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,…

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…

October 19 A powerful first feature by writer/director Bretten Hannam, Wildhood draws on his life story and Mi’kmaw heritage. Not glossy, not gritty, but delving into important themes of family, self-discovery and sexuality, the film follows two brothers as they seek the birth mother their abusive father has lied about for years.“Freedom, oppression, hope, and…

November 2 Panah Panahi’s first feature is at once a realistic and surreal remembrance of the last trip his family took together. Such a mood mixture is to be expected since Panah’s filmmaker father Jafar (whose Taxi we showed in 2015) is now incarcerated in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison. Winner of the 2021 London Film…

November 9 A winner in all eleven film festivals it has entered, Peace By Chocolate is based on the true story of a young Syrian refugee who relocates to Nova Scotia after his father’s chocolate factory is bombed. In a world driven by conflict and personal dilemmas, not everything in Antigonish is simple and chocolate-sweet…