What's On
Chicken For Linda!
Husband and wife duo Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach (The Girl Without Hands) evoke the freewheeling farcical slapstick spirit of Jacques Tati and the palette of Henri Matisse in this sparkling animated gem for all ages.
The Zone of Interest
Glazer's award-winning film follows Hedwig Höss (Sandra Hüller), mother of five, and wife to Rudolph. They live in an idyllic villa with a the bucolic garden, literally a stone's throw from Rudolph's place of work -- he's Camp Commandant at Auschwitz.
Before I Change My Mind
Trevor Anderson's coming of age movie -- set in Edmonton, 1987 -- slyly subverts expectations, embracing complexity and contradiction in its nuanced take on fledgling identities, while delivering laugh-out-loud moments and big emotional showdowns.
Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World
Radu Jude takes two days in the life of a stressed Romanian p.a. and gives us an urgent, pissed off, sourly funny polemic on the state of late capitalism. Exploitation, discrimination and hypocrisy are his targets; dialectics are his dynamite.
With Love and a Major Organ
Anabel has a heart problem: it's just too big for this world. Kim Albright's acclaimed debut strikes a lo-(sci-)fi surrealist vibe reminiscent of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. It's whimsical, unpredictable, and it hits close to home.
A Matter of Life and Death
In this splendid WWII fantasy, RAF pilot Peter (David Niven) cheats death when his plane is downed over the Channel. Washing up on an English beach, he must plead his case for a life extension in the highest court of them all...
500 Days in the Wild
Ten years ago Dianne Whelan decided to trek across Turtle Island, from the Atlantic to the Pacific and the Arctic Oceans, along the Trans-Canada Trail... All 24, 000 km of it. Little did she know what was in store...
The Monk and the Gun
A monk sends his disciple on a surprising mission in this gentle, joyful Bhutanese comedy offering shrewd reflections from a culture far-removed from our own.
Masters of Screwball: Preston Sturges
Preston Sturges created madcap movie magic with his dizzyingly deft blend of witty wordplay, slapstick schtick, kooky characters and risqué romances. Michael van den Bos probes Preston Sturges's sublime screwball style, followed by his film The Lady Eve.
Silvicola
After working as a tree planter for ten years, Jean-Philippe Marquis decided to explore the intersection of forests and men. Atmospheric, alive, complex, this is one of the definitive BC films of recent times.
Close the Divide
Energy experts, climate analysts, psychologists, businessmen and behavioural scientists speak to different ways of thinking about the climate crisis in this provocative environmental film.
Food, Inc. 2
The team behind the Oscar-nominated 2008 impact documentary, including journalists Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma) and Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), return with an update on our reliance on industrial farming and processed food.