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10/21/2026

The 17th Annual Gimme Some Truth Documentary Festival returns November 5-8 with new and restored local, Canadian, and international documentary shorts and features. We are also excited to host another year of the Gimme 10 in 30! Documentary Challenge!

This year’s edition explores the importance of interconnection as a radical act of surviving the current moment, highlighting the significance of community. These films interrogate the threshold between documentation and dream, survival and spirit, reminding us that documentary is an act of reimagining the world as it might yet become.

Thank you to our funders the Canada Council for the Arts, Manitoba Arts Council, and the Winnipeg Arts Council.

Thank you to our sponsor DOC Manitoba for their generous support for the Gimme 10-in-30 incubator.

We can’t wait to welcome you all back to the Dave Barber Cinematheque this November for our 17th Annual Gimme Some Truth Documentary Festival.

– Gimme Some Truth Programming Team (Olivia Norquay & Christina Oyawale)

09/28/2026

Bikini Drive-In returns October 31 with the new restoration of “metaphysical splatter film” Begotten.

Begotten has no characters in the ordinary sense. Its final credits name three
principal figures: God Killing Himself. Mother Earth. Son of Earth — Flesh on Bone

The entire film is what those names do to each other and to the earth.
God Killing Himself tears open his body and dies. Mother Earth rises from what
remains and takes his seed into herself. She gives birth to Son of Earth — Flesh on
Bone. He is cast into a barren world, seized by the Nomads, tortured, killed, and
briefly returned to life by his mother. The Nomads destroy her too. The Robed Figures gather what remains of mother and son, grind their bodies down, and return them to the soil. The ground flowers.

“An extraordinarily original accomplishment … One of the ten most important films of modern times.” – Susan Sontag

Content warning: This film contains scenes of blood, gore, violence, and sexual violence. Viewer discretion is strongly advised!

Bikini Drive-In returns October 31 with the new restoration of “metaphysical splatter film” Begotten.Begotten has no cha...
09/28/2026

Bikini Drive-In returns October 31 with the new restoration of “metaphysical splatter film” Begotten.

Begotten has no characters in the ordinary sense. Its final credits name three
principal figures: God Killing Himself. Mother Earth. Son of Earth — Flesh on Bone

The entire film is what those names do to each other and to the earth. God Killing Himself tears open his body and dies. Mother Earth rises from what remains and takes his seed into herself. She gives birth to Son of Earth — Flesh on Bone. He is cast into a barren world, seized by the Nomads, tortured, killed, and briefly returned to life by his mother. The Nomads destroy her too. The Robed Figures gather what remains of mother and son, grind their bodies down, and return them to the soil. The ground flowers.

“An extraordinarily original accomplishment … One of the ten most important films of modern times.” – Susan Sontag

Content warning: This film contains scenes of blood, gore, violence, and sexual violence. Viewer discretion is strongly advised!

Join us on October 31 for The Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party: Halloween Edition! 3 Hours of HALLO...
09/28/2026

Join us on October 31 for The Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party: Halloween Edition! 3 Hours of HALLOWEEN-THEMED Retro Cartoons, Commercials and PSAs – and all the cereal you can eat! Dairy free options available! Curated by David Bertrand!

Hello ghosts and ghouls – are you “freddy” for a spooky Saturday morning? We are fiendishly thrilled to present an all-Halloween themed selection of cartoon fun for the trick or treating season! Kids today may not realize the significance of the Saturday morning ritual, but once upon a time, we had to wait a whole week to get our cartoon fix, and when we got it, we tended to binge. Well – welcome to the Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat Cereal Cartoon Party – that special time when kids and kids-at-heart get to relive the exciting Saturday Morning ritual of non-stop retro cartoons, and binge on the multi-colored sugary cereals that used to be a part of every “balanced” breakfast! The cartoon lineup is always a mystery, but expect to see monsters, sci-fi, sleuths, superheroes and all kinds of 2D silliness, both faves and obscurities spanning the ‘40s through the ‘90s, all punctuated with vintage commercials, PSAs and station IDs for a 3-hour trip down memory lane! So get ready for a sugar rush and an explosion of nostalgia all wrapped up in one candy-coated package. This program is rated G.

09/28/2026

An enduring masterpiece of cinema starring Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave, The Devils is a prescient epic of obsession and corruption – and a defining work of art from seminal filmmaker Ken Russell. The Devils is the uncut and unfiltered theatrical experience that Russell always envisioned – and the first time the film will be presented restored and in 4K.

Content warning: This film contains scenes of extreme sexual content, graphic nudity, and violent themes. Viewer discretion is strongly advised!

The Devils opens October 30. Join us on November 3 at 7pm for an introduction from filmmaker Caroline Golum.

An enduring masterpiece of cinema starring Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave, The Devils is a prescient epic of obsession...
09/28/2026

An enduring masterpiece of cinema starring Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave, The Devils is a prescient epic of obsession and corruption – and a defining work of art from seminal filmmaker Ken Russell. The Devils is the uncut and unfiltered theatrical experience that Russell always envisioned – and the first time the film will be presented restored and in 4K.

Content warning: This film contains scenes of extreme sexual content, graphic nudity, and violent themes. Viewer discretion is strongly advised!

The Devils opens October 30. Join us on November 3 at 7pm for an introduction from filmmaker Caroline Golum.

09/28/2026

An irreverent biopic vividly realized through fantastic psychedelia and handmade sets with an ever-topical feminist approach, Revelations of Divine Love is inspired by and adapted from the memoir of 14th-century mystic and philosopher Julian of Norwich and an account of religious ecstasy, plague, and revolt considered to be the first book to be authored by a woman in English.

The film envisions the life of Julian in the lead up to her anchorage—through her illness and the onset of her godly visions—and follows her through the years as she indulges in her desire to write and becomes a revered and holy figure to those in her town and beyond the city walls.

Revelations of Divine Love opens October 29. Join us on November 4 at 7pm & 9pm for post-screening discussions with filmmaker Caroline Golum. Presented in partnership with Winnipeg Underground Film Festival.

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