This review was provided by Joshua Banman from our Open Call for Film Critics & Writers! Buy your Festival pass or individual tickets to watch both these films on GFF On Demand. Please check out Joshua’s other review of The Earth Is Blue As an Orange here! Film About a Father Who dir. Lynne Sachs 2020 |…

This review was provided by Vanessa Matsubara from our Open Call for Film Critics & Writers! Buy your Festival pass or individual tickets to watch both these films on GFF On Demand. Please check out Vanessa’s other review of Kuessipan here! Anbessa dir. Mo Scarpelli 2018 | Italy / Ethiopia / United States | 86 min. Review…

This review was provided by Zoë Mills from our Open Call for Film Critics & Writers! Buy your Festival pass or individual tickets to watch both these films on GFF On Demand. Please check out Zoë’s other review of Wintopia here! Ruthless Souls dir. Madison Thomas 2019 | Canada | 84 min. Review by Zoë Mills Jackalope “Jackie”…

This review was provided by Zoë Mills from our Open Call for Film Critics & Writers! Buy your Festival pass or individual tickets to watch both these films on GFF On Demand. Please check out Zoë’s other review of Ruthless Souls here! Wintopia dir. Mira Burt-Wintonick 2019 | Canada | 88 min. Review by Zoë Mills…

This review was provided by Nick White from our Open Call for Film Critics & Writers! Buy your Festival pass or individual tickets to watch both these films on GFF On Demand. Please check out Nick’s other review of Tapeworm here! The Twentieth Century dir. Matthew Rankin 2019 | Canada | 90 min. Review by Nick White…

This review was provided by Nick White from our Open Call for Film Critics & Writers! Buy your Festival pass or individual tickets to watch both these films on GFF On Demand. Please check out Nick’s other review of The Twentieth Century here! Tapeworm dir. Milos Mitrovic / Fabian Velasco 2019 | Canada | 78 min….

An Editorial by Aaron Zeghers, Festival Director, Gimli Film Festival The Gimli Film Festival is done playing the “Premiere Status Game” – as I call it – and I couldn’t be happier for it!  Premiere Status has been a disservice to our Festival for years.  It means little-to-nothing to our audience, and as a filmmaker,…

Programmers’ Picks are back and our final pick is by Fiction Film Programmer, David Knipe! Check out all of our Programmers’ Picks on the GFF Blog. Take me Somewhere Nice dir. Ena Sendijarevic On the edge of adulthood, Alma leaves her mother’s home in the Netherlands and travels to her native Bosnia to visit the father…

Programmers’ Picks are back and our second pick is by Documentary Film Programmer, Vivian Belik! Check out all of our Programmers’ Picks on the GFF Blog. maɬni – towards the ocean, towards the shore dir. Sky Hopinka Bodies of water ebb and flow throughout this poetic experimental documentary by filmmaker Sky Hopinka. Honoring connections to nature…