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12 9, 2011
Cinéfest Sudbury Film Series is set to return in 2012 and will kick off the New Year with a screening of Oranges and Sunshine on January 26th at SilverCity Sudbury at 7pm.
From the Oscar® winning producers of The King's Speech and starring Emily Watson, David Wenham and Hugo Weaving, Oranges and Sunshine tells the story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovered one of the most significant social scandels in recent times: the organized deportation of children in care from the United Kingdom to Australia.
A first feature by UK director Jim Loach (son of ...
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01 16, 2012
Cinéfest Sudbury is pleased to announce its second screening of 2012. Le vendeur (The Salesman) will screen on February 23rd at SilverCity Sudbury at 7pm.
Director Sébastien Pilote's feature film is the story of Marcel Lévesque (Gilbert Sicotte), a quick-witted car salesman nearing retirement, who lives to sell. He has been salesman of the month for the last 16 years at the dealership where he has spent his career, in a declining industrial town in Lac Saint-Jean, where it's cold enough to scare away the tourists and buying a car sometimes seems completely absurd. There's just one ...
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02 24, 2012
Cinéfest Sudbury is pleased to announce its third screening of 2012. Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster will screen on March 29th at SilverCity Sudbury at 7pm.
Set in post-war Toronto and filmed in Sault Ste. Marie, EDWIN BOYD: CITIZEN GANGSTER is based on the true story of a WWII vet and family man turned bank robber. Frustrated and disillusioned by his post war circumstances, Eddie Boyd is a man torn between the need to provide for his young family and an unfulfilled dream to head to Hollywood to become a star. When he discovers a way to satisfy both needs – robbing ...
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04 4, 2012
Cinéfest Sudbury is pleased to announce that the Tournée canadienne des Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois – a tour which brings the best of Quebec cinema to movie lovers and French-speaking audiences all over Canada – will make its stop in Sudbury from April 30th to May 1st. Films presented as part of this two day event will be André Forcier’s Coteau Rouge and Yves Sioui Durand’s Mesnak.
Both films will be presented in French with English subtitles.
COTEAU ROUGE [André Forcier, Canada, 2011, 86 min.]
Monday, April 30th, 7pm, SilverCity Sudbury
Four generations of the Blanchard family live in a ...
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