What's On
In Viaggio: The Travels of Pope Francis
Master documentarian Gianfranco Rosi (Fire At Sea; Notturno) assembles a mixed progress report on the current pontiff, drawing from archives' of Francis's travels (he's visited 53 countries in a decade), including last summer's trip to Canada.
A Cedar Is Life
The cedar tree has always been central to First Nations cultural practice on the northwest coast. It is, you could say, foundational flora. A Cedar Is Life is an illuminating, passionate film which speaks to a defining aspect of this part of the world.
Navalny
As enthralling as any thriller, Canadian Daniel Roher's Academy Award-winning documentary gives us the inside story as the outspoken Russian dissident pieces together the evidence proving that Russian security forces attempted to assassinate him.
Enys Men
Folk horror-adjacent, Cornish filmmaker Mark Jenkin's follow up to BAFTA winner Bait builds an eerie, ominous ode to island life from echoes, intimations, hallucinations and a dark bottomless pit.
Until Branches Bend
Discovering a potentially invasive insect inside a peach, fruit packer Robin immediately reports it. When management refuses to take action, she goes public with her concerns and precipitates a widescale shutdown in her Okanagan town.
Riceboy Sleeps
Raising her son Dong-hyun (Dohyun Noel Hwang, then Ethan Hwang) in Vancouver’s suburbs, So-young (Choi Seung-yoon), a South Korean immigrant, desperately wants to instill a sense of pride in the boy. Meanwhile, he just wants to fit in.
Last Film Show
Slumdog Millionaire meets Cinema Paradiso? There's something of The Fabelmans too in this semi-autobiographical story about a 9-year-old boy whose first trip to the movies proves life-changing.
Metronom
Seventeen and in love, Ana is in for a rude awakening when Ceausescu's secret police crash the student party where she and her friends have been listening to the pirate station Radio Free Europe. This is 1972 and rock-n-roll is an enemy of the state...
The Colour of Ink
For Jason Logan, master inkmaker, pigmentation is a living element. Brian D. Johnston's radiant, artisanal doc is a real eye-opener.
Le Corbeau
One of the most cynical mystery thrillers of a cynical time, this searing drama exposes a midsized town to the contagion of rumour and innuendo when poison pen letters expose the lies and hypocrisies of prominent citizens. Clouzot spares no one.
Smoking Causes Coughing
After a battle with a foam-rubber turtle, superheroic, hard-smoking Tobacco Force are ordered to undergo a week of team-building. Alas, there’s no rest for the spandex-clad, as the reigning Emperor of Evil schemes to annihilate the universe.