Detour: Collateral
Vincent (Tom Cruise) is a cool, calculating, contract killer at the top of his game. Max (Jamie Foxx) is a hapless cabbie with big dreams and little to show for it. Now, Max has to transport Vincent on his next job – one night, five stops, five hits and a getaway. And after this fateful […]
Blue Heron
Winner of this year’s TIFF Best Canadian Discovery Award, Sophy Romvari’s universally acclaimed feature-length film debut is a powerful and emotionally moving reflection on family, our past, and how our memories shape our lives moving forward. In the late 1990s, a family of six settles into their new home on Vancouver Island, as internal dynamics […]
The Zone: Stalker
One of the most immersive and rarefied experiences in the history of cinema, Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker embarks on a metaphysical journey through an enigmatic post-apocalyptic landscape. A hired guide—the “Stalker” of the title—leads a writer and a scientist into the heart of the Zone, the restricted site of a long-ago disaster, where the three men […]
Palestine 36
Palestine’s Official Selection for the 98th Academy Awards. Annemarie Jacir, a festival favourite, takes us back to Palestine in the 1930s. The film explores the lives and ambitions of people living under British rule, with a strong international cast that includes Jeremy Irons and Hiam Abbass. In 1936, as the British Empire tightens its grip on […]
