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.
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 | 75m
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.
Friday, November 22, 6:30 PM
Sunday, November 23, 6:30 PM - Half-capacity screening
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.
Friday, November 29, 6:30 PM
Sunday, December 1, 2:00 PM
Sunday, December 1, 6:30 PM - Half-capacity screening
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.
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.
Carbon Arc is closed the first weekend in November. Hellifax Horror Fest is happening instead, from Thursday, October 31 - Sunday, November 2!
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.
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.
Saturday, October 19 - 6:00pm to 11:00pm (Studio) - 6:00pm to 12:00am (Screenings)
Come play in our studio! At this hands-on, drop-in animation event, you can create short animated clips and see them up on the big screen.
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.
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.
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.
Sunday, August 18, 6:30 PM - Audience Poll Winner for Closing Night Film
Ryusuki Hamaguchi | Japan | 2023 | 106m | Japanese with English subtitles
Urban ambitions clash with nature in a quiet village close to Tokyo, where plans for a glamping site threaten the locals' lifestyle and the ecosystem around them.
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.
Friday, August 9, 6:30 PM
Saturday, August 10, 6:30 PM - Half-capacity screening
Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie | Documentary | United States, Canada | 2024 | 107m | English and Secwepemctsín with English subtitles
An investigation into abuse and missing children at an Indian residential school in British Columbia ignites a reckoning on the nearby Sugarcane Reserve. Winner of the US Documentary Directing award at this year's Sundance Film Festival.
Friday, July 26, 6:30 PM
Sunday, July 28, 6:30 PM - Half-capacity screening
Levan Akin | Sweden, Denmark, France, Turkey, Georgia | 2024 | 105m | Georgian and Turkish with English subtitles
Lia, a retired Georgian teacher and her unpredictable neighbour, Achi, travel from Georgia to Istanbul to find Lia's niece Tekla, a trans woman, who has vanished into the city on the Bosporus.
Thursday, July 25, 6:30 PM
Saturday, July 27, 6:30 PM - Half-capacity screening
Hannah Pearl Utt | United States | 2022 | 92m
Overbearing Los Angeles musician Cora flies back to her hometown of Portland, Oregon to find the people and life she left behind have gone on without her.
Friday, July 19, 6:30 PM
Saturday, July 20, 6:30 PM - Half-capacity screening
Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren | Spain | 2024 | 128m | Spanish, Basque, French with English subtitles
An eight-year-old child struggles with her gender identity. During a summer visit to Basque country she learns about beekeeping and seeks clarity alongside the women in her family.
Saturday, July 6, 9:00 PM
Sunday, July 7, 6:30 PM
Sunday, July 14, 6:30 PM - Additional screening added!
Pablo Berger | Spain, France | 2023 | 101m | no dialogue
A story about friendship; its importance, and its fragility. A love letter to the Big Apple. Nominated for Best Animated Feature at this year's Oscars.
Friday, July 12, 6:30 PM
Saturday, July 13, 6:30 PM - Half-capacity screening
Agnieszka Holland | Poland, France, Czech Republic, Belgium | 2023 | 153m | Polish, Arabic, English, and French with English subtitles
Unable to cross into the EU and unable to turn back, refugees from the Middle East and Africa find themselves trapped in a rapidly escalating geopolitical stand-off at the so-called “green border” between Belarus and Poland.
Friday, July 5, 6:30 PM - SOLD OUT - Artist Q&A!
Saturday, July 6, 6:30 PM - SOLD OUT
Thursday, July 11, 6:30 PM - Additional screening added!
Jennifer Wickham, Brenda Michell, and Michael Toledano | Documentary | Canada | 2024 | 125m | English and Witsuwit'en with English subtitles
Yintah, which means "land" in the Wet'suwet'en language, is an activist documentary that bears witness to the people's effort to protect their land across a decade and repeated encounters with law enforcement and resource management companies.
Friday, June 21, 6:30 PM - Half-capacity screening
Saturday, June 22, 6:30 PM - Half-capacity screening
Chris Wilcha | Documentary | USA | 2023 | 96m
Flipside documents filmmaker Chris Wilcha's tragicomic attempt to revive the record store he worked in as a teenager while revisiting other documentary projects he has abandoned over the years.
Friday, June 14, 6:30 PM - Half-capacity screening
Saturday, June 15, 6:30 PM - Half-capacity screening
Ramata-Toulaye Sy | France, Mali, Senegal, Qatar | 2023 | 87m | Pulaar with English subtitles
Banel and Adama, a young married couple living in a remote village, are fiercely in love but their love is on a collision course with the community’s customs. In this unforgiving world, there is no room for passion.
Friday, June 7, 6:30 PM - SOLD OUT
Friday, June 7, 8:50 PM - Half-capacity screening
Saturday, June 8, 6:30 PM - SOLD OUT
Ryusuki Hamaguchi | Japan | 2023 | 106m | Japanese with English subtitles
Urban ambitions clash with nature in a quiet village close to Tokyo, where plans for a glamping site threaten the locals' lifestyle and the ecosystem around them.
Friday, May 24, 6:30 PM - Half-capacity screening
Saturday, May 25, 6:30 PM - Half-capacity screening
Alexandria Bombach | Documentary | United States | 2023 | 123m
Sharing decades of the band's home movies Alexandria Bombach provides a contemporary conversation with the Indigo Girls about their roles as musicians, songwriters, queer icons, and dedicated activists filled with joy, humour, and heart-warming earnestness.
Friday, April 26, 6:30 PM - Special full-capacity screening
Steve McQueen | Documentary | Netherlands, United Kingdom | 2023 | 262m
Mixing past and present, Steve McQueen's bravura documentary Occupied City is both devastating and life-affirming, an expansive meditation on memory, time, and where we’re headed.
Friday, April 19, 6:30 PM - Half-capacity screening
Saturday, April 20, 6:30 PM - Half-capacity screening
Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Turkey, France, Germany | 2023 | 197m | Turkish with English subtitles
Samet, a young art teacher, in a remote village in Anatolia loses his hopes of escaping the grim life he seems to be stuck in. Will his encounter with Nuray, herself a teacher, help him overcome his angst?
Wednesday, April 17, 9:00 PM - Full-capacity screening
Vincenzo Natali | Canada | 1997 | 90m
A group of strangers find themselves trapped in a maze-like prison. It soon becomes clear that each of them possesses the peculiar skills necessary to escape, if they don't wind up dead first
Wednesday, April 17, 6:15 PM (doors 5:45 PM) - SOLD OUT
Matthew Rankin | Canada | 2019 | 90m
1899. Mackenzie King fervently believes that he is destined to become Prime Minister, but to do so he will have to fight his personal obsessions and the obstacles on his tortuous path to power in Matthew Rankin's surreal Canadian history fantasy. Matthew Rankin will be in attendance for a discussion after the film moderated by Nova Scotia filmmaker Ashley McKenzie!
Friday, April 12, 6:30 PM - SOLD OUT
Friday, April 12, 8:50 PM - Half-capacity screening
Saturday, April 13, 6:30 PM - SOLD OUT
Various directors | Various countries | 2023 | 105m
Some of the world’s most entertaining, inspirational and humorous commercials from around the world, including a selection of bronze, silver, gold and grand prix winners from the past year.
Friday, April 5, 6:30 PM - Half-capacity screening
Saturday, April 6, 6:30 PM - Half-capacity screening
Alex Schaad | Germany | 2023 | 103m | German with English subtitles
A happy young couple travels to a mysterious, remote island where a game of identities changes everything — their perception, their sexuality, their selves. Not only is their relationship in jeopardy, they may never again be who they once were.
Friday, March 29, 6:30 PM - SOLD OUT
Friday, March 29, 8:40 PM - Half-capacity screening
Sunday, March 31, 6:30 PM - SOLD OUT
Rachel Ramsay and James Erskine | Documentary | England | 2023 | 90m | English, Spanish, Italian, and French with English subtitles
Told by the pioneering women who participated in it and built from archive unseen for fifty years, this is the extraordinary story of the 1971 Women’s Soccer World Cup, a tournament witnessed by record crowds that has been written out of sporting history — until now.
Friday, March 22, 6:30 PM - SOLD OUT
Saturday, March 23, 6:30 PM - SOLD OUT
Pham Thien An | Vietnam, Singapore, France, Spain | 2023 | 178m | Vietnamese with English subtitles
Thien must take responsibility when a family tragedy pushes him to search for his long lost brother in the mystical landscape of Vietnam. His journey, interrupted by enthralling dreams and re-awakened desires, leads him to question what's worth living for. Winner of the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
Saturday, March 16, 7:00 PM - Full capacity screening - Artist attending!
Cory Thibert | Documentary | Canada | 2023 | 84m
On the Fringe takes viewers on a captivating journey through Canada’s most vibrant and eclectic arts festival circuit, providing a rare and compelling insight into the world of Fringe theatre and the artists who rely on these festivals. Producer and performer Nancy Kenny will attend a Q&A to follow the screening.
