Program A-Z

This breezy, poetic film mounts a sharp political critique even as it portrays romance with exquisite gentleness. Set in the beaches, cafes, and galleries of southern Thailand, it focuses on two women united in love but divided by culture.

Exhausted by the grueling grind of the Parisian gig economy and hopping between homeless shelters, Guinean immigrant Souleymane races against time to prepare for his asylum interview. An angry, tender film which is as gripping as any thriller.

In January 1961, seven months after Congolese independence, Patrice Lumumba is assassinated. In excavating the history of this political murder, this essay-film traces the complex and unlikely intersections of American jazz and Cold War geopolitics.

This haunting film depicts a man’s return to the town where he met his now-deceased wife. Shot in long takes, graced with enigmatic motifs, and structured around a lengthy flashback, this is a disturbing but ultimately relatable exploration of love.

Satyajit Ray’s first portrayal of contemporary life in his native Kolkata, The Big City follows the personal triumphs and frustrations of Arati, who decides, despite the protests of her bank-clerk husband, to take a job to help support their family.

The inventor of the California Roll, chef Hidekazu Tojo helped bring sushi to mainstream popularity through his renowned Vancouver restaurant, Tojo's. The Chef & the Daruma is a mouthwatering film touching on immigration, identity, and reinvention.

The first dramatic feature from Act of Killing director Joshua Oppenheimer is a post-apocalyptic musical starring Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, and George MacKay. The cult starts here.

A young seamstress finds herself abandoned and pregnant in post-WWI Copenhagen. With few options, she turns to a candy shop owner who offers special services to women in need, but who is not quite what she seems. True crime with an expressionist touch.

A struggling filmmaker and his girlfriend (real-life couple Ben Petrie and Grace Glowicki) adopt a traumatized rescue dog during the COVID lockdown. Petrie’s hilarious debut is a perfect mix of quarantine comedy, dog movie, and boldly meta autofiction.

After the death of her brother, filmmaker Robie Flores is drawn back to USA/Mexico border town of Eagle Pass, and, while processing her grief, finds echoes and reverberations of her own memories in the hopes, dreams, and daily lives of the youth there.

Johnny Ma’s film stars Kim Ho-jung as a Korean woman who flies to Winnipeg when her immigrant daughter is hospitalized there. This crowd-pleaser plays up cultural differences to hilarious effect and offers a touching take on mother-daughter tension.

Bogdan Mureşanu’s polyphonic tragi-comedy tracks six interconnected stories to capture the mood in Romania on the brink of revolution in 1989.