2018 Screenings
The Florida Project
January 17th, 2018
Dir. Sean Baker | 111 mins | 2017 | USA | English, Spanish, Portuguese
Set over one summer, Sean Baker’s THE FLORIDA PROJECT follows precocious 6-year-old Moonee as she courts mischief and adventure with her ragtag playmates and bonds with her rebellious but caring mother, all while living in the shadows of Disney World.
Sami Blood
January 24th, 2018
Dir. Amanda Kernell | 110 mins | 2016 | Norway, Denmark, Sweden | Swedish, Saami
Elle Marja, 14, is a reindeer-breeding Sami girl. Exposed to the racism of the 1930s and race biology examinations at her boarding school, she starts dreaming of another life. To achieve this, Elle Marja has to become someone else and break all ties with her family and culture.
Wonderstruck
February 7th, 2018
Dir. Todd Haynes | 116 mins | 2017 | United States | English, Spanish
From Todd Haynes, the critically-acclaimed director of CAROL and FAR FROM HEAVEN, and Brian Selznick, the bestselling author of THE INVENTION OF HUGO CABRET. Ben and Rose are children from two different eras who secretly wish that their lives were different. Ben longs for the father he’s never known, while Rose dreams of a mysterious actress whose life she chronicles in a scrapbook. When Ben discovers a puzzling clue and Rose reads an enticing headline, they both set out on epic quests to find what they’re missing.
Call Me By Your Name
February 21st, 2018
Dir. Luca Guadagnino | 110 mins | 2017 | Italy, France, United States, Brazil | English, Italian, French, German, Hebrew
It’s the summer of 1983 and precocious 17-year-old Elio Perlman is spending the days with his family at their 17th-century villa in Northern Italy. He soon meets Oliver, a handsome doctoral student who’s working as an intern for Elio’s father. Amid the sun-drenched splendour of their surroundings, Elio and Oliver begin a relationship that will alter their lives forever.
Lady Bird
March 7th, 2018
Dir. Greta Gerwig | 94 mins | 2017 | USA | English
A fiercely independent teenager tries to make her own way in the world while wanting to get out of her hometown of Sacramento, California & to get away from her complicated mother & recently-unemployed father.
Nominated for 5 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Screenplay!
Indigenous Week Free Screening: Colonization Road + Q&A with filmmaker Michelle St. John
March 9th, 2018
Dir. Michelle St. John | 49 mins | 2016 | Canada | English
In towns throughout Ontario, there are startling reminders of the colonization of Indigenous territories and the displacement of First Nations people. Anishinaabe comedian and activist Ryan McMahon takes us to his hometown of Fort Frances and down its main drag, which is called Colonization Road. Similar streets have similar names in towns and cities across the province, direct reminders of the Public Lands Act of 1853 and its severe impact on First Nations, their treaties and their land in the name of “Canadian settlement.” On his journey through Ontario, McMahon explores the history of these roads, meets with settlers in solidarity and raises significant questions about “reconciliation” and what it means to “decolonize.”
Faces Places
March 21st, 2018
Dir. Agnès Varda & JR | 89 mins | 2017 | France | French
Legendary French filmmaker Agnès Varda and renowned muralist/photographer JR travel to villages and small towns throughout France, meeting communities of people and creating large portraits of them to plaster on the surroundings. Nominated for Best Documentary Film at the 90th Academy Awards, where Varda will be receiving a lifetime achievement award.
Hostiles
April 4th, 2018
Dir. Scott Cooper | 133 mins | 2017 | USA | English, Cheyenne, French
In 1892, after nearly two decades of fighting the Cheyenne, the Apache, and the Comanche natives, the United States Cavalry Captain and war hero, Joseph Blocker, is ordered to escort the ailing Cheyenne chief, Yellow Hawk to his ancestral home in Montana’s Valley of the Bears.
Lady Macbeth
April 18th, 2018
Dir. William Oldroyd | 89 mins | 2017 | United Kingdom | English
In rural England, 1865, a young woman trapped in a loveless marriage begins a passionate affair with a worker on her estate. Winner of Best Actress, Best Screenplay and Best Cinematography at the British Independent Film Awards.
Loveless
May 2nd, 2018
Dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev | 127 mins | 2017 | Russian, Portuguese, Uzbek | Russia, France, Germany, Belgium
An estranged Russian couple going through a brutal divorce both have new partners and want to start over, until their 12-year-old son disappears. Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards. Winner of the Jury Prize at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.
Meditation Park
May 16th, 2018
Dir. Mina Shum | 94 mins | 2017 | Canada | English, Cantonese
A bittersweet comedy about a devoted Chinese-Canadian wife and mother in East Vancouver whose life and family are forever altered after she discovers an orange thong in her husband`s pocket, forcing her on a journey of truth and liberation.
Indian Horse
June 3rd, 2018
Dir. Stephen Campanelli | 100 mins | 2017 | Canada | English
In late 1950s Ontario, seven-year-old Saul Indian Horse is torn from his Ojibway family and committed to one of Canada’s notorious Catholic residential schools. Despite the horrors, Saul finds salvation in the unlikeliest of places and favourite Canadian pastimes: hockey. His talent leads him away from the misery of the school to a Northern Ontario indigenous league and eventually the pros. But the ghosts of Saul’s past continue to haunt him.
RBG
September 12th, 2018
Dir. Betsy West & Julie Cohen | 98 mins | 2018 | USA | English, Italian, German, French
A revelatory documentary exploring the life and career of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. With unprecedented access, the filmmakers explore how her early legal battles changed the world for women.
On Chesil Beach
September 26th, 2018
Dir. Dominic Cooke | 110 mins | 2017 | United Kingdom | English
Based on the acclaimed novel by Ian McEwan. In 1962 England, a young couple find their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure.
Let the Sunshine In
October 10th, 2018
Dir. Claire Denis | 94 mins | 2017 | France, Belgium | French
A Claire Denis romcom? We’re sold! Subverting fairytale tropes with fine irony, this wonderfully unpredictable take on middle-age female desire and the volatility of emotions stars an exquisitely mercurial Juliette Binoche—searching for love, encountering mostly disappointment. Oh, and that ending!
Mary Shelley
October 24th, 2018
Dir. Haifaa al-Mansour | 121 mins | 2017 | United Kingdom, Luxembourg, United States, Ireland, Australia | English
In the early 19th century, Mary Wollstonecraft begins a romantic relationship with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, against the wishes of her family, inspiring her to write FRANKENSTEIN.
The Wife
November 7th, 2018
Dir. Björn Runge | 105 mins | 2017 | United Kingdom, Sweden, United States | English
Based on the bestselling novel by Meg Wolitzer. Joan and Joe (Glenn Close and Jonathan Pryce) have been married for 40 years. As Joe is about to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, Joan starts to think about their shared compromises, secrets and betrayals.