Due to the pandemic situation of 2020, Canada was the Guest of Honor at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2021 for the second year in a row. To celebrate this, the 10th edition of the Maple Movies Festival Tour, which takes place every two years in Germany, is dedicated in particular to remarkable cinematic adaptations of works by Canadian authors – and highlights, of course, the diversity, the creative richness and the constantly changing political and social realities of a country with many languages and even more cultures.

Thanks to a cooperation of the Canadian Embassy in Austria, the Canadian Studies Centre at the University of Innsbruck and the Leokino, selected films from the Maple Movies Festival Tour have now been brought to Innsbruck for the first time. The program includes important films by emerging directors, award-winning Authors’ Cinema, one classic, and a feature-length selection of short films by Indigenous filmmakers who have confidently and passionately brought long-marginalized narratives and perspectives to the screen in recent years.

Program

28.02.2022      ANTIGONE, 2019 l 109 min I OmU, Regie: Sophie Deraspe

01.03.2022      AN AUDIENCE OF CHAIRS, 2018 I 93 min I OmU, Regie: Deanne Foley

02.03.2022      LA DÉESSE DES MOUCHES À FEU, 2020 I 105 min I OmU, Regie: Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette

03.03.2022      GUEST OF HONOR, 2019 I 105 min I OmU, Regie: Atom Egoyan

04.03.2022      Retrospektive: CRASH, 1996 I 100 min I OmU, Regie: David Cronenberg  

07.03.2022      KUESSIPAN, 2019 I 117 min I OmU, Regie: Myriam Verreault

08.03.2022      MON CIRQUE À MOI, 2020 I 105 min I OmU, Regie: Myriam Bouchard

09.03.2022      Indigenous Shorts Program: (HI)STORIES WE TELL, kuratiert von Jason Ryle

Please refer to the program of the Leokino for the exact screening times.