Writers Festival presents Allah, Liberty & Love with Irshad Manji

Irshad Manji, the New York Times bestselling author to whom Oprah gave her first ever Chutzpah Award, returns to the Festival stage with Allah, Liberty & Love, a book about how to become a gutsy global citizen working for both personal and world peace. Manji has faith not just in Allah,

Wrestling Jerusalem

Writer-Actor Aaron Davidman embodies seventeen different characters in and around the sacred city of Jerusalem as he takes us on an eye-opening journey into the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian story. Exploring universal questions of identity and human connection, the film is about one man’s effort to embrace a multiplicity of

Wrecking Crew, The

What the Funk Brothers did for Motown…The Wrecking Crew did, only bigger, for the West Coast Sound. Six years in a row in the 1960’s and early 1970’s, the Grammy for “Record of the Year” went to Wrecking Crew recordings. And now, THE WRECKING CREW tells the story in pictures

Wreck-It Ralph

PRESENTED BY LOST MARBLES | OSCAR NOMINEE, BEST ANIMATED FEATURE The director of several of the best-ever episodes of The Simpsons helms this tale of a videogame villain who desperately wants to overcome his programming and be a hero and the result is an arcade-generation Roger Rabbit [thats] worth

World Water Day

Blue Drinks Ottawa and the Canadian Water Resources Association Ontario branch are thrilled to be hosting their fifth annual World Water Day event in Ottawa, at the Mayfair Theatre. World Water Day, which dates back to the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, is a day

World War Z

PRESENTED BY ZOMBIEINFO.COM Brad Pitt is a United Nations rep who must save his family (and maybe even the rest of globe) from total annihilation by zombies. At least he gets to see the world”Walking out of World War Z, I realized I probably havent felt this edgy and paranoid

World on a Wire

OTTAWA PREMIERE | NEW DIGITAL RESTORATION A dystopic sci-fi epic, Fassbinders gloriously cracked, boundlessly inventive take on future paranoia tells the noir-spiked tale of reluctant action hero Fred Stiller, a cybernetics engineer who uncovers a massive conspiracy. At risk? Our entire (virtual) reality as we know it. This long unseen,

Words and Pictures

A witty romantic drama, WORDS & PICTURES stars the engaging duo of Juliette Binoche and Clive Owen working together on-screen for the first time. Prep school English teacher Jack Marcus (OWEN) laments his students’ obsession with social media and good grades rather than engaging with the power of the written