Solo, winner of Toronto International Film Festival’s award for best Canadian feature film, is set within Montreal’s vibrant drag queen community. Simon, a rising star, falls in love with the destructive Olivier. At the same time, Simon's mother, a famous opera singer, returns after a fifteen year absence. Finding failure with these two impossible loves,…
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Scrapper
Winner of the World Cinema Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance Film festival, this delightful debut film follows resourcefully smart 12-year old Georgie, (Lola Campbell) who is left all alone after her mother unexpectedly dies. At first, along with her best friend Ali, she successfully tricks those around her into believing that all…
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Fallen Leaves
Fallen Leaves takes place in a very personalized version of Helsinki, which may be familiar to admirers of Aki Kaurismäki, the Finnish director’s hilariously deadpan and also humanistic tragicomedies. Ansa (Alma Pöysti,) and Holappa (Jussi Vatanen) spend their waking hours in drab workplaces, pubs with stone-faced patrons, and sparsely decorated homes where a radio is…
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Who’s Yer Father
Who’s Yer Father, a film set and shot entirely on Prince Edward Island, is a hilariously good time with a surprising amount of heart. “Who’s Yer Father”is a Maritime shorthand for a way to quickly figure out family and friend connections in close knit communities. It’s also the name of PEI’s only private investigation agency,…
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Days of Happiness
This emotionally complex drama, from Montreal-based writer-director Chloé Robichaud, follows a young orchestra conductor who’s becoming a major player on the Quebec classical music scene and now finds herself at a crossroads. Emma is a recognizable queer character and proof that there’s a middle ground between the specificities of gay life being ignored and a…
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Anatomy of a Fall
Did he fall or was he pushed out the window? Winner of the prestigious Cannes Palme D’Or award, the film is both a mystery and a courtroom drama. A couple’s troubled marriage might have just simmered on privately and indefinitely, within the walls of their alpine chalet outside Grenoble. But one day the husband Samuel’s…
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Flora and Son
An Irish musical that makes you feel better about life, love and yourself. Who needs that? John Carney makes movies about normal people who make a connection with music that enriches their spirits and soul. Music becomes their salvation and escape from the everyday troubles of their lives. The characters are fundamentally good people down…
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Monster
Monster is a fascinating and complex film with shifting perspectives. The film gradually reveals the truths behind the main characters’ actions as it retells the same events from their various perspectives. First it’s told from Saori’s point of view, the widowed mother who tries to figure out why her young son Minato has been acting…
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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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