What's On
The Chef & the Daruma
The inventor of the California Roll, chef Hidekazu Tojo helped bring sushi to mainstream popularity through his renowned Vancouver restaurant, Tojo's. The Chef & the Daruma is a mouthwatering film touching on immigration, identity, and reinvention.
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Hilarious slapstick hijinks from Aardman Animation.
The Etiquette of Dying: Film + Ron Samworth Concert
Guitarist Ron Samworth's brush with cancer a few years ago inspired a suite, which in turn inspired Melissa Hubert's contemplative 51-minute animated film. After the screening Ron will lead a 4-piece band in an improvised performance.
Vampyr
This Halloween, experimental music duo Magazinist will perform a live score to 1932 classic Vampyr using an array of supernatural contraptions, including a homemade tagelharpa, dulcimers, zithers, synthesizers, and ethereal vocal drones.
The Outrun
After living life on the edge in London, Rona (Saoirse Ronan) attempts to come to terms with her troubled past. She returns to the wild beauty of Scotland’s Orkney Islands — where she grew up — hoping to heal.
Agent of Happiness
In the Kingdom of Bhutan, the government makes a point of asking citizens about their level of contentment. This droll, poetical doc follows census-taker Amber as he takes villagers through the 148-question survey and contemplates his own life too.
Inay (Mama)
Bold and deeply personal, Inay investigates the emotional and psychological repercussions of Canada's Live-In Caregiver Program, which attracted Filipino women migrant workers who left their children to care for strangers out of economic necessity.
The Manchurian Candidate
Jonathan Demme's superbly orchestrated take on Richard Condon's 1959 paranoia novel feels weirdly prescient in its anxieties around global corporate brainwashing, war profiteering, assassination and election fixing.
Winter Kills
An inspired black comic adaptation of the ultimate conspiracy theory, based on a novel by Richard (Manchurian Candidate) Condon. It's a lunatic riff on the Kennedy assassination(s), with Jeff Bridges finding who really killed his brother, the President. Screening in 35mm print.
Sugarcane
"Deeply impactful", Sugarcane is an important contribution to the ongoing process of Truth & Reconciliation in this country, a compassionate, sensitive account of the investigation into residential school abuse at Williams Lake, BC.
What Price Hollywood?
In our latest Film Studies series film critic and historian Donald Brackett gives us a whistle stop studio tour of movies about movies, taking us from the Golden Age to the C21st, beginning with George Cukor's seminal 1932 film, What Price Hollywood.
Come and See
One of the most powerful war films ever made, Elem Klimov's Come and See is an overwhelming and unforgettable experience.