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this week:
Thursday, March 12
Screening times:
Thursday, March 12, 6:30 PM
Sunday, March 22, 6:30 PM
Kaouther Ben Hania | Tunisia, France | 2025 | 89m
Arabic with English subtitles
A six-year-old girl is trapped in a car under fire in northern Gaza while Red Crescent volunteers try to save her. Incorporating real-life elements that are as difficult to witness as they are impossible to forget, The Voice of Hind Rajab is a harrowing docudrama that makes a powerful appeal to humanity.
Screening times:
Sunday, February 8, 5:30 PM - SOLD OUT
Sunday, February 8, 8:30 PM - SOLD OUT
Thursday, February 26, 8:45 PM - SOLD OUT
Thursday, March 12, 8:45 PM - show added!
Joachim Trier | Norway | 2025 | 135m
English and Norwegian with English subtitles
Sentimental Value is an intimate and moving exploration of family, memories, and the power of art. Nominated for 8 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actress - to be announced at this year’s Oscars.
Friday, March 13
Screening times:
Friday, March 13, 6:30 PM
Sunday, March 22, 7:45 PM
Ameer Fakher Eldin | Canada, Germany, Italy | 2026 | 124m
German and Arabic with English subtitles
Haunted by vivid dreams and tormented by inner demons, an Arab author embarks on a journey to a remote German island driven by a desire to end his life. Amidst the depths of his despair, an encounter with an elderly woman and her son illuminates life's hidden beauty, igniting a silent yet powerful redemption and a reawakening of his desire for life.
Saturday, March 14
Screening times:
Thursday, March 5, 6:30 PM
Saturday, March 14, 6:00 PM
Georgi M. Unkovski | North Macedonia, Czech Republic, Serbia, Croatia | 2025 | 99m
English, Turkish and Macedonian with English subtitles
This charming film is about a 15-year-old Yuruk boy in a remote village, who wants to be a DJ while contending with small-town conservatism and the temptation of forbidden love.
Screening times:
Saturday, March 14, 8:30 PM
Tim Burton | USA | 1988 | 92m
Throughout March we fondly remember late, great Canadian actor and comedian Catherine O'Hara (1954-2026) with films screening on Saturday nights. We look back at O'Hara's career via an early role in Martin Scorsese's neo-noir comedy After Hours (1985), to her iconic turn in Tim Burton's Beetlejuice (1988) and a lead part in Christopher Guest's ensemble mockumentary Waiting For Guffman (1996).
Sunday, March 15
Screening times:
Sunday, March 15, 5:30 PM
Max Fleischer | USA | 1918 - 1942 | 120m
The mission of Fabulous Fleischer Cartoons Restored is to collect all of the Fleischer cartoons that remain today, restore them, and gather them into a single digital space so they can be seen by audiences as Max Fleischer intended. The 16 Max Fleischer toons we will be screening in March will be presented in two blocks with a 10-minute intermission.
Screening times:
Thursday, February 19, 8:30 PM - SOLD OUT
Sunday, February 22, 5:30 PM - SOLD OUT
Sunday, February 22, 8:45 PM - SOLD OUT
Sunday, March 15, 8:30 PM - show added!
Kleber Mendonça Filho | Brazil, France, Germany, Netherlands | 2025 | 158m
Portuguese & German with English subtitles
In 1977, a technology expert returns to his Brazilian hometown, fleeing a mysterious past. A thematically rich and visually arresting political thriller, The Secret Agent blends grindhouse stylization with biting social commentary to weave a vividly dangerous yet darkly human tale.
COMING SOON:
Screening times:
Thursday, March 19, 6:30 PM
Sunday, March 29, 7:45 PM
Jonah Malak | Canada | 2025 | 84m
English and Spanish with English subtitles
Marisela and Ely are part of a volunteer group who seek, find, and return the bodies of migrants who died in the Arizona desert, while crossing the US-Mexico border on foot. Spare My Bones, Coyote! is a documentary that follows this challenging, dangerous, and heartrending work, and peers into the difficult and dedicated lives these people have chosen.
Screening times:
Sunday, March 8, 5:30 PM
Sunday, March 8, 8:15 PM
Thursday, March 19, 8:45 PM
Xiaodan He | Canada | 2025 | 118m
French and Mandarin with English subtitles
A Chinese immigrant mother in Montreal breaks from duty and tradition when she falls for a young Québécoise woman, leading her to confront questions of identity and freedom.
Screening times:
Friday, March 20, 6:30 PM
Edward Yang | Taiwan | 2000 | 173m
Mandarin, Taiwanese Hokkien, and Japanese with English subtitles
Portrait of a middle-class family in Taipei. This extraordinary, internationally embraced film is warm, sprawling, and dazzling. Twenty-six years after its release, it remains one of the undisputed masterworks of the new century.
Screening times:
Saturday, March 21, 6:00 PM
Sunday, March 29, 5:30 PM
Christian Petzold | Germany | 2025 | 86m
German with English subtitles
Past and present collide in this sly psychodrama, as Laura (Paula Beer), a young woman from Berlin, survives a countryside car crash before she gradually enters the fold of a mysterious, pained family.
Screening times:
Saturday, March 21, 8:30 PM
Christopher Guest | USA | 1996 | 84m
We fondly remember late, great Canadian actor and comedian Catherine O'Hara (1954-2026) with a select range of films screening on Saturday nights in March. We look back at O'Hara's career via an early role in Martin Scorsese's neo-noir comedy After Hours (1985), to her iconic turn in Tim Burton's Beetlejuice (1988) and a lead part in Christopher Guest's ensemble mockumentary Waiting For Guffman (1996).
Screening times:
Thursday, March 26, 6:30 PM
Gus Van Sant | USA | 1991 | 102m
Scott and Mike are sex workers and lovers. Scott hates his rich father and resists his mapped-out future, while Mike is stalked by narcolepsy and his memories.
Screening times:
Friday, March 27, 6:30 PM
Lav Diaz | Portugal, Spain, France, Philippines, Taiwan | 2025 | 160m
Portuguese, Spanish, Tagalog, French with English subtitles
Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan rebels against the power of his king, but becomes a conquerer despite his original dreams of exploration. Magellan blends Lav Diaz's slow cinema rigor with the biopic form to create a visually hypnotic, deliberately paced historical epic that immerses viewers in a spiritually charged meditation on power, mythology, and colonial ambition.
Screening times:
Saturday, March 28, 6:00 PM - this screening takes place at Bus Stop Theatre on Gottingen St
Park Chan-wook | Korea | 2025 | 139m
Korean with English subtitles
An unemployed salary man takes increasingly violent measures to eliminate the competition for a new position. A wickedly clever takedown of the corporate rat race that finds a perfect avatar in Lee Byung-Hun's skillfully hapless performance.
Screening times:
Thursday, April 2, 6:30 PM
Matthew Solomon | USA | 2023 | 83m - director and special guests attending
This screening will have English captions, and the post-film conversation will be accompanied by ASL interpreters
Reimagining Safety illustrates the history and impact of policing, why harmful aspects persist, the role of the media, and how resources and care-based interventions reduce crime while improving societal conditions.
Screening times:
Friday, April 3, 6:30 PM
Matthew Solomon | USA | 2026 | 92m - director and special guests attending
This screening will have English captions, and the post-film conversation will be accompanied by ASL interpreters
"Seeds for Liberation" explores Palestinian resistance through emotional and impactful interviews with historians, activists, legal scholars, and experts. The documentary demonstrates how social media has exposed daily life in Gaza and the West Bank, challenging dominant Western narratives and bringing the Free Palestine movement into global consciousness.
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