February 16th screening followed by a Q&A with co-director Guylaine Maroist In fall 2017, the MeToo hashtag shook the planet, sparking an unprecedented wave of sexual assault accusations in the Western world. Now a storm of virulent misogyny rages on, flooding our screens with harassment, defamation, lynching, sextortion, the sharing of intimate photographs, rape and deaths […]
*Warning – for mature audiences only This masterpiece by Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude, winner of the Golden Bear at the 2021 Berlinale, will leave you reeling. Throwing up a middle finger to hypocrisy, double standards and rah-rah patriotism, Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn is a searing, hilarious satire about the misadventures of Emi, a […]
As seen from the inside out through the eyes of a Mohawk teenager from Kahnawake, Tracey Deer’s new feature film offers a powerful and necessary perspective on the Oka crisis. Despite being only thirteen, Beans has a lot on her shoulders and has to juggle family obligations and inclusion in her new group of friends, […]
NOVEMBER 5: FRENCH DUBBED VERSION november 12: original english version Michael Keaton, Academy Award winner Geena Davis, Alex Baldwin and Winona Ryder star in director Tim Burton’s comic twist on supernatural horror tales–Beetlejuice. When a couple of nice, young homebody ghosts (Baldwin and Davis) try to haunt the pretentious humans who have moved into their […]
Free screening for National Canadian Film Day, in partnership with Festival du nouveau cinéma and Reel Canada, with filmmaker Trevor Anderson in attendance At a small-town middle school in Alberta, nobody can tell if new kid Robin is a boy or a girl. It’s not long before the youngster is in the crosshairs of Carter, […]
Special screening with filmmaker Trevor Anderson in attendance, followed by a Q&A with Matthew Rankin 1987: While the other students wonder if new kid Robin is a boy or a girl, Robin forges a complicated bond with the school bully, making increasingly dangerous choices to fit in. *Locarno Film Festival 2022
Staff Picks – Maxime Poulin (Communications officer) The conclusion of The Before Trilogy finds Celine and Jesse several years into a relationship and in the midst of a sun-dappled Greek retreat with their twin daughters and a group of friends. The couple soon find their vacation upended, however, by long-simmering problems that come to a […]
Staff Picks – Maxime Poulin (Communications officer) Before Sunrise is a passionate and intelligent romance between a young American (Jesse) and a French student (Celine). A chance encounter on the train incites intrigue, and Jesse provocatively suggests that Celine postpones her return to France and embarks instead on a spontaneous expedition to Vienna. In the […]
Staff Picks – Maxime Poulin (Communications officer) Jesse, a writer from the US and Celine, a French woman working for an environment protection organization, met nine years ago on the train from Budapest to Vienna and meet again when Jesse arrives in Paris for a reading of his new book. As they have only a […]