Cairo Time is a romantic drama that takes place in the capital of Egypt, where an unexpected love affair catches two people completely off-guard. Stunningly shot, this film flows like a distant dream in which a way forward is possible despite the sadness over what is being left behind.

Director of Witte de With, The Netherlands, Nicolaus Schafhausen discusses the thematic project Morality. In the most general sense, morality is a category of aide-mémoires for living a righteous life; in its most inflexible sense, it engages the world through categorical imperatives, produces intolerance towards skepticism, and insists on transcendental ideas even when these have become unnecessary.  The aim of the Morality project is to present a wide range of attitudes which tend to problematize a total conception of morality.

Food, Inc. lifts the veil on the food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from American consumers. The film reveals surprising—and often shocking truths—about what we eat and how it's produced.

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Artistic Director of the Documenta 13, explores what an exhibition is, might be and could become - and how the experience of art exhibitions might dismantle the certainties of our primarily visual culture.

Create an inner cedar bark basket that can last generations, under the instruction of inner cedar bark weaver Melvin Williams of Lil'wat descent from Mount Currie, B.C.

To register please call the Walter Phillips Gallery at 403.762.6281.

Curators David Bellman and Meirion Cynog Evans, along with artists Keith Nahanee and Melvin Williams, discuss the exhibition Laid Over to Cover: Photography and Weaving in the Salishan Landscape.

The Pool features a boy working in a hotel who becomes obsessed with a swimming pool in the opulent hills of Panjim, Goa in India. His life gets turned upside down when he attempts to meet the mysterious family that arrives at the house.

Walter Phillips Gallery and TRUCK Artist-Run Centre present an all-ages button making workshop led by Calgary-based artist Janine Vangool. Hosted out of TRUCK’s Contemporary Art Mobile Public Exhibition Rig, aka CAMPER, a refurbished RV art space, participants will make one-inch button pins from art created with found images, drawings, dry-transfer lettering, and typewriters. Check Banff Heritage Tourism for a complete listing of the day’s events.

Since 2000, Ikon, in Birmingham, UK, has continuously dedicated programming to off-site projects. They are sometimes spectacular and sometimes subtle interventions in their various locations. They always raise intriguing questions about artistic identity and the place for art. Arising from a conviction that art is continuous with everyday life — not some separate, elevating experience — off-site projects develop audiences for experimental contemporary art and are often influenced from the local cultural context, usually involving multi-disciplinary collaborations.

In conjunction with the Silke Otto-Knapp exhibition, this panel follows the final performance of Festival Dance. Moderated by art critic Jan Verwoert, Otto-Knapp, artist Frances Stark, dancer/choreographer Flora Wiegmann, and ballet master Lindsay Fischer discuss the relationship between dance and visual art, and contemporary engagements with each field’s avant-garde history.

In conjunction with the exhibition Steve McQueen: Once Upon a Time, Saul Ostrow, chair of visual arts and technologies at the Cleveland Institute of Art, discusses McQueen’s installation. Ostrow reviews McQueen’s appropriation of the Golden Record’s image bank for Once Upon a Time and uses it to explore the question of who NASA’s message was meant for, and what it might actually communicate.

In Canada’s Oscar submission for Best Foreign Language Film, director Bernard Pilon takes us back to the 1950s, when there was little contact between the Inuit and the rest of Canada. Tivii is brought to Quebec for tuberculosis treatment, bringing together a vast range of contrasting worlds.

A snapshot of daily life in the West Bank, this film traces the unusual journey of Salma Zidane, a Palestinian widow and orchard-keeper who finds herself at the centre of an escalating conflict over a simple grove of lemon trees. This tenderly nuanced film offers a microcosm of Israeli-Palestinian affairs.

Berlin-based artist Thomas Demand is one of the most internationally renowned artists of his generation. Through Demand’s unique approach to photography, images of real spaces and scenes are gleaned from print media and reconstructed by the artist as three-dimensional models in his studio, which he then photographs. This talk is co-presented with the University of Calgary, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Art Visiting Artist Series; Illingworth Kerr Gallery; and Alberta College of Art and Design. Presented as part of the Exposure Calgary/Banff Photography Festival.

A special pre-release screening, One Week was partly shot in Banff. Recently diagnosed with a terminal illness and ready to make a radical grab for the life he has left, Ben Tyler takes off for Western Canada on a vintage motorcycle in this classic, cathartic road film.

A performance by New York based artists Aïda Ruilova and Caitlin Cook in conjunction with the Walter Phillips Gallery exhibition Aïda Ruilova: The Singles 1999 - Now. I’m a Brawl will be performed at the exhibition opening reception.

This effervescent comedy from the award-winning British filmmaker Mike Leigh explores one of the most mysterious and often elusive of human qualities: happiness. Poppy, an irrepressibly free-spirited grade school teacher, meets her match when she signs up for driving lessons with an uptight, cynical instructor in this truthful and deeply life-affirming film.