Pendance Midnight 

Pendance is an independent film festival supported by a bevy of great sponsors and key artists in the Canadian film community. We exist to give a serious platform to innovative storytellers and to spark a new love affair with cinema among modern audiences starving for truth and meaning on the big screen. Our slogan ‘Story Over Everything’ effectively sums up our event in eight syllables.The festival was founded by composer Andjelika Javorina & director Robert Misovic in 2017. The festival has seen a rapid rise as one of the world's most tightly-curated film festivals, home to 37 Canadian premieres in 2019.

PENDANCE FILM FESTIVAL

<P><EM>A special screening pass for our genre fanatics, the Pendance Midnight pass grants you complete access to Pendance Midnight. That includes the short screening 'Before Midnight', and feature films 'Cook F**k Kill' as well as 'Koko-di Koko-da'. This also includes the North American premiere of Edgar Morais' disturbing short film 'Heatstroke' and Yorgos Lanthimos' Nimic. Read about all the films below. </EM><BR><BR></P>
<H3>KOKO-DI KOKO-DA (2019) | JOHANNES NYHOLM | ONTARIO PREMIERE |FEB 21- 1030pm | TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX</H3>
<P>As a couple goes on a trip to find their way back to each other, a sideshow artist and his shady entourage emerge from the woods, terrorizing them, luring them deeper into a maelstrom of psychological terror and humiliating slapstick</P>
<P><EM>Starring Leuf Edlund, Peter Belli, Ylva Gallon </EM></P>
<P><EM>*Official Selections: Sundance, Fantasia</EM></P>
<H3>COOK F**K KILL (2019) | MIRA FORNAY | CANADIAN PREMIERE |  FEB 20- 10PM | JACKMAN HALL AGO</H3>
<P>“If I was a girl, this would never have happened. Cook F**k Kill is not as lighthearted as that title makes it seem. Described as an “absurd drama”, the film is directed by a Czech filmmaker named Mira Forney and deals with domestic abuse – about a man who loves to cook, fuck, and, well, kill. “Seen through the prism of a metaphor, the film is an intimate story about family or ‘the most aggressive group within a society, with the exception of the army and the police’, as Fornaystates.” Meaning the family, how people inside their home are abusive even if they’re nice outside.</P>
<P><EM>Starring Jaroslav Plesl, Petra Fornayová, Regina Rázlová, Jan Alexander, Jazmína Cigánková</EM></P>
<P><EM>Official Selection: Rotterdam, Tallinn </EM></P>
<P>Paired with an equally disturbing film 'Heatstroke' starring Chloe Pipes, directed by Edgar Morais<BR><BR>Viewer Discretion is Advised. Both films contain nudity, sexuality, violence, and disturbing subject matter.</P>
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<H3>BEFORE MIDNIGHT | SHORTS SCREENING | JACKMAN HALL AGO | FEB 20 | 8PM</H3>
<H3>IT’S NOTHING – ANNA MAGUIRE / 16’</H3>
<H3>SUNSET CHANNEL – MATTHEW KINAHAN/ 17’</H3>
<H3>OSLO – SHADY SROUR/ 15’</H3>
<H3>NEW WOMAN- BENJAMIN NOAH/ 19’</H3>
<H3>DREAMCATCHER – MICHAEL ALEXANDER UCCELLO/ 7’</H3>
<H3>NIMIC – JORGOS LANTHIMOS / 13’</H3>
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<P>It’s Nothing<BR>ANNA MAGUIRE | CANADA/UK | 16′<BR>Recent graduate, Robin, returns to her parents’ house and obsessively starts to dig a hole, encouraged by an impossibly perfect girl; but as she digs, she heads further down a path of self-destruction.</P>
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<DIV CLASS="wpb_wrapper">The Sunset Channel<BR>MATTHEW KINAHAN | CANADA | 17′<BR>A housebound man thinks he might be the only witness of a disturbing event on his television.</DIV>
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<DIV CLASS="wpb_wrapper"><BR>Oslo<BR>SHADY SROUR | ISRAEL | 15′<BR>Ziad, a Palestinian day laborer, is denied entry into Israel for work that day. Not wanting to return home empty-handed after promising his daughter meat for dinner, he needs to get creative. A poetic and tragic reflection on the everyday struggle of Palestinian breadwinners.</DIV>
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<DIV CLASS="wpb_wrapper">New Woman<BR>BENJAMIN NOAH | CANADA | 19′<BR>A gothic tale concerning a male pickpocket and a wealthy woman descending into a labyrinth of terror in 1888.</DIV>
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<DIV CLASS="wpb_wrapper"><BR>Dreamcatcher<BR>MICHAEL ALEXANDER UCCELLO | CANADA | 7′<BR>Julia, victim to multiple psychological disorders, must survive the night without her prescribed sedatives. In and out of sleep, the only thing protecting her sanity is the Dreamcatcher.</DIV>
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<P>Nimic<BR>YORGOS LANTHIMOS | USA, GERMANY | 12′<BR>Festival favourite Yorgos Lanthimos returns to short film with this portrait of a professional cellist. An encounter with a stranger on the subway has unexpected and far-reaching ramifications on his life.</P>
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