Screening times:
Saturday, August 23, 8:30 PM

Charles Burnett | USA | 1999 | 108m

After years of living alone, an eccentric couple find real companionship and romance. This charming film is Charles Burnett’s final narrative feature to date.

Screening times:
Saturday, August 23, 6:00 PM - one night only!

Julian Glander | USA | 2024 | 90m

A teenager in suburban Florida desperately hustles to make $5,000 in this surreal animated coming-of-age story.

Screening times:
Friday, August 22, 9:00 PM

Robert Rodriguez | USA | 1998 | 104m

It's every teen's dream as they get to whack out their teachers who are infected by an alien worm bent on global domination.

Screening times:
Thursday, August 21, 6:30 PM

Yorgos Lanthimos | Greece | 2009 | 97m
Greek with English subtitles

A controlling, manipulative father locks his three adult offspring in a state of perpetual childhood by keeping them prisoner within the sprawling family compound.

Screening times:
Saturday, August 16, 8:30 PM

Charles Burnett | USA | 1994 | 109m

Burnett’s sorely underrated crime drama, a gripping and vividly stylized thriller about corruption within the LAPD that marks his most explicitly political film to date.

Screening times:
Thursday, August 14, 9:00 PM

Graham Foy | Canada | 2022 | 117m

A perfect summer day ends in tragedy, weaving a cosmic connection between three suburban teenagers.

The Maiden will be preceded by local short "Stray" | Ashley McKenzie | Canada | 2013 | 15m

Screening times:
Sunday, August 10, 5:30 PM - one night only!

Ralph Bakshi | USA | 1992 | 102m

An adult live-action / animated hybrid film about a cartoonist who finds himself in a cartoon-like universe he thinks he created.

Screening times:
Saturday, August 9, 8:30 PM - one night only!

Charles Burnett | USA | 1978 | 80m

Burnett’s debut feature, this film is practically synonymous with the Black filmmaking movement known as the L.A. Rebellion

Screening times:
Friday, August 8, 8:45 PM - one night only!

Nacho Vigalondo | Spain, Belgium 2024 | 110m

Uneasily coping with the tragic loss of his partner, Nicolas (Henry Golding) joins a clinical trial where lucid dreaming allows him to reunite with his lost love.

Screening times:
Friday, August 8, 6:30 PM - SOLD OUT

Laura Piani | France | 2024 | 98m
English and French with English subtitles

A single bookseller and writer is invited to the Jane Austen Writers' Residency where she is caught in a very unexpected romantic triangle.

Screening times:
Sunday, July 27, 5:30 PM

Volodymyr Lutskyi, Igor Malakhov | Ukraine | 2019 | 89m

This screening is presented by Kinotoloka Halifax in partnership with Carbon Arc Cinema. Kinotoloka is a community project that unites the community through screenings of Ukrainian films, fostering cultural exchange, raising awareness about Ukrainian cinema, and promoting Ukrainian narratives.

Screening times:
Thursday, July 24, 6:30 PM

Jane Campion | UK, Australia, France | 2009 | 119m

In the years before his early death, poet John Keats shares an intense romance with Fanny Brawne.

Screening times:
Saturday, July 19, 8:30 PM

Jane Campion | Australia, USA | 1999 | 115m
with Kate Winslet, Harvey Keitel

Ruth's been brainwashed by a guru in Delhi, India. Her parents in Sydney hire a specialist in reversing this. Ruth is tricked to return to Australia and is isolated in an outback cabin with the specialist. It gets messy.

Screening times:
Friday, July 18, 6:30 PM

Masayuki Suô | Japan | 1996 | 136m
Japanese with English subtitles

An accountant becomes infatuated by the world of competitive ballroom dancing. A Japanese cultural event in 1996, this box office smash is an irresistible romantic comedy.

Screening times:
Thursday, July 17, 6:30 PM - Carbon Arc 15th Birthday Screening!

Jane Giles & Ali Catterall | UK | 96m | 2023

A look back at London's most infamous repertory movie theater/pleasure dome that screened over 4,000 mind-warping films influencing a generation of world-changing talents. Too incredible to be fiction, this is a documentary for anyone who believes in the ability of independent cinema to change the world. For Carbon Arc Cinema's 15th birthday, we've chosen this documentary as a celebration of the power of independent cinema in a community.

Screening times:
Sunday, July 13, 5:30 PM

Nick DiLiberto | Japan | 2020 | 68m

Carbon Arc is delighted to partner with Lucid Toons, a monthly series spinoff from the annual Animation Festival of Halifax! In June, Lucid Toons presents Empress of Darkness! All hand-drawn, directed, written, animated and produced by ONE PERSON! Over 60,000 drawings in total!

Empress of Darkness will be preceded by The Flying Sailor, an Oscar-nominated short inspired by the Halifax Explosion of 1917.

Screening times:
Saturday, July 12, 8:30 PM

Jane Campion | New Zealand, Australia, UK | 1990 | 158m

Janet Frame was a brilliant child who, as a teen, was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia. Explore Janet's discovery of the world and her life in Europe as her books are published to acclaim.

Screening times:
Sunday, July 6, 8:15 PM
Thursday, July 10, 8:45 PM
Friday, July 11, 6:30 PM - almost gone!

Alex Ross Perry | USA | 2024 | 128m

Documentary about the American indie band Pavement, which combines scripts with documentary images of the band and a musical mise-en-scene composed of songs from their discography.

Screening times:
Thursday, July 10, 6:30 PM - SOLD OUT

Matthew Rankin | Canada | 2024 | 89m

An absurdist triptych of seemingly unconnected stories finds a mysterious point of intersection in this tale set somewhere between Winnipeg and Tehran. Typically we don't screen films that have already had a recent cinema run in Halifax. However, sometimes, there are unmissable films we fear might have slipped under the radar during their first theatrical run! So, ICYMI, we're bringing back Matt Rankin's multi-award-winning sophomore feature Universal Language back to Halifax for a second run!

Screening times:
Saturday, July 5, 8:30 PM

Jane Campion | Australia | 1989 | 97m
with Genevieve Lemon, Karen Colston, Tom Lycos, Dorothy Barry, Jon Darling, Michael Lake

An introspective young woman's life is upturned by the arrival of her maladjusted sister. Jane Campions’ sophomore feature competed at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival, and was deemed controversial by way of varying reactions, ranging from admiration to dismissal and condemnation.

Screening times:
Saturday, July 5, 6:00 PM

Haydn Keenan | Australia | 1983 | 89m

Recently restored Aussie cult classic! Four friends live together and barely scrape by in suburban Sydney until one gets her hands on some money, kickstarting a final night out on the town that none will ever forget. A shocking and frequently hilarious window into the party and music scene in early 1980s Sydney, the film's appeal lies in its authenticity, anarchic energy, and fantastic sense of style.