Gimli Film Festival announces lineup
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School’s out for summer, but for film lovers, the Gimli Film Festival has a lineup of beach screenings that will make you want to head back to class.
This year, the theme for the festival’s popular RBC Sunset Screenings is “summer school,” featuring five coming-of-age hits from the ’80s through the ’00s that will give filmgoers a pop quiz in nostalgia.
Kicking things off is 1995 rom-com classic Clueless (July 24), followed by the Wes Anderson-directed Rushmore (July 25), Lindsay Lohan-led Mean Girls (July 26) and music-infused School of Rock (July 27). Wrapping up the festival on July 28 is a screening of audience-choice winner The Breakfast Club.

All sunset screenings are free and scheduled to start at 10 p.m. each night.
Beyond the endlessly quotable nightly beach screenings, there’s plenty of new films to see from across the globe. The Icelandic Film Series, Indigenous Film Series, Manitoba Film Series, Northern Lights Film Series, Social Justice Film Series and The Future is Female Film Series are offering a wide breadth of programming from different locations and unique perspectives.
If you’re craving something a little more political (although what’s more political than high school?), the Future is Female series continues to champion the female-identifying experience through its programming, which includes films such as Hail Satan? by director Penny Lane.
The film documents the rise of the Church of Satan, a misunderstood religious organization committed to social and political justice and, well, Satan; the church’s work and community has been a growing source of empowerment and support for thousands of people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27RtJp-rhHk
Meanwhile, the Social Justice Film Series includes Killing Patient Zero directed by Laurie Lynd, a film displaying the darker side of nostalgia through the story of the French-Canadian flight attendant who was incorrectly vilified as the primary case of AIDS to the United States during the peak of the gay liberation movement in America.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTxDlnfPoaQ
The Indigenous Film Series continues the political conversation through its programming, which includes the film Urban Eclipse: Rising Tides of Kekekoziibii (Shoal Lake 40), directed by Jesse Green and Vanda Fleury-Green, about the displacement and isolation of residents of Shoal Lake 40 First Nation due to the construction 100 years ago of an aqueduct that supplies Winnipeg’s water.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SAC1V8l2kg
A special focus of the festival this year is the Cinema Outside the Box programming, which explores cinema outside the familiar and traditional setting of a dark, black theatre.
Taking place at various locations around Gimli, these projects experiment with sound and moving images via multimedia installations, virtual- and augmented-reality experiences and live performance.
The Gimli Film Festival runs July 24 through July 28. For screening schedules and ticketing information, visit gimlifilm.com.
frances.koncan@freepress.mb.ca