WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 1, 4pm & 7pm Aftersun – this dreamy, masterful first feature invites us to a vacation resort with Sophie, a sensitive and smart pre-teen (Frankie Corio’s debut), and her melancholic father (Paul Mescal, Normal People). Despite the pair’s closeness under the bright summer sun, their relationship is clouded in nostalgia, as if they…
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No Bears
WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 8, 4pm & 7pm No Bears - filmed before Iran descended into the protests and violence following the death of Mahsa Amini, Jafar Panahi shows the daily difficulties and professional compromises of life under a totalitarian regime. Navigating maddening challenges, he tells a complicated story that resonates with human truth. Now imprisoned in…
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Broker
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 4pm & 7pm Broker – Capitalism at its best? Childless couples defeated by the official adoption system turn to Song Kang-Ho (star of Parasite) and his merry band, who collect and fence babies dropped off in church boxes. Everyone is taken care of? Where’s the harm, you say? Director Hirokazu Kore-eda (Palm…
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Living
WEDNESDAY MARCH 8, 4pm & 7pm Living – a moving elegy to the value of life, inspired by Leo Tolstoy’s story “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” and Akira Kurosawa’s classic film “Ikiru”, as adapted by Booker Prize-winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro. Living follows staid English civil servant Mr. Williams (Bill Nighy) whose dire diagnosis encourages him…
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Riceboy Sleeps
WEDNESDAY APRIL 5, 4pm & 7pm Riceboy Sleeps – an intriguing title, wouldn’t you say? Exactly who is Riceboy? And why is he sleeping? Following a family tragedy, a young woman and her child move to Canada from Korea, where all their resources are needed to contend with the social prejudices they encounter. Insightful direction,…
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I Like Movies
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 4pm & 7pm I Like Movies – in this Canadian film, 17 year-old Lawrence sabotages every possible social relationship with his film-loving obsession. Perhaps his parents took him to Cinema Paradiso in utero? With the dream of paying for NYU film school by working in a video store, this boy clearly has…
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Winter Film Series
Our Fall Film series is now complete. We hope you enjoyed it. Our film selection committee is working hard on choosing films for the Winter Series, which will start in January. We are negotiating with Cineplex for screening dates. We plan to return to the 4 PM and 7 PM screening times for the Winter…
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Official Competition
September 21 Penelope Cruz! Antonio Banderas! What can we say – after two years of dark screens, we’re back and this is what we love. A business tycoon decides to make the world’s greatest film – all he needs are the world’s greatest actors and a stellar director, right? What he gets are the world’s…
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Happening (L’événement)
September 28 Concerned about American women post-Roe but won’t be travelling to Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi or Texas to confirm your worst fears? Then join us for Happening where Anne is a young woman on the verge of a desirable future, one that will free her from her working class background. But, with crucial exams looming,…
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The Phantom of the Open
October 5 If golf is a good walk spoiled, here’s an affectionate golf-cart of a comedy to get you to the 19th hole. Maurice Flitcroft (Mark Rylance), despite being a complete novice, gains entry to the 1976 Open (what the British modestly call the British Open), and cards the worst round ever recorded. Based on…
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