Welcome to Monday Movie Club! Through your Timaru District Library card, you will get access to Kanopy. Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video platform which people can access for free through their library cards.  You can watch films, TV shows, educational videos and documentaries.

This week's Monday Movie is Vigil directed Vincent Ward

You can stream it for free with your library card here: Vigil | Kanopy

Movie released: 1984

Run time: 1hr 29min

Vigil is the first ever film from New Zealand to compete in Cannes (1984). Winner of the Best Film award at the Madrid Film Festival it is the first feature film of 30 year-old Vincent Ward. Vigil is a powerful atmospheric drama set in a primeval valley where four characters live and farm in an uneasy coexistence. The story unfolds through the eyes of the central character Toss, an 11 year-old girl caught up in the tragedy of her father’s death and the arrival of a stranger, Ethan. Ward spent five years making this mystical testimony to the beauty and immutability of nature's laws and the circle of life and death.

Closed Captions available: yes

Languages available to watch in: English