Movies
This Changes Everything
OTTAWA PREMIERE Filmed over 211 shoot days in nine countries and five continents over four years, This Changes Everything is an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change. Directed by Avi Lewis, and inspired by Naomi Kleins international non-fiction bestseller This Changes Everything, the film presents seven powerful portraits
Final Girls, The
OTTAWA PREMIERE | STARTS NOVEMBER 6 A young woman grieving the loss of her mother, a famous scream queen from the 1980s, finds herself pulled into the world of her mom’s most famous movie. Reunited, the women must fight off the film’s maniacal killer.
Goodnight Mommy
OTTAWA PREMIERE In the heat of the summer. A lonesome house in the countryside between woods and corn fields. Nine-year-old twin brothers are waiting for their mother. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery, nothing is like before. The children start to doubt that this woman is actually their
Inside Out
Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it’s no exception for Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Francisco. Like all of us, Riley is guided by her emotions – Joy (Amy Poehler), Fear (Bill Hader), Anger (Lewis Black),
Undersigned, The
THE UNDERSIGNED is an action-adventure drama. The story revolves about three streetsmart, intelligent women in abusive relationships who find themselves homeless through no fault of their own. They get a second chance when the Syracuse Police need to set up a special unit to catch white collar criminals and hire
Mission to Lars
OTTAWA PREMIERE Kate and Will Spicer’s brother, Tom, has Fragile X Syndrome, the most common form of inherited learning disability. He is also a massive fan of Lars Ulrich from Metallica. They made a promise to Tom that they would get him to meet Lars. Tom’s dream is their promise.
Trainwreck
Since she was a little girl, it’s been drilled into Amy’s (Schumer) head by her rascal of a dad (Colin Quinn) that monogamy isn’t realistic. Now a magazine writer, Amy lives by that credo-enjoying what she feels is an uninhibited life free from stifling, boring romantic commitment-but in actuality, she’s
Walk In The Woods, A
In this new comedy adventure, celebrated travel writer, Bill Bryson (Academy Award winner Robert Redford), instead of retiring to enjoy his loving and beautiful wife (Academy Award winner Emma Thompson), and large and happy family, challenges himself to hike the Appalachian Trail – 2,200 miles of America’s most unspoiled,
Cellar Door Film Festival
Cellar Door Film Festival (CDFF) is a 3-day genre film festival in Ottawa, showcasing speculative cinema: horror, sci-fi, fantasy – and everything else in between! From celebrating the creativity of the local film scene, to spotlighting the City as a setting for the sinister and supernatural, CDFF is committed to
Standstill
After the political crisis in Kanesatakes reserve, Arihote (Atewena:ron David Deerhouse), a Kanienkehaka “Mohawk”, sometime war photographer, and his wife parted ways. While trying to help his son who has committed a misdemeanor, Arihote, whose life is in a rut, happens upon the revenge killing of a neighbor by Wedad