Movies
They Call Us Monsters
Ottawa Premiere on Friday February 10th! In California, violent juveniles between 14-17 years old can be tried as adults. Typically, they are accused of heinous crimesmurders and attempted murdersthat leave their victims families shattered. And yet, they are still kids, with a greater capacity to change and one day return
Last Chance
OPL/BPO Canada 150, in partnership with Amnesty International, presents Last Chance, a National Film Board feature documentary by Paul Émile dEntremont. Last Chance tells the stories of 5 asylum seekers fleeing homophobic violence in their native countries, and the hurdles they face in coming to Canada.Panel discussion with representatives from
My Fathers Land
Presented by the Carleton University, Faculty of Public Affairs · This screening and accompanying Question and Answer session will provide the audience an opportunity to experience Kunuk and Cohns work first-hand and to hear more about their vision for the future the North. This screening is held in honour of the
Major!
Presented by Queering613 This is the story of one woman’s journey, a community’s history, and how caring for each other can be a revolutionary act. https://www.facebook.com/events/1469925259687421/
The Love Witch
Ottawa Premiere on Friday February 10th and Tuesday February 14th (special Valentine’s Day screening)! 5 Stars! “Smoldering with retro 60s style, Anna Billers sexploitation drama updates dusty gender politics with hardcore feminist defiance.” (Time Out NY) Elaine, a beautiful young witch, is determined to find a man to love her.
20th Century Women
NOMINATED FOR 1 ACADEMY AWARD: BEST ORIGINALS SCREENPLAY – MIKE MILLS In 1979 Santa Barbara, Calif., Dorothea Fields (Annette Bening) is a determined single mother in her mid-50s who is raising her adolescent son, Jamie, at a moment brimming with cultural change and rebellion. Dorothea enlists the help of two
Window Horses
Ottawa Premiere – the week of March 31st! Rosie Ming is a young Canadian poet who is invited to a poetry festival in Shiraz, Iran, where she is unexpectedly confronted with all these different truths about the father who she thought abandoned her as a young child. It’s a story
Fences
NOMINATED FOR FOUR ACADEMY AWARDS: BEST PICTURE BEST ACTOR – DENZEL WASHINGTON BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS – VIOLA DAVIS BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY – AUGUST WILSON Fences is the story of Troy Maxson, a mid-century Pittsburgh sanitation worker who once dreamed of a baseball career, but was too old when the major
Kung-Fu Yoga
Ottawa Premiere on Friday February 3rd! From the director of Rumble In The Bronx! Starring Oscar winner Jackie Chan! Chinese archaeology professor Jack (Jackie Chan) teams up with beautiful Indian professor Ashmita and assistant Kyra to locate lost Magadha treasure. In a Tibetan ice cave, they find the
Neruda
Ottawa Premiere on Friday January 27th! Golden Globe 2017 nominee – Best Foreign Language Film An inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party. From Fantastic Fest, Cannes, and TIFF award winning