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A Film About Coffee
Presented by Bridgehead Coffee CANADIAN PREMIERE – A Film About Coffee is a love letter to, and meditation on, specialty coffee. It examines what it takes, and what it means, for coffee to be defined as specialty. The film whisks audiences on a trip around the world, from farms in
Blood Glacier
OTTAWA PREMIERE | STARTS JULY 4 It’s a premise that harks back to the best of Fifties horror films. Four scientists working at a remote base in the Austrian Alps discover a glacier stained red as if bleeding. Janek (Gerhard Liebmann) sees a strange creature near the site, something like
All Cheerleaders Die
OTTAWA PREMIERE | STARTS JUNE 27 Part lesbian romance, part supernatural thriller, part feminist revenge fantasy, Lucky McKees and Chris Sivertsons All Cheerleaders Die is a playful genre riff that has something for everyone. Director Lucky McKee has always been interested in women and womens issues. In his breakthrough film May, he told
Scarecrow Club, The
Theatrical premier screening of the Action/Political thriller The ScareCrow Club Tickets: $10.00
Tracks
VENICE — Robyn Davidsons remarkable journey in 1977 across 1,700 miles of Australian desert to the Indian Ocean with four camels and a dog is given a richly sensorial screen treatment in John Currans Tracks. Alternately haunting, inspiring and dreamily meditative, this is a visually majestic film of transfixing moods and textures. Its
Fading Gigolo
Woody Allen plays a pimp and John Turturro his gigolo employee. Got that? Accept the brilliantly absurd premise of Fading Gigolo and youre in for a hilarious ride. Working from his own screenplay, Turturro sets up the crazy idea in quick, bold strokes, then goes on to explore just what it would
Sacrament, The
OTTAWA PREMIERE | STARTS JUNE 20 Its really tough in this day and age to come up with new insight in to the mindset of the cult. Director Ti West manages to accomplish such a feat during the narrative of The Sacrament where he not only explores the facade of
Only Lovers Left Alive
When an artist like Jim Jarmusch tackles a love story between two vampires starring Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton you know several things from the outset. Were not going to be seeing anything less than transcendent performances, a philosophical sophistication in the narrative, and ethereal visuals, but I wasnt expecting
Borgman
OTTAWA PREMIERE | STARTS JULY 4 If Michael Haneke had a slightly less ironic appreciation of the term funny games, he might have cooked up something a little like Borgman, a sly, insidious and intermittently hilarious domestic thriller that is likely to remain one of the most daring selections of this years Cannescompetish.
Cyber-Seniors
OTTAWA PREMIERE | STARTS JULY 4 Affable and optimistic, the Canadian documentary “Cyber-Seniors” depicts the efforts of enterprising teenagers to get a technology-averse older generation to sign on, log in and start friending. Filmmaker Saffron Cassaday has more than an observer’s interest in capturing the retirement crowd getting better in