Tales from the Gimli Hospital + Q&A

Tales from the Gimli Hospital
Guy Maddin | Canada | 1988 | 72m

Post-screening Q&A with director Guy Maddin and Donna Szoke in attendance.

While their mother is dying in the modern Gimli, Manitoba hospital, two young children are told a tale by their Icelandic grandmother about Einar the Lonely, his friend Gunnar, and the angelic Snjofridur in a Gimli of old.

Since completing his first film in 1985, Maddin has become one of Canada’s most well-known and celebrated filmmakers. Maddin has directed twelve feature films and numerous short films, in addition to publishing three books and creating a host of installation art projects.

This film contains mature content that may be inappropriate for younger audiences. Parental discretion is advised.

Additional screenings of Guy Maddin’s works in MNFF The Winnipeg Connection series:
Rumours (2024), and The Green Fog (2017) by Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson.

Presented with local short:

Haleem and I
Zeinah Kalati | Canada | 2024 | 25s

With the desire to possess a TV interview from her parents’ time, Kalati attempts to synchronize her sense of belonging to her home country Egypt with that of her parents’ belonging by exposing the many meanings a video can hold.

Zeinah Kalati is the founder of the Deeply Rooted Film series based in Guelph. As an Egyptian-Canadian, she uses her precarious nationalities as points of entry in her research. By examining the haptic, the spectral, the untrue, the material, and the quotidian, precarity is discovered as normal and not Other. Her love for cinema originated from joining her parents in watching old Egyptian films and their sibling foreign films. She finds an absence in the knowledge of Arab cinema among the newer generations, a cinema that has gone hand in hand with the socio-political happenings of that region and has gone unnoticed as a result of Euro-centric programming.

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