Maria Montessori:La Nouvelle Femme
Monday May 12 12, 2:00 only
Season Sponsor Rastin's Pharmacy
Film Date Sponsor: Retired Women Teachers of Ontario: Hamilton Wentworth Branch
Proceeds to the Demazenod Door Outreach
Tickets: https://www.memorialarts.ca/films/maria-montesori-la-femme-nouvelle
100 min
French/Italian, English subtitles
Starring Jasmine Trinca in the title role this beautiful and entertaining film tells the story of the famed Italian physician and educator who invented a teaching method that is still being used today in 35,000 schools bearing her name across the globe but it's got a French twist to it as it begins in Paris at the turn of the 20th Century where we meet a famous Parisian courtesan with a secret, Lili d’Alengy, who is played by French actress, Leïla Bekhti.
Reviews
Léa Todorov sheds light upon the genesis of the Montessori approach in a bold and novelistic first feature film about disability, difference and feminism at the beginning of the 20th century. Fabien LeMercier/CinemaEuropa.org
Léa Todorov’s directorial debut feature film ‘Maria Montessori’ offers a biopic of the Italian doctor’s journey in revolutionising children’s pedagogy. Maria Montessori transformed societies positioning of children with disabilities, medical conditions, &/or neurodivergence in education, and women in the workforce. On The House
The movie is inspiring in the way it cast young people with physical and cognitive disabilities and lets them shine. It’s also heartbreaking as the complexity of the times meant life was isolating for these children. Women too, were required to make heavy choices and sacrifices to fit into a world designed for men. Sarah Schmidt/Perth Happenings
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15389042/
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/maria_montessori
Bad Shabbos
Monday May 12, 7:15 only
Season Sponsor Rastin's Pharmacy
Film Date Sponsor: Retired Women Teachers of Ontario: Hamilton Wentworth Branch
Proceeds to Demazenod Door Outreach
Tickets: https://www.memorialarts.ca/films/bad-shabbos
84 min
When David and his fiancée Meg gather for his family's traditional Shabbat dinner on New York's Upper West Side, things spiral quickly when an accidental death (or...murder?) derails the evening entirely. With Meg's devoutly Catholic parents due any moment to meet David's very Jewish family, soon Shabbat becomes a comedy of biblical proportions.
Awards:
Tribeca Film Festival: won Audience Award
Cordillera International Film Festival: won Jury and Audience Awards
Reviews
A strong ensemble cast nails the tasty dialogue and increasingly frantic action without falling into shtick. Alissa Simon/Variety
Bad Shabbos takes the best of classic comedies and updates it for today, making it the hysterical Jewish content that is necessary right now. Danielle Soltzman/Solzty at the movies
Bad Shabbos takes the best of classic comedies and updates it for today, making it the hysterical Jewish content that is necessary right now. Aidan Kelley/Collider
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14402042/
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bad_shabbos
Other Films Dates: 2025 Season
OTHER FILM DATES: Screenings 2:00 pm and 7:15
Jan 20: Lee, Goodrich
Feb 24, I'm Still Here, 2:00 pm
Feb 24: Emilia Perez 7:15 p.m.
Mar 17 Small Things Like These 2:00 p.m.
Mar 17 No Other Land 7:15 p.m.
April 7 Bob Trevino Likes It 2:00 p.m.
April 7 There's Still Tomorrow 7:15 p.m.
April 28 The Penguin Lessons 2:00 p.m.
April 28 Shepherds 7:15 p.m.
May 12: Maria Montessori: La Nouvelle Femme
May 12: Bad Shabbos
May 26: So Surreal: Behind the Masks
May 26: Santosh
June 9: Jan Austen Wrecked My Life 2:00 p.m.
Sept 22
Oct 6
Nov 3
Dec 8
Other Items of Interest
AFF Library of Some of Our Past Films
About 170 titles of past Ancaster Film Fest selections are available for loan at Rastin's Pharmacy.