"Guy Maddin’s 1988 feature directorial debut, Tales from the Gimli Hospital, finds the Canadian auteur’s delightfully perverse sensibilities already fully formed." Slant

Toronto International Film Festival
Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Rotterdam International Film Festival

Tales from the Gimli Hospital Redux is the restoration (including the replacement of a long-lost scene) of the 1988 cult classic about blistering lust and seething envy during a 19th-century epidemic ravaging a small Icelandic-Canadian fishing village on the shores on Lake Winnipeg. While their mother is dying in the modern Gimli, Manitoba hospital, two young children are told a tale by their Icelandic grandmother about Einar the Lonely, his friend Gunnar, and the angelic Snjofridur in a Gimli of old. Guy Maddin's impressive debut film is a wonderfully, and uniquely, strange, unnerving and humorous experience.

Canada - 1988 - 1h 4m
Directed By: Guy Maddin
Written By: Guy Maddin
Starring: Kyle McCulloch, Michael Gottli, Angela Heck