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this week:
Sunday, May 17
Screening times:
Sunday, May 17, 5:30 PM - SOLD OUT
Thursday, May 21, 9:00 PM - show added!
Chandler Levack | Canada | 2025 | 112m
A bright romantic comedy starring Barbie Ferreira as Grace, a 24-year-old music critic who moves to Montréal to figure out life and love.
Screening times:
Thursday, April 30, 6:30 PM - SOLD OUT
Friday, May 15, 6:30 PM - SOLD OUT
Sunday, May 17, 8:00 PM - SOLD OUT
Friday, May 22, 9:15 PM - show added!
Annemarie Jacir | Palestine, UK, France, Denmark, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan | 2025 | 120m
English, Arabic with English subtitles
1936. As villages across Palestine rise against British colonial rule, Yusuf drifts between his rural home and the energy of Jerusalem, longing for a future beyond the growing unrest. But history is relentless.
COMING SOON:
Screening times:
Thursday, May 21, 6:30 PM - Amir and Dounia Daoud attending!
Julien Cadieux | Canada | 2025 | 75m
French, Arabic, Spanish with English subtitles
Dounia travels the world with her son Amir, who has a rare genetic mutation. Together they embrace life while inviting others they meet along the way to welcome difference.
Screening times:
Sunday, May 17, 5:30 PM - tickets nearly gone!
Thursday, May 21, 9:00 PM - show added!
Chandler Levack | Canada | 2025 | 112m
A bright romantic comedy starring Barbie Ferreira as Grace, a 24-year-old music critic who moves to Montréal to figure out life and love.
Original title: La Vallée des Fous
Screening times:
Friday, May 22, 6:30 PM
Xavier Beauvois | France | 2024 | 120m
French with English subtitles
Jean-Paul is going through a rough patch. Up to his ears in debt, he signs up to a ‘virtual regatta’, and commits to sailing around the world… from his garden.
Screening times:
Thursday, April 30, 6:30 PM - SOLD OUT
Friday, May 15, 6:30 PM - SOLD OUT
Sunday, May 17, 8:00 PM - SOLD OUT
Friday, May 22, 9:15 PM - show added!
Annemarie Jacir | Palestine, UK, France, Denmark, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan | 2025 | 120m
English, Arabic with English subtitles
1936. As villages across Palestine rise against British colonial rule, Yusuf drifts between his rural home and the energy of Jerusalem, longing for a future beyond the growing unrest. But history is relentless.
Screening times:
Sunday, May 3, 8:00 PM
Saturday, May 23, 6:00 PM
Radu Jude | Romania | 2025 | 109m
Romanian, Hungarian, and German with English subtitles
A court bailiff in the Transylvanian town of Cluj is having a very bad day. Shot on a cell phone over 10 days, Kontinental ‘25 is a scathing social satire from provocateur Radu Jude.
Screening times:
Saturday, May 23, 8:30 PM
Alanis Obomsawin | 1993 | Canada | 119m
A dispute over a proposed golf course to be built on Kanien’kéhaka lands in Oka, Québec, set the stage for a historic confrontation that would grab international headlines and sear itself into the Canadian consciousness.
Screening times:
Thursday, May 14, 6:30 PM
Sunday, May 24, 5:30 PM
Sophy Romvari | Canada,Hungary | 2025 | 91m
English, Hungarian with English subtitles
In this assured debut feature based on the filmmaker's childhood, an 8-year-old and her immigrant family have their fresh start interrupted by dangerous behavior from the family's oldest child.
Screening times:
Sunday, May 24, 7:45 PM
Jennifer Lynch | USA | 1993 | 107m
A surgeon becomes obsessed with the seductive woman he once was in an affair with. Refusing to accept that she has moved on, he amputates her limbs and holds her captive in his mansion.
Screening times:
Thursday, June 4, 6:30 PM
Director Mathieu Denis attending!
Mathieu Denis | Canada | 2025 | 116m
French with English subtitles
Facing financial hardship and craving prosperity, a family man takes progressively darker actions in his desperate pursuit of a better life.
Screening times:
Friday, June 5th 6:30 PM
Saturday,June 20th 6:00 PM
Faith Akin | Canada | 2026 | 93 m
German with English subtitles
In 1945 Amrum Island, 12-year-old Nanning hunts seals, fishes at night, and farms to help feed his family. Life feels idyllic on this windswept isle until peace reveals an unexpected danger closer to home.
Screening times:
Saturday, June 6th, 6:00 PM
Genki Kawamura | Japan | 2026 | 95 m
Japanese with English subtitles
A man trapped in a endless sterile subway passageway sets out to find Exit 8. The rules of his quest are simple: do not overlook anything out of the ordinary. If you discover an anomaly, turn back immediately. If you don’t, carry on. Then leave from Exit 8. But even a single oversight will send him back to the beginning. Will he ever reach his goal and escape this infinite corridor?
Screening times:
Saturday, June 6, 9:00 PM
Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Canada | 2001| 122m
French with English subtitles
Amélie is a fanciful comedy about a young woman who discretely orchestrates the lives of the people around her, creating a world exclusively of her own making.
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Check out the animation festival website for details about the Animation festival of Halifax!
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