TORONTO -- Thom Fitzgerald's The Event, which stars Parker Posey and Sarah Polley, has been set to open the 23rd Atlantic Film Festival in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Sept. 12, it was announced Wednesday. Fitzgerald's AIDS-themed drama, which also stars Olympia Dukakis and Jane Leeves, originally bowed at Sundance. Closing the festival Sept. 20 will be Denys Arcand's Cannes entry The Barbarian Invasions, which will open the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 4. The Atlantic festival lineup also includes Deepa Mehta's The Republic of Love, Sudz Sutherland's Love Sex and Eating the Bones and Alanis Obomsawin's Our Nationhood. The festival, which runs Sept. 12-20, will also screen 10 French films, among them Dominique Cabrera's A Wonderful Spell, Ben Levine's Reveil and Bernard Emond's 20h17 rue Darling, which bowed in Cannes.
- 8/28/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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