Movies
Weathering with You
Ottawa Premiere the Week of March 13th! A high-school boy who has run away to Tokyo befriends a girl who appears to be able to manipulate the weather. Japanese with English subtitles. From the Awards of the Japanese Academy: Best Directing, and Screenplay award winning director and writer of
Harpoon
Ottawa Premiere the Week of March 20th, presented by Monsters Market! Rivalries, dark secrets, and sexual tension emerge when three best friends find themselves stranded on a yacht in the middle of the ocean desperate for survival. Calgary Underground Film Festival: Audience Award – Best Narrative Feature award winner!
Brotherhood
Ottawa Premiere on Friday August 14th! Sam Ashe Arnold – one of the stars of Brotherhood – and director Richard Bell will be in attendance on August 14th and 15th! Advance tickets for Brotherhood now available via eventbrite! In 1926, a band of teenage boys arrive at Long Point Camp
Cats
A tribe of cats called the Jellicles must decide yearly which one will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new Jellicle life. From the Oscar winning director of The King’s Speech, Les Miserables, and The Danish Girl! Starring Oscar winners Jennifer Hudson, and Judi Dench, 2x
Richard Jewell
Security guard Richard Jewell saves thousands of lives from an exploding bomb at the 1996 Olympics, but is vilified by journalists and the press who falsely reported that he was a terrorist. From Clint Eastwood, the 5x Oscar winning director of Unforgiven, and Million Dollar Baby! Oscar and
Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band
Screening March 11th and 12th! A confessional, cautionary, and occasionally humorous tale of Robbie Robertson’s young life and the creation of one of the most enduring groups in the history of popular music, The Band. Featuring Bruce Springsteen, Eric Clapton, Van Morrison, Martin Scorsese, Peter Gabriel, Taj Mahal, Dominique
Beanpole
Ottawa Premiere the Week of April 10th! 1945, Leningrad. WWII has devastated the city, demolishing its buildings and leaving its citizens in tatters, physically and mentally. Two young women search for meaning and hope in the struggle to rebuild their lives amongst the ruins. Russian with English subtitles. Cannes: FIPRESCI
Bacurau
After the death of her grandmother, Teresa comes home to her matriarchal village in a near-future Brazil to find a succession of sinister events that mobilizes all of its residents. Cannes: Jury Prize award winner, Palme d’or, and Queer Palm nominee! Key West Film Festival: Jury Prize – Best
The Lodge
Ottawa Premiere the Week of March 6th! A soon-to-be stepmom is snowed in with her fiancé’s two children at a remote holiday village. Just as relations begin to thaw between the trio, some strange and frightening events take place. From the Fangoria Chainsaw Awards, Austrian Film Award, Sitges – Catalonian
Enter The Fat Dragon
Ottawa Premiere the Week of February 14th! A cop is assigned to a case of escorting a criminal to Japan while dealing with relationship problems, and his enormous change in appearance as a result of being dumped. Cantonese with English subtitles. Starring 3x Golden Horse Film Festival, 4x Hong Kong