CanFilmDay Cinevolution Edition: Who Roams the Earth

Who Roams the Earth

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Richmond Cultural Centre - Performance Hall

7700 Minoru Gate, Richmond, BC (map)

This National Canadian Film Day (April 16), join Cinevolution for a day at the movies with a selection of short and feature films by Canadian filmmakers who are exploring living worlds beyond our own.

Come for one of three screenings (1pm Bergers; 3:45pm Cielo; 7pm In another place, not here) or reserve a day pass to attend all three events.

All events are FREE.

This event is presented in partnership with the City of Richmond. National Canadian Film Day is an initiative of Reel Canada.

Event Schedule

1:00 – 3:00pm – Program #1: Bergers (2024)

3:45 – 5:15pm – Program #2: Cielo (2018)

7:00 – 8:30pm – Program #3: In another place, not here

Program #1 - Bergers (Shepherds)

Director: Sophie Deraspe | 2024 | 113 min | Drama | French with English subtitles

Tired of city life, a Québecois man leaves everything behind to pursue his dream of becoming a shepherd in rural France, where he must work illegally at a craft he knows almost nothing about. While the work proves more difficult than he’d imagined, everything changes when he wins over the like-minded Élise with his dreams of a pastoral life together. The two commit to a summer-long journey together in the mountains – with 800 sheep, and all the challenges that come with them.

Featuring breathtaking cinematography and a deeply human story, this beautiful romantic drama won the award for Best Canadian Feature at TIFF 2024.

For more information, visit: https://cinevolutionmedia.com/who-roams-the-earth/

Program #2 - Cielo

Director: Alison McAlpine | 2018 | 78min | Documentary

3:45pm @ Richmond Cultural Centre

Cielo is a cinematic reverie on the crazy beauty of the night sky, as experienced in the Atacama Desert, Chile, one of the best places on our planet to explore and contemplate its splendour. Director Alison McAlpine’s sublime nonfiction film drifts between science and spirituality, the arid land, desert shores and lush galaxies, expanding the limits of our earthling imaginations. Planet Hunters in the Atacama’s astronomical observatories and the desert dwellers who work the land and sea share their evocative visions of the stars and planets, their mythic stories and existential queries with remarkable openness and a contagious sense of wonder. A love poem for the night sky, Cielo transports us to a space, quiet and calm, within which we can ponder the infinite and unknown.

For more information, visit: https://cinevolutionmedia.com/who-roams-the-earth/

Image Credit: Still, Mia' (2015) by Amanda Strong and Bracken Hanuse-Corlett

Program #3 - Centrepiece Program: In another place, not here

Curator: Yani Kong | 115 min | Shorts

7:00pm @ Richmond Cultural Centre

With an introduction by program curator, Yani Kong.

This collection of films demonstrates ways to practice flexibility in scale and perspective, thinking and seeing with plants, trees, animals, rocks, and points of view that are rarely centred. From a grain of sand to the inner world of a child, these short films experiment with non-human centred scales, and explore how we can enter into more effective combinations with/in the cosmos.

For more information, visit: https://cinevolutionmedia.com/who-roams-the-earth/