Dawson City International Short Film Festival

KIAC WINTER FILM SERIES
Sreenings on Tuesday Nights @ 7pm, KIAC Ballroom
Admission by Donation

Tuesday, January 13, 7pm The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood Click on image for more info	Tuesday, January 20, 7pm 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould Click on image for more info
Tuesday, January 27, 7pm Continental, A Film Without Guns Click on image for more info	Tuesday, February 3, 7pm The Spirit of Places Click on image for more info
Tuesday, February 10, 7pm Flower and Garnet Click on image for more info	Tuesday, February 17, 7pm The Tracey Fragments Click on image for more info

PROGRAM NOTES
by Tom McSorley, Executive Director, Canadian Film Institute

In the two decades between the recently-restored 1986 Newfoundland carnivalesque classic, The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood, and the sublime deadpan artistry of 2007’s Continental: A Film Without Guns, the Canadian cinema has consistently rewarded domestic and international audiences with absorbing, idiosyncratic and, yes, entertaining films. Fiercely independent and formally daring, the films in this series offer visions of a contemporary Canada that will intrigue, surprise, move, and engage you.

From Catherine Martin’s evocative documentary about a Quebec society transformed (The Spirit of Places), to Keith Behrman’s poetic family drama set in the interior of British Columbia (Flower & Garnet), to Francois Girard’s stunningly inventive portrait of Canadian genius, Glenn Gould (Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould), to Bruce McDonald’s equally experimental portrait of a troubled teen in Winnipeg (The Tracey Fragments), these films demonstrate the breadth of vision that exists and persists in contemporary Canadian cinema.

Enjoy yourself; be Canadian: these six extraordinary films certainly do, and certainly are.

Presented in association with the Canadian Film Institute
and with the generous support of the Klondike Visitors Association