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OPENING NIGHT 2000­2001 SOIREE OVERTURE 2000­2001 To inaugurate our 2000­2001 season with the National Archives of Canada, we are proud to present the newly restored version of the Canadian classic, TIT-COQ, written, directed, and starring the legendary Gratien Gélinas. Pour inaugurer notre saison 2000­2001 avec les Archives Nationales du Canada, nous sommes fiers de présenter la version récemment restaurée du classique canadien TIT-COQ, écrit, réalisé et interprété par le légendaire Gratien Gélinas.

Wed./mer. Sept. 27 sept., 19:30
TIT-COQ
Canada 1953, 103 min. Reals./Dirs.: Gratien Gélinas, René Delacroix
Adapted from Gratien Gelinas' award-winning 1948 play, tit-coq tells the bittersweet love story and difficult social integration of a young soldier born of unknown parents who dreams of marrying his sweetheart Marie-Ange upon his return from World War II. The film stars Gelinas (1909­1999), who is considered one of the founders of modern Canadian theatre and film. His concern for and characterizations of the "common man" influenced many playwrights after him, including Marcel Dube, Yves Theriault, and Michel Tremblay. TIT-COQ captured the Best Canadian Film Award in 1953. Don't miss the opportunity to see this classic in a new, archivally restored 35mm print. Presented in collaboration with the National Archives of Canada.
In French with English sub-titles.

TIT-COQ est l'adaptation de la pièce primée écrite par Gratien Gélinas en 1948. Le film raconte l'histoire d'amour douce-amère et la difficile intégration sociale d'un jeune soldat né de parents inconnus qui rêve d'épouser sa bien-aimée, Marie-Ange, dès son retour de la 2ème Guerre mondiale. Le film met en vedette Gélinas (1909­1999), qui est considéré comme l'un des fondateurs du théâtre et du cinéma canadien contemporains. L'intérêt qu'il porte à « Monsieur tout le monde » et à la peinture de son caractère a influencé de nombreux dramaturges après lui, tels Marcel Dubé, Yves Thériault et Michel Tremblay. TIT-COQ a remporté le prix du meilleur film canadien en 1953. Ne manquez pas l'occasion de voir ce classique dans sa nouvelle version 35 mm, restaurée. Présenté en collaboration avec les Archives Nationales du Canada.
En version française avec sous-titres en anglais.

Filmmaking in The Netherlands has a long and distinguished history in documentary, animation, and, especially since the late 1960s, feature films. While having scored recent successes at the Academy Awards with films by Marleen Gorris (ANTONIA'S LINE) and Mike van Diem (CHARACTER), Dutch feature filmmaking must still constantly fight to be seen and heard. Faced with the Hollywood juggernaut, contemporary Dutch filmmakers are attempting to strike a balance between artistic expression and commercial viability. Selected from the last four years of Dutch production, this programme reveals the continued vitality of Dutch filmmaking in the face of the enormous pressures to maintain the rich tradition of Dutch cinema. It also features work by established Dutch directors as well as new and emerging talents .
Presented in collaboration with the Royal Netherlands Embassy, this series is touring to Winnipeg, Edmonton, and Vancouver.

Le cinéma aux Pays-Bas se distingue par une longue histoire riche en documentaires, en cinéma d'animation et tout particulièrement, depuis la fin des années 60, en longs métrages. Face au raz-de-marée hollywoodien, les cinéastes hollandais contemporains essayent de trouver un équilibre entre l'expression artistique et la viabilité commerciale. Sélectionné dans la production hollandaise des 4 dernières années, ce programme nous révèle la vitalité soutenue du cinéma hollandais face aux contraintes énormes subies pour préserver sa riche tradition tout en essayant de rivaliser avec des forces plus importantes.
Préparé en collaboration avec l'Ambassade Royale des Pays-Bas, cette série partira en tournée à Winnipeg, Edmonton et Vancouver.

Sat./sam. Oct. 21 oct., 19:00
NO PLANES, NO TRAINS
Netherlands 1999, 103 min. Director: Jos Stelling
From the acclaimed director of THE POINTSMAN comes this quirky tragicomedy of love, death, and a yearning for Italy. Deciding to end his life after one last day in the Café Centraal, Gerard has a series of amusing and intense encounters with several of the regulars in the bar. As the day progresses, Gerard begins to reconsider his decision. Inspired by the book, BROEDERWEELDE, by Jean Paul Franssens, NO PLANES is an absorbing film about the search for passion and meaning in life. Preceded by Paul Driessen's animated marvel, THREE MISSES (1998).

Sat./sam. Oct. 21 oct., 21:30
GUTS
Netherlands 1999, 90 min. Director: Ron Termaat
Made on a shoestring budget, GUTS is the story of two friends, Oliver and> Luc, who have a dream making a movie set in the 1930s. Oliver is writing the script, incorporating things he comes across in everyday life. Then, he becomes obsessed by a the face of a woman on a billboard. He later meets and falls in love with her. This leads to confrontations between the Oliver, Luc and the woman. It also leads to some surprising intersections between the reality Oliver lives and the fantasy world he creates. An offbeat gem. Preceded by JAZZIMATION, by Oerd van Cuijlenborg. English sub-titles.

Sun./ dim Oct. 22 oct., 21:00
ONE MAN AND A DOG
Netherlands 1998, 85 min. Director: Annette Apon
Meet Kees, a rather lonely 25 year old bank employee who likes to walk an imaginary dog every night through his neighbourhood. One night, he breaks into an apartment and steals some photographs of the girl who lives there. He brings them to the bank and shows his colleagues that he does indeed have a girlfriend. The fictional relationship soon expands to hilarious proportions. An engaging comedy about marginality and the need to belong. Preceded by VAN SCHAFT TOT SCHAFT (1999), by Rob Smits and Britta Hosman.

Sat./sam. Oct. 28 19:00
LITTLE TONY
Netherlands 1999, 95 min. Director: Alex van Warmerdam
Farmer Brand (played by van Warmerdam himself) can't read and he is quite happy with that. His wife, Keet, is not. She decides to hire a teacher for him, a beautiful woman, named Lena. Brand falls in love with her. To his puzzlement and dismay Keet encourages him, because as she says she doesn't want a husband with another woman in his head. She wants their love to grow stale. She also wants Lena to give Brand and her a son. The love between Brand and Lena does not grow stale easily and after the birth of little Teun, their strange menage a trois comes to a dramatic conclusion. An absurdist drama by one of Dutch cinema's finest directors. Preceded by HUMMING WIRES by David Haneke (1999).

Sat./sam. Oct. 28 oct., 21:00
LITTLE SISTER
Netherlands 1996 91 min. Director: Robert Jan Westdijk
After several years without contact, Martijn meets his sister Daantje, who has just started to live on her own in Amsterdam. He tells her he is going to make a documentary and enters her life with a video camera. This creates a tension between Daantje and her brother, because he wants to recall something that happened between them in the past. Acclaimed at various festivals, including Berlin, Montreal, and Toronto, Robert Jan Westdijk's debut feature is an intelligent examination of relationship, memory, and the cinema itself. Preceded by HONG KONG (HKG), by Gerard Holthuis (1999).

Sun./dim Oct. 29 oct. 21:15
THE POLISH BRIDE
Netherlands 1998, Director: Karim Traidia
A tautly constructed drama of the love between a Polish woman and a farmer from Groningen. Anna, an economic refugee from the collapse of communism, is forced to work in a brothel in Amsterdam. Desperate, she flees, managing to escape to the countryside. She's found, exhausted and scared and unable to speak Dutch, by Henk (the farmer) who offers her a place to stay, but her past pursues her. A superb portrait of contemporary changes in Holland and in Europe, Traidia's film is also an extradordinarily intimate exploration of the nature of love between people who cannot speak the same language. If you missed at the 1999 European Union Film Festival, here's another chance to see this remarkable film. Preceded by BROEIKAS, by Bart van den Berg (1999).

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HUNGARY'S WOMEN DIRECTORS LES RÉALISATRICES HONGROISES

In recent decades, an important trend in Hungarian cinema has been the emergence of many talented women filmmakers. This series offers a showcase of the extraordinary films of four pivotal figures in the contemporary cinema of Hungary. Presented in collaboration with the Embassy of the Republic of Hungary.

Depuis quelques décennies, la tendance la plus fascinante et la plus marquante du cinéma hongrois est l'émergence de nombreuses cinéastes talentueuses. Cette série présente un aperçu des films extraordinaires de 4 figures essentielles du cinéma hongrois. Présenté en collaboration avec l'Ambassade de la République de Hongrie.

Sat./sam. Oct. 14 oct., 19:00
MY TWENTIETH CENTURY
Hungary 1989 91 min. Dir. Ildiko Enyedi
Compelling tale of twin sisters, born in 1880 Budapest, who are separated during childhood; one becomes a seductress, the other an anarchist. Enyedi incisively depicts an era that begins with promise, as Thomas Edison demonstrates the wonders of electricity, but develops into an age in which human relations do not keep pace with technological innovation. Rendered in gorgeous black and white cinematography, this film captured the prestigious Camera d'Or prize at Cannes. Essential viewing.

Sat./sam. Oct. 14 oct., 21:00
ESCAPE
Hungary 1996, 96 min. Dir. Livia Gyarmatht
Five years after Word War II people in Hungary are secretly arrested and taken to a labour camp. During the early 1950's the very existence of the camp for political prisoners at Recsk was one of the Hungarian communist regime's deepest secrets. ESCAPE tells the story of the only person who ever managed to escape successfully from Recsk -Hungary`s most notorious prison camp. He cherishes his hope by memorizing the names of fellow prisoners. The disclosure of the names of these prisoners in the West revealed the existence of the camp to the world and started the process that eventually led to dismantling the gulag camps in Central Europe.

Sun./dim. Oct. 15 oct., 19:00
RED COLIBRI
Hungary 1996, 97 min. Dir. Zsuzsa Boszormenyi
This award-winning first film is a absorbing drama about a taxi driver becoming ensnared in the dangerous world of the mafia which controls much of the city's cab industry. As one of the brightest talents in new Hungarian cinema, Boszormenyi captured the Best First Film award for RED COLIBRI at the Calcutta Film Festival. She also produced ESCAPE (see above) and her thesis film, ONCE UPON A TIME, won the Student's Academy Award in Los Angeles

Sun./dim. Oct. 22 oct., 19:00
SIMON MAGUS
Hungary 1998 Dir. Ildiko Enyedi
The French police seek help from Simon, a magician and visionary living in Budapest, to solve a murder case. Whilst in Paris, Simon falls in love with Jeanne, although they do not speak each other's language. When Jeanne leaves for a couple of days, Peter, another visionary, calls Simon for a duel: They both have to spend three days buried alive. Will Simon ever meet his love again? Pending confirmation, director Ildiko Enyedi will attend the screening to introduce and discuss her work.

Sun./dim. Oct. 29 oct., 19:00
DIARY FOR MY LOVES
Hungary 1987, 130 min. Dir. Marta Mezaros
Eighteen year-old Juli works in a textile factory, having left Magda, her foster mother and officer in the state security service. Magda had brought Juli home from the Soviet Union, where her mother had died and her father was imprisoned, but Juli refused Magda's offer to adopt her. Later, Juli returns to Magda, for she can pull party strings to assist Juli's ambitions to become a film director. From one of Hungary's greatest directors, DIARY is a semi-autobiographical drama set in a period of historic change from the end of WW II through Stalinism and the Cold War, to Stalin's death and the beginnings of the 1956 Hungarian uprising. A major work of the Hungarian cinema.

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Oct. 1 oct., 19:00
TOMBSTONE FOR FIREFLIES
Japan 1988, 88 min. Dir. Isao Takahata
An animated feature about World War II, this film deals with the aftermath of war's social and psychological devastation. In Kobe, young Seita and his little sister are made homeless orphans by the relentless bombing. Though the war ends, the children still have no home and face an uncertain future. English sub-titles.

Sat./sam. Oct. 7 oct., 19:00
STATION
Japan 1985, 138 min. Dir. Yasuo Furuhata
A former Olympic champion sharpshooter turned detective sets out on the trail of the man who murdered his coach and boss. Having lost his wife as a result of his dedication to his detective work, Eiji falls in love with a young woman who may know who the killer is. An absorbing crime film with echoes of film noir and the American hard-boiled tradition of detective fiction. English sub-titles.

Sun./dim. Oct. 8 oct., 19:00
ABDUCTION
Japan 1997, 109 min. Dir. Takao Okawara
The director of a large Tokyo trading company is kidnapped. The kidnappers demand a large ransom and that the delivery itself be broadcast on television. As the plot thickens and quickens, a young detective volunteers to deliver the bag with the ransom money. Gripping stuff. English sub-titles.

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....special presentations speciale....

Ottawa Premiere!!! Four screenings only!
Sat./sam. Sept. 30 sept., 19:00 and/et 21:00
Sat./sam. Oct. 7 oct., 21:00
Sun./dim. Oct. 15 oct., 21:00
VINYL
Canada 2000, 110 min. Dir. Alan Zweig
Why collect stacks of records when you don't even have time to listen to them? Exploring his longstanding addiction to vinyl records, witty independent director Alan Zweig (STEALING IMAGES, THE DARLING FAMILY) sets out on a decidedly quirky journey to the centre of record collecting mania. Interviewing other vinyl pack rats like him and touring dingy, record lined apartments, Zweig searches for answers about his own obsessive record hoarding. Years in the making, VINYL features a cast of hundreds, including such noted collectors as Geoff Pevere, Daniel Richler, Don McKellar, and a very peculiar man who wants to collect every single record ever made. Amusing and entertaining, VINYL has played to packed theatres in Winnipeg and Vancouver after its debut at this year's Hot Docs! Festival in Toronto.

Sun./dim. Oct. 1 oct., 21:00
The Best of Ottawa 2000
Founded in 1976 by the CFI, the Ottawa International Animation Festival is North America's largest and most prestigious animation event. This best of the festival programme, selected from the over 1,000 entries to the Festival, encompasses a wide variety of subjects, themes, and techniques. These films reveal a side of animation very rarely seen outside of the
festival circuit.
Tonight we present:
SUBIDA (UK 2000, 4 min. Dir. Kunyi Chen)
TRUTH (USA 1998, 4 min. Dir. Bernard Roddy)
GRACE (USA 1999, 7 min. Dir. Lorelei Pepi)
RING OF FIRE (Germany 2000, 15 min. Dir. Andreas Hykade)
FUGUE (Switzerland 1998, 7 min. Dir. George Schwizgebel)
THE PERIWIG MAKER (Germany 1999, 15 min. Dir. Steffen Schaeffler)
THE MESSAGE (Germany 2000, 6 min. Dir. Raimund Krumme) l
THE DOUBLE INVENTION IN A MINOR (Slovakia 1999, 2 min. Dir. Vladimir Kral)
LITTLE DARK SPOT (UK 1998, 6 min. Dir. Mike Booth)
CARCASSES ET CRUSTACES (Switzerland 1999, 14 min. Dir. Zoltan Horvath)
FISHING (USA 1999, 3 min. Dir. David Gainey)

Fri./ven. Oct. 27 oct., 19:30
THE FILMS OF GARY POPOVICH

The CFI, in collaboration with SAW Video, is pleased to welcome Toronto experimental filmmaker, Gary Popovich, to inaugurate the third season of Café Ex, presented in Club SAW. Popovich's poetic films explore themes of memory, the nature of knowledge, and systems of representation in startling fashion. He will present three key films from the past decade: ARCHAEOLOGY OF MEMORY(1990, 13 min.), FAULTLINES (1999, 17 min.), and SELF CRITICISM (2000, 27 min.).He will also present several short video works he has recently completed. Gary Popovich will attend the screening to introduce and discuss his work in the "intimate and interactive" Club SAW.

small  is beautiful The CFI is pleased to present, as part of its ongoing programming, the best of Canadian independent short films before its feature presentations.