in hopes
that one day the big break will happen. He has performed in Vegas, and
with two records of cover songs he should be known by now. This honest
interaction with the camera tells the story of the ‘everyman’ on the
journey of life in his search for recognition and mortality. But there in the
background is Hugo's past; a childhood during Northern Ireland's worst
times in history, and disaster in social housing: the Divis Flats. This is the
true story, the honest story of the impact the experiment in housing that
has catapulted Hugo forward.
Screened as part of the Urban Revival Film Series: Explorations in City Planning,
Design and Architecture.
After Party at Slainte Irish Pub
Join us after the screening to toast the director and cast!
Slainte Irish Pub, 33 Bowen Street, Hamilton
Friday, September 28 at 8 pm
Special Event at the AGH
Design Annex
SCRIPT
SHOWCASE
Moderated by Genie-nominated director/screenwriter Richie Mehta (Amal)
Programming Partner: indieOPTION
Hamilton's first Script Showcase is a forum where a chosen short script
or screen play is read aloud by professional actors. The chosen script will
receive feedback by an audience of fellow writers, actors, filmmakers and
film lovers.
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Friday, September 28 at 9 pm
Screening at Empire Jackson Square 6
Cinemas, Hamilton
HEADHUNTERS
Dir. Morten Tyldum, 2011, Norway, Norwegian
w/English subtitles. 101 min.
Rated 14A | CRIME/THRILLER
Presented by
Headhunters stars the talented Aksel Hennie
(Max Manus) as Roger, a charming scoundrel and Norway's most accomplished headhunter. Roger is living a life of luxury well beyond his
means, and stealing art to subsidize his expensive lifestyle. When his
beautiful gallery owner wife introduces him to a former mercenary in the
possession of an extremely valuable painting, he decides to risk it all to
get his hands on it, and in doing so discovers something which makes
him a hunted man.
Saturday, September 29 at 1 pm
Screening at the Westdale Theatre,
Hamilton
MARÉCAGES
(Wetlands)
Dir: Guy Édoin, 2011, Canada, 111 min. French
w/English subtitles. Rated 14A | DRAMA
On a dairy farm in Quebec's Eastern
Townships, in the middle of a drought and
while the land is parching, a drama will
disrupt the life of the Santerre family.
Confronted with each other they will have to learn to forgive.
This acclaimed film is written and directed by Guy Édoin and stars
Pascale Bussières, Gabriel Maillé, Luc Picard and François Papineau.
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Saturday, September 29 at 4 pm
Screening at Westdale Theatre,
Hamilton
TAKE THIS WALTZ
Dir. Sarah Polley, 2011, Canada, 116 min.
Rated 18A | COMEDY/DRAMA
Presented by
When Margot (Michelle Williams), 28,
meets Daniel (Luke Kirby), their chemistry
is intense and immediate. But Margot
suppresses her sudden attraction; she is
happily married to Lou (Seth Rogen), a cookbook writer. When she
learns that Daniel lives across the street from them, the certainty
about her domestic life is shattered. She and Daniel steal moments
throughout the steaming Toronto summer, their eroticism heightened
by their restraint. Swelteringly hot, bright, and colourful, like a bowl of
fruit, Take This Waltz leads us, laughing, through the familiar, but
uncharted question of what long-term relationships do to love, sex,
and our images of ourselves.
Saturday, September 29 at 7 pm
Screening at Empire Jackson Square 6
Cinemas, Hamilton
THE LADY
Dir. Luc Besson, 2011, France/UK, 110 min.
Not Yet Rated | BIOGRAPHY/DRAMA
The 2012 International Human Rights Film Award
Presented by The Hutton Family
The Lady is the extraordinary story of Aung
San Suu Kyi and her husband, Michael Aris.
It is also the epic story of the peaceful quest
of the woman who is at the core of Burma's democracy movement.
Despite distance, long separations, and a dangerously hostile regime,
their love endures until the very end. A story of devotion and human
understanding set against a backdrop of political turmoil that continues
today. The Lady was written over a period of three years by Rebecca
Frayn. Interviews with key figures in Aung San Suu Kyi's entourage
enabled her to reconstruct for the first time the true story of Burma's
national heroine.
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Sunday, September 30
Special Event at Theatre Aquarius
Lead Partner:
Supporting Partner:
Celebration co-presented by Beaux Mondes
6:30 pm - 7:15 pm Red Carpet Walk for Filmmakers
7:30 pm
Opening Remarks: Incite Foundation for the Arts
and Awards Ceremony
9:00 pm
Closing Celebration for the AGH BMO World
Film Festival
Award Ceremony Host: J.R. Digs
Red Carpet Hosts: Danielle and Melissa Heights
DJ for Closing Celebration and Party: DJ NIGHTS (Jason Mante)
Tickets: $10
The Cinema Hamilton Incite Awards were created to celebrate the artistic
excellence represented by Hamilton’s film community.
The Art Gallery of Hamilton BMO World Film Festival has joined forces
with Hamilton’s indie film festivals to create a night of celebration and
prizes for indie films that were previously submitted to Hamilton24,
The Hamilton Film Festival, The Hamilton Music and Film Festival and
indieOPTION’s Breakout Film Festival.
Categories for the Cinema Hamilton
Incite Awards
• The Best of Hamilton Award
The filmmaker tells us what "The Best of Hamilton" means to them.
• Audience Choice Award
Audiences will have the opportunity to vote for their favorite by
"liking" a film on the Cinema Hamilton Incite Award facebook page www.facebook.com/CinemaHamiltonInciteAwards
• Special Jury Prize
A jury comprised of local film enthusiasts will decide which film is their
overall favorite.
• Best Short Film Award
An award for the best short film (narrative or documentary) 10 minutes
and under.
• Best Music Video Award
An award for the best music video of any length.
• Best Animation Award
An award for best animated film of any length.
• Best Feature Documentary
An award for best documentary longer than 60 minutes.
Audience Choice Award
Vote for your favorite film in the Audience Choice Award category by
following these steps:
1) Log into www.facebook.com/CinemaHamiltonInciteAwards
2) Click into the YouTube link to watch each movie, then return to the
Cinema Hamilton Facebook page to vote.
3) Click to "like" your favourite movie. The movie with the most "likes"
will win the audience choice award.
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An event of this scope does not happen without the spirit of
collaboration.
A big thank you to all the Volunteers who helped make the AGH BMO
World Film Festival possible. From sitting on steering committees,
participating in the administrative and promotional aspects of planning
the Festival, to the Front-Line Volunteers who made the whole thing
come together (the Ticketers, Ushers, Greeters, Hosts, and Tech
Volunteers who provided diligent and exceptional customer service),
we thank you. Many thanks are also extended to AGH staff for their
dedication and hard work on behalf of the Festival.
This event wouldn’t be possible without your support.
We are particularly proud of this year’s architecture and urban planning
programming focus. Thank you to all participants.
Annette Paiement
Festival Director, AGH BMO World Film Festival
The Art Gallery of Hamilton would like to thank the following individuals,
organizations and business for their invaluable support of this year’s
AGH BMO World Film Festival
AGH BMO World Film Festival Programming Committee
Annette Paiement, Chair
Charles Criminisi
Julian D’Angelo
Janice Hdlaki
Cinema Hamilton Incite Awards
Roz Allen
Lorri Bowman
Mike Cameron
Nathan Fleet
Ryan Furlong
Martinus Geleynse
Kevin Hall
Lee Hillman
Linda Mitton
Tim Poticic
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Terrence Odette
Usha Ranganachari
Dr. Ranganachari
James Tennant
Alex Zafer
Raquel Rakovac
Julian D’Angelo
Brian Winer
Robert Dmochewicz
Vanessa Crosbie Ramsay
Paize B Usiosefe
Stephanie Trendocher
Jacqueline Norton
Building Spaces Panel
Richard Allen
Dr. Alex Sévigny
Glenn R. Miller
Katherine Morton
Sarah Glenn
Paul Johnson
Naz Goshtasbpour
Holland Young
Paul Rodrigue
Melissa and Danielle Height
The Green Smoothie Bar
Fredrick Owens
David Adames
Hamilton Limo
Papagayo Restaurant
Valentino’s Place
Tony Vieira
Ian Wallace
HECFI
Anthony Goodine
Hammer City Salsa
Ned Currie
Denise Dickie
Erin McNeil
Beaux Mondes
Matt McKinnon
Meagan Brander
Ming-Jenn Lim
Hot Docs
Louise Ferguson-Redman
Quizno’s
Acclamation Bar & Grill
Slainte Irish Pub
Mulberry Coffee House
Flyprint
Hammer Entertainment
Hamilton Film and Television Office
Charles Street Video
Harmony Global Arts Clothing
Stephanie Trendocher
Jacklyn Warmington
Shanghai Merchant
Maverick Studio for Men
Incite Foundation for the Arts
Ancaster FIlm Festival
Cannon 205
Hamilton Film Festival
Sonic Unyon
IN-KIND PROGRAMMING PARTNERS
Kate and Carl
Turkstra