Hotel Mumbai – Adelaide Film Fest: Audience Award winner! Everybody Knows – Cannes Film Fest: Palme d’Or nominee! Fotogramas de Plata: Best Movie Actress award winner! Rafiki – NewFest: New York’s LGBT Film Fest: Audience Award winner! Her Smell – Ottawa Premiere! TIFF: Platform Prize nominee! AFI Fest: Audience
New this week: You Were Never Really Here, C’est La Vie!, and the Ottawa Premiere of Lowlife. Plus, 2nd Weeks for Hochelaga: Land Of Souls, and Finding Your Feet Our month long Stanley Kubrick Film Fest kicks off with Dr Strangelove, plus special presentations of I Am Rohingya: A Genocide
-River- Florida Film Festival: Audience Award winner! 5 Stars! “It is natural history, it is social commentary and it is poetry…an exhilarating piece of camerawork.” (The Canberra Times) “a breathtaking and powerful documentary” (Backseat Mafia) -Sick Of Myself- Ottawa Premiere! Cannes: Un Certain Regard Award nominee!
Maudie – 3rd Week! Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis falls in love with a fishmonger while working as his housekeeper. Starring Oscar nominees Sally Hawkins and Ethan Hawke! Atlantic Film Fest: Best Feature and Screenwriting winner! Their Finest – In 1940, a married woman and a screenwriter develop a growing
-Hit The Road- London Film Festival: Best Film award winner! 5 Stars! “It’s an intimate, frequently funny, poignant and deeply moving piece of work.” (CineVue) 4/4 Stars! “masterful…unforgettable…unique” (RogerEbert.com) -All My Puny Sorrows- Directors Guild Of Canada: Best Picture Editing, Sound Editing award winner, Best Feature Film nominee!
Screening this week – The Rider, The Young Karl Marx is Held Over for a 2nd Week, the Ottawa Premiere of Backstabbing for Beginners, the Kubrick Film Fest concludes with Full Metal Jacket, another free for members / members only presentation of Saturday Night Sinema, plus special single screenings of
-The Outrun- 5 Stars! (The Arts Desk) -Emilia Pérez- Ottawa Premiere! 5 Stars! (Total Film) -Alien: Romulus- 5 Stars! (NME) -Megalopolis- Interactive Edition Ottawa Premiere! 5 Stars! (Film Authority) -Saturday Night Sinema- Free for Members/Members Only Midnight Screening! -Dr. Who And The Daleks- “great escapist fun” (Digital Spy)
Bad Lucky Goat – Ottawa Premiere! After accidentally killing a goat with their father’s truck, two teen siblings embark on a journey of reconciliation. They struggle to find the means necessary to conceal the accident, and repair the truck, in a 24-hour adventure around Port Paradise. Mark Felt: The Man
-The Return Of Tanya Tucker: Featuring Brandi Carlile- Ottawa Premiere! SXSW Film Festival: Audience Award winner! “richly creative, utterly captivating” (Montclair Film Festival) -Don’t Worry Darling- 5 Stars! “Wistfully wonderful, Wilde’s psychological thriller is mid-century marvelous…enthralling. Alice is a phenomenal character” (Common Sense Media) -Lawrence Of Arabia- 60th Anniversary!
Don’t Look Down – Ottawa Premiere! Richard Branson’s attempts to break world records flying in a hot air balloon. Using interviews with Branson, his team, archive and dramatic recons, the doc tells a story of courage, determination, despair and triumph. Denial – Held Over for a 3rd Week! A professor