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With Love and a Major Organ
Anabel has a heart problem: it's just too big for this world. Kim Albright's acclaimed debut strikes a lo-(sci-)fi surrealist vibe reminiscent of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. It's whimsical, unpredictable, and it hits close to home.
Food, Inc. 2
The team behind the Oscar-nominated 2008 impact documentary, including journalists Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma) and Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), return with an update on our reliance on industrial farming and processed food.
Tótem
During the chaotic preparations for the birthday of her terminally ill father, a seven-year-old girl finds herself struggling to comprehend a complex adult world. A Buñuelian class study keyed to the interior life of a child.
Double Happiness
A very young and personable Sandra Oh is Jade, an aspiring actress who makes light of her far-more traditional Hong Kong-emigre parents, but who finds expectations of her harder to reconcile than she might like to admit. Writer-director Mina Shum Q&A. Free event.
Norman Jewison (Life & Times)
As a tribute to Norman Jewison, who passed away in January, aged 97, we've unearthed a profile of the versatile director of In the Heat of the Night; Fiddler on the Roof; Moonstruck; and The Hurricane, talking about his life and career. Free event.
Goin' Down the Road
Donald Shebib's debut feature is a landmark in English-Canadian filmmaking, a naturalistic working class drama that captures its time and place, but which still holds relevance for audiences some 50 years later. Sadly, Don Shebib passed away in November. Free event.
The Great Salish Heist
Made for a couple of toonies and shot in Cowichan Valley, The Great Salish Heist is a scrappy indie Ocean's 11 with bags of charm and some authentic things to say about cultural colonialism.
Chicken For Linda!
Husband and wife duo Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach (The Girl Without Hands) evoke the freewheeling farcical slapstick spirit of Jacques Tati and the palette of Henri Matisse in this sparkling animated gem for all ages.
The Zone of Interest
Glazer's award-winning film follows Hedwig Höss (Sandra Hüller), mother of five, and wife to Rudolph. They live in an idyllic villa with a the bucolic garden, literally a stone's throw from Rudolph's place of work -- he's Camp Commandant at Auschwitz.
Before I Change My Mind
Trevor Anderson's coming of age movie -- set in Edmonton, 1987 -- slyly subverts expectations, embracing complexity and contradiction in its nuanced take on fledgling identities, while delivering laugh-out-loud moments and big emotional showdowns.
Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World
Radu Jude takes two days in the life of a stressed Romanian p.a. and gives us an urgent, pissed off, sourly funny polemic on the state of late capitalism. Exploitation, discrimination and hypocrisy are his targets; dialectics are his dynamite.
A Matter of Life and Death
In this splendid WWII fantasy, RAF pilot Peter (David Niven) cheats death when his plane is downed over the Channel. Washing up on an English beach, he must plead his case for a life extension in the highest court of them all...