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Love & Independence
A program of shorts that introduces daring new voices in Canadian cinema. Personal, playful, provocative, and self-financed, these films offer the freedom to express boldly through practices rooted in filmmaking among friends.
Endless Cookie
Are you ready for the most Canadian comedy of recent years? It's a documentary about half-siblings sharing stories, but it's mostly about interruptions, digressions, diversions, and free pizza. It's also animated, but you probably already noticed that.
The Art of Adventure
The unbelievable adventure story of how painter Robert Bateman and ecologist Bristol Foster drove a Land Rover from Africa to Australia in 1957, developing a love of nature to last a lifetime. An inspirational love letter to the adventure of life itself.
Chasing Ice
This visually stunning film follows renowned National Geographic photographer James Balog on a harsh Arctic expedition where he captures a multi-year record of the world's changing glaciers — undeniable evidence that our planet is in crisis. The screening will be introduced by James Balog.
Canadian Film Showcase
Canadian Film Showcase
Apr 10 – 19
Canadian Film Showcase features returning festival favourites, brand-new premieres, free screenings on National Canadian Film Day (April 15), and a specially curated program by Sook-Yin Lee (Paying for It).
DIY: Making Movies No Matter What
Apr 17 – 19
Curated by Sook-Yin Lee (Paying for It), DIY: Making Movies No Matter What spotlights filmmakers who’ve relied on resourcefulness over resources and mobilized their communities to create extraordinary independent cinema.
Queering Cinema
Apr 1 – 29 | Curated by Fay Nass
This year’s Queering Cinema brings together films that inhabit the space where desire collides with displacement, fantasy, power, migration, and risk.
Fucktoys Advance Screening + Annapurna Sriram Q&A
Bold, irreverent, and fiercely queer, Fucktoys plunges into a world where pleasure, performance, and identity collide. This special advance screening comes with a Q&A with filmmaker Annapurna Sriram.
Lingua Franca
Lingua Franca is a tender portrait of intimacy shaped by migration, vulnerability, and the quiet negotiations of belonging. Centered on an undocumented Filipina trans woman living in New York, the film moves with delicate restraint.
Pantheon: The Greatest Films of All Time
Pantheon is a monthly series showcasing a selection of the “greatest movies of all time,” inspired by the mother of all film lists, the critics’ poll that has run once a decade in the UK’s Sight & Sound magazine since 1952.
Sansho the Bailiff
Apr 19
The third of the great Japanese masters (with Ozu and Kurosawa), Mizoguchi is a poet of suffering. There’s plenty of that here in his exquisite telling of an ancient folktale about the enslavement of a woman and her two children.
Talking Pictures
Created for film lovers 55+ (but open to anyone), the Talking Pictures series offers films, refreshments and an open invitation to chat about our shared experience of the movie.
The Lives of Others
Apr 28
This month’s Talking Pictures film is a masterly Cold War thriller set in East Berlin. An agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives…
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