Movies
Soviet Story, The
Sure to excite controversy, this documentary sheds light on the real USSR, offering an alternative history of an Allied power that collaborated with the Nazis and slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale. Director Edvins Snore in attendance! Presented by the Free Thinking Film Society | $15 at the
Shutter Island
EXTRA SHOW ADDED MAY 28! We round out our month-long Scorsese-fest with his latest, a Val Lewton-esque thriller about a mans inward-spiralling search for a missing patient at a hospital for the criminally insane. Count the movie references and drink in Robbie Robertsons crazy-quilt score.
Chocolat
PAGE TO SCREEN Indulge your sweet tooth with this story of a woman who opens a chocolate shop in a French village and, in so doing, opens the community to a world of guilt-free pleasures. Presented in association with the Ottawa International Writers Festival. Joanne Harris, author of the novel
JUST ADDED: Shuprovat Bangladesh
WORLD PREMIERE Bangladesh immigrant Faruq take a trip to Bangladsh the his daughter Poroma, who for the first time is visiting her Fathers native Land. During the visit, one day Poroma’s father alerts her to be careful going to unknown places. poroma shocked thinks, why should she be afraid of
Locked Away
A manipulative counsellor lures a pregnant high school senior into a dangerous trap in order to try to steal her baby. Will she escape? And will she learn to use condoms in the future? Find out!0
M*A*S*H
Attention: Tonight’s movie will be M*A*S*H. Follow the zany antics of our combat surgeons as they cut and stitch their way along the front lines, operating as bombs and bullets burst around them, snatching laughs and love between amputations and penicillin. That is all. 0
Casino
June 25th and 26th – part of the Scorsese / De Niro Film Festival screening throughout June! A tale of greed, deception, money, power, and murder occur between two best friends: a mafia enforcer and a casino executive, compete against each other over a gambling empire, and over a fast
Chloe
The plot of Chloe follows a doctor (Julianne Moore) who hires an escort (Amanda Seyfried) to seduce her husband (Liam Neeson), whom she suspects of cheating. But this is an Egoyan film, so the plot is only a fraction of Chloes story. Or is that stories?
Dukot
Since 2001, over a thousand extrajudicial killings and disappearances have been documented in the Philippines. This is the story of one of those cases, and is no doubt the most courageous full-length Filipino film produced in decades.(Bulatlat.com) English subtitles Benefit for Ontario Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines (OCHRP)
Cola-Cola Case, The
OTTAWA PREMIERE Sure, Coke is bad for your teeth and waistline. But human rights? This doc follows a duo of lawyers who are suing Coke for the shooting of a Colombian labour leader and for numerous counts of murder, abduction and torture. Is that what they mean by Things