Virginia Woolf’s “Orlando” tells the story of a young man who grows up to become a 36-year-old woman. Almost a century after its publication, Paul B. Preciado speaks to Virginia Woolf to tell her that her fictional character has become a reality.
Films We Like and Eyesteel Film have teamed up to release Twice Colonized by Danish filmmaker Lin Alluna, which had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival 2023 and was selected as opening night film at CPH:DOX, and the Hot Docs Film Festival.
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.
The comedy-drama revolves around four young people who are thrown together unexpectedly in a remote holiday home by the Baltic Sea against the backdrop of advancing forest fires. Savina Petkova of The Playlist wrote, “Afire is the uncompromising work of a master not only on conceptual and stylistic levels but also in terms of his emotional politics.”
The family of a young father dying of cancer organize a surprise party for him in this tender story where his young daughter watches the on-goings knowing that her world is about to dramatically change.
Vicky (Sally Dramé), a strange and solitary little girl, has a magical gift: she can reproduce any scent she likes, and collects them in a series of carefully labeled jars. She has secretly captured the scent of Joanne (Adèle Exarchopoulos), her mother for whom she nurtures a wild, excessive love. When her father’s sister Julia (Swala Emati) bursts into their life, Vicky reproduces her smell and is transported into dark and archaic memories which lead her to uncover the secrets of her village, her family and her own existence.
Set on the French Polynesian island of Tahiti, this noir tinged story stars Benoit Magimel as a French government official involved in political intrigue where a persistent rumor has been going around: the sighting of a submarine which could herald the return of French nuclear testing. Set to its own tidal rhythm, it is one of the most beautiful and rigorously introspective movies of this or any year.
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.
First-time feature director Amanda Kim tells the remarkable story of Paik as a citizen of the world and trailblazing artist, who both saw the present and predicted the future with astonishing clairvoyance. With Steven Yeun reading Paik’s own written words — showcasing the artist’s strategic playfulness and immense creativity — Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV is a celebration of perhaps the most modern artist of all time.
Films We Like is thrilled to announce Jerzy Skolimoski’s critically acclaimed film EO has been nominated for BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM. at the 2023 Academy Awards® On numerous ‘Top 10 Films of 2022’ lists and named Best International film by the NY Film Critics Circle, EO was awarded the prestigious Jury Prize at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.
In downtown Tehran, a young driving instructor named Farzaneh, spots her husband walking into a woman’s apartment. Later, when she confronts him about it, he denies it was him. Deciding to investigate, he encounters a woman named Bita, who looks identical to his wife, and whose husband looks like him.
Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Alice Diop’s award-winning first fiction feature film SAINT OMER opens across Canada beginning Friday, January 20, 2023,
SAINT OMER was awarded the Grand Jury Prize and Best Film Debut at the 2022 Venice Film Festival, and marks the first time that France has submitted a film directed by a Black woman to represent it for Best International Feature at the Oscars.
Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s (The White Balloon, 3 Faces, Taxi) newest film, NO BEARS, opens in theatres across Canada on Friday, December 23, 2022. Filmed entirely in secret, Films We Like are proud to present this brave new film for Canadians to see.
Films We Like has announced the award-winning documentary Geographies of Solitude by Cape Breton filmmaker Jacquelyn Mills will open December 16th at Ted Rogers Hot Docs Theatre (Toronto), and at selected theatres across Canada. Since its premiere at the Berlin Film Festival, Geographies of Solitude has won multiple awards including the Ecunumical Jury Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival, Best Canadian Documentary at Hot Docs Film Festival, Best Canadian Documentary at the Vancouver International Film Festival, and many more.
Set in the late 19th Century, the drama revolves around a young Danish priest who travels to a remote part of Iceland to build a church and photograph its people. The deeper he goes into the unforgiving landscape, the more he strays from his purpose, mission and morality.
Adapted from Italian writer Paolo Cognetti’s novel, the film follows the life-long friendship of two men from very different backgrounds against the backdrop in Italy’s breathtaking Aosta Valley region. One is a boy from the city, the other from a mountain village who grow apart only to have destiny bring them together again.
Following its successful North American Premiere at TIFF 2022 and Jury Prize at Cannes 2022, “EO” by legendary Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski opens across Canada on Friday, November 25, 2022.
Panahi continues his interrogation of authority in a story of a couple attempting to secure fake passports so that they can flee to France, and another where the director unwittingly becomes involved in the politics of the village in which he’s staying.
For the past decade award-winning documentarian Alice Diop has turned her camera on injustices and intimate stories of immigrant communities on the peripheries of Paris. In her astonishing narrative feature debut, she brings her typical sensitivity and rigor to a story inspired by a real-life trial of a woman who allegedly abandoned her 15-month-old daughter on a beach in northern France.