What's On
The Bloodettes
In this early Afro-futurist shlocker from Cameroonian director Jean-Pierre Bekolo (made in 2005 and set in 2025), two sex workers try to dispose of the body of a high profile politician who's died on the job (theirs, not his).
A Generation
Wajda's first film is set in Warsaw, 1942 and concerns a young man much like himself, living in squalor and doing his best to disrupt the German Occupation, eventually falling in with a Communist-leaning Resistance cell.
Strangers on a Train
Sociopath Charles Bruno (Robert Walker) strikes up a conversation with star tennis player Guy Haynes (Farley Granger) and makes him a gentleman's proposition: Bruno will kill Guy's unloved wife, on the understanding that he will return the favour.
Loving Vincent
Winner of the VIFF Audience Award, Best International Feature in 2017, Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman's remarkable animated work — billed as "the world's first fully painted feature" — brings to life the paintings of Vincent van Gogh (and vice versa).
Innocent Sorcerers
The closest Wajda got to a new wave film (and in fact it was shot before Godard's Breathless) this is an edgy romance about a womanizing jazz musician who hooks up with a liberated young woman over the course of an evening. Scripted by Jerzy Skolimowski.
Minotaur
Russia, 2022. While contending with the fallout of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a corporate executive tries to insulate his home life from the consequences of the war. But when he discovers that his wife has been unfaithful, things start to implode.
Hen
You'll be cheering on the daring adventures of the unnamed chicken in this one-of-a-kind live action escape movie from director György Pálfi (Hukkle), one of the oddest but most compelling films of the year.
Everything For Sale
This self-reflexive work serves as both a tribute to Ashes and Diamonds star Zbigniew Cybulski (who died in an accident at 39) and a meta-cinematic exploration of grief, memory, and the filmmaking process itself.