Jimi Hendrix, Google and the Beats: the FIFA film fest is coming to Concordia
The 32nd annual International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA) is coming to Concordia.
For the fifth consecutive year, the university is partnering with FIFA to showcase an array of films about art. From March 20 to 30, the fest will screen some 266 movies from more than 36 countries at venues throughout Montreal, including Concordia’s J.A. DeSève Cinema.
Before the fest gets under way, on March 15, Concordia will present the North American premiere of Beat Generation — Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg & William Burroughs, French directors Xavier Villetard and Jean-Jacques Lebel’s documentary on the three seminal writers.
FIFA, as always, has plenty in store. Here’s what’s screening at Concordia over the course of the festival.
Friday, March 21 — 6:30 p.m.
Tomorrow We Will See (70 min., English, Arabic, English subtitles)
Lebanon, 2013
Directed by Soraya Umewaka
Tunisie, l’ère d’une révolution culturelle (48 min., French, Arabic, French subtitles)
Switzerland, 2013
Directed by Valérie Lowensberg
Friday, March 21 — 9 p.m.
A Life Exposed: Robyn Beeche (52 min., English)
Australia, 2013
Directed by Lesley Branagan
Sincerely, F. Scott Fitzgerald (60 min., English)
United Kingdom, 2013
Directed by Tim Niel
Saturday, March 22 — 6:30 p.m.
The Godmother of Rock & Roll: Sister Rosetta Tharpe (52 min., English)
United States, 2011
Directed by Mick Csáky
Detroit/Michigan — Motor City Music (55 min., English)
Germany, 2013
Directed by Claus Bredenbrock and Pagonis Pagonakis
Saturday, March 22 — 9 p.m.
Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin’ (113 min., English)
United States, 2013
Directed by Bob Smeaton
Sunday, March 23 — 6:30 p.m.
Freights (45 min., English, French subtitles)
Canada, 2013
Directed by Patrick O’Connor
Van Horne & Waverly (45 min., French, English)
Canada, 2013
Directed by Geneva Guérin
Friday, March 28 — 6:30 p.m.
Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin’ (113 min., English)
United States, 2013
Directed by Bob Smeaton
Friday, March 28 — 9 p.m.
Werner Herzog: Beyond Reason (60 min., English)
United Kingdom, 2008
Directed by Steve Cole
Cracked Actor: David Bowie (60 min., English)
United Kingdom, 1975
Directed by Alan Yentob
Saturday, March 29 — 1:30 p.m.
Istanbul Collecting (75 min., English)
Germany, Turkey, 2013
Directed by Johanna Sunder-Plassman
Secrets of the British Museum: Ancient Greece Rediscovered (52 min., English, Japanese, English subtitles)
Japan, 2012
Directed by Tomomi Nagasawa
Saturday, March 29 — 4 p.m.
Google and the World Brain (89 min., English, Spanish, English subtitles)
Spain, United Kingdom, 2013
Directed by Ben Lewis
Saturday, March 29 — 6:30 p.m.
Meetings with a Young Poet (85 min., English, French subtitles)
Canada, 2013
Directed by Rudy Barichello
Saturday, March 29 — 9 p.m.
Beat Generation — Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg & William Burroughs (55 min., French, English, English subtitles)
France, 2013
Directed by Xavier Villetard and Jean-Jacques Lebel
Burroughs: The Movie (86 min., English)
United States, 1983
Directed by Howard Brookner
Sunday, March 30 — 4 p.m.
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss (90 min., English)
United Kingdom, 2012
Directed by John Das
Sunday, March 30 — 6:30 p.m.
Werner Herzog: Beyond Reason (60 min., English)
United Kingdom, 2008
Directed by Steve Cole
Cracked Actor: David Bowie (60 min., English)
United Kingdom, 1975
Directed by Alan Yentob
All screenings take place at the J.A. DeSève Cinema in the J.W. McConnell (LB) Building (1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.) on the Sir George Williams Campus.
The North American premiere of Beat Generation — Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg & William Burroughs takes place on Saturday, March 15, at 6 p.m. Registration is now closed, but walk-ups will be accepted if seats are available on the day of the event.
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