Our 6th Annual Festival featured our most popular film to date: TEA WITH THE DAMES, which we celebrated by inviting our entre audience to enjoy tea in the hall served by The Escarpment Tea Room.

FEATURE FILMS

  • Colette

    Colette

    After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as “Willy” (Dominic West), Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (Keira Knightley) is transplanted from her childhood home in rural France to the intellectual and artistic splendor of Paris. Soon after, Willy convinces Colette to ghostwrite for him. She pens a semi-autobiographical novel about a witty and brazen country girl named Claudine, sparking a bestseller and a cultural sensation. After its success, Colette and Willy become the talk of Paris and their adventures inspire additional Claudine

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  • Tea With the Dames

    Dames Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright and Maggie Smith have let the cameras in on a friendship that goes back more than half a century. The four acting greats discuss their careers and reminisce about their humble beginnings in the theatre.

  • The Rider

    The Rider

    After suffering a near fatal head injury, a young cowboy undertakes a search for new identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of America.

  • Leave No Trace

    Leave No Trace

    A father and his thirteen year-old daughter are living an ideal existence in a vast urban park in Portland, Oregon, when a small mistake derails their lives forever.

  • Black ’47

    One man's ruthless pursuit of justice plays out against the darkest chapter of Irish history in this riveting revenge thriller.

  • Adventures in Public School

    Boasting a great ensemble cast — including Doheny, Williams, Andrew McNee, Grace Park, Russell Peters, and, especially, Greer in a tour-de-force performance — Adventures in Public School is quite simply one of the best Canadian romantic comedies in recent memory.

  • Anthropocene: The Human Epoch

    Filmmakers travel to six continents and 20 countries to document the impact humans have made on the planet.

  • Three Identical Strangers

    In 1980 New York, three young men who were all adopted meet each other and find out they're triplets who were separated at birth. Then they discover why.

SHORT FILMS

  • The Sunset Channel

    The Sunset Channel

  • Shiraz

    Shiraz

  • Hard Learning

    Hard Learning

  • ABEO

  • Sincerely Anthony

  • GPS

    GPS

  • Please Pookie

  • Choices

    Choices: A Short Film

  • Royal Blood

  • Mother’s Day

  • Domestic Bees

GUESTS

  • William Jenkins

    DR WILLIAM JENKINS
    Special Guest

  • Kim Huffman

    KIM HUFFMAN
    Panelist

  • ELIZABETH LAZEBNIK
    Panelist

  • Lalita Krishna

    LALITA KRISHNA
    Panelist

  • Leslie Kavanagh

    LESLIE KAVANAGH
    Panelist

  • Joanna Syrokomla

    JOANNA SYROKOMLA
    Panelist

  • Alex Kavanagh

    ALEX KAVANAGH
    Panelist