2007 Screenings
2007 All Canadian Film Festival
February 9-11, 2007
This year marks the 4th anniversary of the northbayfilmfestival. The ALL CANADIAN continues to offer the best new films from Canadian filmmakers. CLICK HERE for more information.
Sicko
September 5th, 2007
Dir. Michael Moore | 123 mins | 2007 | USA | English
Filmmaker Michael Moore examines America’s health-care crisis and why millions of citizens are without coverage. Moore spotlights the cases of several ordinary citizens whose lives have been shattered by bureaucratic red tape, refusal of payment, and other health-care catastrophes. He explains how the system has become so problematic, and he visits countries where citizens receive free health care, as in Canada, France and the U.K..
Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
September 19th, 2007
Dir. Adrian Shergold | 90 mins | 2006 | United Kingdom | English
Albert Pierrepont delivered groceries – and was a hangman. Following his father’s footsteps he quickly became known for his efficiency and compassion, rising to become ‘the best in the land’. From the early 1933 until the end of his career in 1955 he executed some 608 people including 47 of the Nuremburg Nazis for which he earned the gratitude of a nation.
The Namesake
October 3rd, 2007
Dir. Mira Nair | 121 mins | 2007 | USA, India, Japan | English, Bengali
After moving from Calcutta to New York, members of the Ganguli family maintain a delicate balancing act between honoring the traditions of their native India and blending into American culture. Although parents Ashoke (Irrfan Khan) and Ashima (Tabu) are proud of the sacrifices they make to give their offspring opportunities, their son Gogol (Kal Penn) strives to forge his own identity without forgetting his heritage.
Golden Door
October 17th, 2007
Dir. Emanuele Crialese | 120 mins | 2006 | Italy | Italian
The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and a widower, decides to emigrate to the US with all his family, including his old mother. Before they embark, they meet Lucy. She is supposed to be a British lady and wants to come back to the States. Lucy, or Luce as Salvatore calls her, for unknown reasons wants to marry someone before to arrive to Ellis Island in New York. Salvatore accepts the proposal. Once they arrive in Ellis Island they spend the quarantine period trying to pass the examinations to be admitted to the States. Tests are not so simple for poor farmers coming from Sicily. Their destiny is in the hands of the custom officers.
Ten Canoes
November 7th, 2007
Dir. Rolf de Heer & Peter Djigirr | 92 mins | 2006 | Australia | Yolngu Matha, English
A thousand years ago, tribal times in the north of Australia. Ten men, led by old Minygululu, head into the forest to harvest barks for canoe making. It is the season of goose egg gathering.
Minygululu learns that young Dayindi, on his first egg hunting expedition, has taken a fancy to Minygululu’s third and youngest wife. Tribal law is in danger of being broken: Minygululu deals with the situation by telling Dayindi an ancestral story, a story that will take a very long time to tell, all through the next days of canoe making and swamp travelling and goose egg gathering.