CANBERRA may be inundated with rain and festivals, but the ten-year-old Possible Worlds Film Festival running today and tomorrow, aims at being different.
Dedicated to bringing the best new independent film from Canada to Australian audiences, ‘Possible Worlds’ is co‐hosted by the National Library of Australia and the High Commission of Canada.
‘Short and sweet,’ as they say, it consists of just three films over two days.
Philippe Falardeau’s ‘THE GOOD LIE’ tells the story of a group of boys displaced by the civil war in Sudan who are offered the chance to resettle in Kansas City, and the humour in the culture clashes, heartbreak and hope that comes with that.
Maxime Giroux’s ‘FELIX AND MEIRA’, presented in association with the Jewish International Film Festival, follows an unconventional romance between Hasidic Jewish wife and mother Meira and Felix when they meet in a local bakery in Montreal, as Felix opens Meira’s eyes to the world outside her tight-knit Orthodox community.
Sundance Jury Prize winner “A Gay Girl in Damscus: The Amina Profile” is a documentary from Sophie Deraspe, which follows Amina, a Syrian-American woman living in Damascus and author of the blog ‘A Gay Girl in Damascus’. Amina is caught in an erotic and intellectual online romance with Sandra from Montreal, when she is seemingly abducted. We won’t tell you the rest.
10th Possible Worlds Film Festival, at the National Library of Australia, Parkes Place, Friday November 13, 6:30pm THE GOOD LIE, Saturday November 14, 1pm FELIX AND MEIRA, and 3pm THE AMINA PROFILE. Tickets: $10 – bookings: to possibleworlds.net.au
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