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Heat

Dir. Jacqueline Zünd
85 min

Heat explores the unequal realities of a warming planet. Taking a sensory approach to its subject, director Jacqueline Zünd reveals how extreme heat intersects with labour rights, migration, and social inequality.

International Village 10

Heysel 85

Dir. Teodora Ana Mihai
91 min

This harrowing drama recreates the 1985 European Cup Final in Belgium, when rival football fans clashed before a ball had even been kicked. Teodora Mihal's film captures the hubris, incompetence, and politicking that compounded the escalating chaos.

Fifth Avenue Cinema - 19+ only International Village 9 Alliance Francaise
How We Stand
How We Stand film image; woman holding up a lit lighter

How We Stand

Dir. Marie Clements
107 min

How We Stand follows three Indigenous sisters separated after their family relocates to Los Angeles under Native American Relocation Program in the 1950s. Twenty years later, they navigate identity, trauma, and very different lives.

Lindsay Family Stage at Granville Island The Rio Theatre
I Plant My Hand in the Garden
I Plant My Hand in the Garden film image; woman getting fitted into a wedding dress

I Plant My Hand in the Garden

Dir. Boris Hadžija, Hoda Taheri
83 min

Boris and Hoda, a newly married couple from Serbia and Iran, respectively, embark on a new chapter of their lives in Berlin. As they anticipate the birth of their child, they refuse to be defined by societal expectations.

The Cinematheque

I Play Rocky

Dir. Peter Farrelly
127 min

In 1975, a broke, unknown actor named Sylvester Stallone bet everything on the screenplay he wrote — with himself attached to star. I Play Rocky tells the improbable story behind one of Hollywood's greatest underdog stories.

Image: © Courtesy of Elevation Pictures

The Park Theatre The Rio Theatre
I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning
I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning film image; group of men celebrating in a bar

I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning

Dir. Clio Barnard
109 min

Having navigated every rite of passage together, five childhood friends now find themselves drifting apart. Clio Barnard conspires with a stellar ensemble to bring these richly detailed, fascinatingly flawed characters to life.

Image: © Chris Harris

SFU Woodwards Fifth Avenue Cinema - 19+ only

I Understand Your Displeasure

Dir. Kilian Armando Friedrich
93 min

This intense realist drama stars Sabine Thalau as Heike, the underpaid, stressed-out manager of a cleaning crew. The non-professional actor portrays the hardship of labour so well that every breath, every arduous movement registers its cost on her soul.

Image: © Wenn Dann Film

The Cinematheque Fifth Avenue Cinema - 19+ only
Idda
Idda film image; two women laughing on a bus

Idda

Dir. Irene Dionisio
89 min

Childhood friends Adele and Sofia reconnect after years apart. Vowing to finally complete their long-planned climb to Mount Etna, the two set out on a strenuous journey up the Sicilian mountainside, where their friendship will be tested and redefined.

International Village 10 SFU Woodwards
In Alaska
In Alaska film image; man in the woods

In Alaska

Dir. Jaap van Heusden, Vinnie Karetak
108 min

In Alaska follows Woody, an Inuk teen whose bullet pierces the Trans-Alaska Pipeline during a failed suicide attempt. Fleeing to Nunavut, he finds community and reconnects with the land and his Inuit roots, discovering what it means to be alive.

Fifth Avenue Cinema - 19+ only International Village 9
In the Heart of the South
In the Heart of the South film image; two women looking at one another with a projector between them

In the Heart of the South

Dir. Nyla Innuksuk
95 min

In the Heart of the South brings North of North co-stars Anna Lambe and Zorga Qaunaq back together for a propulsive, psychological meta-thriller about an Inuk multimedia writer possessed by her own narrative that carves deep into themes of appropriation.

Fifth Avenue Cinema - 19+ only International Village 9
Into the Jaws of the Ogre
Into the Jaws of the Ogre film image; man playing a guitar

Into the Jaws of the Ogre

Dir. Mahsa Karampour
87 min

Having fled Iran for France, filmmaker Mahsa Karampour now reunites with her musician brother in America. Mixing the structure of a road movie with the brashness of a punk anthem, this intimate documentary is humanist filmmaking of the highest order.

The Cinematheque International Village 8
Iron Boy
Iron Boy film image; 2D animated boy looking at clouds

Iron Boy

Dir. Louis Clichy
90 min

Iron Boy, a hand-painted animated feature, follows a hardworking preteen farm boy and his sublime flights of fancy as he faces the earthshaking upheavals of growing up in an iron back brace. Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cannes 2026.

Image: © Eddy Cinema, Beside Productions, Regular Production, France 3 Cinema, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Cinéma, RTBF

Alliance Francaise Lindsay Family Stage at Granville Island
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