What's On
M. Butterfly
David Cronenberg's adaptation of David Henry Hwang's Tony Award-winning play reimagines Puccini's Madama Butterfly, unraveling themes of deception, cultural fantasy, and the power of performance.
We Will Be Brave
The "Good Guise" collective sparks conversations around healthy masculinity through art. We Will Be Brave talks about men's mental health in a way that is honest, vulnerable, timely and very rarely seen on screen. Join us for an audience talkback. Free event.
Sweet Summer Pow Wow
After the local hit The Great Salish Heist, writer-director Darrell Dennis proves his versatility with this charming love story about two young people who meet cute on BC's Pow Wow circuit. Her mom wants her to become a lawyer, but Jinny loves to dance...
The Decline of the American Empire
Friends from the History Department at the University of Montreal come together for a dinner party. While the men prepare the meal, the women work out at the gym. In both groups, the conversation returns repeatedly to sex...
Village Keeper
In Karen Chapman’s sensitive debut feature, a widowed mother desperate to shelter her teenage daughter and son from a surge of gun violence in Toronto takes it upon herself to cleanse the blood from crime scenes in her Lawrence Heights neighbourhood.
The Barbarian Invasions
Arcand's belated sequel finds his erstwhile "sensual socialist" facing terminal cancer and trying to make peace with his financier son. This is one of the most acclaimed Canadian films ever made, garlanded all over the world.
Incandescence
Filmed across the Okanagan before, during and after several devastating fires by veteran non-fiction filmmakers Nova Ami and Velcrow Ripper (Metamorphosis; ScaredSacred), Incandescence is a mesmerizing cinematic contemplation of the power of wildfires.
Crocodile Eyes
Drawing on home movies and her immediate family relations, Ingrid Veninger sets out to make a film comprising 100 "real moments": birth, death, and the in-between. Minutes mundane and momentous, personal histories, memories shared.
Universal Language
In a wintery, Farsi-speaking city that’s equal measures Winnipeg and Tehran, storylines entangle and the concepts of space, time, and identity grow increasingly opaque. Inventive and absurd, Rankin's poetic fable reminds us that Winnipeg is a wonderland. Rated: G
The Players
In this intense semi-autobiographical debut feature, teenager Emily (the remarkable Stefani Kimber) joins an experimental theatre troupe led by the charismatic Reinhardt (Eric Johnson). It will be a rite of passage fraught with menace. Rated: PG
Field Sketches
A Vancouver architect (Vincent Gale) goes into a midlife tailspin when his business fails and his younger girlfriend walks out. Trying to get back on track, he resolves to tough out a Saskatchewan winter on the farm where he and his brother grew up.
Young Werther
"Based on the smash hit 1774 novel of tragic romance," as the opening text declares, this delightfully arcane Toronto rom-com is one of the most unexpected debut features of the past year, and a low-key triumph on top.