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The Forbidden Room
A submarine crew, a feared pack of forest bandits, a famous surgeon, and a battalion of child soldiers all get more than they bargained for as they wend their way toward progressive ideas on life and love.
Casts & Crew
Roy Dupuis
Clara Furey
Louis Negin
Udo Kier
Gregory Hlady
Mathieu Amalric
Noël Burton
Geraldine Chaplin
Paul Ahmarani
Caroline Dhavernas
Slimane Dazi
Maria de Medeiros
Charlotte Rampling
Victor Andres Trelles Turgeon
Andreas Apergis
Sophie Desmarais
Ariane Labed
Karine Vanasse
Romano Orzari
Alex Bisping
Kent McQuaid
Neil Napier
Kyle Gatehouse
André Wilms
Christophe Paou
Adèle Haenel
Céline Bonnier
Lewis Furey
Victoria Diamond
Mistaya Hemingway
Cynthia Ekoe
Sienna Mazzone
Vasco Bailly-Gentaud
Éric Robidoux
Amira Casar
Jean-François Stévenin
Graham Ashmore
Darcy Fehr
Kathia Rock
Luce Vigo
Judith Baribeau
Kim Morgan
Marie Brassard
Angela La Muse Senyshyn
Kimmi Melnychuk
Melissa Trainor
Pamela Iveta
Catherine Treskow
John Churchill
Matthew Comeau
Alexandre Skeret
Sherpa Macilu
Miguel Eduardo Cueva
Arthur Holden
Marie-Sophie Roy
Anthony Lemke
Victoire Du Bois
Elina Löwensohn
Jacques Nolot
Also Directed by Guy Maddin
A story about an aging crime family patriarch.
An anthology film following different stories around the theme of invisibility in the modern world.
Maddin’s frequent collaborator Evan Johnson (who is co-director on The Forbidden Room) presents four visuals essays, ranging from one and a half to four minutes in length: Puberty, Colours, Elms, and Cold, each representing a visual exploration of a specific theme.
Guy Maddin directed this short biopic on the castrato known as the Manitoba Meadowlark, Dov Houle, who performed on tour with the film “Brand Upon the Brain!”
A tribute to Isabella Rossellini's father
Remix of previously unreleased material by Guy Maddin.
The Little White Cloud That Cried, made in tribute to underground filmmaker Jack Smith, and described as: “Goddesses unharnessing the power of the sea and putting it into a whole new element as they engaged in orgiastic battles and whoopla.” —cinematical.com
A woman with an oddly hairy belly gives birth to a pair of hands in Marie Losier’s giddily inventive "portrait" of filmmaker Guy Maddin, done as a collaboration between the two iconoclasts. A longtime fan of Maddin, Losier (best known for other inventive portraits of underground film icons like Tony Conrad and George Kuchar) hoped to document him as well; "I hate my voice and face," Maddin replied, and sent her Super-8 footage of his hands instead. Losier interwove the footage into her own distinct tale, shot like a surrealist 1920s silent film. A must for fans of Losier, Maddin and ingenious cinema in general, MANUELLE LABOR was completed for the Berlin Film Festival (where Maddin was the guest of honor). - Jason Sanders A collaboration film by Marie Losier and Guy Maddin. Two sisters, five brothers, a doctor and two nurses and the miraculous birth of a pair of hands, but whose hands?
Fact, fantasy and memory are woven seamlessly together in a personal portrait of filmmaker Guy Maddin's hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Guided by the spirit of “The Cuadecuc Manifesto” (coined by co-director Evan Johnson and inspired by Pere Portabella’s 1970 experimental cult documentary, Cuadecuc, vampir), Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton is a strange, stirring behind-the-scenes look at Paul Gross’s new feature, Hyena Road. Shot on location at CFB Shilo near Brandon, Manitoba, and in Aqaba, Jordan, the film mixes deep contrast black-and-white expressionism with wry and raw western revisionism reminiscent of Sam Peckinpah, as it summons unwieldy, psychedelic energy from the main event. [TIFF]
Also Directed by Evan Johnson
Maddin’s frequent collaborator Evan Johnson (who is co-director on The Forbidden Room) presents four visuals essays, ranging from one and a half to four minutes in length: Puberty, Colours, Elms, and Cold, each representing a visual exploration of a specific theme.
Guided by the spirit of “The Cuadecuc Manifesto” (coined by co-director Evan Johnson and inspired by Pere Portabella’s 1970 experimental cult documentary, Cuadecuc, vampir), Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton is a strange, stirring behind-the-scenes look at Paul Gross’s new feature, Hyena Road. Shot on location at CFB Shilo near Brandon, Manitoba, and in Aqaba, Jordan, the film mixes deep contrast black-and-white expressionism with wry and raw western revisionism reminiscent of Sam Peckinpah, as it summons unwieldy, psychedelic energy from the main event. [TIFF]
A murder has been committed on a balcony. But it is only one of the many balconies attached to a large apartment block. Strange things are transpiring of each of them on loop. As the eye attempts to take them all in, the murder soon seems entirely unimportant.
A tribute to a fascinating film shot by Alfred Hitchcock in 1958, starring James Stewart and Kim Novak, and to the city of San Francisco, California, where the magic was created; but also a challenge: how to pay homage to a masterpiece without using its footage; how to do it simply by gathering images from various sources, all of them haunted by the curse of a mysterious green fog that seems to cause irrepressible vertigo…
Adaptation of Moholy-Nagy's unrealised Once a Chicken, made with the students at Béla Tarr's film factory.
short cine-essay by Evan Johnson and Guy Maddin
A short film in honor of Federico Fellini’s centenary.
A short produced for the Criterion Collection's release of Guy Maddin's 'My Winnipeg'.
An adaptation of an unrealized script by Jean Vigo (Les lignes de la main), starring his late daughter, the critic, programmer, and actress Luce Vigo
After a bad day at work, a fairground performer sets out to disprove the theory of heredity so that he can marry his sister.