Tales from the Gimli Hospital

Friday, October 11 - Thursday, October 17, 2024

4K Restoration!

Guy Maddin’s highly acclaimed first feature was first released in 1988 and 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.”

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Part of our retrospective Forbidden Rooms: The Films of Guy Maddin

 

Previously screened October 14-27, 2022, accompanied by a new restoration of Maddin’s short THE HEART OF THE WORLD, courtesy of TIFF Film Reference Library.

• Year 1988
• Running Time 64 minutes
• Distributor Zeitgeist Films
• Director Guy Maddin
• Accessibility Assistive Listening, T-Coil

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