Events & Gatherings
Agatha’s Almanac
Remai Modern is pleased to present a Community Screening, and the Saskatchewan premiere, of Agatha’s Almanac with director and local artist Amalie Atkins. The film is Atkins’ feature-length debut and was the winner of the 2025 Hot Docs Best Canadian Feature Documentary award.
This screening is free to attend! All guests must check-in at the front desk to receive an admission token.
Event/Exhibition meta autogenerated block.
When
April 17 at 7:00PM
Where
SaskTel Theatre
April 17 at 7:00PM
Fiercely independent 90-year-old Agatha Bock lives alone on her ancestral farm. Despite health challenges, she defiantly tends to her land, cultivating heirloom seeds passed down through generations. Employing antiquated techniques, Agatha plants and harvests her expansive field of watermelons, beans, flowers, herbs, and vegetables entirely by hand. Without a car, cell phone, running water, or even a functioning landline, Agatha’s meditative processes and daily rituals form a vivid counterpoint to the rapid pace of contemporary life. Made intentionally with sensory-sensitive viewers in mind, the film carves out a (mostly) calm space in a chaotic world.
Agatha’s Almanac serves as a powerful conduit for often-overlooked stories, amplifying voices and rural perspectives. Agatha’s life offers a window into the experiences of a nearly lost generation, whose values and ways of living are at risk of fading as the world rapidly changes.
Director: Amalie Atkins
Year: 2025
Runtime: 86 minutes
Country: Canada
Amalie Atkins is a multidisciplinary artist based in Saskatoon. Renowned for her films and video installations, Atkins creates cinematic fables by blending 16mm film, performance, textiles, installations, and analogue photography. Her practice merges traditional elements with a hands-on, do-it-yourself aesthetic to imprint a fictional world onto everyday life.
Her work has been featured in major survey exhibitions, including Oh, Canada at MASS MoCA, DreamLand: Textiles in the Canadian Landscape at the Textile Museum of Canada, and Road Show East, which toured Eastern Europe.