Nova Scotia Retro Film Festo!
Screening times:
Sunday, February 1, 5:30 PM - special guests attending! - tickets nearly gone!
Sunday, February 1, 8:45 PM - RESCHEDULED*
*Due to bad weather, the Sunday February 1, 8:45 PM screening has been rescheduled to Friday February 6, 8:45 PM
Mort Ransen | Canada, UK | 1995 | 114m
This film is screening as part of the second Nova Scotia Retro Film Festo, happening January 29 - February 2, 2026!
Chris Zimmer (producer, Margaret’s Museum) is an award-winning filmmaker who, for want of a producer for a documentary project, started his own company, imX communications, in 1985. He went on to become one of Canada’s leading feature film producers, specializing in international co-productions.
Bill Fleming (production designer, Margaret’s Museum) is an award-winning producer, production designer, director and a veteran of Nova Scotia’s film and television industry.
Bill and Chris will be attending the 5PM screening of Margaret’s Museum for a post-film Q&A!
Life is hard in Glace Bay, 1940. Margaret (Helena Bonham Carter) has already lost a father and a brother to the coal mines, and is fighting to save her younger brother from a similar fate. She and her mother (Kate Nelligan) spend much of their time caring for Margaret’s grandfather, who is wracked with black lung disease. Love enters her life one day in the form of Neill Currie (Clive Russell), a bagpipe-playing, fun-loving, free spirit. Even love, however, may not be enough to cleanse her life of the pain and hardships she has become accustomed to enduring.
"Margaret’s Museum is one of those small, nearly perfect movies that you know, seeing it, is absolutely one of a kind.” – Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times
Winner: Best Film - San Sebastián International Film Festival, 1995
Winner: Most Popular Canadian Film - Vancouver International Film Festival, 1995
Winner: Best Actor, Best Costume Design, Best Screenplay - Genie Awards, 1996
Winner: Best Actress - Fantasporto Awards, 1998
Tickets $12.65 ($12 cash at the door if available)
A few tickets left to the 5:30 PM screening!
8:45 PM encore screening added!
