Palestine 36
Palestine’s Official Selection for the 98th Academy Awards. Annemarie Jacir, a festival favorite, takes us back to Palestine in the 1930s. The film explores the lives and ambitions of people living under British rule, with a strong international cast that includes Jeremy Irons and Hiam Abbass. In 1936, as the British Empire tightens its grip on […]
Montréal, My Beautiful (Montréal, Ma Belle)
Acclaimed actress Joan Chen (The Last Emperor, Twin Peaks, Lust, Caution, Didi) stars in Montréal, ma belle (Montreal, My Beautiful), a deeply emotional family drama and May-December lesbian love story from Chinese-Canadian director Xiaodan He (A Touch of Spring) Feng Xia (Chen), a 53-year-old Chinese immigrant and mother living in Montreal, has spent her life […]
Lady Vengeance – 35mm Screening
**Special 35mm Screening!** Join us for a screening of the loosely connected film trilogy that brought Director Park Chan-wook to a global audience, a mainstay in the early to mid-2000s Boom of Asian Cinema in North America, alongside films like Takashi Miike’s “Audition” and Kinji Fukasaku’s “Battle Royale.” Each film in the trilogy features a […]
Klassic Kidz: Muppet Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic pirate tale takes on a life of its own in the hands of the hilarious Muppets! After telling the story of Flint’s last journey to young Jim Hawkins, Billy Bones has a heart attack and dies just as Jim and his friends are attacked by pirates. The gang escapes into the […]
