Shepherds (Bergers) - Monday Cinema Monday, February 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM PST
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Trail & District Arts Council's MONDAY CINEMA
Shepherds (Bergers)
at The Royal Theatre, 1597 Bay Avenue, Trail Advance ticket holder names will be on a list at Royal Theatre. Give the volunteers your name upon arrival; no need to come to the Bailey Theatre to pick anything up!
Monday, February 24 @ 4 pm Doors open at 3:30 pm. Language: French / Duration: 1 hr 53 mins / Genre: Drama / Rating: Not yet rated SUBTITLES Content advisory: simulated animal violence; sexual content, nudity, coarse language
$13/person - No assigned seating. Only 143 seats available.
The story of a Montréal copywriter, Mathyas Lefebure who, following a medical wake-up call, abandons his life in Canada to reinvent himself as a sheep herder in the French Alps in Provence.
After a rough start, he’s joined by Élise, a civil servant he met while trying to legalize his employment status in France, who has been tempted by his stories of pastoral life.
Lefebure’s questing nature and hard work to gain the respect of his fellow bergers is highlighted by Élise’s life-changing, impulsive decision to join Mathyaas which is as fulfilling as it is difficult. Together they commit to a summer in the grandiose and wild landscapes on the mountainside with one border collie and 800 sheep.
Sophie Deraspe has made a naturalistic, beautiful adaptation of the real-life Lefebure’s 2006 semi-autobiographical novel “Where Do You Come From, Shepherd?”. Shot in Provence with the participation of real breeders and real shepherds (some of whom play roles on screen) the film looks at the messy and often brutal realities of a shepherding life, while showing us the beauty of nature that draws people to work on the land.
Dir: Sophie Deraspe / Featuring: Félix-Antoine Duval, Solène Rigot / Country: Canada, France / Language: French / Duration: 1 hr 53 mins / Genre: Drama / Rating: Not yet rated SUBTITLES
“A hymn to freedom,...Bergers makes you want to go on an adventure, commune with nature and bite into life…a gentle, moving and deeply human film that absolutely must be seen on the big screen.” - Maxime Demers, Le Journal de Montréal
Watch the trailer here https://youtu.be/t_k-hFtaMZk
Best Canadian Feature Film Award, TIFF (2024)
Content advisory: simulated animal violence; sexual content, nudity, coarse language
The Monday Cinema series is part of the Toronto International Film Festival Film Circuit and is presented by Trail and District Arts Council at The Royal Theatre, 1597 Bay Avenue, Trail.
Only 143 tickets are available for this screening. If tickets are available, they will go on sale at the venue when the doors open 30 minutes before the screening.
Tickets $13 at tickets.trail-arts.com or call the Bailey Theatre Box Office at 250-368-9669 Monday to Friday from 12-4 pm. Advance ticket holders' names will appear on the door attendance list; NO PHYSICAL TICKETS TO PICK UP BEFORE THE FILM. If tickets are available, they will go on sale at the venue 30 minutes before the screening for cash only. Doors will open 30 minutes prior to show time.
Films in the Monday Cinema series:
Jan. 13: Goodrich - 4pm and 7pm - Andy Goodrich's life is upended when his wife enters a rehab program, leaving him on his own with their young kids. So, Goodrich leans on Grace, his daughter from his first marriage, for help.
Jan. 20: In the Summers - 4pm only -Two sisters find their relationships to their loving but volatile father changing over the course of yearly summer visits to his New Mexico home.
Jan. 27: All Stirred Up! (Tous Toqués) - 4pm and 7pm - A French chef looking for fame, tries to help a young girl win a culinary competition amidst the hostility of an entire village who dislike her mother, the local customs officer.
Feb. 3: Drive Back Home - 4pm only - In the winter of 1970, after being caught for public indecency in a local Toronto park a man is bailed out by his cantankerous, conservative brother and must drive the 1000-mile trip back home to New Brunswick with him. Inspired by a true story.
Feb. 10: Small Things Like These - 4pm only - A devoted father discovers disturbing secrets kept by a local convent, forcing him to confront the complicit silence of a small Irish town controlled by the Catholic Church.
No film Feb. 17 for Family Day
Feb. 24: Shepherds (Bergers) - A Montréal copywriter sets out to reinvent himself as a sheep herder in the French Alps despite knowing literally nothing about the centuries-old craft, in this adaptation from director and co-writer Sophie Deraspe.
Mar. 3: The Room Next Door - Pedro Almodóvar directs powerhouse performances from Academy Award® winners Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton as Ingrid and Martha, close friends in their youth brought back together after years of being out of touch, in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.
Mar. 10: Universal Language - In a mysterious and surreal reimagined Winnipeg, where Persian and French are the two official languages, a group of children go on eccentric quests, a man leads a group of increasingly-befuddled tourists through the city, and a man returns home to find his family is not what he remembered.
Shepherds (Bergers)
at The Royal Theatre, 1597 Bay Avenue, Trail Advance ticket holder names will be on a list at Royal Theatre. Give the volunteers your name upon arrival; no need to come to the Bailey Theatre to pick anything up!
Monday, February 24 @ 4 pm Doors open at 3:30 pm. Language: French / Duration: 1 hr 53 mins / Genre: Drama / Rating: Not yet rated SUBTITLES Content advisory: simulated animal violence; sexual content, nudity, coarse language
$13/person - No assigned seating. Only 143 seats available.
The story of a Montréal copywriter, Mathyas Lefebure who, following a medical wake-up call, abandons his life in Canada to reinvent himself as a sheep herder in the French Alps in Provence.
After a rough start, he’s joined by Élise, a civil servant he met while trying to legalize his employment status in France, who has been tempted by his stories of pastoral life.
Lefebure’s questing nature and hard work to gain the respect of his fellow bergers is highlighted by Élise’s life-changing, impulsive decision to join Mathyaas which is as fulfilling as it is difficult. Together they commit to a summer in the grandiose and wild landscapes on the mountainside with one border collie and 800 sheep.
Sophie Deraspe has made a naturalistic, beautiful adaptation of the real-life Lefebure’s 2006 semi-autobiographical novel “Where Do You Come From, Shepherd?”. Shot in Provence with the participation of real breeders and real shepherds (some of whom play roles on screen) the film looks at the messy and often brutal realities of a shepherding life, while showing us the beauty of nature that draws people to work on the land.
Dir: Sophie Deraspe / Featuring: Félix-Antoine Duval, Solène Rigot / Country: Canada, France / Language: French / Duration: 1 hr 53 mins / Genre: Drama / Rating: Not yet rated SUBTITLES
“A hymn to freedom,...Bergers makes you want to go on an adventure, commune with nature and bite into life…a gentle, moving and deeply human film that absolutely must be seen on the big screen.” - Maxime Demers, Le Journal de Montréal
Watch the trailer here https://youtu.be/t_k-hFtaMZk
Best Canadian Feature Film Award, TIFF (2024)
Content advisory: simulated animal violence; sexual content, nudity, coarse language
The Monday Cinema series is part of the Toronto International Film Festival Film Circuit and is presented by Trail and District Arts Council at The Royal Theatre, 1597 Bay Avenue, Trail.
Only 143 tickets are available for this screening. If tickets are available, they will go on sale at the venue when the doors open 30 minutes before the screening.
Tickets $13 at tickets.trail-arts.com or call the Bailey Theatre Box Office at 250-368-9669 Monday to Friday from 12-4 pm. Advance ticket holders' names will appear on the door attendance list; NO PHYSICAL TICKETS TO PICK UP BEFORE THE FILM. If tickets are available, they will go on sale at the venue 30 minutes before the screening for cash only. Doors will open 30 minutes prior to show time.
Films in the Monday Cinema series:
Jan. 13: Goodrich - 4pm and 7pm - Andy Goodrich's life is upended when his wife enters a rehab program, leaving him on his own with their young kids. So, Goodrich leans on Grace, his daughter from his first marriage, for help.
Jan. 20: In the Summers - 4pm only -Two sisters find their relationships to their loving but volatile father changing over the course of yearly summer visits to his New Mexico home.
Jan. 27: All Stirred Up! (Tous Toqués) - 4pm and 7pm - A French chef looking for fame, tries to help a young girl win a culinary competition amidst the hostility of an entire village who dislike her mother, the local customs officer.
Feb. 3: Drive Back Home - 4pm only - In the winter of 1970, after being caught for public indecency in a local Toronto park a man is bailed out by his cantankerous, conservative brother and must drive the 1000-mile trip back home to New Brunswick with him. Inspired by a true story.
Feb. 10: Small Things Like These - 4pm only - A devoted father discovers disturbing secrets kept by a local convent, forcing him to confront the complicit silence of a small Irish town controlled by the Catholic Church.
No film Feb. 17 for Family Day
Feb. 24: Shepherds (Bergers) - A Montréal copywriter sets out to reinvent himself as a sheep herder in the French Alps despite knowing literally nothing about the centuries-old craft, in this adaptation from director and co-writer Sophie Deraspe.
Mar. 3: The Room Next Door - Pedro Almodóvar directs powerhouse performances from Academy Award® winners Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton as Ingrid and Martha, close friends in their youth brought back together after years of being out of touch, in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.
Mar. 10: Universal Language - In a mysterious and surreal reimagined Winnipeg, where Persian and French are the two official languages, a group of children go on eccentric quests, a man leads a group of increasingly-befuddled tourists through the city, and a man returns home to find his family is not what he remembered.
Venue
Royal Theatre
1597 Bay Ave
Trail BC V1R 4A9