Screening times:
Friday, March 28, 6:00 PM
Sunday, March 30, 5:30 PM - half capacity screening
Leonardo Van Dijl | Belgium, Sweden | 2024 | 100m
Dutch and French with English subtitles
When the coach of a star player at an elite youth tennis academy is suspended, the player, Julie, refuses to talk about him.
Screening times:
Thursday, April 3, 6:30 PM
Sunday, April 6, 7:45 PM
Bruce David Klein | USA | 2024 | 104m
with Liza Minnelli
This star-studded tribute to an entertainment legend includes archival footage of her performances across stage and screen and the the testimonies of her many friends and collaborators. This documentary reminds us of the joy with which Liza Minnelli sang and danced — truly one of the world’s greatest entertainers.
Screening times:
Friday, April 4, 6:00 PM
Sunday, April 6, 5:30 PM
Naomi Jaye | Canada | 2024 | 87m
with Britt Lower, Tom Mercier, Sook-Yin Lee, Jean Yoon
The newly minted star of television series Severance, Britt Lower shines in her first high profile leading role as Miriam Gordon, a troubled librarian who finds an unlikely love in the city.
Screening times:
Saturday, April 5, 6:00 PM
Sunday, April 20, 5:30 PM
Louise Courvoisier | France | 2024 | 90m
French with English subtitles
Totone's carefree teenage life of drinking and dancing takes a turn when he suddenly must provide for his 7-year-old sister. Seeking income, he channels his energy into producing an award-winning comté cheese to claim a competition prize.
Screening times:
Saturday, April 5, 8:30 PM
John Waters | 1972 | USA | 92m
with Divine, David Lochary, Mink Stole, Mary Vivian Pearce, Danny Mills, Edith Massey
Banned in Nova Scotia ‘til ‘97, Waters leaves no taboo unsmashed in this gleefully subversive ode to outsiderhood, in which camp spectacle and pitch-black satire are wielded in an all-out assault on respectability.
Screening times:
Thursday, April 10, 6:30 PM
Rhayne Vermette, | Canada | 2021 | 80m
French with English subtitles
Renée returns to her hometown after a long absence. Her brother and his wife are raising her daughter as their own, and Renée’s return is a surprise to all involved. Shot on 16mm, this lovingly made personal project won Best Canadian Feature (Amplify Voices Award) at TIFF in 2021.
Screening times:
Friday, April 11, 6:00 PM
Sunday, April 13, 6:30 PM
Sandhya Suri | United Kingdom, Germany, India, France | 2024 | 124m
Hindi with English subtitles
A young widow in the rural badlands of India working as a police officer investigates a murder case that plunges her into a gritty world of crime and corruption. A rare art house procedural thriller from India that works as a murder mystery and also as an examination of societal injustice.
Screening times:
Saturday, April 12, 6:00 PM
Friday, April 25, 6:00 PM
Alain Guiraudie | France, Spain, Portugal | 2024 | 102m
French with English subtitles
Returning to Saint-Martial for his late boss's funeral, Jérémie's stay with widow Martine becomes entangled in a disappearance, a neighbour, and an abbot. An unorthodox queer French drama that plays with drama as it teases its audience.
Screening times:
Saturday, April 12, 8:30 PM
John Waters | 1981 | USA | 86 min
with Divine, Tab Hunter, David Samson, Edith Massey, Mink Stole
An odour-aware housewife's world falls apart when she finds that her pornographer husband is serially unfaithful to her, her daughter is pregnant, and her son is suspected of being the foot-fetishist who's been breaking local women's feet.
Screening times:
Saturday, April 19, 8:30 PM
John Waters | 1988 | USA | 92 min
with Sonny Bono, Ruth Brown, Divine, Debbie Harry, Ricki Lake, Jerry Stiller, Ric Ocasek, Pia Zadora
A 'pleasantly plump' teenager teaches 1962 Baltimore a thing or two about integration after landing a spot on a local TV dance show.
Screening times:
Friday, March 28, 8:30 PM
Sunday, March 30, 8:00 PM
Ondi Timoner | 2024 | USA | 146m
with Anton Newcombe and Courtney Taylor-Taylor
Cult rockumentary DIG! (2004) is back on the big screen! DIG! XX – a bigger, better, crazier expanded reimagining of the original cut! Exploring the collision of art and commerce through the star-crossed friendship and bitter rivalry of duelling ‘90s California bands The Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre.
Screening times:
Wednesday, March 26, 1:00 PM - matinee screening at Carbon Arc with special guests attending
Wednesday, March 26, 7:00 PM - evening screening at Bus Stop Theatre with special guests attending
Eppo Eerkes | 2023 | Canada, Pimicikamak Cree Nation | 60 min
Cree and English with English subtitles
with Elder Betty Ross
Return to the Falls is a powerful docudrama that shares the true story of a young Indigenous girl's resilience and survival. It follows the harrowing life story of Elder Betty Ross of Pimicikamak Cree Nation (aka Cross Lake First Nation), who held the sacred teachings of her father like a torch helping her survive the residential school system.
Screening times:
Sunday, March 23, 5:30 PM - SOLD OUT
Sunday, March 23, 7:45 PM
Thursday, March 27, 6:30 PM - SOLD OUT
Sally Aitken | Australia | 2024 | 93m
A gorgeous and heart-expanding documentary about the life of a hummingbird rehabber and the lives of the many beautiful birds she saves.
Screening times:
Saturday, March 22, 8:00 PM - SOLD OUT
Wong Kar-wai | Hong Kong | 1997 | 96m
Cantonese, Mandarin, Spanish and English with English subtitles
A couple grapple with the breakdown of their relationship as they travel through Argentina in this intoxicating exploration of displacement and desire in one of the most searing queer romances of the 90s.
Screening times:
Thursday, March 20, 6:30 PM
Miryam Charles | 2022 | Canada, Québec | 75m
French, Haitian Creole with English subtitles
Bridgeport, January 17, 2008. A teenage girl is found hanged in her room. While everything points to suicide, the autopsy report reveals something else. Ten years later, the director and cousin of the teenager examine the past causes and future consequences of this unsolved crime.
Screening times:
Sunday, March 16, 5:30 PM - half-capacity screening
Saturday, March 22, 5:30 PM
Christopher Andrews | UK, Ireland | 2024 | 106m
English with English subtitles
with Barry Keoghan, Christopher Abbott
A gripping thriller about two warring shepherding families set against the harsh landscape of rural Ireland, starring Christopher Abbott and Barry Keoghan.
Screening times:
Saturday, March 15, 8:00 PM - SOLD OUT
Wong Kar-wai | Hong Kong | 1995 | 99m
Cantonese and Mandarin with English subtitles
Swinging between hardboiled noir and slapstick lunacy with giddy abandon, a dizzying city symphony and meditation on love, loss, and longing in a metropolis that never sleeps.
Screening times:
Saturday, March 15, 5:30 PM - SOLD OUT
Friday, March 21, 6:30 PM - SOLD OUT
Friday, March 21, 8:45 PM
Mike Leigh | UK, Spain | 2024 | 97m
with Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh reunites with Oscar-nominated actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste for this tough but compassionate and intimate comedy-drama about family life that marks his return to a contemporary setting.
Screening times:
Saturday, March 8, 8:00PM - SOLD OUT
Wong Kar-wai | Hong Kong | 1994 | 98m
Mandarin and Cantonese with English subtitles
The whiplash, double-pronged feature is one of the defining works of nineties cinema and the film that made Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-wai an instant icon.
Screening times:
Saturday, March 8, 5:30 PM - SOLD OUT
Sunday, March 9, 5:30 PM - SOLD OUT
Sunday, March 9, 7:45 PM - SOLD OUT
Monday, March 10, 6:30 PM - SOLD OUT
Wednesday, March 12, 6:30 PM
Thursday, March 13, 6:30 PM - SOLD OUT
Friday, March 14, 6:30 PM - very few left
Friday, March 14, 8:45 PM - SOLD OUT
Sunday, March 16, 8:00 PM - SOLD OUT
Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor | Palestine, Norway | 2024 | 95m
Arabic, Hebrew and English with English subtitles
For half a decade, Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of Massafer Yatta being destroyed by Israel’s occupation, as he builds an unlikely alliance with an Israeli journalist who wants to join his fight.
Screening times / Horaires de projection:
Friday, March 7, 6:30 PM / Vendredi, 7 mars, 18h30
Habibata Ouarme & Jim Donovan | 2023 | Canada | 86m
French with English subtitles / En français avec sous-titres en anglais
A special International Women’s Day event hosted by our screening partner Alliance Française Halifax. Koromousso will be preceded by short film Haute et Fortes (Josiane Blanc). The films will be followed by a Q&A with filmmakers Habibata Ouarme and Josiane Blanc!
À l'occasion de la Journée des droits des femmes, notre partenaire de projection Alliance Française Halifax vous convie à cet événement spécial. Koromousso sera précédé du court-métrage Haute et Fortes (Josiane Blanc). Les films seront suivis d'une séance de questions-réponses avec avec les réalisatrices Habibata Ouarme et Josiane Blanc !
Friday, February 14, 6:30 PMSunday, February 16, 5:30 PM
Monday, March 3, 6:30 PM - SOLD OUT
Alexandre de La Patellière, Matthieu Delaporte | France | 2024 | 178m
French with English subtitles
A massive, brash, and beautiful adventure movie of the sort we rarely see anymore; a cinematic thrill that sustains its three hour running time.
Friday, February 28, 6:30 PM
Sunday, March 2, 5:30 PM - half-capacity screening
Magnus Von Horn | Denmark, Sweden, Poland | 2024 | 115m
Danish with English subtitles
A Danish true-crime drama about a young factory worker who, abandoned and pregnant, meets a woman who runs an underground adoption agency for unwanted children.
Thursday, Feb 27, 8:45 PM - show added due to popular demand!
Saturday, March 1, 8:00 PM - SOLD OUT (Due to a scheduling conflict the original screening date of Saturday Feb 22 has been changed to Saturday Mar 1)
David Lynch | USA, France | 2001 | 146m
A neo-noir mystery about an aspiring actress, newly arrived in Los Angeles, who meets and befriends an amnesiac woman recovering from a car accident.
Thursday, February 27, 6:30 PM
Saturday, March 1, 5:30 PM - half-capacity screening
Maria Fredriksson | Sweden, Norway, Denmark | 2023 | 108m
Swedish, English, Norwegian, with English subtitles
A divine premonition leads two sisters to buy an apartment in the small town of Gullspång. To their surprise, the seller looks identical to their older sister who died by suicide 30 years earlier. What begins as an eerie story of family reunification soon becomes a Pandora’s Box as all three women’s lives spiral out of control. A deeply peculiar but riveting documentary from Sweden.
Friday, February 21, 6:30 PM
Sunday, February 23, 5:30 PM - half-capacity screening
Maura Delpero | Italy, France, Belgium | 2024 | 119m
Italian with English subtitles
This singular portrait of a sprawling family, set in the small, mountainous village of Vermiglio during the waning days of the Second World War, tells the story of a Sicilian soldier who falls in love with the eldest daughter of a local family.
Thursday, February 13, 6:30 PM - Q&A with Taylor Olson after the screening!
Wednesday, February 19, 6:30 PM - Q&A with Taylor Olson after the screening!
Taylor Olson | Canada | 2024 | 87m
A fictional autobiography about an insecure, awkward and lonely actor who goes on an unwitting journey of self-love in the midst of an eating disorder relapse. Writer/Director/Actor Taylor Olson will be attending this screening for a post-film Q&A!
Saturday, February 15, 8:00 PM
David Lynch | USA, France | 1997 | 134m
This expressionist thriller has anonymous videotapes presaging a musician's murder conviction, while a gangster's girlfriend leads a mechanic astray.
Saturday, February 15, 5:30 PM - half-capacity screening
Thursday, February 20, 6:30 PM
Brendan Bellomo, Slava Leontyev | USA, Ukraine, Australia | 2024 | 87m
English, Ukrainian, and Russian, with English subtitles
Under roaring fighter jets, Ukrainian artists Slava, Anya, and Andrey defiantly find beauty amid destruction in this powerful, Oscar-nominated documentary
Saturday, February 8, 9:00 PM
David Lynch | USA | 1977 | 97m
This screening is part of our Lynch Up Late series on Saturday nights in February. Lynch Up Late remembers David Lynch, the American surrealist director (1946-2025).
Thursday, February 6, 6:30 PM
Friday, February 7, 6:30 PM
Saturday, February 8, 5:30 PM - half-capacity screening
Sunday, February 9, 5:30 PM - half-capacity screening
Johan Grimonprez | Belgium | 2024 | 150m
Dutch, English, Russian, French, and Arabic, with English subtitles
English dialogue is captioned.
A lively document of the history of colonization in The Republic of Congo in the early 1960s. The US and Belgium look to control mining rights in the region, destabilizing the democratic government and leading to the involvement of "cultural ambassador," Louis Armstrong.
Sunday, February 2, 6:30 PM
Andrea Dorfman | 2003 | Canada | 85m
A 20-something overachiever who sets out to find a boyfriend finds the unexpected when she falls for a 15-year-old boy
Saturday, February 1, 6:30 PM
Clement Virgo | 2007 | Canada | 104m
On his release from prison for the brutal beating of a black man, Donnie - a young white boxer - is coached by the father of his victim.
Friday, January 31, 6:30 PM - SOLD OUT
Friday, January 31, 9:15 PM
Scott Simpson | Canada | 2003 | 103m
Darcy's carefree life as an aimless skater bro is coming to an end when his closest friends Lynn and Peter move to the other side of the world.
Thursday, January 30, 6:30 PM - SOLD OUT
Thursday, January 30, 9:15 PM - SOLD OUT
Saturday, February 1, 9:15 PM
Allan Moyle, Tricia Fish | Canada | 1999 | 97m
A gifted teenager dreaming of life beyond her small town becomes inspired when a 15-year-old girl from New York moves in next door.
The inaugural Nova Scotia Retro Film Festo takes place at Carbon Arc from January 30 - February 2, 2025. We will unearth a few classics of Nova Scotian cinema that haven't been seen on the big screen in years. More updates to come!
Screening times:
Wednesday, April 16, 7:00 PM
Doors open at 6:00 PM with Indigenous vendors in attendance before the show to sell their artisanal goods!
Jeff Barnaby | Canada, Mi'kma'ki | 2013 | 88m
English and Mi'kmaq with English subtitles
Hellifax Horror Fest invites all to join for a special screening of Rhymes for Young Ghouls by the late, great Jeff Barnaby! Come see this masterwork of contemporary Canadian cinema with an audience on the big screen! Tickets to the screening are available on a Pay What You Choose basis. This is a special presentation as part of National Canadian Film Day celebrations.
Saturday, December 14, 5:30 PM - SOLD OUT
Saturday, December 14, 7:45 PM - SOLD OUT
Paul Schrader | USA | 2024 | 90m
Aging filmmaker Leonard Fife (Richard Gere), still fiery despite his battle with illness, wants to tell his life story, unfiltered, before it’s too late. Leonard sits for an extended interview, relating candid stories about his younger self (Jacob Elordi) in the tumultuous 1960s and beyond.
Thursday, December 12, 6:30 PM - SOLD OUT
Friday, December 13, 6:30 PM
Andrea Arnold | UK, USA, France, Germany | 2024 | 119m
12-year-old Bailey lives with her single dad Bug and brother Hunter in a squat in North Kent. Bug doesn’t have much time for his kids and Bailey, who is approaching puberty, seeks attention and adventure elsewhere.
Sunday, December 8, 6:30 PM - SOLD OUT
Wednesday, December 11, 6:30 PM - SOLD OUT
Gints Zilbalodis | Latvia, Belgium, France | 2024 | 84m | No dialogue
Cat and his fellow animals must work together if they're to survive a flood that threatens to drown them and erase the last vestiges of human civilization.
