The Gimli Film Festival is a Canadian film festival, held annually in Gimli, Manitoba. was created to showcase the talents of filmmakers from Canada and other countries - to promote excellence and to share with our audience exciting and powerful Canadian and international cinema. Gimli is a rural municipality in south-central Manitoba, Canada. ...

Since 1991, the festival has been screening feature length movies on a 35 foot screen that rises out of Lake Winnipeg. Viewers descend on the beach at sunset with shovels or beach chairs and settle into comfort as movies are shown under the stars and sometimes the northern lights. Shorts and documentaries are screened at the nearby Lady of the Lake Theatre. This five day event occurs at the end of July.

The festival emphasizes films from the circumpolar nations and gives special attention to homegrown Canadian films every year.

2005

• The Blue Butterfly
• Hotel Rwanda
• Dear Frankie
• Phil the Alien
• Meatballs
• Young Anderson
• Saraband
• The Merchant of Venice
• East of Euclid
• Versus Ivan
• Dis

Hotel Rwanda is a 2004 biographical and historical drama film about the Rwandan Genocide, directed by Irish filmmaker Terry George. ... Dear Frankie is a 2004 film directed by Shona Auerbach. ... Phil the Alien is a Canadian comedy film, released in 2003. ... DVD cover Meatballs is a 1979 movie comedy, about a summer-camp. ... For the Baroque dance and its corresponding musical form, see Sarabande. ... The Merchant of Venice (2004) Movie Poster The 2004 movie Merchant of Venice is based on of Shakespeares play with the same name. ...

2006

• C.R.A.Z.Y.
• Cake
• Eve and the Firehorse
• Beowulf and Grendel
• Lucid
• Niagara Motel
• A Little Trip to Heaven
• Eleven Men Out
• The Delicate Art of Parking

C.R.A.Z.Y. is a 2005 French language film made in Quebec. ... Cake is a 2005 love / comedy movie directed by Nisha Ganatra. ... Beowulf & Grendel is a 2005 movie adaptation of Beowulf, filmed in Iceland, directed by Sturla Gunnarsson, starring Gerard Butler as Beowulf and Ingvar Sigurdsson as Grendel. ... Forest Whitaker in A Little Trip to Heaven A Little Trip to Heaven is an Icelandic/US drama and thriller film from 2005, directed by Icelandic director of The Sea, Baltasar Kormákur. ... The Delicate Art of Parking is an 87-minute Canadian comedy/mockumentary film released on May 14, 2003. ...

External links

• Gimli Film Festival