Movies
Time Bandits
SPECIAL SCREENING HOSTED BY KELLY TINDALL, CELEBRATING THE PUBLICATION OF HIS COMIC BOOK “STRANGEBEARD” Gilliam’s cult classic takes a young boy on the adventure of several lifetimes as he accidentally joins a band of time-travelling, treasure-hunting dwarves and encounters, among others, John Cleese, Sean Connery, Ian Holm, Michael Palin and
OIFF 2014 presents Girlhouse
A Halloween-style slasher for the digital age, it follows a beautiful young college student who, needing money for tuition, moves into a house that streams content to an Xrated website. After a deranged fan hacks in to determine the houses location, she finds herself in a terrifying fight for her
White Bird In A Blizzard
OTTAWA PREMIERE | STARTS OCTOBER 24 By now, devoted cinephiles likely know what to expect going into a Gregg Araki movie: sex-crazed teens, an overabundance of nudity (sometimes pretty, sometimes not), a dream-like story wrapped snugly in a nightmare and a killer soundtrack. However, it would be lazy for someone
20,000 Days On Earth
There was a time when everyone was trying to be Morrissey. At least it seemed that way back when Johnny Depp was young and Ronald Reagan was a running joke. Every art rocker had coal-black hair and a foreboding brow. They all looked tall and skinny and just greasy enough
Hundred-Foot Journey, The
Lasse Hallstrom, who directed the charming 2000 film Chocolat, has returned to the world of culinary creativity adding a healthy soupcon of cultural conflict and blending it all into a very satisfying cinematic stew. In The Hundred-Foot Journey, we are introduced to the warm and loving Kadam family who,
Love Is Strange
“Love Is Strange,” directed by Ira Sachs, and co-written by Sachs and Mauricio Zacharias, has the confidence in its beautiful and emotional story to tell it simply. It’s about many things: growing old, New York real estate, family, work, friendships…but what it is really about is love. Love is not strange at
Ragnarok’s Cabin
A MADE IN OTTAWA THRILLER DOUBLE BILL |ALL TICKETS $10 A honeymoon retreat goes south when the newlyweds find a group of rowdy friends in THEIR cottage! Apparently the cottage is double booked and neither side willing to leave they tough it out, but in the morning things go from
OIFF 2014 presents My Father and the Man in Black
MY FATHER AND THE MAN IN BLACK My Father and the Man in Black is the only inside look at bad boy Johnny Cash as seen through the eyes of his longtime manager, Canadian-born Saul Holiff the man who put Johnny together with June. Want to see the
Shake Hands With The Devil
Director Roger Spottiswoode brings a very special film realization of the acclaimed best-seller by General Roméo Dallaire to the screen in “Shake Hands with the Devil,” the story of a Canadian commander torn between his duty and his conscience when he finds himself eyewitness to hell on Earth. In 1993,
Marmato
Threats, Protection and Peace in Colombia: A documentary screening and panel discussion on threatened human rights defenders This event marks 20 Years of Peace Brigades Internationals accompaniment of threatened human rights defenders in Colombia and the Ottawa Premiere of Marmato, a film on the confrontation with globalized mining in Colombia,