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)
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 – 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 – 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
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
SATURDAY NIGHT SINEMA | FREE FOR MEMBERS One year before Death Wish, director Winner teamed with Charles Bronson to tell this story of a detective out to stop a Mafia assassination plot that uses Vietnam veterans as the killers! Probably the best violent big-city police movie since Dirty Harry.
A convicted arsonist (Edward Norton) tries to arrange his release from prison by having his wife (Milla Jovovich) seduce his parole officer (Robert De Niro). Itd work on me.
The Canadian Premiere of the film Stolperstein is part of Holocaust Education Month 2014 which is a program of the Shoah (Holocaust) Committee of the Jewish Federation of Ottawa. The movie tells the story of the Stolperstein Project which was started by German artist Gunter Demnig who creates tiny brass Stolperstein
Director Park (Oldboy) makes his English-language debut with this darkly funny and deliciously depraved homage to Hitchcocks Shadow of a Doubt starring Mia Wasikowska, Nicole Kidman and Matthew Goode. Chilling and stylish and aggressively creepy It’s disturbingly good. (Roger Ebert)
Starts the Week of May 10th! Canadian Screen Awards: Adapted Screenplay, and Achievment in Hair award winner, plus Costume Design, Editing, Sound Editing, and Visual Effects nominee! Canadian Society of Cinematographers Awards: Theatrical Feature Cinematography award winner! Method Fest: Best Actor winner for Ethan Hawke, Best Actress nominee