Familiar Touch – Screening on September 6, 7, 8, 10, 11! Advance tickets now available for Familiar Touch! Familiar Touch is a coming of (old) age film. It follows an octogenarian woman’s transition to life in assisted living as she contends with her conflicting desires and self-narratives amidst her
Falling For Figaro – Ottawa Premiere the Week of Friday October 1st! Advance tickets now available for Falling For Figaro! A brilliant young fund manager leaves her unfulfilling job and long-term boyfriend to chase her lifelong dream of becoming an opera singer in the Scottish Highlands. From Sundance:
Falling – Ottawa Premiere coming soon! Advance ticket info coming soon! John Peterson lives with his partner Eric and their adopted daughter in Southern California. When he is visited by his aging father Willis from Los Angeles who is searching for a place to retire, their two very different worlds
Fallen Leaves – Screening on December 8, 1 0, 12! Advance tickets now available for Fallen Leaves! In modern-day Helsinki, two lonely souls in search of love meet by chance in a karaoke bar. However, their path to happiness is beset by obstacles – from lost phone numbers to
UPDATE: In addition to the ~45 minutes of original, fake trailers submitted by local and international filmmakers, the evening will include ~30 minutes of obscure, rare and unbelievable-but-true trailers for films from the actual grindhouse era! In the tradition of Rodriguez’s and Tarantino’s Grindhouse, we present a festival
Our third festival of real trailers for fake movies features an hour of original fake trailers, followed by another hour of ultra-rare, ultra-bizarre trailers for cult and grindhouse classics all presented in glorious 35mm! Were still looking for trailers: Submit your original, fake trailer (:30 or :60 TV-commercial style,
From the director of The Bourne Identity, this depiction of how the Bush White House outed CIA agent Valerie Plame (Naomi Watts), putting her and her husband (Sean Penn) at risk is” a tale of heroism in the face of fearsome, powerful opposition, [with heroes that are] messily, fascinatingly human.”
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
I dont like to look back, declares Nikki, though its clear shes never really gotten over the death of her husband.When Nikki returns to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in pursuit of the man she spots whos a live ringer for her dead husband, the main exhibit is