In the oceanside village of Iyi, the revered Mama Efe (Rita Edochie) acts as an intermediary between the people and the all-powerful water deity Mami Wata. But when a young boy is lost to a virus, Efe’s devoted daughter Zinwe (Uzoamaka Aniunoh) and skeptical protégé Prisca (Evelyne Ily Juhen) warn Efe about unrest among the […]
Jean-Gab and Manu are two sympathetic and somewhat idiotic losers want to make money and quickly. What could be more intelligent than relying on a giant fly to train them to steal for them? Recalling the comic duets like that of Lloyd and Harry in Dumb and Dumber, Mandibules remains a film as only Dupieux […]
Marcel is an adorable one-inch-tall shell who ekes out a colorful existence with his grandmother Connie and their pet lint, Alan. Once part of a sprawling community of shells, they now live alone as the sole survivors of a mysterious tragedy. *Nominated for the Best Animated Film Academy Award (2023)
Special screening with filmmaker Sylvain L’Espérance in attendance MARCHE COMMUNE delves into 125 years of cinema to highlight something of a humanity in disarray, faltering, searching, stumbling, taking the wrong direction, then recovering. Taking the form of a vast nervous system in which each person’s movement is connected to that of others, the film’s poetic […]
Moon travels through a mysterious world free of adults. She meets a sage, and her translator, in a mountain hut, where she tries to understand what is happening. She meets many others who show her different possibilities for living. She observes and moves on into an unknown future. *Pardo Verde Award – Locarno Film Festival […]
In 2200, private detective Aline Ruby and her android partner Carlos Rivera are hired by a wealthy businessman to track down a notorious hacker. On Mars, they descend deep into the underbelly of the planet’s capital city where they uncover a darker story of brain farms, corruption, and a missing girl who holds a secret […]
A grouchy couple give birth to a very sweet girl they name Matilda. Unlike her bratty brother & mean parents, Matilda becomes a very sweet & extremely intelligent girl who is very anxious to go to school & read books. After a while, her parents send her to a school with the worst principal in […]
35th Anniversary of Max Films Special screening with filmmaker Jean-Philippe Duval in attendance Gilles meets Guylaine on a beach. He’s a bookish scholar with glasses; she’s a waitress in a blue-collar bar in a rough part of Montreal. Gilles comes for a visit. Guylaine’s brother Bob works for the brutal gangster Matroni. Two toughs have […]
A chance encounter leads Mara (Deragh Campbell), a young creative writing professor, to reunite with Matt (Matt Johnson), a charismatic, free-spirited author from her past who wanders onto her university campus. Bonded by their shared interests, the two begin to grow closer as she contends with her strained marriage to an experimental musician. When her […]