ROLLING IN FROM ALL OVER

Thefall season of film has an international flavour. First and foremost is the Calgary International

Film Festival (Sept. 20 to Oct. 1), which justifies its middle initial with films from Senegal (Alain Gomis’s complex character study Félicité), China (the animated crime comedy

Hao Ji Le [ Have A Nice Day]) and Russia ( Nelyubov [ Loveless]). Of course, Canada remains well represented in the country’s 150th year, with a new film from Denis Coté, Ta Peau si lisse ( A Skin So Soft), and Suck It Up, directed by Jordan Canning, which screens at the festival’s closing gala.

The University of Calgary’s Latin American Research Centre, the Consulate General of Brazil in Vancouver and the Brazilian Community Association of Alberta draw from the southern hemisphere for the Brazil

Film Series throughout the fall (Sept. 28, Oct. 19, Oct. 26 and Nov. 30). Quickdraw Animation continues tapping the pipeline of films from across the Pacific with screenings of Japan’s Studio Ghibli’s Kiki’s Delivery

Service (Sept. 16) and Castle in the Sky (Oct. 21) at the Globe Cinema, while the Calgary European Film Festival (Nov. 5-12) draws its schedule from across the Atlantic. The Calgary Cinematheque also plans on spotlighting contemporary world cinema, but is keeping its flags hidden for now (Nov. 30 to March 22: films TBA).

Grounding the schedule with concerns closer to home is the Marda

Loop Justice Film Festival, which screens The Grizzly Truth, an examination of British Columbia’s—recently cancelled—grizzly bear hunt, on Sept. 12.