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Old flames and old feuds flare up in Farlinger’s screen adaptation of Brad Smith’s neo-Western novel, gorgeously filmed in Ontario’s horse country. The film opens on the suitably laconic hero, Ray Dokes, as he is released from prison... more>
Named in the Top Ten Canadian Films for 2007
In chaotic New Delhi, an aged and irascible man cheats everyone he meets. Amal, Rupinder Nagra an auto-rickshaw wallah, generously allows him to dodge his fare. When a beautiful client has... more>
Anita Kemirembe is a lively 10-year-old living on the outskirts of Kampala, Uganda. Through image and story young viewers gain an understanding of life as it is for a child in the developing world and appreciate the similarities and... more>
World Premiere
When do myth and reality meet? How much can spiritual myths affect this reality? Aswang offers a unique perspective on the search of the past’s effect on how history is viewed in hindsight. This challenging, yet... more>
Brad planned his first date with Sarah perfectly. He planned the dinner. He planned the movie. But he didn’t plan on running into Carl. Oh, did I say “into”? I meant “over”. more>
An attractive middle-aged woman comes out of social seclusion to attend her best friend’s 25th wedding anniversary, but her insecurities
have another agenda. more>
Canadian Premiere
“I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.” James Cook
Cook expert and bestselling author Vanessa Collingridge searches for the man behind the... more>
World Premiere
The vehicle drifts across the centre-line, its speed pushing 70 km/
hr. As it races downhill, the rider hangs on. Metal screams and
rattles, and small wheels struggle to grip the pavement. Welcome to
the picture-po... more>
Old Hark is a creature of habit. He enjoys living in his weather-beaten house set down amidst the meadows. His greatest joy is feeding the birds that have wintered over and have come to depend on him. One day, a black-robed spectre... more>
BC Premiere
Conrad is a gravedigger and family man who’s badly married. When he meets a beautiful woman by chance at a dance hall, his life is flipped upside down, and he finds himself at the center of a reprehensible act that... more>
BC Premiere
They call him “the Champ” and he once was the king of the Mexican Lucha Libre wrestling ring. But “once” was a very long time ago, on
the other side of a debt he can never repay and down too many lines of coke to count.... more>
World Premiere
When boy genius Matt Hanson comes across two plots that can both be used for evil, and that will put his girlfriend in harm’s way, he teams up with his uncle, a former football great, to create one of cinema’s finest... more>
The juxtaposition of children's school portraits with the anxious
voices of an elementary spelling bee reveals a haunting reality of
innocence that has vanished. more>
Inspired by the true crime story from the Canadian best-selling author,
Max Haines, comes this award-winning film noir murder mystery, that will
keep you guessing until the end. more>
Hank and Mike are best friends – and bunnies. Not just any bunnies, Easter bunnies! They’re a kind of yin-and-yang, Felix-and-Oscar duo. If Felix-and-Oscar made cameos on Jerry Springer, that is.
Sure, they hand deliver baskets of... more>
Kyle, a young scientist struggling to build a time machine, is confronted by an arrogant future version of himself. Shocked to discover that his future holds a preoccupation with body hair removal and boiled eggs, Kyle vows to change... more>
Hope, from first time documentary filmmakers Stuart Reaugh and Thomas Buchan, follows artist Ken Paquette, his partner Winnie Peters, and their five boys (ages four through fifteen) as they struggle to cope during a year of wrenching... more>
A metaphor for modern life’s non stop hustle and bustle and a series of shapes trick the senses again as they swirl and twist a playful dance. All the world is a stage and everyone a player, including the filmmaker himself. more>
When Kettle discovers she is moving beyond her past, she is faced with the challenge of accepting the uncertainty of the future and letting go of that which she already knows. more>
