1992 - CANADA - 100 MINUTES - ENGLISH
A FILM BY GUY MADDIN
Guy Maddin’s early masterpiece takes place in a 19th-century Alpine village where the wary residents —adult, child and animal!—must speak softly and tread lightly lest they cause an avalanche. But sexual frenzies teem in this world of repression, setting off incestuous love triangles and quadrangles with deadly consequences. Bathed in lurid, luminescent tints, Careful resembles a vintage melodrama from another planet—something that could only emerge from the singular mind of Maddin.
Theatrical January 20, 2023
FRANCE - 2022 - 122 MINUTES
A FILM BY ALICE DIOP
Saint-Omer court of law. Young novelist Rama attends the trial of Laurence Coly, a young woman accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter by abandoning her to the rising tide on a beach in northern France. But as the trial continues, the words of the accused and witness testimonies will shake Rama’s convictions and call into question our own judgement.
Theatrical Starts 2025 (TBD)
2024 – ITALY, GERMANY, BELGIUM – DRAMA – 102 MINUTES
A FILM BY YASEMIN ŞAMDERELI
Samia defies taboos by racing through the streets of Mogadishu, in a society where a woman is not supposed to run. Her passion will one day take her to the Olympic Games.
Theatrical starts December 23, 2022
IRAN - 2022 - 107 MINUTES - 16:9 - 5.1 - IN FARSI, AZARI - ORIGINAL TITLE: KHERS NIST
A FILMY BY JAFAR PANAHI
NO BEARS portrays two parallel love stories. In both, the lovers are troubled by hidden, inevitable obstacles, the force of superstition and the mechanics of power.
Theatrical starts December 16, 2022
CANADA - 2022 - ENGLISH - 103 MINUTES - COLOUR
A FILM BY JACQUELYN MILLS
Hot Docs 2022 - Winner – Best Canadian Feature Documentary Award
Hot Docs 2022 - Winner – The Earl A. Glick Emerging Canadian Filmmaker Award
An immersion into the rich ecosystem of Sable Island, guided by naturalist and environmentalist Zoe Lucas who has lived over 40 years on this remote sliver of land in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean. Shot on 16mm and created using a scope of innovative eco-friendly filmmaking techniques, this feature-length experimental documentary is a playful and reverent collaboration with the natural world.
Theatrical starts November 25, 2022
2022 - POLAND, ITALY, UNITED KINGDOM - 86 MINUTES - WITH FRENCH AND ENGLISH SUBTITLES
A FILM BY JERZY SKOLIMOWSKI
*Nominated “Best International Feature Film” at the 95th Academy Awards®
The world is a mysterious place when seen through the eyes of an animal. EO, a grey donkey with melancholic eyes, meets good and bad people on his life’s path, experiences joy and pain, endures the wheel of fortune randomly turn his luck into disaster and his despair into unexpected bliss. But not even for a moment does he lose his innocence.
Theatrical starts November 25, 2022
93 MINUTES - USA - DOCUMENTARY
A FILM BY JUSTIN KREUTZMANN
FEATURING: TAYLOR HAWKINS, STEWARD COPELAND, CHAD SMITH, RINGO STARR, KEITH MOON
"Let There Be Drums!" examines the personal struggles that so many musicians and their families have faced, the nature of how music passes from generation to generation, and the essential role that drumming plays in human life.
Theatrical starts November 25, 2022
2022 - UNITED STATES - 91 MINUTES - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY SIERRA PETTENGILL
RIOTSVILLE, USA is a poetic and furious reflection on the reaction of a nation’s citizens and institutions to the rebellions of the late 1960s. This artful, riveting documentary consists entirely of archival footage that was shot by the United States military or appeared on broadcast television.
Director Sierra Pettengill shifts our historic gaze from the rebellions in Chicago, Newark, and Detroit, focusing on unearthed military training footage of Army-built model towns called “Riotsvilles,” where military and police were trained to respond to domestic civil disorder.
Dissecting the anatomy of the Johnson administration’s Kerner Commission, which resulted in an explosive increase in federal funding for police, RIOTSVILLE, USA pulls focus on the machinations of American institutional control. Amid today’s shifting reckonings on power and identity, technology companies consolidating power, and a new generation’s coming-of-age, Pettengill delivers insight from a time similar to our own, urging us to understand how the machine of institutional power manages to rumble on.
The Sadies perform songs from their new record COLDER STREAMS in an impromptu concert which could possibly be their last.
Theatrical starts September 30, 2022
1988 - 64 MINUTES - B&W - 4K - STEREO - MANITOBA, CANADA - IN ENGLISH + ICELANDIC
A FILM BY GUY MADDIN
FEATURING: KYLE MCCULLOCH, MICHAEL GOTTLI, ANGELA HECK, MARGARET ANNE MACLEOD, HEATHER NEALE, DAVID NEALE, CAROLINE BONNER
Set during a smallpox epidemic in the village of Gimli, Manitoba near the turn of the century, Tales From The Gimli Hospitalis a dreamlike, elliptical film which explores the jealousy and madness instilled in two men who share a hospital room "in a Gimli we no longer know." The two men, Einar (Kyle McCulloch) and Gunnar (Michael Gottli) are friends at first, until they reveal their darkest secrets to each other. Tales of creeping pestilence, unconsummated passions, reckless envy and necrophilia are told, climaxing in a deadly battle between the two patients, now rivals. Does a better world await these two lost souls on Earth...or in Heaven?
Theatrical starts August 28, 2022
2021 - POLAND - 72 MINUTES
A FILM BY ANDREI KUTSILA
*Winner Best Documentary 38th Warsaw International Film Festival
When Flowers Are Not Silent looks at the aftermath of protests in Belarus against the country’s long-standing leader Alexander Lukashenka – who in 2020 claimed more than 80% of all votes – after the European Union, local opposition and a large part of the population called foul on the election results.
Seen from the perspective of a series of women caught up in the protests in different ways (the film is dedicated to Kutsila’s sister and “all of the brave women protesters of Belarus”) it refrains from angry polemic and instead focuses on their sadness, bravery and resilience.
A portion of money raised from film screenings will be donated to Solidarity Zone / Facebook Page in support of war zone journalists.
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.
