What's On
My Neighbours the Yamadas
Takashi Yamada and his wacky wife Matsuko navigate their way through the ups and downs of work, marriage, and family life with a sharp-tongued grandmother who lives with them, a teen son who wishes he had cooler parents, and a pesky daughter.
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.
Whisper of the Heart
A lovely change of pace from Studio Ghibli, this is a teenage first-love story, set in a realistically observed modern day Tokyo. Bookish schoolgirl Shizuku meets her soul mate with a little help from a portly cat. "A beautiful film." Time Out
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.
Princess Mononoke
A mystical fight between humans and the Animal Gods of the forest. Ashitaka, the last prince of a dying race, struggles to find a way for both sides to co-exist. But the fighting only becomes more and more bloody and all hope seems to be lost…
Chess Story
In a standoff he can't win with a Nazi SS officer, Josef Bartok is condemned to solitary confinement until he gives up his secrets. Fate throws him a lifeline: a stolen book... a book of chess games. Yet this book will be key to his escape...
Godland
In the late 19th century, a Danish Lutheran priest is dispatched to a far corner of Iceland where a devout farmer has seen fit to build a church. The physical journey is arduous. His spiritual journey, more taxing still.
Queens of the Qing Dynasty
Recovering from a suicide attempt, a neurodiverse Cape Breton teen is drawn into the orbit of a genderqueer hospital volunteer who hails from Shanghai. Despite their disparate backgrounds, the pair operate on identical idiosyncratic frequencies.
Return to Seoul
25 and reckless, Freddie hops a flight from France to South Korea, vaguely thinking to connect with the parents who put her up for adoption as a baby. She doesn't speak Korean, doesn't know anyone, doesn't even know the names of her birth parents.
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
A cadre of incensed environmental activists assemble in Texas and take dead aim at an oil pipeline. Direct in its discourse and skillful in its construction, Daniel Goldhaber's propulsive thriller is as provocative as it is exhilarating.
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.