Our 3rd Annual Festival
FEATURE FILMS
From our 2016 Festival:
In 1947, Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) was Hollywood’s top screenwriter until he and other artists were jailed and blacklisted for their political beliefs. TRUMBO (directed by Jay Roach) recounts how Dalton used words and wit to win two Academy Awards and expose the absurdity and injustice under the blacklist, which entangled everyone from gossip columnist Hedda Hopper (Helen Mirren) to John Wayne, Kirk Douglas and Otto Preminger.
The short films Unshakeable and Jane, Will You… were shown before
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From our 2016 Festival:
Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards, Argentinian director Damián Szifrón’s Wild Tales is a blackly comic compendium of six outrageously bizarre stories, each more shocking and hilarious than the last. No doubt the film has something of an advantage in that it comes from one filmmaker, and thus reflects a singular vision and sensibility. Beyond that, it must be said that Szifrón has remarkable skills as both a director and a storyteller.
Each
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From our 2016 Festival:
Fashion blogger Emma is gearing up for her picturesque summer wedding to longtime boyfriend Colin when she finds out they have to move the wedding up six months. With her best friend, and third wheel roommate Jessie back from travelling, Emma is determined to have her rustic ‘Pinterest’-worthy wedding in the middle of winter. With a small group of friends and family, they trek out to a rural barn for the weekend to set up. Disconnected from
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From our 2016 Festival:
“In Vancouver, in 1971, we have the biggest concentration of tree huggers, draft dodgers, shit disturbing unionists, radical students, garbage dump stoppers, freeway fighters, pot smokers, vegetarians, nudists, Buddhists, fish preservationists and back-to-the-landers on the planet. And we are all hunted by the spectre of a dead world,” famously stated Bob Hunter when describing the conditions that gave rise to the most influential environmental activist movement in history: Greenpeace.
It was this motley crew of odd characters –
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From our 2016 Festival:
A masterwork of suspense from one of Canada’s most distinguished auteurs, the latest Atom Egoyan film stars Academy Award winner Christopher Plummer as a retiree who flees his nursing home to complete a secret mission some seventy years in the making – so long as he can remember his goal.
Every time Zev (Plummer) wakes he calls out his wife’s name, only to be reminded that she has died. Zev suffers from memory loss and has been forgetting
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The first feature from Canadian writer-director Andrew Cividino is set in an isolated Ontario cottage community during a bleak midsummer, where the volatile dynamics between three teenage friends-by-chance are gradually pushed towards a potentially dangerous imbalance.
From our 2016 Festival:
An icon of English Canadian letters, the late Al Purdy was equal parts rock star, raconteur, and rabble rouser – in other words, all poet. Coming to prominence in the 1960s alongside a crop of other extraordinary talents, Purdy scorned the tired tales of rural life that had dominated Canadian literature and set out to create a different language, one that came from the contemporary Canadian experience. Purdy’s impact on Canadian culture has now been lovingly detailed
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From BAFTA award-winning director Asif Kapadia and the team behind Senna, AMY tells the incredible story of six-time Grammy-winner Amy Winehouse – in her own words. Featuring extensive unseen archive footage and previously unheard tracks, this strikingly modern, moving and vital film shines a light on the world we live in, in a way that very few can.
A once-in-a-generation talent and a pure jazz artist in the most authentic sense, Amy wrote and sung from the heart using her musical
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