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Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story
Apr
3
to Apr 6

Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story

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.

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Darkest Miriam
Apr
4
to Apr 6

Darkest Miriam

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. 

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Holy Cow (Vingt dieux)
Apr
5
to Apr 20

Holy Cow (Vingt dieux)

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.

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Pink Flamingos - Salacious Saturdays with John Waters
Apr
5
to Apr 6

Pink Flamingos - Salacious Saturdays with John Waters

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.

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Fleapit Cinema Revival: Ste. Anne
Apr
10
6:30 PM18:30

Fleapit Cinema Revival: Ste. Anne

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.

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Santosh
Apr
11
to Apr 13

Santosh

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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.

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Misericordia (Miséricorde)
Apr
12
to Apr 25

Misericordia (Miséricorde)

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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. 

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Polyester - Salacious Saturdays with John Waters
Apr
12
8:30 PM20:30

Polyester - Salacious Saturdays with John Waters

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.

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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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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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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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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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Crossing
Jul
26
to Jul 28

Crossing

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.

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Cora Bora
Jul
25
to Jul 27

Cora Bora

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.

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20,000 Species of Bees
Jul
19
to Jul 20

20,000 Species of Bees

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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.

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Robot Dreams
Jul
14
6:30 PM18:30

Robot Dreams

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.

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Flipside
Jun
21
to Jun 22

Flipside

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.

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Banel & Adama
Jun
14
to Jun 15

Banel & Adama

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.

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Evil Does Not Exist
Jun
7
to Jun 8

Evil Does Not Exist

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.

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Indigo Girls: It's Only Life After All
May
24
to May 25

Indigo Girls: It's Only Life After All

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.

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About Dry Grasses
Apr
19
to Apr 20

About Dry Grasses

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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?

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2023 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity
Apr
12
to Apr 13

2023 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity

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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.

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Skin Deep
Apr
5
to Apr 6

Skin Deep

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.

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Copa 71
Mar
29
to Mar 30

Copa 71

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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.

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Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
Mar
1
to Mar 2

Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

Friday, March 1, 6:30 PM - SOLD OUT
Saturday, March 2, 6:30 PM - Half-capacity screening

Anna Hints | Documentary | Estonia, France, Iceland | 2023 | 89m | Estonian, Seto, Võro with English subtitles

In the darkness of a smoke sauna, a group of Estonian women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences, washing off the shame trapped in their bodies and regaining their strength through a sense of communion.

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