February 8th screening with filmmaker Mireille Dansereau to celebrate the launch of the new edition of Hors champ magazine Un dossier consacré aux films de Mireille Dansereau, dirigé par Rachel Samson et Maude Trottier, se saisit de la restauration récente de La vie rêvée (1972) (2021, par Eléphant) et de l’édition qui lui est dédiée (2023, […]
February 17 screening with director Philippe McKie in attendance Yume has only one dream – to break into the dance world in Japan. She leaves her small town, against her parents’ wishes, to move to Tokyo and make her mark in her discipline. She navigates between street dance competitions, hip-hop classes, life in her tiny […]
Yusuke Kafuku, a stage actor and director is happily married to Oto, a screenwriter. However, Oto suddenly dies after leaving behind a secret. 2 years later, Kafuku, still unable to fully cope with the loss of his wife, receives an offer to direct a play at a theatre festival and drives to Hiroshima with his […]
Staff Picks – Zoé Rondeau (café-bar) Cissie Colpitts (Joan Plowright) drowns her cheating husband and in the ensuing cover-up enlists the help of lonely coroner Henry Madgett (Bernard Hill), an old friend with a longstanding weakness for her charms. But when Cissie’s daughter (Juliet Stevenson) and granddaughter (Joely Richardson) both decide to resort to the […]
Willy’s quest to reconnect with Marlena, his lost love, brings him from Mexico to Canada, where he gets hired as a seasonal worker on the Bécotte family farm, on the outskirts of Montréal. A place where different worlds and destinies collide, where tension mounts and where moments of magical realism occur during the long, trying […]
April 27 screening introduced by filmmaker Miryam Charles New 4K Restoration A lost treasure of 1990s DIY filmmaking, Cauleen Smith’s Drylongso embeds an incisive look at racial injustice within a lovingly handmade buddy movie/murder mystery/romance. Alarmed by the rate at which the young Black men around her are dying—indeed, “becoming extinct,” as she sees it—brash […]
Screenings presented with our Dolby ATMOS experience A mythic and emotionally charged hero’s journey, Dune tells the story of Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, who must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his […]
Screenings presented with our Dolby ATMOS experience DUNE: Part Two explores the mythic journey of Paul Atreides as he unites with Chani and the Fremen while on a warpath of revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. Facing a choice between the love of his life and the fate of the known universe, he […]
April 3 and 5 screenings with filmmaker Matthew Wolkow in attendance An unfinished film is passed along from one friend to another. The dialog between them is a journey crossed by the swarming of the Great Eastern Brood X of periodical cicadas that prophetically emerge every 17 years in the United States, invoking a reflection […]