TEA & BAZAAR.  Saturday, November 11, 1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Trinity United Church, 111 McIntyre Street East (at Ferguson) 

Sewing and Knitting, White Elephant Table, Children's Table, Baking, Crafts. 

Activité communautaire.

The South Western International Film Festival presents THE SQUARE--screening at 9:00PM on Saturday, November 4th, 2017 at the Imperial Theatre.

In FORCE MAJEURE, Swedish director Ruben Östlund examined the comic implications of the Bystander Effect at a ski resort following the aftermath of an avalanche. In THE SQUARE, Östlund has taken his hilarious brand of social commentary to a completely new summit: The art world.

Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes this year, this riotously strange comedy follows Christian (Claes Bang), the head curator of a contemporary art museum in Sweden, who, after getting pickpocketed, embarks on a quest to track down who stole his cell phone. Getting in the way of this is the museum’s latest installation, a hyped-up, much-discussed project which becomes the centrepiece of a movie that repeatedly asks: What if art goes too far?

Daring, shocking, and downright astonishing, THE SQUARE isn’t just a movie that demands conversation: It’s also one of the funniest movies of the year.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V74sHdm76WU

Adults - $15

Students / seniors - $12 

SWIFF weekend pass - $79

The South Western International Film Festival presents THE FLORIDA PROJECT--screening at 6:30PM on Saturday, November 4th, 2017 at the Imperial Theatre.

With 2015’s TANGERINE, director Sean Baker took a mighty risk: He shot a movie entirely on an iPhone 5S, with a limited budget of $100,000. Winning awards from critics and making nearly $800,000 at the box office, it’s safe to say the experiment was fruitful. It’s also clear Hollywood took note. Casting his first major named role with Willem Dafoe, THE FLORIDA PROJECT, Baker’s follow-up, is a breathtaking, fascinating exploration of youthful innocence in the adult world. Audiences will immediately shine to Brooklynn Prince, the precocious, intelligent, energetic child actor behind Moonee, the six-year-old protagonist in this multi-layered story told from her point-of-view as she roams throughout her Orlando neighbourhood, having fun and causing trouble. 

Like TANGERINE, THE FLORIDA PROJECT makes its own rules in how it tells its story. Baker only asks that you follow along for the ride.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwQ-NH1rRT4

Adults - $15

Students / seniors - $12 

SWIFF weekend pass - $79

The South Western International Film Festival presents NEW CHEFS ON THE BLOCK--screening at 4:00PM on Saturday, November 4th, 2017 at the Imperial Theatre.

Opening a restaurant is hard. Maintaining a steady stream of loyal customers? Even harder.

In Dustin Harrison-Atlas’ delicious debut documentary, watch as two restaurateurs in Washington, DC—Frank Linn of Frankly… Pizza!, and Aaron Silverman of Rose’s Luxury—put on their aprons and risk mountains of debt in an attempt to realize their entrepreneurial dreams.

NEW CHEFS ON THE BLOCK also provides some food for thought: In the era of the digital restaurant review, could a two-star rating topple everything these chefs have worked so hard for?

You’ve seen cooking shows and kitchen nightmares. Here, Harrison-Atlas takes us behind-the-scenes of the behind-the-scenes, showing us just how gruelling gastronomical endeavours—especially on the business side of things—can be.

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/112339079

Adults - $15

Students / seniors - $12 

SWIFF weekend pass - $79

The South Western International Film Festival presents THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE--screening at 1:00PM on Saturday, November 4th, 2017 at the Imperial Theatre.

Smart, wry, and utterly droll, THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE is a comically light take on Europe’s current refugee crisis, albeit one steeped in director Aki Kaurismäki’s characteristically delightful sense of humour, wit, and optimism.

Opening with a Syrian man’s escape from Aleppo to Helsinki, the film unites two unlikely characters—our refugee protagonist, and his newfound friend and keeper, a Finnish restaurateur—to both explore and satirize the bureaucratic systems and institutions that insist on deporting refugees.

While the refugee crisis has divided parts of Europe in terms of tolerance, Kaurismaki’s moving, human, fantastically funny film is a welcome, hopeful change from the heated debate on the fate of those seeking nothing more than asylum.

Preceded by SCAFFOLD by director Kazik Radwanski. Q&A with star Sherwan Haji following the film.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtiFG6utst8

Adults - $15

Students / seniors - $12 

SWIFF weekend pass - $79

The South Western International Film Festival presents Shorts Programme 1: Difficult Histories--screening at 12:00PM, 2:00PM, and 5:00PM on Saturday, November 4, 2017 at the Story.

In Canada, it’s easy to pretend our country is immune to the larger problems of the world, like violence against women, the painful fallout of colonialism, and the ongoing conflict in Syria that has razed the country and displaced millions. In this programme of shorts, we start in far-flung regions like the forests of Haiti (THE CRYING CONCH) and a small village in Nigeria (WAITING FOR HASSANA) before coming home, where our immediate connections to global issues are closer—and more imperative—than we think.

We brought the world’s short filmmakers to you—now do something that means the world to them. VOTE for your favourite short film to win SWIFF’s Audience Award, netting the filmmakers a $1000 cash prize. Films are playing for free at the Story (179 Christina St. N) on Saturday and Sunday.