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This Week
This Friday:
Screening times:
Sunday, May 4, 6:30 PM
Friday, May 16, 6:30 PM
Lizzie MacKenzie | Scotland | 2024 | 79m
with Ken Smith
Ken Smith has lived alone in the Scottish wilderness for decades, but now has to face the challenges of age and infirmity. A wondrous, intimate look at the path less taken, the rewards and costs of a life lived in solitude and self-sufficiency.
This Saturday:
Screening times:
Saturday, May 17, 6:00 PM
Sunday, May 18, 7:45 PM
Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu | New Zealand | 2024 | 82m
In 1954 New Zealand, three rebellious girls — Nellie, Daisy, and Lou — are sent to a remote island institution, where they form an unbreakable bond in defiance of their strict matron.
Screening times:
Saturday, May 17, 8:30 PM
Elaine May | USA | 1972 | 106m
What better month to celebrate groundbreaking comedic talent Elaine May, while we semi-patiently await further news on Crackpot, May’s first narrative feature since Ishtar? The Heartbreak Kid is the second in a three-part series of Elaine May films, screening on Saturday nights in May.
This Sunday:
Screening times:
Sunday, May 18, 5:30 PM
Saturday, May 24, 5:30 PM - director attending!
Sarah Galea-Davis | Canada | 2024 | 101m
In 1994, young Emily joins an avant-garde theater cast. Drawn to her castmates' bohemian world and feeling like family, she gets entangled in the group's complicated power dynamics.
Screening times:
Saturday, May 17, 6:00 PM
Sunday, May 18, 7:45 PM
Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu | New Zealand | 2024 | 82m
In 1954 New Zealand, three rebellious girls — Nellie, Daisy, and Lou — are sent to a remote island institution, where they form an unbreakable bond in defiance of their strict matron.
COMING SOON:
Screening times:
Thursday, May 22, 6:30 PM - Mélanie Brière (producer) attending!
Kim O'Bomsawin | Canada, Quebéc | 2024 | 91m
French, Innu-aimun and Atikamekw with English subtitles
A “child’s-eye view” of the hopes, dreams and hardships of children from three different Indigenous Nations: Atikamekw, Eeyou Cree and Innu.
Screening times:
Friday, 23 May, 6:30 PM
Sunday, 25 May, 5:30 PM
Zhang-Ke Jia | China | 2024 | 111m
Mandarin with English subtitles
Qiaoqiao and Bin's fragile love story ends in Datong. Years later, Qiaoqiao sets out to find Bin who has sought his fortune in another province. A truly unique experience, veteran Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke allows his characters to fade into the background, offering a transformative travelogue in his fictional drama.
Screening times:
Saturday, May 24, 8:30 PM
Elaine May | USA | 1987 | 107m
with Dustin Hoffman, Warren Beatty, Isabelle Adjani, Charles Grodin, Jack Weston
Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the C.I.A., the Emir of Ishtar, and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime. We present May's most divisive film as the third and final part of a three-part Elaine May film series on Saturday nights in May.
Screening times:
Sunday, June 8, 5:30 PM (Greatest Hits 2 + Q&A)
Sunday, June 8, 7:45 PM (Best of Superman)
New restoration from the iconic cartoonist of Betty Boop and Popeye! Max Fleischer’s works are presented in stunning 4K restorations on the big screen! Includes a Q&A with a member of the Fleischer restoration team!
Screening times:
Friday, June 13, 8:30 PM
John Fawcett | Canada | 2000 | 108m
Screenplay by Karen Walton. Starring Emily Perkins, Katharine Isabelle, Kris Lemche, Mimi Rogers.
Friday 13th special screening presented by Hellifax Horror Fest! Two death-obsessed sisters, outcasts in their suburban neighborhood, must deal with the tragic consequences when one of them is bitten by a deadly werewolf.
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