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6th Annual Painted Lips and Lolly Licks: The Sexy Film Festival
RESTRICTED TO 19+ Join for a night of erotic short films from around the world, including Ottawa! Wild! Sexy! Funny! Animated! A huge turn on! Entries are judged by Pin-up model Kacie Marie!
Amelie
Director Jean-Pierre Jeunets magically romantic tale of Amelie a (literally) wide-eyed innocent who helps those around her while struggling with her own isolation was nominated for five Oscars, and also popularized the garden gnome kidnapping trend. Fabuleux.
Girl Who Walks Home Alone at Night, A
The first Iranian Vampire Western ever made, Ana Lily Amirpour’s debut basks in the sheer pleasure of pulp. A joyful mash-up of genre, archetype, and iconography, its prolific influences span spaghetti westerns, graphic novels, horror films, and the Iranian New Wave. (C) Kino
Big Hero 6
NOMINATED FOR THE BEST ANIMATED FEATURE ACADEMY AWARD With all the heart and humor audiences expect from Walt Disney Animation Studios, “Big Hero 6” is an action-packed comedy-adventure about robotics prodigy Hiro Hamada, who learns to harness his genius-thanks to his brilliant brother Tadashi and their like-minded friends: adrenaline junkie
Gambler, The
Jim Bennett (Academy Award (R)-nominee Mark Wahlberg) is a risk taker. Both an English professor and a high-stakes gambler, Bennett bets it all when he borrows from a gangster (Michael Kenneth Williams) and offers his own life as collateral. Always one step ahead, Bennett pits his creditor against the operator
Gemma Bovery
Martin, an ex-Parisian and well-heeled hipster passionate about Gustave Flaubert, settles into a Norman village as a baker, and sees an English couple moving into a small farm nearby. Not only are the names of the new arrivals Gemma and Charles Bovery, but their behavior also seems to be inspired
Mr. Turner
NOMINATED FOR 4 ACADEMY AWARDS This film explores the last quarter century of the great if eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851). Profoundly affected by the death of his father, loved by a housekeeper he takes for granted and occasionally exploits sexually, he forms a close relationship with a seaside
Killers
OTTAWA PREMIERE | STARTS JANUARY 30 A series of horrific murders have just gone viral, posted anonymously by the handsome and seductive Nomura with a taste for torture. Thousands of miles away, disgraced journalist Bayu can’t stop watching – and in a reckless moment discovers he, too, can kill. One
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OTTAWA PREMIERE | STARTS FEBRUARY 13 Nao Ohmori (star of Takashi Miike’s Ichi the Killer) plays Takafumi Katayama, a mildmannered father who escapes the pressures of daily life by joining a mysterious S&M club, where the so-called Queens visit clients in real-life settings. While at first the rough treatment and
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
OTTAWA PREMIERE | STARTS FEBRUARY 20 The first Iranian Vampire Western ever made, Ana Lily Amirpour’s debut basks in the sheer pleasure of pulp. A joyful mash-up of genre, archetype, and iconography, its prolific influences span spaghetti westerns, graphic novels, horror films, and the Iranian New Wave. (C) Kino