The 7th Annual Festival screens over two weekends!
Friday, June 05, 2015 - Sunday, June 07, 2015
2015 Hidden Gems Film Festival Weekend #2
June 5-7, 2015 Stanford Perrott Lecture Theatre, Alberta College of Art + Design (ACAD) - 1407 14 Avenue NW, Calgary, AB
$15 Single Ticket | $50 Four-Pack Tickets | $90 Eight-Pack Festival Pass
Seventh Annual Hidden Gems Film Festival
Hidden Gems presents its 7th Annual Film Festival 2015 over two weekends in May/June. Hidden Gems is living up to its name with four Alberta premieres, three Canadian and two North American premieres! This year's eigh features and two shorts have collected a total of 51 awards.
Our venue is Alberta College of Arts & Design (ACAD) at 1407 14th Ave. N.W. Calgary. What better place to screen our art house films but at an Art College! Join us at the Stanford Perrott Lecture theatre.
Friday, June 5, 2015 @ 7:00 PM: Oba Nathuwa Oba Ekka (With you, Without you)
2012 | Sinhalese/Tamil | 90 mins | Director: Prasanna Vithanage
The strained relationship between a pawnbroker and his young bride portrays the emotional torment of Sri Lanka's two major communities: the Tamils and the Sinhalese in the aftermath of a protracted bloody civil war. Will love be able to heal and bring them together?
Saturday, June 6, 2015 @ 3:00 PM: If You Love Your Children
2014 | English | 23 mins | Director : Sanjay Patel | Fort McMurray, Alberta
A young man loses everything but finds himself, when his fight against climate change consumes his life.
Saturday, June 6, 2015 @ 3:30 PM: Margarita with a Straw
2014| English/Hindi| 100 mins | Director: Shonali Bose
This film challenges our cross-cultural perceptions of what it means to be differently abled. Kalki (Laila) dazzles with moments of quiet self-discovery and first love, unbound by ability and difference.
Sunday, June 7, 2015 @ 2:30 PM: Citylights
2014 | Hindi | 126 mins | Director: Hansal Mehta
Ever-tempting lure of Metropolis to the innocents, arriving from countryside has been a staple diet of Indian cinema for eons. But this is not a typical repeat performance. The film will leave you troubled and make you think as it reflects on the times we live in.
Sunday, June 7, 2015 @ 6:30 PM: Chotoder Chobi (a "Short" story)
The film is about the lives and sentiments of the little people who work as jokers in Indian circuses providing comic relief to the audiences in between the main acts. It's a tussle between two perspectives - the world's indifference to them, and how they look at the world. Woven in it is an intense but almost unspoken love story that highlights the anguish of these people in a world surrounded by poverty and ridicule.
NOTE: The showtimes listed on CalgaryMovies.com come directly from the theatres' announced schedules, which are distributed to us on a weekly basis. All showtimes are subject to change without notice or recourse to CalgaryMovies.com.
