Tag Archives: film

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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Blue Jean

Wednesday, October 4 4 PM and 7 PM Blue Jean is a powerful examination of the importance of community in the fight for equality. It is England, 1988 -- Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government is about to pass a law stigmatizing gays and lesbians, forcing Jean, a gym teacher to live a double life. The arrival…
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Concrete Valley

Wednesday, October 11 4 PM and 7 PM Rashid (Hussam Douhna), a doctor from Aleppo, Syria has been struggling to adjust to his life in Canada. He tries to hold on to his old identity by working as an unlicensed doctor for his neighbours while his wife Farah (Amani Ibrahim) becomes involved in their local…
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Jules

Wednesday, October 25 4 PM and 7 PM Jules follows Milton (Ben Kingsley) who lives a quiet, very routine life in a rural Pennsylvania town. One day everything changes when a UFO and its extra-terrestrial passenger crash land in his backyard. Before long, Milton develops a close relationship with the extra-terrestrial he calls "Jules." Things…
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Rose

Wednesday, November 1 4 PM and 7 PM The relationship of two sisters Inger and Ellen is challenged during a highly anticipated coach trip from Denmark to Paris. When Inger announces she is struggling with mental health issues to the group of travellers, the sisters are faced with pity from some and downright discrimination from…
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The Starling Girl

Wednesday, November 15 4 PM and 7 PM Seventeen-year-old Jem Starling struggles to define her place within her fundamentalist Christian community in rural Kentucky. Even her greatest joy — the church dance group — is tempered by worry that her love of dance is actually sinful. She's caught between a burgeoning awareness of her own…
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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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Viking

Wednesday, April 19, 6 PM at Landmark Grand 10 Welcome to the desert of the real: In Viking (2022), a sprightly and ironic morsel of Canadian content, the five members of the “Viking Society” decamp to a Quonset hut in the steppes of Alberta to simulate an expedition to Mars happening simultaneously overhead. The purpose…
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A Bunch of Amateurs

Wednesday, April 26, 6 PM at Landmark Grand 10 Audience members may relate to this documentary about the efforts of a British filmmakers club to remain viable in the face of a changing environment and evolving technologies.  (Dare we mention the popularity and threat of Tik Tok?) The club’s cinema ambition extends to replicating the…
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