April 16 screening with filmmaker Helena Wittmann in attendance After a stirring encounter with the French Foreign Legion, Ida (Dogtooth’s Angeliki Papoulia), sets sail with her own corps of five men, none of whom speak the same language, to trace the route of this fabled troop. Their voyage will take them from Marseille to Corsica […]
Sasha is a young vampire with a serious problem: she’s too sensitive to kill! When her exasperated parents cut off her blood supply, Sasha’s life is in jeopardy. Luckily, she meets Paul, a lonely teenager with suicidal tendencies who is willing to give his life to save hers. But their friendly agreement soon becomes a […]
April 13th screening with filmmaker Chandler Levack in attendance Burlington, Ontario, 2003. Hyper-ambitious, teenage cinephile Lawrence Kweller (Isaiah Lehtinen) dreams of attending film school at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. To fund the hefty tuition fee, he gets his dream job at the local video store, Sequels. Wracked with anxiety about his future, Lawrence […]
Veronica Lake 100th anniversary double bill Veronica Lake casts a seductive spell as a charmingly vengeful sorceress in this supernatural screwball classic. Many centuries after cursing the male descendants of the Salem puritan who sent her to the stake, this blonde bombshell with a broomstick finds herself drawn to one of them—a prospective governor (Fredric […]
In partnership with Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Montréal 4K restoration Antonio goes home to Sicile with the reputation of a womanizer. Here where only virility counts, Antonio is a model figure, and his proud father arranges his wedding to a rich heiress, Barbara Puglisi. Antonio and Barbara fall in love but time elapses and […]
“They say when you get goosebumps, your soul touches your body.” Introvert Masha sees herself as an outsider unless she’s hanging out with her two best friends, Yana and Senia. While trying to navigate through her last year of school, Masha falls in love in a way that forces her out of her comfort zone. […]
According to Erin, there are seven steps to attaining a first kiss – from initial impression to ultimate embrace – but she will learn that there is no simple guide to navigating the gauntlet of infatuation, best friendship, and the middle school muddle in this Toronto-set, comics-splashed rom-com. Erin (Elliot Stocking) is delightfully dorky, concocting […]
Fun-filled shorts made especially for queers and their kids. Suitable for all ages, these colourful, characterful animations and feel-good comedies entertain both the kids and the kid in you. IN A HEARTBEAT BETH DAVID & ESTEBAN BRAVO | USA | 2017 | 4 MIN | NO DIALOGUE A boy runs the risk of being outed […]
The Agnes of lore – a young trans girl in the 50s who outsmarted her way to surgery – has been stuck in a binary between cautionary tale and folk hero, co-opted for demonization or celebration. The articulate, affecting Framing Agnes is here to try and understand and complicate that history. Filmmaker Chase Joynt and writer Morgan […]
Le soldat Ivin n’a pas pu abattre un fugitif qui s’échappait de la prison. Châtié par ses supérieurs, il s’ancre dans ses valeurs qui lui interdisent de disposer de la vie d’autrui. Mais qui est Ivin? Un lâche? Un prisonnier de sa conscience? En fait, c’est un personnage typique de la fin de l’ère soviétique: […]