Event Type: Screening

Goethe-Cinema presents Yesterday Girl This series is presented by the Goethe-Institut Ottawa in partnership with Bytowne Cinema and German Films, Germany’s film marketing agency and a strong partner of the Goethe-Institut worldwide, to bring you some of the most successful German films over the past seven decades. Anita (Alexandra Kluge) is a young German Jewish … Read more

We’re celebrating Spooky Season at this month’s Klassic Kidz screening with a stop-motion favourite from the famed Aardman Animation Studios! Cheese-loving eccentric Wallace (Peter Sallis) and his cunning canine pal, Gromit are putting their ingenious inventions to work by starting a business ridding the town of garden pests. Using only humane methods that turn their … Read more

“The film which you are about to see is an account of the tragedy which befell a group of five youths…” 50th Anniversary screening! Violent, confrontational, and shockingly realistic, director Tobe Hooper’s horrific, doc-style film terrified audiences in a way never thought possible when it was unleashed on a politically and socially tumultuous America in … Read more

Demi Moore gives a career-best performance as Elisabeth Sparkle, a former A-lister past her prime and suddenly fired from her fitness TV show by repellent studio head Harvey (Dennis Quaid). She is then drawn to the opportunity presented by a mysterious new drug: THE SUBSTANCE. All it takes is one injection and she is reborn … Read more

Goethe-Cinema presents The Marriage of Maria Braun This series is presented by the Goethe-Institut Ottawa in partnership with Bytowne Cinema and German Films, Germany’s film marketing agency and a strong partner of the Goethe-Institut worldwide, to bring you some of the most successful German films over the past seven decades. Maria (Hanna Schygulla) marries Hermann … Read more

A paranoid young man launches a bizarre crime spree against the citizens of Toronto in this psycho-spiritual thriller from director Braden Sitter Sr. starring Rishi Rodriguez, Spencer Rice (Kenny vs Spenny), and Paul Bellini (Kids in the Hall). This screening will feature a post-show Q&A with the director, Braden Sitter Sr. and selected cast members … Read more

It’ll be a very spooky afternoon at the movies with this signature 1933 adaptation of the H.G. Wells story! Claude Rains excels as the titular mad scientist in his breakthrough role as mysterious scientist Jack Griffin who discovers a serum that makes him invisible. Covered by bandages and dark glasses, the scientist arrives at a … Read more

Academy Award Nominee Sir Ian McKellen (The Lord of the Rings, The Good Liar) stars as a powerful London theater critic who lures a struggling actress into a blackmail scheme with deadly consequences. A suspenseful thriller co-starring Gemma Arterton (Quantum of Solace), Mark Strong (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) and Lesley Manville (Mrs. Harris Goes to … Read more

Goethe-Cinema presents Run Lola Run This series is presented by the Goethe-Institut Ottawa in partnership with Bytowne Cinema and German Films, Germany’s film marketing agency and a strong partner of the Goethe-Institut worldwide, to bring you some of the most successful German films over the past seven decades. The film follows “Lola (Franka Potente) [as … Read more

German Cinema pioneer, and recent Oscar Noiminee Wim Wenders (Perfect Days) brings his keen eye for landscape to the American Southwest in the Plame d’or winning “Paris, Texas”, a profoundly moving character study written by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Sam Shepard. In the deserts of the American Southwest, Travis Henderson (Harry Dean Stanton) collapses in a … Read more

Are you brave enough to sit in the dark and watch one of the greatest and scariest Japanese horror films ever made? We think you can do it! In this atmospheric spine-tingler, Television journalist Reiko investigates an urban legend about a cursed VHS tape that murders the viewer seven days after they watch it. As … Read more

Free Screening presented by the Japan Foundation and the Embassy of Japan. High schooler Ito lives in the northern prefecture of Aomori and has a great talent for playing the Tsugaru shamisen (a Japanese three-stringed instrument). However, she struggles to make friends and play for an audience due to her strong dialectal accent and shy … Read more

Oscar winner Kate Winslet stars in this fascinating portrait of the great American war correspondent Lee Miller, whose singular talent and ferocious tenacity gave us some of the 20th century’s most indelible images. The South of France in 1938. Lee, a former model turned photographer, follows her love Roland Penrose (Alexander Skarsgård) to London amidst … Read more

Visionary musician and artist Brian Eno — known for producing David Bowie, U2, Talking Heads, among many others; pioneering the genre of ambient music; and releasing more than 40 solo and collaboration albums — reveals his creative processes in Eno, directed by acclaimed filmmaker Gary Hustwit (“HELVETICA”). In the first career-spanning documentary of the legendary … Read more

In a strict boarding school nestled in the Himalayas, Mira is a successful student shouldering high expectations from her parents and her teachers. But as she wrestles with new desires and ample curiosity inspired by the handsome Sri, she finds herself at odds with the school’s strict rules and her mother’s incessant involvement in her … Read more

Celebrate a saucy spooky season with some sexy vampires and a burlesque show by Frisque Femme Productions! You’ll start the evening with themed performances by Alister Sharp, Kay Kalish, Kitty Kin-Evil, and Fenix Caprice followed by Francis Ford Coppola’s luscious tale of vampire love. Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder and Anthony Hopkins star in this visually … Read more

A string of shocking, seemingly unmotivated murders—each committed by a different person yet all bearing the same grisly hallmarks—leads Detective Takabe (Koji Yakusho) into a labyrinthine investigation to discover what connects them, and into a disturbing game of cat and mouse with an enigmatic amnesiac (Masato Hagiwara) who may be evil incarnate. Awash in hushed, … Read more

“One, Two, Freddy’s Coming For You…” Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of this ’80s classic during the one month of the year when nightmares come to life! Someone is murdering the sleeping teenagers of Springwood, Ohio. If they die in their dreams, they die for real, but how can they survive if they have to stay … Read more

Don’t miss the summer’s blockbuster film at this year’s box office Québécois! When Ricardo is on the verge of giving up his dream of becoming a filmmaker, he is selected to take part in the show “La course”, a competition that sends eight aspiring travellers to explore the world. Upon arriving in Egypt, Ricardo encounters … Read more

“A Different Man” is a gripping satirical thriller that navigates the complex interplay between self-perception and how others perceive us.. Edward (Sebastian Stan), grapples with living as an actor with neurofibromatosis, causing self-doubt and uneasy social interactions. When his neighbour Ingrid (Renate Reinsve), initially appears to be a potential romantic interest but ultimately rejects him, … Read more