Theatrical starts August 12, 2022
95 MINUTES/ IN ENGLISH, SPANISH AND CHINESE/ USA/ CHINA/ ITALY
A FILM BY ANTONIO TIBALDI
Two immigrants living on the fringes of American society hit the road in search of the truth about a shared UFO abduction.
2014 - COLOUR - CANADA - 88 MINUTES
A FILM BY JODY SHAPIRO
"Burt's Buzz" takes an intimate look at the world of Burt Shavitz, the face and co-founder of Burt's Bees, exploring his fascinating and unique life. Exposing the collision between business and personal values, the film is a compelling and fascinating portrait of this highly idiosyncratic pioneer, and a revealing study of what it means to be a living icon.
Theatrical starts July 19, 2022
2021 - AUSTRALIA - ENGLISH - COLOUR
A FILM BY DANNY COHEN ABOUT COURTNEY BARNETT
Shot on vivid 16mm film over a three-year period, ANONYMOUS CLUB chronicles notoriously shy, Melbourne-based musician Courtney Barnett’s ups and downs on the world tour for her album Tell Me How You Really Feel. Featuring Barnett’s unguarded narration from her audio diary, recorded on a dictaphone provided by filmmaker Danny Cohen, the film delivers frank and unprecedented insight into Barnett’s creative process, the sacrifices and inner conflicts set in motion by fame, and the sometimes dark backdrop to her whimsical, relatably poetic compositions.
Theatrical Starts February 2023
2022 - 199 MINUTES - 2.39:1 - 2K - 5.1 - GERMANY/ FRANCE (IN GERMAN, TURKISH AND ENGLISH)
A FILM BY ANDREAS DRESEN
FEATURING: MELTEM KAPTAN, ALEXANDER SCHEER, CHARLY HÜBNER
The battle for the release of her son Murat from Guantanamo catapults Turkish housewife Rabiye Kurnaz from her terraced house in Bremen straight into world politics and all the way to the Supreme Court in Washington. At her side is human rights lawyer Bernhard Docke - the reserved, level-headed lawyer and the temperamental Turkish mother with a wicked sense of humour – now fighting side-by-side to get Murat out.
Theatrical starts July 1, 2022
2022 - FRANCE - ENGLISH SUBTITLES
A FILM BY MIKHAËL HERS
FEATURING: CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG, NOÉE ABITA, EMMANUELLE BÉART, QUITO RAYON RICHTER
On election night in 1981, celebrations spill out onto the street and there is an air of hope and change throughout Paris. But for Elisabeth, her marriage is coming to an end and she will now have to support herself and her two teenage children. She finds work at a late-night radio show and encounters a troubled teenager named Talulah whom she invites into her home. With them, Talulah experiences the warmth of a family for the first time. Although she suddenly disappears, her free spirit has a lasting influence. Elisabeth and her children grow in confidence and begin to take risks, changing the trajectory of their lives.
Theatrical starts June 17, 2022
*Available for theatrical only.
From the acclaimed writer/directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel (WHAT MAISIE KNEW, THE DEEP END) comes a neo-Western with an emotional tremor hiding beneath it. Two estranged siblings (Haley Lu Richardson, Owen Teague) return home to the sprawling ranch they once knew and loved, confronting a deep and bitter family legacy against a mythic American backdrop.
Theatrical starts April 22, 2022 (Quebec)
Theatrical starts June 10, 2022 (Rest of Canada)
2021 - 106 MINUTES - FRANCE / BELGIUM / SWITZERLAND / IN FRENCH
A FILM BY ANTOINE BARRAUD
Judith (Virginie Efira) is leading a busy double life: one in France and one in Switzerland. She has two lovers, Abdel (Quim Gutiérrez) with whom she has a little girl Ninon (Loïse Benguerel), and Melvil (Bruno Salomone), with whom she has two older boys. What seems like a delicate balancing act from Judith is a life built on lies, secrets, and a constant juggle between the same conversations without making any progress. With pressure mounting steadily on Judith from both her personal and professional life, she starts to crack under pressure and gets caught in a trap. With a decision needing to be made on which life she wants to choose, Judith decides to run away from it all, losing all control while the situation spirals out of control.
AVAILABLE FOR VOD/ TV/ AIRLINE ONLY!
82 MINUTES - USA - DOCUMENTARYA FILM BY TRACIE HOLDER, KAREN THORSENFEATURING: OLYMPIA DUKAKIS, DAVID HARE, DAVID HENRY HWANG
Joe Papp, founder of The Public Theater, Free Shakespeare in the Park and producer of groundbreaking plays like "Hair," "A Chorus Line" and "for colored girls," created a 'theater of inclusion' based on the belief that great art is for everyone.
Theatrical Starts Fall/ Winter 2022
DOCUMENTARY/ UK / ENGLISH / 88 MINUTES / 2021A FILM BY SOPHIE ROBINSON AND DUSTAN BRUCE
Part music documentary, part unflinching character study, part a punk version of ‘A Christmas Carol’ - I Get Knocked Down is the funny, surreal and deeply human story of the most audacious anarchist music experiment of all time and a call to arms to those who think activism is best undertaken by someone else.
Theatrical starts April 22, 2022
2021 - 93 MINUTES - IRAN - 1.85:1 - 5.1 -IN FARSI WITH ENGLISH AND FRENCH SUBTITLES
A FILM BY PANAH PANAHI
A chaotic, tender family is on a road trip across a rugged landscape, but to where? In the back seat, Dad has a broken leg, but is it really broken? Mom tries to laugh when she’s not holding back tears. The kid keeps exploding into choreographed car karaoke. All of them are fussing over the sick dog and getting on each others’ nerves.
Only the mysterious older brother is quiet.
Theatrical starts March 25, 2022
2021 - 104 MINUTES - ROMANIA - ROMANIAN
A FILM BY RADU MUNTEAN
Romanian auteur Radu Muntean’s latest is an incisive, mordant, and suspenseful drama about the limits of generosity, as a trio of volunteers delivering relief to a remote village are led on a detour by a stranger.
Theatrical starts January 14, 2021
2020 - 83 MINUTES - LITHUANIA/ LATVIA/ FRANCE
A FILM BY GIEDRE ZICHYTE
It’s Thanksgiving Day, 1970, the Atlantic Ocean. A US patrol boat meets a Soviet fishing vessel. A Soviet sailor jumps across the icy water onto the American boat in a frantic bid for freedom. To his horror, and to the outcry of the world media, the Americans return him to the Soviets. Through rare archival footage and a dramatic, first-person re-enactment by the would-be defector, 86-year-old Simas Kudirka, we relive one of the most unpredictable Cold War muddles.
ETHIOPIA - 2021 - 120 MINUTES - B&W - 1.78:1
A FILM BY JESSICA BESHIR
* TV Only
In her hypnotic documentary feature, Ethiopian-Mexican filmmaker Jessica Beshir explores the coexistence of everyday life and its mythical undercurrents. Though a deeply personal project—Beshir was forced to leave her hometown of Harar with her family as a teenager due to growing political strife—the film she returned to make about the city, its rural Oromo community of farmers, and the harvesting of the country’s most sought-after export (the euphoria-inducing khat plant) is neither a straightforward work of nostalgia nor an issue-oriented doc about a particular drug culture. Rather, she has constructed something dreamlike: a film that uses light, texture, and sound to illuminate the spiritual lives of people whose experiences often become fodder for ripped-from-the-headlines tales of migration.
Theatrical starts November 26, 2021
2021 - 179 MINUTES - JAPAN - 2K - 1.85:1 - 5.1 - ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: JAPANESE, KOREAN, ENGLISH, CANTONESE, MANDARIN, TAGALOG, INDONESIAN, GERMAN, MALAYSIAN
A FILM BY RYUSUKE HAMAGUCHI
*Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car wins Best Picture, Best International Film and Best Screenplay, Toronto Film Critics Association 2021
Yusuke Kafuku (Hidetoshi Nishijima), a stage actor and director is happily married to Oto (Reika Kirishima), a screenwriter. However, Oto suddenly dies after leaving behind a secret. Two years later, Kafuku, still unable to fully cope with the loss of his wife, receives an offer to direct a play at a theater festival and drives to Hiroshima with his car. There, he meets Misaki (Toko Miura), a reticent woman assigned to become his chauffeur. As they spend time together, Kafuku confronts the mystery of his wife that quietly haunts him.
Theatrical starts October 29, 2021
2020 - FRANCE - 106 MINUTES - COLOUR / IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES/ ORIGINAL TITLE : UN TRIOMPHE
A FILM BY EMMANUEL COURCOL
FEATURING: KAD MERAD, MARINA HANDS, LAURENT STOCKER
Etienne, an often out of work but endearing actor, runs a theatre workshop in a prison, where he brings together an unlikely troupe of prisoners to stage Samuel Beckett’s famous play Waiting for Godot. When he is allowed to take the colourful band of convicts on a tour outside of prison, Etienne finally has the chance to thrive. Each date is a new success and a unique relationship grows between this ad hoc group of actors and their director. But soon comes the final performance in Paris. Will their last night together be the biggest hit of them all?
Theatrical starts October 22, 2021
2020 - 115 MINUTES - JAPAN - IN JAPANESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLESA FILM BY KIYOSHI KUROSAWAFEATURING YÛ AOI, MASAHIRO HIGASHIDE, ISSEY TAKAHASHI
At the beginning of WWII, a Japanese businessman uncovers a disturbing government secret while traveling to Manchuria.
Theatrical starts September 30, 2021
88 MINUTES/ USA/ 2012
A FILM BY TOM SURGAL
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS RON MANN, PETER AFTERMAN
Fire Music tells the history of the Free Jazz Revolution. Capturing the sights and sounds of one of the most innovative movements in music history. The intensity of the music and the outlandish personalities of the artists who played it make for a compelling story.
2021 - 112 MINUTES - FRANCE / EGYPT / NETHERLANDS / GREECE / IN ARABIC
A FILM BY OMAR EL ZOHAIRY
When a magic trick goes awry at a children’s birthday party, the authoritative father of the family turns into a chicken. An avalanche of coincidental absurdities befalls everyone; the mother, whose mundane life was dedicated to her husband and children, is now urged to come to the fore and take care of her family. While moving heaven and earth to bring her husband back and secure their survival, she goes through a total transformation.
Theatrical starts September 3, 2021
FRANCE - 2021 - 100 MINUTES - IN JAPANESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
A FILM BY JULIEN FARAUT
How does a Japanese women’s volleyball team from the late 1950s become an international sensation, feminist role models, the subject of a wildly popular comic book and a still-influential anime? This stranger-than-fiction story is dynamically told by Julien Faraut (JOHN McENROE: IN THE REALM OF PERFECTION), with an ironic twist on the original demeaning moniker, Oriental Witches. A group of Osaka textile workers are transformed into a fiercely competitive volleyball team by their astonishingly ruthless coach whose unconventional techniques emphasize speed and aggression. A record-setting winning streak and a dramatic 1964 Tokyo Olympics triumph follow. Wonderful archival footage of the women in training and on the court, animated versions of their championship games, and moving interviews with the women today are set to a pulsating electronic score.
Theatrical starts August 28, 2021
88 MINUTES - 2019 - MEXICO/ USA - IN SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
A FILM BY RODRIGO REYES
In acclaimed director Rodrigo Reyes' (Lupe Under The Sun, Purgatorio) bold new feature, a 16th century conquistador finds himself stranded in modern day Mexico encountering real- life ordinary citizens whose lives have been upended in ways that the Conquistador could never have envisioned 499 years prior, when Mexico was colonized by men like him. Using an innovative and immersive mixture of fiction and non-fiction, and finding a way to weave to magical realist and verité elements, Reyes has crafted an audacious, staggering work examining the lingering effects of colonialism as well as providing a way for a country and it citizens to heal from centuries old wounds.