Guy Maddin’s
TALES FROM THE GIMLI HOSPITAL REDUX
WORLD PREMIERE TIFF 22
FILMS WE LIKE and ZEITGEIST FILMS
Partner for Theatrical Release
Films We Like presents a brand new 4K remastering of Tales from the Gimli Hospital Redux by Guy Maddin, which will have its world premiere at the 47th TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival). The new 4K digital remaster was supervised by Guy Maddin using original printing elements provided by the TIFF Cinematheque Library. The digital remaster is made possible by the generous financial support of Telefilm Canada, in partnership with TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival).
Canadian boutique distributor Films We Like and Zeitgeist Films, Maddin’s long-time US distributor, have partnered to theatrically release the film in the US and Canada, beginning September 30th at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, Toronto.
Guy Maddin’s highly acclaimed first feature, released in 1988, is now regarded as one of the true cult hits on the midnight movie circuit.
Set during a smallpox epidemic in the village of Gimli, Manitoba near the turn of the century, Tales From The Gimli Hospital is a dreamlike, elliptical film which explores the jealousy and madness instilled in two men who share a hospital room "in a Gimli we no longer know."
Tales from the Gimli Hospital Redux will screen on Saturday, September 10th, 2022 at 3 pm with Guy Maddin in attendance.
Canada, 1988
English, Icelandic
64 minutes | Black & White / DCP 4K
Press Contact: Mercy Lam, mercy@filmswelike.com
About Guy Maddin
Guy Maddin is a Canadian filmmaker with numerous shorts and 11 feature films to his credit, including the Emmy Award-winning ballet film Dracula — Pages From A Virgin’s Diary (2002); The Saddest Music in the World (2003); My Winnipeg (2007); and US National Society of Film Critics Best Experimental Film Prize-winners Archangel (1990) and The Heart of the World (2000). He is also a member of The Order of Canada & The Order of Manitoba.
About Films We Like
Founded by award-winning documentary filmmaker Ron Mann (Grass, Comic Book Confidential, Carmine Street Guitars), Films We Like is a boutique distributor of documentary, independent, and international films in Canada. Films We Like is committed to restoring neglected Canadian films, most recently P4W - Prison for Women, Hookers on Davie, and Calling the Shots by Holly Dale and Janis Cole.
About Zeitgeist Films
Zeitgeist Films was founded in 1988 by Co-Presidents Nancy Gerstman and Emily Russo. In addition to releasing some of the most acclaimed international and documentary films of the past three decades they have worked with many Canadian filmmakers. In addition to Guy Maddin they have released early films from Atom Egoyan, and such classics as Manufacturing Consent, The Corporation, Manufactured Landscapes, Up the Yangtze and Last Train Home.