Frustrated housewife Gwen James (Rabid’s Patricia Gage) feels like little more than a servant to her accountant husband (Strange Brew’s Douglas Campbell) and two daughters. Devoting all her time to their needs – and the demands of her cantankerous father – she feels her sense of self-worth slipping. As Gwen wrestles with increasingly despairing thoughts, she escapes into a world of glamorous fantasy and eventually finds a new sense of purpose by enrolling in a university course, where she strikes up a special bond with her young professor (American Nightmare’s Neil Dainard). But as Gwen reverts to a more youthful, carefree state, her family descends into chaos.
Cindy (Born for Hell’s Andrée Pelletier) is outraged by the sadism of her pimp boyfriend Dan (Ghost Story’s Miguel Fernandes), so she turns her back on him and her seedy profession. As he attempts to lure her back, she doubles down on her rebellion by liberating new recruit Marianne (Bingo’s Anne-Marie Provencher) and giving safe haven to several of Dan’s most prized employees, crippling his business. As this gang of frustrated sex workers waits for the dust to settle, Dan grows incensed, escalating the dispute into a full-blown war. Leaning into his mafia connections and insatiable appetite for violence, Dan orders vicious retaliation… but Cindy has some vengeful tricks up her sleeve.
Veteran country musician Jim King (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’s Donnelly Rhodes) has spent decades honing his craft, but he has yet to find success beyond the small-town touring circuit. With a prominent record label circling his current band, King and Country, Jim may be on the brink of a professional breakthrough, but the rest of his life is in disarray. From a suicidal son (Death Wish II’s David Daniels) and a terminally ill friend (Phobia's Neil Vipond) to a rocky romance with his bandmate Jenny (Pinocchio's Birthday Party's Nancy Belle Fuller), Jim's life is hard – and it’s only getting harder.
During a casual run in the forest, student athlete Renee (The Dead Zone’s Roberta Weiss) is unceremoniously interrupted by deranged mountain man Vern (Rolling Vengeance’s Lawrence King-Phillips), who ties a rope around her neck, drags her through the woods, and brings her to an isolated cabin. As helicopters search the area, Vern torments Renee with a series of terrifying and humiliating violations, but a glimmer of hope appears when his father Joe (Elves star Dan Haggerty) arrives on the scene and pledges to set her free. But Vern is incensed by this attack on his “property,” and he will stop at nothing to maintain his oppressive grip on Renee.
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A FILM BY JOANNA RUDNICK
Story & Pictures By is a captivating documentary exploring the vibrant world of children’s picture books. It spotlights Christian Robinson, Yuyi Morales, and Mac Barnett, pioneers of a new “golden age” in children’s literature, who create groundbreaking works reflecting childhood’s wonders and complexities. The film also revisits classics like Goodnight Moon, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Snowy Day, and Where the Wild Things Are, uncovering their enduring legacy through rare archives and mesmerizing stop-motion animation.
Theatrical Starts January 17, 2025
2024 - BELGIUM, FRANCE, NETHERLANDS - ENGLISH, FRENCH, DUTCH, RUSSIANA FILM BY JOHAN GRIMONPREZFEATURING: LOUIS ARMSTRONG, ANDRÉE BLOUIN, JOHN COLTRANE, DIZZY GILLESPIE, ABBEY LINCOLN, PATRICE LUMUMBA, NINA SIMONE, MALCOLM X
United Nations, 1960: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, jazz musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe, and the U.S. State Department swings into action, sending jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to Congo to deflect attention from the CIA-backed coup. Director Johan Grimonprez captures the moment when African politics and American jazz collided in this magnificent essay film, a riveting historical rollercoaster that illuminates the political machinations behind the 1961 assassination of Congo’s leader Patrice Lumumba. Richly illustrated by eyewitness accounts, official government memos, testimonies from mercenaries and CIA operatives, speeches from Lumumba himself, and a veritable canon of jazz icons, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat interrogates colonial history to tell an urgent and timely story of precedent that resonates more than ever in today’s geopolitical climate.
Theatrical Starts January 3, 2025
2024 - 119 MINS - ITALY, FRANCE - IN ITALIAN WITH ENGLISH AND FRENCH SUBTITLESA FILM BY MAURA DELPERO
1944. In Vermiglio, a high mountain village of the Italian Alps where war looms as a distant but constant threat. The arrival of Pietro, a refugee soldier, disrupts the dynamics of the local teacher’s family, changing them forever. During the four seasons marking the end of World War II, Pietro and Lucia, the eldest daughter of the teacher, instantly drawn to each other, led to marriage and an unexpected fate. As the world emerges from its tragedy, the family will face its own.
Theatrical Starts November 29, 2024
110 MINUTES - SWITZERLAND / PERU / SPAIN
A FILM BY KLAUDIA REYNICKE
Everything happens very fast in Lima in the summer of 1992. Lucia, Aurora and their mother Elena are about to leave. They are apprehensive about saying goodbye to a country, to family and friends, but above all to Carlos, a father and ex-husband who has all but disappeared from their lives. In the midst of Peru's social and political chaos, this announced departure will give rise to contradictory feelings, reviving old regrets and generating new illusions. Facing the uncertainty of their future head on, their frustrations and fears are mixed with excitement and expectation, as the family faces the difficult truth about the losses this departure implies. REINAS is an intense, choral and moving tale of initiation, in the spirit of the 90s.
Theatrical Starts November 29, 2024
2024 - LATVIA/ FRANCE/ BELGIUM - 85 MINUTES
A FILM BY GINTS ZILBALODIS
The world seems to be coming to an end, teeming with the vestiges of a human presence. Cat is a solitary animal, but as its home is devastated by a great flood, he finds refuge on a boat populated by various species, and will have to team up with them despite their differences. In the lonesome boat sailing through mystical overflowed landscapes, they navigate the challenges and dangers of adapting to this new world.
Theatrical Starts November 22, 2024
2023 - 85 MINUTES - ENGLISH/ FRENCH/ WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
A FILM BY LUCY LAWLESS
CNN combat camerawoman Margaret Moth walks the razor's edge between sanity and chaos. Her mystery and beauty bewitches lovers and her confidence intimidates powerful men. Moth stares down danger and she confronts those that perpetuate it. In vivid, emotional dioramas, we see what Moth and her camera crew felt; the nightmare dreamscapes of war. In footage - both what she shot, the production shot, and others - we go on a rollicking ride through love, truth and war. Early on in her career she covers conflicts in the Middle East before fatally, she is sent to Sarajevo to cover the Bosnian war.
Theatrical Starts November 22, 2024
2024 - FRANCE/ INDIA/ NETHERLANDS/ LUXEMBOURG - 114 MINUTES
A FILM BY PAYAL KAPADIA
In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha’s routine is troubled when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend. A trip to a beach town allows them to find a space for their desires to manifest.
Theatrical November 5, 2024
1997 - CANADA - 112 MINUTES
A FILM BY ATOM EGOYAN
FEATURING IAN HOLM, SARAH POLLEY, CAERTHAN BANKS
A small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a dozen of its children dead. A big-city lawyer (Ian Holm) arrives to help the survivors' and victims' families prepare a class-action suit, but his efforts only seem to push the townspeople further apart. At the same time, one teenage survivor of the accident (Sarah Polley) has to reckon with the loss of innocence brought about by a different kind of damage.
Theatrical Starts November 5, 2024
4K 25TH ANNIVERSARY
1999 - 110 MINUTES
A FILM BY ALAN RUDOLPH
WITH BRUCE WILLIS, NICK NOLTE, ALBERT FINNEY
A portrait of a fictional town in the midwest that is home to a group of idiosyncratic and slightly neurotic characters. Dwayne Hoover is a wealthy car dealership owner that's on the brink of suicide, and is losing touch with reality.
Theatrical Starts August 9, 2024
2024 - 107 MINUTES - USA/ CANADA - IN ENGLISH AND SECWEPEMCTSÍN
A FILM BY JULIAN BRAVE NOISECAT, EMILY KASSIE
An investigation into abuse and missing children at an Indian residential school ignites a reckoning on the nearby Sugarcane Reserve.
Theatrical Starts August 9, 2024
A FILM BY JAMES MARSH
2023 - 100 MINUTES - USA
STARRING GABRIEL BYRNE, AIDAN GILLEN
Literary genius Samuel Beckett lived a life of many parts: Parisian bon vivant, WWII Resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright, philandering husband, recluse. But despite all the adulation that came his way, he was a man acutely aware of his own failings. Titled after Beckett’s famous ethos Dance first, think later, the film is sweeping account of the life of this 20th-century icon.
Theatrical Starts July 26, 2024
105 MINUTES - 2024 - SWEDEN/ DENMARK/ FRANCE/ TURKEY/ GEORGIA - WITH ENGLISH/ FRENCH SUBTITLES
A FILM BY LEVAN AKIN
Lia, a retired teacher, has made a promise to find out what happened to her long-lost niece, Tekla. When Lia learns from a neighbour, Achi, that Tekla might have left their Georgian homeland and be living in Turkey, Lia and Achi set off together to find her. Arriving in Istanbul, they discover a beautiful city full of connections and possibilities. But searching for someone who never intended to be found is harder than they expected – until they meet Evrim, a lawyer fighting for trans rights. As Lia and Achi weave their way through the city’s backstreets, Tekla starts to feel closer than ever.
Theatrical Starts July 5, 2024
(L'été Dernier)
104 MINUTES - COLOUR - FRANCE - FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
A FILM BY CATHERINE BREILLAT
Anne, a brilliant lawyer, lives in perfect harmony with her husband Pierre and their six and eight-year-old daughters, in a house on the heights of Paris. One day, Theo, 17, Pierre’s son from a previous marriage, moves in with them. Anne is troubled by Theo and gradually engages in a passionate relationship with him, putting her career and family life in danger.
Theatrical starts May 24, 2024
2023 - FRANCE - 70 MINUTES
An anthology of four Man Ray short films, with original music by SQÜRL (Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan)
Return To Reason celebrates the 100th anniversary of Man Ray’s cinematic Œuvre, restored for the first time in 4K. Il reveals the unique dialogue between two multitalented artists, and creates an undefinable object, a piece of visual music that resonates through its modernity and poetry.
Theatrical Starts May 17, 2024
2023 - 90 MINUTES - UNITED KINGDOM
A FILM BY PAUL SNG
A moving portrait of social documentary photographer and trailblazer Tish Murtha, who dedicated her life to documenting the lives of working-class communities in North East England.
Theatrical Starts May 10, 2024
(Aku wa Sonzai Shinai (悪は存在しない))
JAPAN - 2023 - 106 MINUTES
A FILM BY RYUSUKE HAMAGUCHI
Takumi and his daughter Hana live in Mizubiki Village, close to Tokyo. Like generations before them, they live a modest life according to the cycles and order of nature. One day, the village inhabitants become aware of a plan to build a glamping site near Takumi’s house; offering city residents a comfortable ‘escape’ to nature. When two company representatives from Tokyo arrive in the village to hold a meeting, it becomes clear that the project will have a negative impact on the local water supply, causing unrest. The agency’s mismatched intentions endanger both the ecological balance of the nature plateau and their way of life, with an aftermath that affects Takumi’s life deeply.