Movies
Founder, The
This drama tells the true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a
Found Footage Festival
At this skull-crushingly funny (AV Club) celebration of odd and hilarious found videos, hosts Joe Pickett (The Onion) and Nick Prueher (Late Show with David Letterman) provide observations and commentary on VHS oddities from curiously-produced industrial training videos to forsaken home movies discovered at thrift shops and garage sales throughout
Fortunate Son
OTTAWA PREMIERE | FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE After overcoming a severe drug problem, Montréal filmmaker Tony Asimakopoulos (formerly of Ottawa) turns his documentary camera on his complicated, painful relationship with his Greek immigrant parents. Following Tony from his childhood home to the villages of his parents birth
Fort Tilden
OTTAWA PREMIERE | STARTS OCTOBER 9 A comedy about Allie and Harper and their needlessly difficult journey to the beach. Fort Tilden: New York City’s secluded seaside nirvana where, like flies to honey, Brooklyn’s hip millennial set flocks on sweltering weekend afternoons for unbridled summertime indulgence. Amidst the vexing stagnation
Forks Over Knives
We predict a run on the Lansdowne Farmers Market after we show this impassioned plea for a shift away from meat and processed foods to a plant-based diet that can apparently prevent high blood pressure, heart disease and cancer. If Food Inc. didn’t scare you off red meat, Forks over
Ford v Ferrari
Starts the Week of February 14th! 2x Oscar winner: Best Film Editing, and Sound Editing! Also nominated for 2 more Oscars: Best Motion Picture, and Sound Mixing! American car designer Carroll Shelby and driver Ken Miles battle corporate interference, the laws of physics and their own personal demons to build
Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie
David Suzuki holds twenty-four honorary degrees, has written forty-eight books, was voted one of the greatest Canadians of all time, hosts the long-running TV series The Nature of Things and is a pioneering environmentalist. Check out this film to learn the rest of the story.
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
Forbidden Films at the Mayfair
Forbidden Films at the Mayfair – Sunday March 16 at 3:30pm! An afternoon of sensual cinema, a showcase of short erotic films that explore the spectrum of human sexual desire. Presented by Kinks & Coffee and Wicked Wanda’s There will be a short panel discussion before the screening starts focused
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