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 […]
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 […]
Restoration: Nowhere
“Sexy, psychedelic, dementedly funny… It’s like Clueless with nipple rings.” – Dennis Dermody, Paper The 4K restoration of Gregg Araki’s Nowhere is a stylized foray into the nightmare world of adolescent highs and lows, but more than that, it functions as a study of an entire generation and the direction they’re headed. Where The Doom […]
