Do Donkeys Act?

Ottawa Premiere on Sunday December 10th! Oscar nominee Willem Dafoe narrates this strange and surprisingly beautiful Hot Docs Festival favourite about a group of donkeys recovering from abuse in a sanctuary. In entrancingly rhythmic prose, Dafoe gives a new perspective on the donkey—deterring us from adding human values to their

Django Unchained

The D may be silent, but the guns seldom are in Tarantino’s epic antebellum revenge saga. See it with someone who wants to stick it to the man. The slave-sploitation classic Mandingo — a key influence on Django — plays Mar 30!

Django (1966)

Before you see Tarantino’s Django Unchained, see the film that inspired him — a bloody Spaghetti Western about a man (Franco Nero) who deals so much death, he brings his own coffin with him wherever he goes!

Dixie Dynamite

This month, Saturday Night Sinema sets it off with this story – from the team behind Race with the Devil – of two sisters who “enlist motor-cycling drunk Warren Oates in a campaign of explosive revenge after the death of their pa in a moonshine war.” (Time Out London) You

Divinity

Divinity – Ottawa Premiere on November 5, 8! Advance tickets now available for Divinity! Centers on two mysterious brothers, who abduct a mogul during his quest for immortality. Meanwhile, a seductive woman helps them launch a journey of self-discovery. Produced and presented by Academy Award winning director Steven

Divide, The

OTTAWA PREMIERE | OFFICIAL SELECTION, SXSW 2011 Locked together in a fallout shelter beneath a decimated New York, Michael Biehn, Milo Ventimiglia, Rosanna Arquette, Courtney B. Vance and others pass their time playing Lord of the Flies in this “profoundly intense” cinema experience. (Quiet Earth)

Disorder

Vincent is an ex-soldier with PTSD who is hired to protect the wife and child of a wealthy Lebanese businessman while he’s out of town. Despite the apparent tranquility on Maryland, Vincent perceives an external threat.

Disobedience

Discopath

OTTAWA PREMIERE | ONE NIGHT ONLY Amidst a sea of films attempting to recapture the glories of bygone exploitation fare, DISCOPATH (a world premiere at the current Fantasia festival) gets it right—a swift, satisfying salute to the slasher cinema of the ’70s and early ’80s, with a premise it’s hard

Dirty Harry

Dirty Harry – Clint Eastwood Fest / 50th Anniversary – November 13, 14, 17, 18! Advance tickets now available for Dirty Harry! When a madman calling himself “the Scorpio Killer” menaces the city, tough-as-nails San Francisco Police Inspector “Dirty” Harry Callahan is assigned to track down and ferret out