Nominee - Ted Rogers “Best Feature Length Documentary” - 2024 Canadian Screen Awards
Theatrical Starts May 12, 2023
2023 - DENMARK/ CANADA/ GREENLAND - ENGLISH/ DANISH/ KALAALLISUT, INUKTITUT - 92 MINUTES
A FILM BY LIN ALLUNA
Aaju Peter is a force of nature. She is a renowned Greenlandic Inuit lawyer, an activist, who defends the human rights of indigenous peoples of the Arctic, and the feirce protector of her ancestral lands. She works to bring her colonizers in both Canada and Denmark to justice, and deploys her effusive spirit and illuminating wit to provoke self-examination and personal responsibility among Westerners for imposing their colonial ways. As Aaju launches an effort to establish an indigenous forum at the European Union, she also embarks upon a complex and deeply personal journey to mend her own wounds, including the unexpected passing of her youngest son.
Theatrical Starts May 12, 2023
2022 - UNITED STATES - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY JUDD TULLY & HAROLD CROOKS
The Melt Goes On Forever chronicles the singular career of the elusive African-American art star David Hammons from Watts rebellion era ’60s L.A. to global art world prominence today. Hammons’ category-defying practice – rooted in a deep critique of American society and the elite art world – is in the words of one art critic “an invitation to confront the fissures between races” as the artist seeks to go beyond the dominant culture and his own to a new one for the 21st century.
Theatrical starts March 31, 2023
2023 - USA - IN ENGLISH, GERMAN, KOREAN - 107 MINUTES
A FILM BY AMANDA KIM
The father of video art and coiner of the term “electronic superhighway,” Nam June Paik was one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Born in Japan-occupied Korea, Paik studied as a classical musician before moving to Germany in the 1950s. Forever changed after encountering avant-garde composer John Cage, Paik became a member of the influential experimental art movement Fluxus, which created new forms of art and performance. Eventually immigrating to the United States, he became fully engaged with television and video art in a way that would revolutionize how the world thinks of image-making in the electronic age.
Theatrical starts March 24, 2023
2022 - FRANCE - IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES - 96 MINUTES
A FILM BY LÉA MYSIUS
Eight-year-old Vicky (newcomer Sally Dramé) has a mysterious gift: she can recreate any scent she comes across, even that of her beloved mother Joanne (Palme d’Or winner Adèle Exarchopoulos).
When Vicky’s estranged aunt suddenly returns to their mountain town, the invocation of her fragrance plunges the young girl back in time to unravel the mystery of Joanne’s fiery past with her now sister-in-law.
The acclaimed breakout from filmmaker Léa Mysius (screenwriter for Claire Denis and Jacques Audiard), The Five Devils forges a witchy and wildly imaginative fable out of family secrets and queer romance.
Theatrical starts February 24, 2023
FRANCE - 2022 - FRENCH, ENGLISH - 162 MINUTES - COLOUR
A FILM BY ALBERT SERRA
On the French Polynesian island of Tahiti, the High Commissioner of the Republic and French government official De Roller (Benoît Magimel) is a calculating man with flawless manners. His somewhat broad perception of his role brings him to navigate the high end ’establishment’ as well as shady venues where he mingles with the locals. Especially since a persistent rumor has been going around: the sighting of a submarine whose ghostly presence could herald the return of French nuclear testing.
Theatrical February 24, 2023
2022 - ROMANIA/ FRANCE - 102 MINUTES - IN ROMANIAN WITH ENGLISH AND FRENCH SUBTITLES
A FILM BY ALEXANDRU BELC
2022 Cannes Film Festival - Official Selection - UN CERTAIN REGARD - BEST DIRECTING PRIZE
Bucharest, 1972. Ana, 17, dreams of love and freedom. One night, while partying with her friends, they decide to send a letter to Metronom, the musical program which Radio Free Europe broadcasts clandestinely in Romania. It is then that the Securitate, Ceausescu’s secret police, arrives...
Theatrical starts February 3, 2023
2022 - 143 MINUTES - COLOUR - 1:33:1
A FILM BY HLYNUR PÁLMASON
In the late 19th century, a young Danish priest travels to a remote part of Iceland to build a church and photograph its people. But the deeper he goes into the unforgiving landscape, the more he strays from his purpose, the mission and morality.
Theatrical Starts 2025 (TBD)
2024 - FRANCE/ SPAIN/ PORTUGAL - 102 MINUTES
A FILM BY ALAIN GUIRAUDIE
Jérémie returns to his hometown for the funeral of his former boss, the village baker. He decides to stay for a few days with Martine, the man’s widow. A mysterious disappearance, a threatening neighbor and a priest with strange intentions make Jérémie’s short stay in the village take an unexpected turn…
CANADA - 1994 - TV SERIES
BY LARRY WEINSTEIN
WITH William S. Burroughs, Betty Carter, Nick Cave, Elvis Costello
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.
