North Bay Film Festival 2024
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North Bay Film Festival takes place annually in beautiful North Bay, Ontario at the historic Capitol Centre Theatre.
This 3 day festival features international, Canadian, and local films along with filmmaker Q&As, panel discussions, receptions, workshops, and industry events. NBFF serves audiences living in and around North Bay and is dedicated to presenting the best of contemporary cinema, highlighting the work of Canadian, Indigenous, and Northern Ontarian filmmakers.
Earlybird pass: $50 (until November 10th)
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Sing Sing
FREE SCREENING
Friday, November 15, 2024 at 12:00 pm
Based on the real-life arts rehabilitation programme founded at Sing Sing Correctional Facility, Greg Kwedar’s new film follows a troupe of incarcerated actors who work on a play as part of a theatre workshop at the prison.
105 mins | 2024 | USA
Dir: Greg Kwedar
Language: English
Animate Your Imagination: A Free Workshop with Industry Pros
Friday, November 15th from 3:00pm – 5:30pm
Location: Capitol Centre Theatre
FREE Workshop with Lakeside Animation Studios. Open to all ages!
For more info: https://northbayfilmfestival.ca/lakeside-animation
North Bay Film presents: The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal
Friday, November 15, 2024 at 6:30 pm
$15 (Regular) / $12 (NB Film Member)/ $5 (Student). Weekend passes available.
The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal is a definitive four-part documentary series about a bunch of scrappy kids from Kingston, Ontario — Gord Downie, Rob Baker, Johnny Fay, Paul Langlois and Gord Sinclair — who went on to make music that defined Canada to the world and, more importantly, Canada to Canadians.
168 mins | 2024 | Canada
Dir: Mike Downie
Language: English
Opening Night Gala Reception
Friday, November 15th at 9:30pm
Location: Spotlight Lounge at the Capitol Centre
Open to Friday Night Gala ticket holders and Festival Pass holders. Join us for a celebration of film!
North Bay Film presents: Drive Back Home
Saturday, November 16, 2024 at 9:30 am
$15 (Regular) / $12 (NB Film Member)/ $5 (Student). Weekend passes available.
In the winter of 1970, a cantankerous, small town plumber from rural New Brunswick, must drive his beat-up work truck 1000 miles to Toronto to get his estranged, gay brother out of jail after being arrested for having sex in a public park. The two men are then forced to drive back home together at the behest of their hard-nosed mother before they kill each other.
100 mins | 2024 | Canada
Dir: Michael Clowater
Language: English
North Bay Film presents: All the Lost Ones
Saturday, November 16, 2024 at 12:30 pm
$15 (Regular) / $12 (NB Film Member)/ $5 (Student). Weekend passes available.
Set in the aftermath of a fictional North American civil war sparked by government-imposed climate change measures, this gripping tale follows Nia (Mathews), her sister Penny, and her boyfriend Ethan (Smith) as they hide out with a mismatched group of family, friends, and neighbors in a remote lake house.
105 mins | 2024 | Canada
Dir: Mackenzie Donaldson
Language: English
Panel Discussion: Indie Filmmaking
Saturday, November 16th from 3:00pm
Location: Spotlight Lounge at the Capitol Centre
Featuring: Derek Diorio, Kirsten Kosloski, Kourtney Roy, and Austin Lindsay
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North Bay Film presents: All We Imagine as Light
Saturday, November 16, 2024 at 3:30 pm
$15 (Regular) / $12 (NB Film Member)/ $5 (Student). Weekend passes available.
Following her celebrated documentary A Night of Knowing Nothing (TIFF ’21), writer-director Payal Kapadia’s fiction feature debut follows two women at turning points. Moving from urban bustle to seaside idyll, All We Imagine as Light locates dreamlike reverie in emotional shifts and everyday experiences.
118 mins | 2024 | France, India, Netherlands, Luxembourg
Dir: Payal Kapadia
Language: English
North Bay Film presents: The Substance
Saturday, November 16, 2024 at 7:00 pm
$15 (Regular) / $12 (NB Film Member)/ $5 (Student). Weekend passes available.
Demi Moore gives a career-best performance as Elisabeth Sparkle, a former A-lister past her prime and suddenly fired from her fitness TV show by repellent studio head Harvey (Dennis Quaid). She is then drawn to the opportunity presented by a mysterious new drug: THE SUBSTANCE. All it takes is one injection and she is reborn – temporarily – as the gorgeous, twentysomething Sue (Margaret Qualley).
140 mins | 2024 | United Kingdom, United States, France
Dir: Coralie Fargeat
Language: English
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North Bay Film presents: Kryptic
Saturday, November, 16, 2024 at 10:00 pm
$15 (Regular) / $12 (NB Film Member)/ $5 (Student). Weekend passes available.
A Canadian psycho-thriller about a woman’s search for a missing monster hunter and her growing realization that she is inescapably linked to the creature being pursued.
109 mins | 2024 | Canada, United Kingdom
Dir: Kourtney Roy
Language: English
North Bay Film presents: Seeds
Sunday, November 17, 2024 at 10:00 am
$15 (Regular) / $12 (NB Film Member)/ $5 (Student). Weekend passes available.
Imparting lessons of Kanienʼkehá:ka food sovereignty within a campy revenge thriller, Kaniehtiio Horn’s feature directorial debut takes viewers on a ride unlike any other.
82 mins | 2024 | Canada
Dir: Kaniehtiio Horn
Language: English
North Bay Film presents
Curated Shorts Program – In a Good Way
Sunday, November 17, 2024 at 12:30 pm
$15 (Regular) / $12 (NB Film Member)/ $5 (Student). Weekend passes available.
In a Good Way brings together a powerful collection of Indigenous short films from Canada and the US that imagine a future rooted in collective well-being.
Building A Visual Universe: An Artist Talk with Kourtney Roy
Sunday, November 17th at 1:00pm
Location: Spotlight Lounge at the Capitol Centre
North Bay Film presents: Evil Does Not Exist
Sunday, November 17, 2024 at 3:00 pm
$15 (Regular) / $12 (NB Film Member)/ $5 (Student). Weekend passes available.
Evil Does Not Exist, Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s much-anticipated follow-up to his Academy Award–winning Drive My Car, is a haunting, suspenseful meditation on humankind’s thorny relationship with nature, consumerism, and itself.
106 mins | 2024 | Japan
Dir: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Language: Japanese
North Bay Film presents: Anora
Sunday, November 17, 2024 at 6:00 pm
$15 (Regular) / $12 (NB Film Member)/ $5 (Student). Weekend passes available.
Sean Baker’s latest casts Mikey Madison as a sex worker named Anora, or Ani as she prefers to be called. She may live in a shabby Brooklyn apartment above the rattle of the subway, but every night, Ani glams up and puts on a flirty smile for the men at a local club. From quick-cut montages to anxious extended sequences, Anora showcases a filmmaker in brilliant command of his craft, expertly upholding a tragicomical tone for a story that keeps us on the edge of our seat.
139 mins | 2024 | United States
Dir: Sean Baker
Language: English, Russian, Armenian
North Bay Film presents: Kneecap
Sunday, November 17, 2024 at 9:00 pm
$15 (Regular) / $12 (NB Film Member)/ $5 (Student). Weekend passes available.
When fate brings Belfast schoolteacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed ‘low life scum’ Naoise & Liam Og, the needle drops on a hip hop act like no other. Rapping in their native Irish language, KNEECAP fast become the unlikely figureheads of a Civil Rights movement to save their mother tongue.
105 mins | 2024 | Ireland, United Kingdom
Dir: Rich Peppiatt
Language: Irish, English
