Movies
Strangerland
OTTAWA PREMIERE | STARTS JULY 17 New to the remote Australian desert town of Nathgari, the Parker family is thrown into crisis when Catherine and Matthew discover that their two teenage kids, Tommy and Lily, have mysteriously disappeared just before a massive dust storm hits the town. With Nathgari now
Strange Shadows in an Empty Room
SATURDAY NIGHT SINEMA | FREE FOR MEMBERS Shot and set in Ottawa and Montreal, this maple-flavoured giallo follows a hard-boiled Ottawa cop on the trail of his sister’s murderer, a trail that leads to car chases, shootouts and kung-fu fights with transvestites — all right here in the nations capital!
Strange Brew
This hoser-ific adaptation of Hamlet has never received the critical or commercial attention it deserves, so come out and show it some love, eh? CANADIAN CULT REVIEW CANADA DAY EVE HOSER TRIPLE BILL with Goin Down the Road and Fubar | triple bill tickets $10 | Learn more at
Storytelling Festival presents “You Are Here” w/ Ivan Coyote
Ivan E. Coyote’s multimedia performance You Are Here builds on family legend and hometown nostalgia, capturing the magic of a Yukon town and lamenting the corporate colonization that has crept into even the farthest corners we call home. Accompanied by bluegrass guitar and super-8 footage. Learn more at twentytenfestivalost.wordpress.com
Storks
Storks deliver babies — or at least they used to. Now, they deliver packages for a global internet retail giant. Junior (Andy Samberg), the company’s top delivery stork, lands in hot water when the Baby Factory produces an adorable but wholly unauthorized girl. Desperate to deliver this bundle of trouble,
Stories We Tell
OFFICIAL SELECTION, VENICE FILM FESTIVAL Director Polleys follow-up to the acclaimed Take This Waltz and Away From Her is an intimate doc that traces her own convoluted family history a probing, emotionally devastating documentary that transform[s] the secrets and lies of [Polleys] own life into glowing artistic truth. (TIME)
Stories From The Chestnut Woods
https://www.iffo.ca/stories-from-the-chestnut-woods Set in a decaying forest on the Yugoslavian-Italian border in the years immediately after World War II, Stories From The Chestnut Woods weaves its fairy tale tinged stories of survival in an area between Italy and Slovenia named Slavia-Veneta, perched on the frontier where the Iron Curtain meets Western Europe.
Stopmotion
Stopmotion – Ottawa Premiere on March 31, April 1, 2! Advance tickets now available Stopmotion! A stop-motion animator struggles to control her demons after the loss of her overbearing mother. Fantastic Fest: Best Director award winner! Sitges – Catalonian International Film Festival: Special Jury Prize award winner, Best
Stop Making Sense
Stop Making Sense – 40th Anniversary 4K Restoration – Screening on July 5, 10! Advance tickets now available for Stop Making Sense! Considered the greatest concert film of all time, the live performance was shot over the course of three nights at Hollywood’s Pantages Theater in December of 1983
Stonewall Uprising
OTTAWA PREMIERE On June 28, 1969, NYC police raided The Stonewall Inn, a Greenwich Village gay bar. For the first time, patrons refuse to be led into paddy wagons and their defiance set off a three-day riot that launched the American gay rights movement. This doc is here. Its