2022 Reel 2 Real International Film Festival for Youth announces live and online screenings from April 3 to 13
Drinkwater opens the event that’s hosting movies at the Vancity Theatre and Roundhouse
Drinkwater
Martin and the Magical Forest
THE LOCALLY MADE feature Drinkwater, starring Eric McCormack and Daniel Doheny, will open the Reel 2 Real International Film Festival for Youth, which returns with a hybrid of live and online screenings from April 3 to 13.
The director and cast will attend the screening at the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre on April 3.
R2R will host other in-person films at that venue, along with Vancity Theatre. The annual fest features an array of international youth-oriented films for all ages, including many in their North American or Canadian premieres—10 feature films and 60 shorts in all, from over 30 countries and Indigenous nations.
Today, the fest also announced its closing film is Quebec’s The Time Thief (L’arracheuse de temps), directed by Francis Leclerc. Set in 1988 in Saint-Élie-de-Caxton, it follows an 11-year-old boy whose ill grandmother tells a story in an attempt to convince him that Death no longer exists.
Amid the lineup of international features, Marion Cotillard’s documentary Bigger Than Us, in its Canadian premiere, shows how young people everywhere are fighting for human rights, climate justice, dignity, freedom of expression, access to education, safe food, and clean water; and Martin and the Magical Forest (Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Germany) is about a screen-reliant kid who has been signed up for an outdoorsy summer camp. Other highlights include Germany’s The Path, about an escape over the Pyrenees during World War II; the “Cambodian, Buddhist, sci-fi” flick Karmalink; Ukraine’s Stop-Zemlia; and Iran’s Zeba’s Wish.
Students across the province are invited to attend R2R’s popular school programs: Reel Focus and Feature Focus for elementary, and Talent Lab for high school. Available province-wide, these programs come with study guides.
Find more information here.
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