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this week:
Thursday, May 14
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:
Thursday, May 14, 8:45 PM - followed by Q&A!
Kunsang Kyirong | Canada | 2025 | 99m
In this mesmerizing and enigmatic debut feature, a quiet thief forms a bond with the new tenant inside a large apartment complex housing west Toronto's Tibetan community.
Friday, May 15
Screening times:
Thursday, April 30, 6:30 PM - SOLD OUT
Friday, May 15, 6:30 PM -SOLD OUT
Sunday, May 17, 8:00 PM - show added and selling fast!
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.
Saturday, May 16
Screening times:
Sunday, May 3, 5:30 PM
Saturday, May 16, 6:00 PM
The May 16 screening will be followed by a post-film conversation with Nancy Hunter (The Many vs The Money, Community Not Cops, Shoulder to Shoulder) and Sara Farias!
Felipe Bustos Sierra | Scotland | 2026 | 99m
Neighbours and activists rush to surround an immigration van detaining two residents of Scotland’s most diverse community. An intense and ultimately uplifting account of ground level resistance.
Screening times:
Saturday, May 16, 8:30 PM
Colin Higgins | USA | 1980 | 110m
The most lighthearted of our Films of Resistance Retrospective series for May, 9 to 5 still has something to say. Singing along to the theme song IS encouraged.
Sunday, May 17
Screening times:
Sunday, May 17, 5:30 PM
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 - show added and selling fast!
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, April 30, 6:30 PM - SOLD OUT
Friday, May 15, 6:30 PM - SOLD OUT
Sunday, May 17, 8:00 PM - show added and selling fast!
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:
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.
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:
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:
Sunday, June 7, 5:30 PM
Various directors & countries | 2025 | 108m
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