Our 5th Annual Festival
FEATURE FILMS
An inspiring true story of love, courage, and determination in the face of harrowing fortunes, the directorial debut of British actor Andy Serkis stars Oscar nominee Andrew Garfield as Robin Cavendish, the activist and innovator who helped make the world a more navigable place for the disabled.
Robin and Diana (The Crown‘s Claire Foy) fall madly in love, marry, and honeymoon in Kenya, a journey that also provides Robin with an opportunity to tend to his tea brokerage. Jubilation and tragedy
READ MORE…
Having outdrank, outsmoked and outlived all of his contemporaries in his off-the-map desert town, fiercely independent 90-year-old atheist Lucky (the late Harry Dean Stanton in his final role) finds himself unexpectedly thrust into a late-in-life journey of self-exploration.
The directorial debut of acclaimed character actor John Carroll Lynch (Shutter Island, Zodiac), Lucky is a cinematic love letter to its legendary leading man Stanton, as well as a deeply felt meditation on mortality, loneliness, spirituality, and human connection.
Brigsby Bear is the favorite show of 25-year-old James Pope (Kyle Mooney, Saturday Night Live), who lives with his parents, Ted (Mark Hamill, Star Wars) and April (Jane Adams), in an underground bunker. But when the FBI raid the bunker, James finds out that he was kidnapped at birth and that his ‘father’ created Brigsby Bear for his eyes only.
James is returned to his birth parents (Matt Walsh, Michaela Watkins) and reintegrated into society, but finds the harsh world more
READ MORE…
Irene Willis (Michelle McLeod) lives in a town deemed the most insignificant geographical location in North America. The cycle of life is predictable and bland, something 15-year-old Irene, “the fattest girl in high school,” might just be able to shake up.
Fuelled by the dream of becoming a cheerleader, but constantly told by both her overprotective mother and society that she isn’t exactly a fit for the role, Irene turns to her confidante and all-around god: Geena Davis. Speaking to Irene
READ MORE…
Located just south of the Arctic Circle, Dawson City was the centre of the Canadian Gold Rush and the final stop for a distribution chain that sent prints and newsreels to the Yukon at the height of the silent film era. As the distributors no longer had any use for these now stale movies, the people of Dawson disposed of them in a variety of ways, including using them to fill in an unused public swimming pool. The now-famous Dawson
READ MORE…
The world’s first fully oil-painted animated feature film, Loving Vincent brings the art of Vincent van Gogh to life to recount the life story of this most mysterious, mythical, and tragic of great painters.
Shot first as a live-action film, acted by a sterling cast — including Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan (Brooklyn), Chris O’Dowd (Bridesmaids), Jerome Flynn (Game of Thrones), and stage actor Robert Gulaczyk as van Gogh — and then painted over frame by frame with oils, Loving Vincent is
READ MORE…
Only 78 is about a small coastal community under siege. Gabarus, Nova Scotia was once protected from the North Atlantic Ocean by a government built seawall. But the structure requires rebuilding and the government denies responsibility.
In an era of rapid climate change, dramatic demographic shifts and reduced public spending, Only 78 provides insight into the strivings of small coastal communities who, despite all odds,remain intent on preserving their heritage and building their future.
Special Guest Director Jawad Mir will be joining us
READ MORE…
This effervescent comedy from celebrated French directing duo Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano (The Intouchables, Samba) invites us to an opulent château to attend a très extravagant wedding, where the groom is an obnoxious tyrant, the band is at war with the organizers, and the chief planner is looking for the exit.
Max (Jean-Pierre Bacri) is a battle-weary veteran of the wedding-planning racket. His latest – and last – gig is a hell of a fête, involving stuffy period costumes for
READ MORE…
