Winner of the 2015 Sundance Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award, ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL is the story of Greg Gaines (Thomas Mann), an awkward high school senior whose mom forces him to spend time with Rachel – a girl in his class (Olivia Cooke) with
LOVE & MERCY presents an unconventional portrait of Brian Wilson, the mercurial singer, songwriter and leader of The Beach Boys. Set against the era defining catalog of Wilson’s music, the film intimately examines the personal voyage and ultimate salvation of the icon whose success came at extraordinary personal cost.
OTTAWA PREMIERE | AUGUST 5 & 6 | DIRECTOR BRAD KLEIN IN ATTENDANCE Travel on a tropical journey from the birth of Jamaica’s music to the end of the island’s innocence. Without Ska, there is no Reggae.
OTTAWA PREMIERE | AUGUST 12 & 13 Seven years in the making, UNITY is a new documentary that explores humanity’s hopeful transformation from living-by-killing into living-by-loving. It is a unique film about compassion for all beings, or all “expressions of life”, going beyond all “separation based on form”, and beyond
The Asinabka Film & Media Arts Festival is taking place for the 4th year in Ottawa, on unceded Algonquin Territory, from August 19-23, 2015. Asinabka Festival presents the best in Indigenous film, video, and media art, from Canada and around the world. In the evening on Thursday August 20th, Asinabka is pleased to
OTTAWA PREMIERE | JULY 31 & AUGUST 2 “Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)” examines the early DIY punk scene in the Nation’s Capital. It was a decade when seminal bands like Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Government Issue, Scream, Void, Faith, Rites of Spring, Marginal Man,
In 1921 Jimmy Gralton’s sin was to build a dance hall on a rural crossroads in an Ireland on the brink of Civil War. The Pearse-Connolly Hall was a place where young people could come to learn, to argue, to dream…but above all to dance and have fun. As the
“A homeless vigilante searches for his brother who has fallen into a life of organized crime. Set in the 1990’s, this over the top crime dramedy was filmed in Ottawa. Created as a five part mini series, director Kevin Schiemann blends the 1990s vibrancy of films like Teenage Mutant Ninja
STARTS JULY 31 Based on the best-selling book by Irene Nemirovsky and set during the German occupation of France in the 1940’s, Suite Française tells the story of Lucille Angellier as she awaits news from her husband, a prisoner of war. As Parisian refugees pour into their small town, soon
TICKETS ARE: $10 FOR MEMBERS, $14 FOR NON-MEMBERS, $7 FOR KIDS & $9 FOR SENIORS (PRICES COVER ALL THREE FILMS) Can you keep up with the Joneses? Find out as Harrison Ford and Sean Connery team up to track down the ultimate artifact. And when you choose your seat, choose