My Winnipeg

My Winnipeg

The truth is relative.

2008•1h 20m•6.9/10

DocumentaryDramaComedy

Ratings

🎬TMDb

6.9/10(110)

The geographical dead center of North America and the beloved birthplace of Guy Maddin, Winnipeg, is the frosty and mysterious star of Maddin’s film. Fact, fantasy and memory are woven seamlessly together in this work, conjuring a city as delightful as it is fearsome.

Open in PickFlick

Production

Everyday Pictures, Buffalo Gal Pictures, Documentary Channel

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Trailers & Videos

Cast

Ann Savage

Ann Savage

Mother

Amy Stewart

Amy Stewart

Janet Maddin

Darcy Fehr

Darcy Fehr

Guy Maddin

Louis Negin

Louis Negin

Mayor Cornish

Brendan Cade

Cameron Maddin

Wesley Cade

Ross Maddin

Guy Maddin

Guy Maddin

Narrator (voice)

Lou Profeta

Himself

Fred Dunsmore

Himself

Kate Yacula

Kate Yacula

Citizen Girl

Jacelyn Lobay

Gwenyth Lloyd

Eric Nipp

Viscount Gort

Jennifer Palichuk

Althea Cornish

Recommended

Repo Man

Repo Man

A down and out young punk gets a job working with a seasoned repo man, but what awaits him in his new career is a series of outlandish adventures revolving around aliens, the CIA, and a most wanted '64 Chevy.

Repo Man

1984

6.7

Penda's Fen

Penda's Fen

Through a series of real and imagined encounters with angels, demons, and England's pagan past, a pastor's son begins to question his religion and politics, and comes to terms with his sexuality.

Penda's Fen

1974

7.5

Bells from the Deep

Bells from the Deep

A group of pilgrims lie down on the thin ice of the lake Svetloyar and begin to look for the city of Kitesh. According to the legend, God saved the city from the Mongolian prince Batyi's soldiers by letting it sink to the bottom of the lake. If you listen carefully you can hear the bells of the Kitesh cathedral toll deep down.

Bells from the Deep

1993

6.9

97 Percent True

97 Percent True

Documentary featuring interviews with director Guy Madden and his collaborators

97 Percent True

2008

6.2

Nobody Knows

Nobody Knows

In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.

Nobody Knows

2004

8.0

Antebellum

Antebellum

Successful author Veronica finds herself trapped in a horrifying reality and must uncover the mind-bending mystery before it's too late.

Antebellum

2020

6.3

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women

The unconventional life of Dr. William Marston, the Harvard psychologist and inventor who helped invent the modern lie detector test and co-created Wonder Woman in 1941.

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women

2017

7.2

Short Term 12

Short Term 12

Grace, a compassionate young supervisor at a foster care facility, helps at-risk teens. But when a new charge dredges up memories of her own troubled past, Grace's tough exterior begins eroding.

Short Term 12

2013

7.8

Out of Africa

Out of Africa

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The film is based on her 1937 autobiographical novel.

Out of Africa

1985

7.2

All About My Mother

All About My Mother

Following the tragic death of her teenage son, Manuela travels from Madrid to Barcelona in an attempt to contact the long-estranged father the boy never knew. She reunites with an old friend, an outspoken transgender sex worker, and befriends a troubled actress and a pregnant, HIV-positive nun.

All About My Mother

1999

7.6

It Comes at Night

It Comes at Night

Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son, but this will soon be put to test when a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge.

It Comes at Night

2017

5.9

Warcraft

Warcraft

The peaceful realm of Azeroth stands on the brink of war as its civilization faces a fearsome race of invaders: orc warriors fleeing their dying home to colonize another. As a portal opens to connect the two worlds, one army faces destruction and the other faces extinction. From opposing sides, two heroes are set on a collision course that will decide the fate of their family, their people, and their home.

Warcraft

2016

6.4

Similar Movies

Life on Victor Street

This short documentary depicts an Aboriginal Winnipeg teen’s struggle to stay in school and away from local gangs. Filmed over 2 years, the film is a moving portrait of one family trying to break the cycle of addiction, violence and poverty in an environment filled with anger and despair.

Life on Victor Street

Freshwater World

Freshwater World

This documentary explores a variety of projects undertaken by scientists at Environment Canada's Freshwater Institute in Winnipeg to study the processes that pollute or disrupt clean and balanced freshwater environments.

Freshwater World

1974

Blondie's: A Winnipeg Legacy

Blondie's: A Winnipeg Legacy

Sandy Doyle is an outspoken no nonsense business woman. She became a worldwide celebrity with the creation of her diner Blondies Burgers.

Blondie's: A Winnipeg Legacy

2017

The Saddest Music in the World

The Saddest Music in the World

In Depression-era Winnipeg, a legless beer baroness hosts a contest for the saddest music in the world, offering a grand prize of $25,000.

The Saddest Music in the World

2003

6.7

Becoming Ruby

Becoming Ruby

Follow Ruby Chopstix, Canada’s first drag artist-in-residence, as they navigate the complexity of being an underrepresented drag performer while creating a special showcase to create space for other queer BIPOC performers.

Becoming Ruby

2025

Hard Core Logo

Bruce Macdonald follows punk bank Hard Core Logo on a harrowing last-gasp reunion tour throughout Western Canada. As magnetic lead-singer Joe Dick holds the whole magilla together through sheer force of will, all the tensions and pitfalls of life on the road come bubbling to the surface.

Hard Core Logo

1996

6.5

Green Run

Green Run

Two men driving home from work miraculously hit every green light.

Green Run

2019

Cowards Bend the Knee

Cowards Bend the Knee

When he takes his girlfriend to a seedy abortion clinic in the back room of a combination hair salon / bordello, Guy Maddin meets the madam’s daughter and falls in love. But she won’t let any man touch her until her father’s murder has been avenged.

Cowards Bend the Knee

2003

6.1

Aberdeen

Aberdeen

An idyllic childhood with her mooshum and kookum, or grandparents, in her community of Peguis First Nation dissipates as Aberdeen’s hard-partying and absentee parents distances her from that haven. Now an adult, sleeping on public benches, Winnipeg-based Aberdeen is in survival mode. The last remaining stable parts of her life begin slipping away — her reliable brother Boyd is ill and gives up Aberdeen’s grandkids to the foster care system. Then she loses her ID.

Aberdeen

2024

8.3

this river

this river

Join a grassroots collective of volunteers as they search Winnipeg’s Red River and its banks for clues to find out what happened to their missing family and friends. The documentary demonstrates the devastating experience of searching for a loved one who didn't come home with profundity and humanity.

this river

2016

Correspondances

No overview available.

Correspondances

Thursday

Thursday

Thursday shot from filmmaker Galen Johnson's high-rise apartment during COVID-19 “lockdown” in Winnipeg, captures people going about their daily routines in the city's eerily empty streets, yards and parking lots, on their balconies and on the riverbanks. The extreme distance and the diminutive scale of humans is paired with sound close-ups—a combination that embodies the strange, heightened intensity of feeling of the time, knowing an era-defining tragedy is happening yet being so physically removed.

Thursday

2020