WINNIPEG FREE PRESS: JUST when you thought it was safe to go to the Gimli Film Festival …

Steven Spielberg’s landmark summer thriller Jaws is scheduled to screen on the beach to close the 11th annual festival, which this year runs from July 20-24.

But that’s just one of 120 films scheduled over the five days of the festival, including a number of short films spread out over 16 different programs.

On this year’s schedule are three world premieres, Last Fast Ride (about San Francisco punk rock star Marian Anderson), Fordson (which follows four talented Muslim football players as they gear up for a big high school game); and Bhopali, a film about the survivors of the 1984 Union Carbide gas leak in Bhopal, India.

The most popular event of the festival is the daily 10 p.m. beach screenings. This year, in addition to the closing night screening of Jaws, they consist of: The Illusionist (Wednesday, July 20), Bill Cunningham New York (Thursday, July 21), Barney’s Version (Friday, July 22), Score: A Hockey Musical (Saturday, July 23). On Saturday midnight, GFF will screen Beauty Day, a doc about a reckless cable access star who prefigured the stars of Jackass with his penchant for dangerous stunts.

Film festival passes are $40, and entitle the holder to access to all festival films. All-access passes are $50 and allow unlimited access to festival films, in addition to industry and hospitality events and the GFF lounge. Tickets for individual screening and industry sessions are $8.

All festival information can be viewed online at: www.gimlifilm.com or obtained by phone at (204) 642-8846.

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