Screening times:
Thursday, April 9, 6:30 PM
Sunday, April 26, 5:30 PM
Sunday, April 26, 8:00 PM - show added!

Kristen Stewart | France, Latvia, UK, USA | 2025 | 128m

In Kristin Stewart’s raw and powerful debut feature, Lidia (Imogen Poots) suffers the rages of an abusive father. She throws herself into competitive swimming as an escape and wins a college scholarship, which she blows on drink and drugs before moving towards finding her true voice through writing.

Screening times:
Saturday, April 25, 6:00 PM - please note this screening occurs at Bus Stop Theatre!

Michael Almereyda | USA | 1994 | 93m

Vampire Nadja launches a feud against her father Dracula’s killer, with stops along the way for seductions and murder. A shimmering restoration of a cult gem and a time capsule of 90s  New York (if there were vampires).

Screening times:
Friday, April 24, 6:30 PM

R. T. Thorne | Canada | 2025 | 113m - director R.T. Thorne will be attending a post-film Q&A live via video-link!

A series of plagues and wars has obliterated society, but the Freemans thrive on a farm in the middle of nowhere... so long as they repel the occasional raiding party.

Screening times:
Saturday, April 18, 5:45 PM
Thursday, April 23, 6:30 PM

Simón Mesa Soto | Colombia, Germany, Sweden | 2025 | 120m
Spanish with English subtitles

An aging, drink-addled poet finds a new, dubious purpose in his life by mentoring a young talent in this twisted social satire.

Screening times:
Sunday, April 19, 8:00 PM

Gregg Araki | USA | 2007 | 84m

Featuring a tour-de-force lead performance from Anna Faris, alongside an eclectic ensemble cast including John Krasinski, Jane Lynch, and Carrot Top, Gregg Araki’s Smiley Face was a cult classic on arrival, and is credited with inventing the female stoner comedy! Pregame your 4/20 at Carbon Arc with the only stoner comedy to have premiered at the Cannes Film Festival!

Screening times:
Sunday, April 19, 5:30 PM

Harry Lighton | UK, Ireland | 2025 | 107m

A timid man (Harry Melling) is swept off his feet and onto the back of a motorcycle when an enigmatic, impossibly handsome biker (Alexander Skarsgård) takes him on as his submissive. A hilarious, subversive, sexy, and tender love story with lots of leather.

Screening times:
Saturday, April 18, 8:30 PM

Céline Sciamma | France | 2022 | 75m
French with English subtitles

8-year-old Nelly is helping her parents clear out her late grandmother’s home when she befriends a girl her age, in this fairytale of grief and hope. We’re screening Sciamma on Saturday nights all through April!

Screening times:
Saturday, April 11, 6:00 PM - plus post-film conversation with Carbon Arc programmer!
Friday, April 17, 6:30 PM

Hong Sang-soo | South Korea | 2025 | 108m
Korean with English subtitles

When poet Donghwa visits his girlfriend's family for the first time, a pleasant afternoon of conversation and home-cooked meals gradually shifts into something sharper. Slow cinema meets fast-flowing wine in the latest from Hong Sang-soo (The Novelists Film, A Traveller’s Needs).

Screening times:
Saturday, April 4, 6:00 PM
Thursday, April 16, 6:30 PM

Gabriel Mascaro | Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Netherlands | 86m
Portuguese with English subtitles

Tereza is due to be sent to a remote colony for over-80s. She defies her fate and embarks on a forbidden journey down the Amazon, fulfilling a lifelong dream. A gentle sci-fi drama and a uniquely life-affirming, coming-of-(old)-age story.

Screening times:
Wednesday, April 15, 6:30 PM

Ryszard Bugajski | Canada | 1991 | 100m
Followed by panel discussion with special guests!
Restoration Courtesy of Severin Films

35th Anniversary Screening and National Canadian Film Day screening! Graham Greene plays an Indigenous activist who recruits a white lawyer to kidnap the manager of a logging plant that has been clearcutting on unceded land. As tensions rise, each man will learn the cost of their violence in this critique of pacifism.

Screening times:
Sunday, April 12, 5:30 PM
Sunday, April 12, 7:30 PM - show added!

Kunihiko Yuyama | Japan | 1998 | 75m
Dubbed in English

Anyone of a certain age remembers the impact that this movie had on an entire generation. A surprisingly tender and exististential adventure now recognized as a bonafide animated cult classic.

Screening times:
Saturday, April 11, 8:30 PM

Céline Sciamma | France | 2019 | 120m
French with English subtitles

Set in late 18th century Brittany, the daughter of a French countess falls in love with the woman commissioned to paint her wedding portrait. Winner of the Cannes Queer Palm. We’re screening Sciamma on Saturday nights all through April! Films include Tomboy, Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Petite Maman.

Screening times:
Saturday, March 28, 6:00 PM* - SOLD OUT
Sunday, April 5, 8:15 PM - show added!

* the March 28 screening occurs at Bus Stop Theatre on Gottingen St

Park Chan-wook | Korea | 2025 | 139m
Korean with English subtitles

An unemployed salary man takes increasingly violent measures to eliminate the competition for a new position. A wickedly clever takedown of the corporate rat race that finds a perfect avatar in Lee Byung-Hun's skillfully hapless performance.

Screening times:
Sunday, April 5, 5:30 PM

Óliver Laxe | Spain, France | 2025 | 114m
Spanish, French, and Arabic with English subtitles

In this apocalyptic road movie, a father and son follow a group of ravers deep into the mountains of southern Morocco, searching for their daughter and sister who vanished at a party. Sirāt was winner of the 2025 Cannes Jury Prize!

Screening times:
Saturday, April 4, 8:30 PM

Céline Sciamma | France | 2011 | 84m
French with English subtitles

A young girl starts to dress like a boy in Sciamma’s tender and affectionate sophomore feature. In tune with the emotion and tribulations of childhood, Tomboy is a charming movie that treats its main subject with warmth and heart. We’re screening Sciamma on Saturday nights all through April!

Screening times:
Friday, April 3, 6:30 PM

Matthew Solomon | USA | 2026 | 92m - director and special guests attending
This screening will have English captions, and the post-film conversation will be accompanied by ASL interpreters

"Seeds for Liberation" explores Palestinian resistance through emotional and impactful interviews with historians, activists, legal scholars, and experts. The documentary demonstrates how social media has exposed daily life in Gaza and the West Bank, challenging dominant Western narratives and bringing the Free Palestine movement into global consciousness.

Screening times:
Thursday, April 2, 6:30 PM

Matthew Solomon | USA | 2023 | 83m - director and special guests attending
This screening will have English captions, and the post-film conversation will be accompanied by ASL interpreters

Reimagining Safety illustrates the history and impact of policing, why harmful aspects persist, the role of the media, and how resources and care-based interventions reduce crime while improving societal conditions.

Screening times:
Thursday, March 19, 6:30 PM
Sunday, March 29, 7:45 PM

Jonah Malak | Canada | 2025 | 84m
English and Spanish with English subtitles

Marisela and Ely are part of a volunteer group who seek, find, and return the bodies of migrants who died in the Arizona desert, while crossing the US-Mexico border on foot. Spare My Bones, Coyote! is a documentary that follows this challenging, dangerous, and heartrending work, and peers into the difficult and dedicated lives these people have chosen.

Screening times:
Saturday, March 21, 6:00 PM
Sunday, March 29, 5:30 PM

Christian Petzold | Germany | 2025 | 86m
German with English subtitles

Past and present collide in this sly psychodrama, as Laura (Paula Beer), a young woman from Berlin, survives a countryside car crash before she gradually enters the fold of a mysterious, pained family.

Screening times:
Friday, March 27, 6:30 PM

Lav Diaz | Portugal, Spain, France, Philippines, Taiwan | 2025 | 160m
Portuguese, Spanish, Tagalog, French with English subtitles

Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan rebels against the power of his king, but becomes a conquerer despite his original dreams of exploration. Magellan blends Lav Diaz's slow cinema rigor with the biopic form to create a visually hypnotic, deliberately paced historical epic that immerses viewers in a spiritually charged meditation on power, mythology, and colonial ambition.

Screening times:
Thursday, March 26, 6:30 PM - SOLD OUT
Thursday, March 26, 9:00 PM - show added!

Gus Van Sant | USA | 1991 | 102m
In English with English open captions

Scott and Mike are sex workers and lovers. Scott hates his rich father and resists his mapped-out future, while Mike is stalked by narcolepsy and his memories.

Screening times:
Friday, March 13, 6:30 PM
Sunday, March 22, 7:45 PM

Ameer Fakher Eldin | Canada, Germany, Italy | 2026 | 124m
German and Arabic with English subtitles

Haunted by vivid dreams and tormented by inner demons, an Arab author embarks on a journey to a remote German island driven by a desire to end his life. Amidst the depths of his despair, an encounter with an elderly woman and her son illuminates life's hidden beauty, igniting a silent yet powerful redemption and a reawakening of his desire for life.

Screening times:
Thursday, March 12, 6:30 PM
Sunday, March 22, 5:30 PM

Kaouther Ben Hania | Tunisia, France | 2025 | 89m
Arabic with English subtitles

A six-year-old girl is trapped in a car under fire in northern Gaza while Red Crescent volunteers try to save her. Incorporating real-life elements that are as difficult to witness as they are impossible to forget, The Voice of Hind Rajab is a harrowing docudrama that makes a powerful appeal to humanity.

Screening times:
Saturday, March 21, 8:30 PM

Christopher Guest | USA | 1996 | 84m

We fondly remember late, great Canadian actor and comedian Catherine O'Hara (1954-2026) with a select range of films screening on Saturday nights in March. We look back at O'Hara's career via an early role in Martin Scorsese's neo-noir comedy After Hours (1985), to her iconic turn in Tim Burton's Beetlejuice (1988) and a lead part in Christopher Guest's ensemble mockumentary Waiting For Guffman (1996).

Screening times:
Friday, March 20, 6:30 PM

Edward Yang | Taiwan | 2000 | 173m
Mandarin, Taiwanese Hokkien, and Japanese with English subtitles

Portrait of a middle-class family in Taipei. This extraordinary, internationally embraced film is warm, sprawling, and dazzling. Twenty-six years after its release, it remains one of the undisputed masterworks of the new century.

Screening times:
Sunday, March 8, 5:30 PM
Sunday, March 8, 8:15 PM
Thursday, March 19, 8:45 PM

Xiaodan He | Canada | 2025 | 118m
French and Mandarin with English subtitles

A Chinese immigrant mother in Montreal breaks from duty and tradition when she falls for a young Québécoise woman, leading her to confront questions of identity and freedom.

Screening times:
Thursday, February 19, 8:30 PM - SOLD OUT
Sunday, February 22, 5:30 PM - SOLD OUT
Sunday, February 22, 8:45 PM - SOLD OUT
Sunday, March 15, 8:30 PM - show added!

Kleber Mendonça Filho | Brazil, France, Germany, Netherlands | 2025 | 158m
Portuguese & German with English subtitles

In 1977, a technology expert returns to his Brazilian hometown, fleeing a mysterious past. A thematically rich and visually arresting political thriller, The Secret Agent blends grindhouse stylization with biting social commentary to weave a vividly dangerous yet darkly human tale.

Screening times:
Sunday, March 15, 5:30 PM

Max Fleischer | USA | 1918 - 1942 | 120m

The mission of Fabulous Fleischer Cartoons Restored is to collect all of the Fleischer cartoons that remain today, restore them, and gather them into a single digital space so they can be seen by audiences as Max Fleischer intended. The 16 Max Fleischer toons we will be screening in March will be presented in two blocks with a 10-minute intermission.

Screening times:
Saturday, March 14, 8:30 PM

Tim Burton | USA | 1988 | 92m

Throughout March we fondly remember late, great Canadian actor and comedian Catherine O'Hara (1954-2026) with films screening on Saturday nights. We look back at O'Hara's career via an early role in Martin Scorsese's neo-noir comedy After Hours (1985), to her iconic turn in Tim Burton's Beetlejuice (1988) and a lead part in Christopher Guest's ensemble mockumentary Waiting For Guffman (1996).

Screening times:
Thursday, March 5, 6:30 PM
Saturday, March 14, 6:00 PM

Georgi M. Unkovski | North Macedonia, Czech Republic, Serbia, Croatia | 2025 | 99m
English, Turkish and Macedonian with English subtitles

This charming film is about a 15-year-old Yuruk boy in a remote village, who wants to be a DJ while contending with small-town conservatism and the temptation of forbidden love.