Agatha’s Almanac: A Film by Amalie Atkins

Now in Select Theatres Across Canada

Agatha gardening at the Farm in rural Manitoba. Photo: Kristiane Church

A love letter to solitude, seeds, and slow living

Kinosmith presents

Agatha’s Almanac
A film by Amalie Atkins

Now in select theatres across Canada
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Winnipeg
April 8, 2026 @ 7:00pm & 9:00pm
April 12, 2026 @ 5:00pm
April 15, 2026 @ 9:15pm
Dave Barber Cinematheque | Tickets

Toronto
April 9, 2026 @ 6:20pm
TIFF Lightbox | Tickets

April 11, 2026 @ 7:00pm
Hot Docs Cinema | Tickets

Vancouver
April 10, 2026 @ 1:45pm
April 11, 2026 @ 1:45pm & 6:40pm
April 12, 2026 @ 5:15pm
April 14, 2026 @ 6:00pm
April 16, 2026 @ 1:30pm
April 17, 2026 @ 4:15pm
April 18, 2026 @ 1:30pm
April 19, 2026 @ 12:00pm
April 21, 2026 @ 6:20pm
April 23, 2026 @ 7:15pm
April 26, 2026 @ 1:50pm
VIFF Centre | Tickets

Winner of the Best Canadian Feature Documentary Award at Hot Docs 2025 and a TIFF Canada’s Top Ten Selection for 2025

Fiercely independent 90-year-old Mennonite 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.

Shot by an all-female crew—including director Amalie Atkins and cinematographer Rhayne Vermette—over six years on 16mm film, using a windup Bolex and an ArriSR2 studio camera, the project captures the handmade materiality inherent in both the medium of film and Agatha’s tactile world. Her century-old farmhouse, with its grey exterior, contrasts with the bursts of vibrant colour and texture inside. Unchanged since the 1950s, her home serves as a living archive of a vanishing era, rooted in her esoteric practices that predate modern conveniences.

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.

About the Filmmaker

Amalie Atkins (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. She combines analogue techniques and handmade processes to create intimate, cinematic portraits. Working across 16mm film, performance, textiles, installation, and photography she transforms everyday life into imaginative worlds.

Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is held in major public collections across Canada. In 2024, she created the site-specific sound and textile installation Hold the Star at the Ukrainian Museum of Canada. Her photographs have appeared in national and international publications, including Canadian Art, Visual Arts News, and MUZE (Paris).

Her debut feature, Agatha’s Almanac, was shot on 16mm over six years with an all-female crew. The film premiered at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen, was acquired for worldwide distribution by Lightdox, and won Best Canadian Feature at Hot Docs. It also received the World Documentary Award at Whistler Film Festival and was the sole documentary selected for TIFF’s Top Ten Canadian Films of 2025.

Agatha’s Almanac has screened at over forty five festivals worldwide, including IDFA (Best of Fests), Sydney Film Festival, and Shanghai International Film Festival, and will have a multi-territory theatrical release in 2026: in Canada with KinoSmith, launching at Film Forum in New York with Icarus Films, followed by international releases in the Netherlands (Bantam Film), Taiwan (Joint Entertainment), and Japan (Doma Inc.).

Website: amalieatkins.ca
Instagram: @agathasalmanac