CAVE breaks record!

CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS

Breaks Box Office Records

*Highest per screen opening in Canada for weekend of July 8 - 11

*Highest opening weekend at TIFF Bell Lightbox to date

*Highest per screen opening ever of a Werner Herzog film in Canada

Currently playing in Toronto at TIFF Bell Lightbox - additional screen starting Friday, July 15 at Cineplex Odeon Sheppard Grande

Opens in Montreal – Friday, July 15 and Vancouver, Friday, July 29

Toronto audiences love Werner Herzog’s 3-D masterpiece “Cave of Forgotten Dreams”

The feature doc that captures the wonder and beauty of France’s Chauvet Caves, distributed in Canada by Kinosmith, collected over $25,000.00 at the box office from July 8 – 11 at TIFF’s Bell Lightbox in Toronto where it opened an exclusive engagement and continues to play.  The film was not only the highest per screen grossing film this weekend in Canada, but it also broke the record as the highest grossing opening weekend to date at the TIFF Bell Lightbox and is also the highest grossing per screen opening of a Werner Herzog film in Canada.

In Cave of Forgotten Dreams director Werner Herzog gains unprecedented access to prehistoric cave paintings inside France’s Chauvet Cave, bringing to audiences the sublime works in their three dimensional splendor, a sight previously seen only by a handful of select scientists.

Herzog combines his gifts as a conjurer of unforgettable images, explorer of forbidden landscapes and poetic philosopher to illuminate and celebrate the earliest recorded visions of humanity.

In order to preserve the cave paintings, only a small scientific team headed up by archaeologist Jean-Michel Geneste may, for a couple of weeks in spring and autumn, occupy a tiny base camp to access the cave. High levels of carbon dioxide and radon make it impossible to work inside for more than a few hours a day.  Herzog is the first filmmaker to succeed in obtaining permission to create a film inside this wonder.

Cave of Forgotten Dreams not only captures the greatest leap forward in the chronicle of art, it delivers that art in the very arena it was meant to be experienced.  And in a unique science fiction postscript, Herzog conjures up images from a fanciful and bizarre future.

Werner Herzog – Director

Werner Herzog (real name Werner H. Stipetic) was born in Munich and grew up removed from technology in a remote Bavarian village. He worked as a welder to fund production of his first film at age nineteen and has since directed more than fifty features. He has also published more than a dozen books or prose and directed as many operas. His films have won numerous awards, including the special grand jury prize at the Cannes Film Festival for The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (74) and best director at the Cannes Film Festival for Fitzcarraldo (82). His other films include: Aguirre, The Wrath of God (72), Nosferatu (78), Little Dieter Needs to Fly (97), Grizzly Man (05), Rescue Dawn (06), Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (09) and Cave of Forgotten Dreams (10).

Cave of Forgotten Dreams is being released in Canada by KINOSMITH INC.  KINOSMITH is an independent Canadian film distribution & marketing company founded in February 2007 by distribution veteran Robin Smith. With a mandate to bring critically-acclaimed Canadian and international films to audiences across the country, the company has distributed over 150 feature films in the last three years as well as providing marketing advice to completed films and productions in development. KINOSMITH is also home to the Hot Docs Collection on DVD that releases award winning documentaries curated by the Hot Docs festival in Canada. Current KINOSMITH releases include:  The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls; Ed Gass-Donnelly’s critical hit Small Town Murder Songs; The Arbor; Even The Rain; Armadillo; and Kelly Reichardt’s “Meek’s Cutoff”.

Running time:  90 minutes official website:  http://www.caveofforgottendreams.co.uk