Fifth Annual Winter Weekend festival - January 29, 30 & 31 - 2010
Held at the Cinema complex in
the Northumberland Mall in Cobourg with a Reception in Victoria Hall
on Saturday night.
2010 Festival
The Festival opens Friday January 29th with the same movie that opened the Toronto International Film Festival - Creation. The Northumberland festival also includes the film that closed the Toronto International Film Festival - The Young Victoria.
Ruba Nadda (SABAH), director of Cairo Time (voted Best Canadian Feature at TIFF 09) has confirmed that she will come to Cobourg for her film on Jan 30. Ruba will present her film and Q & A afterwards. Ruba was a popular guest four years ago when she attended the NFS screening of her first feature Sabah.
The line-up is rounded out with the Penelope Cruz film Broken Embraces and Dilip Mehta's acclaimed Cooking with Stella .
Packages are almost sold out. Call Vic Hall or ask at Human Bean. Or be at the NFS desk at the bottom of the escalator at 5:30pm Friday 29th.
Summaries below; full details available including trailers if you click on titles below. Reception includes entertainment by The North Side Gang with 1920/30's jazz.
Valuable prizes to be won - notably a major prize from Via Rail.
Full details here. Update: Prize winners here.
Official Accommodation Sponsor
NFS Festival Films-
January 29th, 30th and 31st, 2010 Although we try to avoid changes, film selection is still subject to changes outside our control.
Film 1
Creation - click photo or title for more details Friday, January 29, 2010, 6:30 p.m.
Sponsor:
Leads: Paul Bettany, Jennifer Connelly, Jeremy Northam, Toby Jones, Benedict Cumberbatch, Martha West
Director: Jon Amiel
Genre: Drama
Language: English
Run-time: 108 minutes
Rating: PG
How evolutionist Charles Darwin came to terms with the death of his beloved daughter to publish the groundbreaking On The Origin Of Species is the subject of director Jon Amiel's biopic. Paul Bettany portrays the grief-stricken scientist while real-life wife Jennifer Connelly plays Emma, his deeply religious spouse. Poignant and unflashy, this is a reflective insight into a subject that is even more timely with the increasing rejection of science by creationists.
Film 2
Director Ruba Nadda will present her film and answer questions afterwards.
Cairo Time- click photo or title for more details Saturday, January 30, 2010, 1:30 p.m.
Leads: Patricia Clarkson, Alexander Siddig, Tom McCamus, Elena Anaya, Amina Annabi
Director: Ruba Nadda
Genre: Drama
Language: English
Run-time: 88 Minutes
Rating: 14A
Voted Best Canadian Feature at TIFF 09, Cairo Time stars Patricia Clarkson as a magazine editor who travels to Cairo to meet her husband, (Tom McCamus), a UN official working in Gaza, for a three week vacation. When he is unavoidably delayed, he sends his friend Tareq (Alexander Siddig), who had been his security officer for many years, to escort her throughout the beautiful and exotic city. The last thing anyone expects is that they will fall in love.
Film 3
The Young Victoria- click photo or title for more details Saturday, January 30, 2010, 6:00 p.m.
Sponsor:
Leads: Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany, Miranda Richardson, Jim Broadbent, Thomas Kretchmann, Mark Strong, Jesper Christensen
Director: Jean-Marc Vallée
Genre: Drama
Language: English
Run-time: 100 Minutes
Rating: PG
Emily Blunt makes an impressive leading role debut with a challenging portrayal of the young Victoria, a troubled teenage monarch cursed by opportunist hangers-on but blessed with the love of her German cousin Prince Albert (Rupert Friend). Director Jean Marc Vallee's lavish costume drama, ably scripted by Julian Fellowes, opts for a more-or-less faithful account of events from her early turbulent relationship with the public to her gathering stature as a queen who would rule for sixty-three years.
Broken Embraces- click photo or title for more details Sunday, January 31, 2010, 1:00 p.m.
Leads: Penelope Cruz, Lluis Homar, Jose Luis Gomez, Blanca Portillo, Lola Duenas, Ruben Ochandiano, Tamar Novas, Kira Miro
Director:
Pedro Almodóvar
Genre: Drama
Language: Spanish/English
Run-Time: 127 minutes
Rating: 14A (sexual)
A story about filmmaking that celebrates the triumphs and tragedies of storytelling: multi-stranded narratives unfold within other stories; seemingly unrelated characters are slowly revealed to be linked by deep secrets, and all the while Almodovar’s camera prowls with Hitchcockian precision, lapping up the beautifully designed sets and the equally beautiful performances of the cast (Lluis Homar and Penelope Cruz in particular).
Film 5
Cooking with Stella- click photo or title for more details Sunday, January 31, 2010, 4:00 p.m.
Leads:
Don McKellar, Seema Biswas, Lisa Ray, Vansh Bhardwaj, Shriya Saran
Director:
Dilip Mehta
Genre: Drama, satire
Language: English + Hindi w. sub-titles
Run-Time: 103 min
Rating: PG
A warmhearted social satire about a Canadian diplomat (Lisa Ray) and her chef husband Michael (Don McKellar) who are posted to New Delhi. Upon arrival they inherit a household of Indian servants headed by the charming, totally inspiring and wily cook, Stella (Seema Biswas). When Stella agrees to become Michael's cooking guru, to teach him traditional Indian dishes, little does he know that she's cooking up a scheme of her own.
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