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qIFF: Queens (Reinas)

March 13, 2025 @ 1:30 pm – 4:00 pm

Queens (Reinas), Klaudia Reynicke’s understated, moving family drama is set in 1990s Lima, Peru as the country is in the grip of inflation and citizens are subjected to rolling blackouts, distant explosions and a threatening military presence that imposes a strict curfew. Not surprising that many residents who can afford to do so are fleeing the country. One is Elena (Jimena Lindo), who’s secured a job in Minnesota and plans to exit with her two daughters, teenager Aurora (Luana Vega) and younger Lucia (Abril Gjurinovic), who emerges as the heart of the film.

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qIFF: Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

March 10, 2025 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Performance 6:30pm Film at 7:00pm

2 hr 30 min
Documentary
Director: Johan Grimonprez

Countries of Origin: Belgium, France, Netherlands
Languages: French, English, Dutch, Russian
Released 2024
Not Rated

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qIFF: So Surreal Behind The Masks

March 9, 2025 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

So Surreal: Behind the Masks, co-directed by Joanne Robertson

Neil Diamond is a Cree filmmaker, who made a huge impact with Reel Injun, a documentary about the negative “Indian” stereotypes that so permeate Western society that even the filmmaker as a child wanted to be a cowboy, not himself, when playing with friends. Reel Injun won three Gemini Awards including for best director and went on to win a Peabody Award. His new film So Surreal: Behind the Masks, co-directed by Joanne Robertson, explores the strange but intense relationship between Surrealism and the masks of the Yup’ik ‘and Kwakwaka’wakw nations and how that commingling came to pass. It’s about cultural appropriation, art and dream imagery.

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qIFF: FLOW

March 9, 2025 @ 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm

A wondrous journey, through realms natural and mystical, Flow follows a courageous cat after his home is devastated by a great flood.



Teaming up with a capybara, a lemur, a bird, and a dog to navigate a boat in search of dry land, they must rely on trust, courage, and wits to survive the perils of a newly aquatic planet. From the boundless imagination of the award-winning Gints Zilbalodis (Away) comes a thrilling animated spectacle as well as a profound meditation on the fragility of the environment and the spirit of friendship and community. Steeped in the soaring possibilities of visual storytelling, Flow is a feast for the senses and a treasure for the heart.

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qIFF: Bird

March 8, 2025 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm


Bird

Drama – Not rated


Andrea Arnold, the filmmaker behind Fish Tank and American Honey, has returned with a sensitive, fairytale-like coming-of-age story. 12-year-old Bailey lives with her single dad Bug, played by Barry Keoghan, who’s both charismatic and incredibly sad, in a squat in North Kent. Bug doesn’t have much time for his kids, and Bailey, who is approaching puberty, seeks attention and adventure elsewhere. Bird is for every lost child who wishes someone would have stood up and defended them. It’s a fragile but beautiful vision and marks the strongest blend yet of Andrea Arnold’s primary directives as a filmmaker.  Her films have always had a bit of the magical in them., and Bird fluidly drops in and out of reality and something more magical.

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