Vermiglio
Feb
21
to Feb 23

Vermiglio

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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.

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The Gullspång Miracle
Feb
27
to Mar 1

The Gullspång Miracle

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.

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Mulholland Dr. - Lynch Up Late!
Feb
27
to Mar 1

Mulholland Dr. - Lynch Up Late!

Thursday, Feb 27, 8:45 PM - show added due to popular demand!
Saturday, March 1, 8:00 PM - 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.

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The Girl with the Needle
Feb
28
to Mar 2

The Girl with the Needle

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.

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The Count of Monte Cristo
Mar
3
6:30 PM18:30

The Count of Monte Cristo

Friday, February 14, 6:30 PM
Sunday, February 16, 5:30 PM
Monday, March 3, 6:30 PM

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.

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No Other Land
Mar
8
to Mar 14

No Other Land

Saturday, March 8, 5:30 PM
Sunday, March 9, 5:30 PM - half-capacity screening
Thursday, March 13, 6:30 PM
Friday, March 14, 6:30 PM

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.

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Happy Together - Wong Kar-wai Weekends
Mar
22
8:00 PM20:00

Happy Together - Wong Kar-wai Weekends

Screening times:
Saturday, March 22, 8:00 PM

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.

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Look At Me
Feb
19
6:30 PM18:30

Look At Me

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!

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Porcelain War
Feb
15
to Feb 20

Porcelain War

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

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Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
Feb
6
to Feb 9

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

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.

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Oh, Canada
Dec
14
5:30 PM17:30

Oh, Canada

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.

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Bird
Dec
12
to Dec 13

Bird

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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.

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Flow - encore screening!
Dec
8
to Dec 11

Flow - encore screening!

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. 

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Black Box Diaries
Dec
6
to Dec 7

Black Box Diaries

Friday, December 6, 6:30 PM
Saturday, December 7, 6:30 PM - half-capacity screening

Shiori Ito | Japan, USA, UK | 2024 | 103m | Japanese with English subtitles

Journalist Shiori Ito embarks on a courageous investigation of her own sexual assault in an improbable attempt to prosecute her high-profile offender. Her quest becomes a landmark case in Japan, exposing the country’s outdated judicial and societal systems.

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Flow
Nov
29
to Dec 1

Flow

Friday, November 29, 6:30 PM - SOLD OUT
Sunday, December 1, 2:00 PM - SOLD OUT
Sunday, December 1, 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. 

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All We Imagine As Light
Nov
22
to Nov 23

All We Imagine As Light

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Friday, November 22, 6:30 PM - SOLD OUT
Saturday, November 23, 6:30 PM - SOLD OUT

Payal Kapadia | France, India, Netherlands, Luxembourg | 2024 | 115m | Malayalam, Hindi, Marathi with English subtitles

A trio of nurses in Mumbai face the challenges of their class and a patriarchal system while they find solace and support in their friendship.

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Allen Sunshine
Nov
15
to Nov 16

Allen Sunshine

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Friday, November 15, 6:30 PM - Q&A with Harley Chamandy after screening!
Saturday, November 16, 6:30 PM - Q&A with Harley Chamandy after screening!

Harley Chamandy | Canada | 2024 | 81m


A music mogul retreats to a remote cabin to mourn his famous wife’s suicide. Amid the solitude of the Canadian wilderness he struggles with grief, until an unexpected encounter ends his isolation.

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Paradise is Burning
Nov
8
to Nov 9

Paradise is Burning

Friday, November 8, 6:30 PM
Saturday, November 9, 6:30 PM - Half-capacity screening

Mika Gustafson | Sweden, Italy, Denmark, Finland | 2023 | 108m | Swedish with English subtitles

In a working-class community in Sweden, three young sisters living alone fight to survive and to avoid social services splitting them apart. 

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A Mother Apart
Nov
4
6:30 PM18:30

A Mother Apart

Monday, November 4, 6:30 PM - In partnership with the AfterWords Literary Festival

Laurie Townshend | Documentary | Canada | 2024 | 89m | English, German with English subtitles

An emotionally sweeping tale of healing and forgiveness, A Mother Apart accompanies powerhouse Jamaican-American poet and LGBTQ+ activist Staceyann Chin as she re-imagines the essential art of mothering having been abandoned by her own mother.

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Candy Mountain (newly restored)
Oct
25
to Oct 27

Candy Mountain (newly restored)

Friday, October 25, 6:30 PM - SOLD OUT
Sunday, October 27, 6:30 PM - SOLD OUT

Robert Frank, Rudy Wurlitzer | Switzerland, Canada, France | 1987 | 91m

New York City, 1980s. Julius, a struggling musician sets out to find a legendary luthier, but ends up stumbling down a winding road full of dead-ends and wrong turns towards a mythical destination: the wilderness of Nova Scotia.

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Hourglass: The Visual Album
Oct
20
7:00 PM19:00

Hourglass: The Visual Album

Sunday, October 20, 7:00 PM

Malcolm MacMaster | Canada | 2024 | 31m

Hourglass: The Visual Album is a lo-fi, campy, love-filled celebration of Halifax’s rising ‘pier emo’ scene, featuring all 8 songs from idialedyournumber’s breakthrough album Hourglass. World premiere screening. There will be a Q&A and an acoustic performance by idialedyournumber to follow the film.

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Red Island
Oct
18
6:30 PM18:30

Red Island

Friday, October 18, 6:30 PM

Robin Campillo | France, Belgium, Madagascar | 2023 | 117m | French and Malagasy with English subtitles

Living amidst a hedonistic group of French armed forces in 1970s Madagascar, ten-year-old Thomas discovers the tangled political and sexual lives of the colonizers and the colonized beneath his family’s blissful existence.

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Close Your Eyes
Oct
11
to Oct 12

Close Your Eyes

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Friday, October 11, 6:30 PM
Saturday, October 12, 6:30 PM - Half-capacity screening

Victor Erice | Spain, Argentina | 2023 | 169m | Spanish, Catalan with English subtitles

An aging filmmaker recounts his memories of working on his unfinished film during which the lead actor vanished without a trace, leaving behind a mystery that would haunt the lives of everyone associated with the film.

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Sisi & I
Oct
4
to Oct 5

Sisi & I

Friday, October 4, 6:30 PM
Saturday, October 5, 6:30 PM - Half-capacity screening

Frauke Finsterwalder | Germany, Switzerland, Austria | 2023 | 132m | German, French with English subtitles

Countess Irma Sztáray becomes the lady-in-waiting for Empress Elisabeth of Austria, known as Sisi. Irma falls under her spell and the two become close during a summer retreat, beginning their turbulent relationship.

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Only the River Flows
Aug
16
to Aug 17

Only the River Flows

Friday, August 16, 6:30 PM
Saturday, August 17, 6:30 PM - Half-capacity screening

Wei Shujun | China | 2023 | 101m | Mandarin with English subtitles

A woman’s body is found by the river in a town in rural China. Ma Zhe, Chief of the Criminal Police, leads the murder investigation that suggests it's the work of a serial killer.

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