3 Free Arctic Films at Canada House
Date: 06-20 Oct 09
Time: 6:30pm for 7:00pm startVenue: Canada House, Trafalgar Square, London SW1Y 5BJ
Closest Tube: Charing Cross, Leicester Square
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Tickets: FREE (Advance booking only)
As part of a collaboration with the National Maritime Museum in connection with their current exhibition, The North-West Passage: An Arctic Obsession, Canada House is hosting a series of Arctic-related film screenings which are open to the public.
Call 020 8312 8560 to reserve you place for any screening you would like to attend. Doors open 18.30 for 19.00 start. * Advance booking only *
Oct 6: Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001, 161mins)
Dir. Zacharias Kunuk
Cannes Camera d’Or winning Atanajurat is Canada's first feature-length fiction film written, produced, directed, and acted by Inuit. An exciting action thriller set in ancient Igloolik, the film unfolds as a life-threatening struggle between powerful natural and supernatural characters.
Oct 13: Before Tomorrow (2009, 93mins)
Dir. Marie-Hélène Cousineau and Madeline Ivalu
Circa. 1840, some Inuit tribes still have never met any white people, although rumours circulate about what they might be, where they come from, and why. Before Tomorrow tells of a woman who demonstrates that human dignity is at the core of life from beginning to end, as she faces with her grandson the ultimate challenge of survival.
Oct 20: Passage (2008, 108 mins)
Dir. John Walker
It was news that shook the English-speaking world. Celebrated British explorer Sir John Franklin and his crew of 128 men had perished in the Arctic ice during an ill-fated attempt to discover the Northwest Passage. More shocking, they had descended into madness and cannibalism. Passage is a story of incredible sacrifice, stunning distortion of the truth and single- inded obsession. It challenges the way we look at history.
See more details of this film series at the National Maritime Musem website.
by filmgrouplondon.com
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