Tuesday, August 14,2018
7:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:15 p.m.)
Casino Show Lounge
Opening Night
Saskatchewan Premiere
An Homage to Afghan Veterans
Clearing the Way: Combat Engineers in Kandahar
Director: Paul Culliton
95 min / PG
Canada / English
The story of 23 Field Squadron, Canadian Combat Engineers, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, 2006-2007, one of the most dangerous places on earth. Told through footage and first-hand accounts of the soldiers who were there. Understand the combat they faced, and sacrifices they made for their country and each other.
Q & A Session with Director Paul Culliton and Special Presentations
Note: Admission only open to 19 years of age or older for opening and closing events.
LOOK
A Mental Health/Film Initiative
We believe filmmaking is a powerful tool in creating connections and getting conversations started around the complex topic of mental illness.
We believe filmmaking is a powerful tool in creating connections and getting conversations started around the complex topic of mental illness.
For the last 6 months a group of dedicated film industry volunteers have been creating films with students living with mental illness. Among the benefits of artistic expression are its therapeutic values and its capacity to communicate how each of us sees the world. In a time when stigmas, myths and stereotypes about mental illness dominate, filmmaking can serve to open doors into a more embracing and compassionate world. RIFFA’s Opening Night celebrates these students by presenting their intimate films to help others experience the world as they see it.
The LOOK Film and Fine Arts Program is an essential part of the RIFFA Academy, which is the educational arm of the Regina International Film Festival and Awards Foundation Inc.
Spotlight on Saskatchewan
7:00PM – Opening Night
Total Run: 53:13
The Confessional
13 min / 14A
Canada / English
Unfold
6 min / G
Canada / Without Dialogue
Being
6 min / G
Canada / English
How Father Lawrence Briefly Considered a Career in Landscaping
4 min / G
Canada / English
Waniska – An Awakening of Indigenous Knowledge
25 min / G
Canada / English
GROUP SCREENING 1
EXPERIMENTAL & QUIRKY
Being, 6 min, Canada
Kodak, 33 min, USA
In Full Bloom, 11 min, USA
The Tin Hat Tramp, 8 min, Canada
Unfold, 6 min, Canada
Synchronicity, 4 min, UK
Ivan, 9 min, Greece
PIX, 9 min, Germany
Roundabout, 7 min, USA
Madrid-Atocha, 6 min, Spain
Flora, 4 min, USA
SHOW TIME: 11AM – 12:45PM
GROUP SCREENING 2
SENSITIVE ADVISORY
Mnemosyne, 9 min, Canada
Now Playing, 13 min, Canada
I Want, 2 min, Germany
Shatter the Silence, 57 min, USA
SHOW TIME: 2PM – 3:30PM
GROUP SCREENING 3
INDIGENOUS SHOWCASE
Jack’s Live Bait, 19 min, Canada
Dirt McComber: Last of the Mohicans, 73 min, USA
SHOW TIME: 4PM – 5:45PM
GROUP SCREENING 4
INDIGENOUS SHOWCASE
Waniska, 25 min, Canada
Justice for Our Stolen Children, 20 min, Canada
Wings of an Eagle: Billy Mills, 4 min, USA
Raven People Rising, 33 min, Canada
The Sacred Place Where Life Begins, 25 min, USA
Blackfeet Flood, 27 min, USA
SHOW TIME: 7PM – 8:30PM
GROUP SCREENING 5
INDIGENOUS SHOWCASE
Hard Learning, 7 min, Canada
Pow-Wow, 16 min, Canada
Ishkueu Territory Woman's Territory, 63 min, Canada
SHOW TIME: 9PM – 10:15PM
GROUP SCREENING 6
The Faces We Wear, 10 min, Canada
The Boy at Platform 3, 17 min, Germany
Blue Roses, 55 min, Canada
SHOW TIME: 11AM – 12:30PM
Wolves Unleashed - Against All Odds
Saskatchewan Premiere
Director: Andrew Simpson
86 min / G
Canada / English
SHOW TIME: 2PM – 3:45PM
It Was All So Wonderful: The Everyday Magic of Mary Pratt
Saskatchewan Premiere
Director: Kenneth J Harvey
70 min / PG
Canada / English
SHOW TIME: 4PM – 5:30PM
nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up
Director: Tasha Hubbard
98 min / PG
Canada / English, Cree
Director and educator Tasha
SHOW TIME: 7PM – 9PM
GROUP SCREENING 7
Women of the Gulag, 53 min, USA
Only Voice Remains, 35 min, UK
SHOW TIME: 9:30PM – 11PM
GROUP SCREENING 8
Brave Little Army, 6 min, Canada
Elijah & the Rock Creature, 88 min, Canada
SHOW TIME: 11AM – 12:45PM
GROUP SCREENING 9
The Wind Phone, 16 min, USA
Hope Frozen, 75 min, Thailand/USA
SHOW TIME: 2PM – 3:45PM
Bécquer and the Witches
Canadian Premiere
Director: Elena Cid
82 min / G
Spain / Spanish
SHOW TIME: 4PM – 5:30PM
In Our Memory
World Premiere
Director: Juan Bautista Cofre
105 min / PG
Canada / Spanish
SHOW TIME: 7PM – 9PM
GROUP SCREENING 10
The Pact, 13 min, New Zealand
Greenfield, 73 min, Australia
SHOW TIME: 9:30PM – 11PM
GROUP SCREENING 11
CHILDREN IN A LEADING ROLE
The Camel Boy, 15 min, France
Maternal, 7 min, Canada
Black and Blue, 18 min, Canada
MILK, 12 min, Canada
Ms. Piggy, 15 min, USA
Till the End of the World, 27 min, Netherlands
A Little Different, 12 min, Canada
SHOW TIME: 11AM – 1PM
GROUP SCREENING 12
Mission Lifeline, 67 min, Germany
February 27th , 43 min, Germany
SHOW TIME: 5PM – 7PM
GROUP SCREENING 13
The Music Box, 11 min, Canada
The Evil Eye, 15 min, Romania/Germany
Crowbar, 28 min, USA
River in the Desert, 11 min, Pakistan
Avasaan, 25 min, India
SHOW TIME: 2PM – 3:45PM
A Place of Tide and Time
Saskatchewan Premiere
Directors: Aude Leroux-Lévesque, Sébastien Rist
78 min / G
Canada / English
SHOW TIME: 7:30PM – 8:45PM
The Dancing Dogs of Dombrova
Saskatchewan Premiere
Director: Zack Bernbaum
102 min / PG
Canada / English, Polish
SHOW TIME: 9PM – 11PM
selfless
Saskatchewan Premiere
Director: Kim Laureen
91 min / PG
Canada / English
SHOW TIME: 11AM – 12:45PM
Break Free – Two People. Two Years. One Dream
Canadian Premiere
Directors: Lena Wendt, Ulrich Stirnat
120 min / G
Germany / German
SHOW TIME: 4PM – 6:15PM
Freedom Besieged
Saskatchewan Premiere
Director: Panayioti Yannitsos
99 min / PG
Canada, Greece / English, Greek
SHOW TIME: 7PM – 8:45PM
GROUP SCREENING 14
Coco Blue, 10 min, Canada
The Confessional, 13 min, Canada
Born Into 9/8, 18 min, Turkey
Neglected, 23 min, Turkey
Q&A, 11 min, USA
EMILY, 7 min, Canada
Jungle Jim Hunter, 6 min, USA/Spain
SHOW TIME: 9:30PM – 11PM
ism
Canadian Premiere
Director: Jeff Deverett
100 min / 14A
United States / English
SHOW TIME: 11AM – 1PM
GROUP SCREENING 15
GERMAN LANGUAGE SHORTS
Follower, 10 min, Germany
Paris You Got Me, 9 min, Germany
Hapless Hans, 30 min, Germany
Acting, 6 min, Germany
The Boy at Platform 3, 17 min, Germany
I Don’t Believe in Father Christmas, 15 min, Germany
SHOW TIME: 2PM – 3:50PM
GROUP SCREENING 16
GERMAN LANGUAGE SHORTS
Greenkeeper, 3 min, Germany
Dialectic Diary, 15 min, Germany
Menuett, 11 min, Germany
Rude Boys, 9 min, Germany
Smartagers, 15 min, Germany
The Last of His Kind, 11 min, Germany
I Want, 2 min, Germany
God Has Already Gone Ahead, 10 min, Germany
Nightmare, 7 min, Germany
PIX, 9 min, Germany
SHOW TIME: 5PM – 6:50PM
The Innocence
World Premiere
Director: Md Ashraful Alam (Ashraf Shishir)
156 min / PG
Bangladesh / Bengali
SHOW TIME: 8PM – 11PM
GROUP SCREENING 17
The Lossen, 26 min, UK
Final Act, 18 min, Portugal
The Order of Things to Come, 12 min, Canada
New Year Wishes, 23 min, Canada
Mr. Deer, 9 min, Iran
Inappropriate Change of a Message, 10 min, Iran
Monsters Walking, 1 min, Spain
Pangu, 4 min, USA
SHOW TIME: 11AM – 12:45PM
GROUP SCREENING 18
SPANISH LANGUAGE SHORTS
The Scorpion’s Tale, 22 min, USA
El Aguacate, 11 min, USA
Steal You a Night, 14 min, Spain
The Lord of the Rain, 26 min, Mexico
It Comes from the Heavens, 20 min, Cuba/USA
Cuban Canvas, 14 min, USA/Cuba
SHOW TIME: 2PM – 4PM
GROUP SCREENING 19
Fatimah, 10 min, Jordan
2nd Class, 13 min, Sweden
Line of Duty, 13 min, India
Touttay (Parrots), 50 min, India
SHOW TIME: 5PM – 6:45PM
GROUP SCREENING 20
ENVIRONMENT
Dönüş (Return), 21 min, Turkey
Medium Rare, 1 min, UK
FROM SEED TO SEED, 87 min, Canada
SHOW TIME: 7PM – 9PM
GROUP SCREENING 21
One Giant Leap for Neil, 2 min, Netherlands
Russia From Above, 90 min, Germany
SHOW TIME: 11AM – 12:45PM
The Chairs Game
Canadian Premiere
Director: Lucia Chiarla
119 min / 14A
Germany / German
SHOW TIME: 2PM – 4:15PM
GROUP SCREENING 22
Only Voice Remains, 35 min, UK
Women of the Gulag, 53 min, USA
SHOW TIME: 5PM – 6:45PM
General Magic
Canadian Premiere
Directors: Sarah Kerruish, Matt Maude
93 min / G
United States / English
SHOW TIME: 7PM – 8:45PM
UNCOVERED
Canadian Premiere
Director: Zuko Nodada
97 min / 14A
South Africa / Zulu, English
SHOW TIME: 9PM – 10:45PM
Crush My Heart
Canadian Premiere
Director: Alexandra Makarová
99 min / G
Austria / German, Slovak, Romani
SHOW TIME: 11AM – 12:45PM
GROUP SCREENING 23
FRENCH LANGUAGE SHORTS
A Fine Stew, 20 min, Belgium
Coaticook, 20 min, Canada
The Old Men, 18 min, France
Lina, 9 min, France
Premier Act, 2 min, France
Sweet Night, 13 min, Belgium
Pow-Wow, 16 min, Canada
Three Months, 17 min, Canada
SHOW TIME: 2PM – 4PM
It Was All So Wonderful: The Everyday Magic of Mary Pratt
Saskatchewan Premiere
Director: Kenneth J Harvey
70 min / PG
Canada / English
SHOW TIME: 5PM – 6:30PM
GROUP SCREENING 24
Lily, 5 min, Canada
Foreign, 28 min, UK
FOXY, 61 min, Canada
SHOW TIME: 7PM – 8:45PM
GROUP SCREENING 25
LGBTQ
Tomorrow Island, 17 min, Estonia
Dante vs Mohammed Ali, 28 min, Netherlands
Jack and Anna, 15 min, USA
If You Dare Desire…, 52 min, India
SHOW TIME: 9PM – 11PM
GROUP SCREENING 26
FAMILY FRIENDLY ANIMATION
Sweet Night, 13 min, Belgium
Wired, 4 min, USA
Five Minutes to Sea, 7 min, Russia
Ian, A Moving Story, 9 min, Argentina
Red Apple, 8 min, Croatia
The Good Queue, 5 min, Spain
The Most Magnificent Thing , 22 min, Canada
The Incomplete, 7 min, Iran
Pinkish, 4 min, Australia
Little Bandits, 4 min, USA
SHOW TIME: 11AM – 12:45PM
Freedom Besieged
Saskatchewan Premiere
Director: Panayioti Yannitsos
99 min / PG
Canada, Greece / English, Greek
SHOW TIME: 11AM – 12:45 PM
GROUP SCREENING 27
Janek/Bastard, 19 min, USA
The Case of Johanna Langefeld, 90 min, Poland
SHOW TIME: 2PM – 4PM
GROUP SCREENING 28
Supine, 25 min, Czech Republic
Above the Clouds, 87 min, UK
SHOW TIME: 11AM – 1PM
GROUP SCREENING 29
The Flying of Leaves, 7 min, Italy
A Place of Tide & Time, 78 min, Canada
SHOW TIME: 2PM – 3:30PM
Red-Carpet event
Casino Regina
6.30 pm - 8pm
Must be 19 and older to attend.
RIFFA Classic (Award show).
Casino Regina
8pm - 10pm
Must be 19 and older to attend
NOTE:
'' General Admission is restricted to persons 14 years of age or older unless accompanied by an adult."
RIFFA is a proud supporter of Saskatchewan’s filmmaking community. We’re committed to nurturing the province’s emerging filmmakers and our film culture year-round. Along with this mission, RIFFA supports mental health initiatives with our maximum ability and needs your support to effectively lead this mission. Let's join together…
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