Evil Does Not Exist tells the story of an isolated community in Japan banding together to protect its way of life from invasion and commodification. It reflects on not only the power of such existential threats, but the fragility of our defense mechanisms. The film poses plenty of questions about how we interact with nature…
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With Love And A Major Organ
With Love and a Major Organ has sprinklings of magic realism combined with much humour and soul searching.It also has a big, gooey heart. That’s one of the many endearing and enriching things about it. The film paints an alternative world where hearts are objects, but they can still be broken. People suppress emotions and…
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Sing Sing
Divine G (Colman Domingo), imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn't commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre group alongside other incarcerated men. Prison is a cold, cruel place full of violent men whose daily life revolves around trying not to antagonize the alpha dogs within the prison population or the guards…
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Atikamekw Suns
On June 26, 1977, a vehicle drove into a river outside the Atikamekw community of Manawan in northern Québec. Two Whites survive the accident, but five Atikamekw lose their lives. The police conclude it was an accident, but for the victims' families, many questions remain unanswered. Atikamekw Suns (Soleils Atikamekw) is freely inspired by the…
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Sweetland
Sweetland depicts something known as resettlement. From 1954 to 1975, some 300 isolated communities in Newfoundland were abandoned under government programs that paid people to move to larger population centers. The scarcely populated town of Sweetland is one such community in slow decline. Each islander can receive a generous resettlement package with the sole stipulation…
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Crossing
CROSSING is a moving and tender tale of identity, acceptance and unlikely connection that transcends borders and generations. Lia, a retired schoolteacher living in Georgia, hears from a young neighbor Achi that her long lost niece Tekla, a transgender woman, has crossed the border into Turkey. Hoping to bring Tekla home, Lia travels to Istanbul…
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Ghostlight
Finding “one’s people” helps us find our place in the world. But there can also be much to love and learn from those whose experiences and interests don’t immediately seem to overlap with our own Ghostlight tells a story of loss and recovery. And while it’s authentic and heartfelt on the surface, it also has…
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Past Lives
September 13, 4 PM and 7 PM “In-Yun” is a Korean concept that suggests that our lives are forever connected with those whose lives we’ve touched and that we will weave in and out of each other’s lives repeatedly. Nora (Greta Lee) and Hae Sung (Teo Yoo) grow up together in Seoul When Nora’s family…
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Full Time (A Plein Temps)
Wednesday, September 20, 4 PM and 7 PM A film by French Canadian Eric Gravel director it portrays motherhood frazzle as a gripping thriller. Julie (Laure Calamy), is a divorced mum of two who’s feeling the grind: work, kids, mortgage debt, crappy ex. She works an exhausting job as head maid at a luxury Parisian…
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Eight Mountains
Wednesday September 27 at 4 PM and 7 PM Co-winner of the Jury prize at the Cannes Film Festival, The Eight Mountains portrays the ebb and flow of a decades-long friendship set in the Italian alps and offers a visually stunning landscape to Paolo Cognetti’s 2016 novel. The peaks, hills and vistas are akin to…
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