Films We Like is thrilled to announce the acquisition of The Blue Trail (O último azul), the newest film by award-winning filmmaker Gabriel Mascaro (Neon Bull, Divine Love). The dystopian drama film premiered in competition at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival, where it was awarded the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize, Prize of the Ecunemical Jury and Berliner Morgenpost Readers’ Jury Awards

Films We Like is thrilled to announce the Canadian release of Cloud by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival and short-listed for the Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards®.

Films We Like is excited to announce the Canadian release of Zodiac Killer Project, director Charlie Shackleton’s true-crime documentary that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival where it was awarded Sundance’s NEXT Innovator Award for its “witty narration and fascinating and deft storytelling.”

Films We Like is thrilled to announce the Canadian release of Secret Mall Apartment, the latest documentary from acclaimed filmmaker Jeremy Workman. Executive produced by Jesse Eisenberg, Secret Mall Apartment has already been hailed as “one of the best documentaries of the year.”

Films We Like is delighted to announce the acquisition of DJ Ahmet, the directorial debut of Georgi M. Unkovski which premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival where it won both the Special Jury Award for Creative Vision and the Audience Award.

Films We Like is thrilled to announce 4 Academy Award® nominations for FLOW, SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT, and SUGARCANE at the 97th Academy Awards®, which will take place on March 2, 2025.

Flow, the award-winning animated feature film opens in Cineplex theatres in Ontario and Nova Scotia starting on Friday, January 17, 2025. The film is completely without dialogue, featuring only the naturalistic yet evocative forms of communication between animals. Since its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in 2024, it has won numerous Best Animated Film awards such as the European Film Awards, New York Film Critics Circle, Los Angeles Film Critics Circle, Toronto Film Critics Circle and the Golden Globes, the first Latvian film in history to do so.

Films We Like is thrilled to announce the Canadian release of Vermiglio by Maura Delpero, winner of this year's Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival and Italy’s entry for Best International Feature Film to the 97th Academy Awards®.

Films We Like is pleased to announce the Canadian acquisition of documentary Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat by Johan Grimonprez. 

Films We Like is pleased to announce the acquisition of hybrid documentary E.1027 - Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea by Beatrice Minger & Christoph Schaub. 

Films We Like is proud to present a brand new 4K restoration of BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS by Alan Rudolph, based on a novel of the same name by Kurt Vonnegut.

Hailed by The New York Times as “A Must-See Film” and “Breathtaking”, the Documentary From Directors Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie and Oscar-Nominated Producer Kellen Quinn Follows An Investigation into Abuse and Missing Children at an Indian Residential School in Canada

Films We Like is thrilled to announce the Canadian acquisition of SAMIA by director Yasemin Şamdereli

Films We Like is thrilled to announce the Canadian acquisition of Reinas (Queens) by Swiss-Peruvian director Klaudia Reynicke-Candeloro.

Films We Like is proud to present Sugarcane by Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie, coming this summer to Canada

Films We Like is pleased to announce the acquisition of Dance First, directed by celebrated British film director James Marsh.

Films We Like, in partnership with Janus Films and Sideshow Pictures, has acquired Canadian distribution rights to 2024 Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix winner All We Imagine as Light, the second highest prize after the Palme d’Or.

Films We Like, in partnership with Janus Films and Sideshow Pictures, has acquired Canadian distribution rights to Alain Guiraudie’s thriller Misericordia (Miséricorde), which had its world premiere at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.

Films We Like, in partnership with Janus Films and Sideshow Pictures, has acquired Canadian distribution rights to Gints Zilbadolis’ animated adventure film Flow, which premiered in Un Certain Regard at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. Flow marks the second feature by Gints Zalbadolis following his standout debut Away. 

Films We Like is pleased to announce the acquisition of Story & Pictures by, the first feature documentary to take audiences behind the scenes to meet the authors and artists who create children’s picture books. Emmy nominated director Joanna Rudnick explores the power and reach of children's picture books through the lens of three of today's most original authors/illustrators.

MUBI, the global distributor, streaming service and production company, has released a new trailer and artwork for Levan Akin’s (And Then We Danced, Sweden’s 2019 Academy Award® entry) latest feature film, Crossing. A moving, compassionate tale of identity, acceptance and unlikely connection that transcends borders and generations, the film will be released in cinemas in Canada on July 26 via Films We Like.

Films We Like is pleased to announce the acquisition of The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane by acclaimed director and film editor Maureen Gosling, who chronicles the extraordinary story of Barbara Dane, an unsung hero of American roots music.

Films We Like is pleased to announce the Canadian acquisition of Caught by the Tides by Jia Zhangke, the multi-award-winning director of Still Life (Venice Golden Lion), A Touch of Sin (Cannes Best Screenplay) and Ash is Purest White (Cannes Competition).

MUBI, the global distributor, streaming service and production company and Films We Like, are pleased to announce the theatrical and streaming release dates for Levan Akin’s (And Then We Danced, Sweden’s 2019 Academy Award® entry) latest feature film, Crossing. A moving, compassionate tale of identity, acceptance and unlikely connection that transcends borders and generations, the film will be released theatrically in Canada on July 26 and will stream from August 30, 2024. 

Films We Like has acquired Canadian distribution rights to Never Look Away, the directorial debut of actress Lucy Lawless (Xena: Warrior Princess). Lawless’s unflinching documentary delves into the life and work of swashbuckling CNN combat camerawoman, Margaret Moth, and the personal challenges she faced. 

Films We Like has acquired the Canadian distribution rights to Occupied City, a moving meditation on wartime Amsterdam produced and directed by filmmaker Steve McQueen (12 Years A Slave, Shame) and based on the book Atlas of an Occupied City, Amsterdam 1940 - 1945 by Bianca Stigter. 

Films We Like has acquired the distribution rights to Return to Reason, an anthology of four recently restored silent films by surrealist artist Man Ray with a new original music score by SQÜRL (Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan). Return to Reason premiered at the 2023 Cannes and New York Film Festivals.

Films We Like has partnered with Janus Films to release in Canada Academy Award® winning composer Ryuichi Sakamoto’s final concert film, Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus, directed by Neo Sora. Opus was a standout at this year’s Venice International Film Festival where it premiered out-of-competition.