Movies
SAW Video: Resolution 2015
Resolution 2015 Thursday February 5th 2015, Doors: 6pm / Screening: 6:30pm Mayfair Theatre, 1074 Bank Street, Ottawa Admission $5 SAW Videos members are a vital part of Ottawa/Gatineaus media arts community and the driving force of our centre. Join us at the Mayfair Theatre
Force Majeure
A critical favorite and word-of-mouth sensation at this year’s Cannes Festival, where it took the Jury Prize in Un Certain Regard, this wickedly funny and precisely observed psychodrama tells the story of a model Swedish family-handsome businessman Tomas, his willowy wife Ebba and their two blond, pre-teen children-on a
Culture High, The
The NORML Women’s Alliance of Canada is proud to present the Ottawa premiere of The Culture High at the Mayfair Theatre, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2014, 6:30pm Q&A with producer Adam Scorgie to follow. The Culture High is 1 of 134 features qualified to contend for this year’s Academy Awards. The film
Springhammer
This is the Ottawa debut of SpringHammer, a maker’s film by Kevin Kossowan, selected for the EIFF and Relish Film Festival. Through interviews, cultural pieces and working footage Kossowan explores the past, present and future situations of blacksmithing in Japan. Edmontons Kevin Kossowan has written, filmed, directed, edited and scored
Muneeza in the Middle
Muneeza in the Middle is a one-hour documentary about a fashion-savvy lawyer who feels pressured to give up her flashy lifestyle and become a “good” Muslim mother. Filmed over 5 years in partnership with the CBC’s documentary Channel, we invite you to a special pre-broadcast screening of this unique film. Producer/Director Hoda Elatawi and
ABCs of Death 2
OTTAWA PREMIERE | STARTS NOVEMBER 21 ABC’s OF DEATH 2 is the follow-up to the most ambitious anthology film ever conceived with productions spanning from Nigeria to UK to Brazil and everywhere in between. It features segments directed by over two dozen of the world’s leading talents in contemporary genre
For Your Height Only
In this offbeat action-adventure story, a group of gangsters, under the instructions of their leader Mr. Giant, ambush a scientist and steal the formula for a powerful new weapon, the N-Bomb, which he was about to turn over to the government. It’s imperative that the N-Bomb be recovered as
Harry Knuckles and the Pearl Necklace (10th Anniversary Screening)
10th ANNIVERSARY SCREENING | CAST AND CREW IN ATTENDANCE From Odessa Filmworks, the award winning team that brought the world Harry Knuckles and the Treasure of the Aztec Mummy and rewrote the gospel of Canadian filmmaking with Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter comes a new knuckle-dusting adventure starring everyone’s favourite super
Interstellar
PRESENTED ON 35MM FILM! It may not be quite as magical as Dorothy Gale stepping from her sepia-toned farmhouse into the Technicolor burg of Munchkinland, but it comes mighty close. There is a scene in director Christopher Nolan’s oft-spectacular, doggedly humane space epic “Interstellar” that shifts from deep space back to Earth, from
Boxtrolls, The
A family event movie from the creators of “Coraline” and “ParaNorman” that introduces audiences to a new breed of family – The Boxtrolls, a community of quirky, mischievous creatures who have lovingly raised an orphaned human boy named Eggs (voiced by Isaac Hempstead-Wright) in the amazing cavernous home they’ve built