Movies
Mr. Holmes
An aged, retired Sherlock Holmes (Ian McKellen) looks back on his life, and grapples with an unsolved case involving a beautiful woman.
Tribe, The
OTTAWA PREMIERE | STARTS AUGUST 7 THIS FILM FEATURES ACTORS PERFORMING ENTIRELY IN SIGN LANGUAGE. THERE IS NO SPOKEN DIALOGUE OR SUBTITLES. Somewhere in Ukraine, Sergey enters a specialized boarding school for the deaf. Alone in this new and unfamiliar place, he must find his way through the school’s hierarchy.
Amy
Despite just two albums to her name Amy Winehouse is one of the biggest music icons in British history. With a voice oft described as a combination of Billy Holiday, Dinah Washington and Sarah Vaughan, Amy Winehouse was a pop star with soul; a once in two generational musical talent
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
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
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.
Legends of Ska
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.
Unity
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
Asinabka Film & Media Arts Festival
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
Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC
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,
Jimmy’s Hall
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