We now have our dates for the winter season. Screenings will be on January 21 and 28, February 11 and 18, March 4 and 9, April 8 and 15. Yes, March 9 is a Monday! The rest are all Wednesdays. Please watch this website for announcements regarding the winter film titles as are confirmed. If…
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It Was Just An Accident January 21
Jafar Panahi is the veteran Iranian auteur who continues to get arrested and imprisoned, endure film-making bans and defy the law, and still perseveres in making remarkable and courageous movies. His latest, winner of this year’s Palme D’Or at Cannes, is a blackly comic story informed by his own experiences with imprisonment. It’s a politically-charged…
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The Mastermind January 28
A heist movie with an ironic title- it’s really a character study of JB Mooney (Josh O’Connor) an unemployed carpenter and aimless soul who develops a secret life as an art thief. JB hatches a plan to steal four paintings from a local museum. But JB and his fellow small time crooks leave so many…
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The Mother And The Bear February 11
Sumi, a young Korean Canadian woman living in Winnipeg, might have had an encounter with a bear, on a wintry night, in a dark, deserted alley. She’s now in a hospital in a coma. Her mother, Sara, rushes to her daughter’s bedside from Korea. And a comedy of manners ensues. Sara has never experienced a…
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No Other Choice – February 18
Man-su, who defines himself by his status – a purveyor for a happy family, living in a beautiful home he renovated himself – is thrown into a headspin when he loses his job at a paper company. With the rise of automation and artificial intelligence, men like him must compete fiercely for a handful of…
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Blue Moon – March 4
Ethan Hawke’s sensitive and poignant portrayal will break your heart in director Richard Linklater's lyrical ode to Lorenz Hart. Hart was the famed lyricist and half of the Broadway songwriting duo Rodgers and Hart responsible for some of the most expressive showbiz lyrics of all time, including “Blue Moon,” Now he’s all too aware that…
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Urchin – March 9
On the streets of London, Mike is hustling to get by. Roadside evangelizers won't let him sleep in peace, his slippery friend won't pay up the money he stole, and before long, he finds himself in trouble with the law. As he struggles to reintegrate into society, shuffling between gigs as a line cook and…
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My Father’s Shadow – April 8
The first Nigerian film to premiere at Cannes, and winner of the best director award at the British Independent Film Awards, this impressive debut tells a pressure-cooker of a story unfolding across a single day in 1993 as 2 young boys spend the day with their elusive father. And because much of My Father’s Shadow…
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Uiksaringitara – Wrong Husband – April 15
With the high Arctic very much in the news for all the wrong reasons, here’s a much more appropriate and satisfying reason to pay attention to the region. Renowned Inuit filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk (whose Atanarjuat – The Fast Runner is considered one of the best Canadian films of all time) sets his latest offering thousands…
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Meet The Barbarians (Les Barbares) – Sep 17
Residents of a small French village in Brittany are about to prove just how open-minded and big-hearted they really are, by welcoming a family of Ukrainian refugees into their little Breton slice of heaven. But instead, a family of refugee Syrians arrive. Fearful of the “other” the townsfolk are at first relieved that they wear…
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