Bucharest, 1972. Ana, 17, dreams of love and freedom. One night, while partying with her friends, they decide to send a letter to Metronom, the musical program which Radio Free Europe broadcasts clandestinely in Romania. It is then that the Securitate, Ceausescu’s secret police arrives.
First-time feature director Amanda Kim tells the remarkable story of Paik as a citizen of the world and trailblazing artist, who both saw the present and predicted the future with astonishing clairvoyance. With Steven Yeun reading Paik’s own written words — showcasing the artist’s strategic playfulness and immense creativity — Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV is a celebration of perhaps the most modern artist of all time.
Films We Like is thrilled to announce Jerzy Skolimoski’s critically acclaimed film EO has been nominated for BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM. at the 2023 Academy Awards® On numerous ‘Top 10 Films of 2022’ lists and named Best International film by the NY Film Critics Circle, EO was awarded the prestigious Jury Prize at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.
In downtown Tehran, a young driving instructor named Farzaneh, spots her husband walking into a woman’s apartment. Later, when she confronts him about it, he denies it was him. Deciding to investigate, he encounters a woman named Bita, who looks identical to his wife, and whose husband looks like him.
Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Alice Diop’s award-winning first fiction feature film SAINT OMER opens across Canada beginning Friday, January 20, 2023,
SAINT OMER was awarded the Grand Jury Prize and Best Film Debut at the 2022 Venice Film Festival, and marks the first time that France has submitted a film directed by a Black woman to represent it for Best International Feature at the Oscars.
Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s (The White Balloon, 3 Faces, Taxi) newest film, NO BEARS, opens in theatres across Canada on Friday, December 23, 2022. Filmed entirely in secret, Films We Like are proud to present this brave new film for Canadians to see.
Films We Like has announced the award-winning documentary Geographies of Solitude by Cape Breton filmmaker Jacquelyn Mills will open December 16th at Ted Rogers Hot Docs Theatre (Toronto), and at selected theatres across Canada. Since its premiere at the Berlin Film Festival, Geographies of Solitude has won multiple awards including the Ecunumical Jury Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival, Best Canadian Documentary at Hot Docs Film Festival, Best Canadian Documentary at the Vancouver International Film Festival, and many more.
Set in the late 19th Century, the drama revolves around a young Danish priest who travels to a remote part of Iceland to build a church and photograph its people. The deeper he goes into the unforgiving landscape, the more he strays from his purpose, mission and morality.
Adapted from Italian writer Paolo Cognetti’s novel, the film follows the life-long friendship of two men from very different backgrounds against the backdrop in Italy’s breathtaking Aosta Valley region. One is a boy from the city, the other from a mountain village who grow apart only to have destiny bring them together again.
Following its successful North American Premiere at TIFF 2022 and Jury Prize at Cannes 2022, “EO” by legendary Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski opens across Canada on Friday, November 25, 2022.
Panahi continues his interrogation of authority in a story of a couple attempting to secure fake passports so that they can flee to France, and another where the director unwittingly becomes involved in the politics of the village in which he’s staying.
For the past decade award-winning documentarian Alice Diop has turned her camera on injustices and intimate stories of immigrant communities on the peripheries of Paris. In her astonishing narrative feature debut, she brings her typical sensitivity and rigor to a story inspired by a real-life trial of a woman who allegedly abandoned her 15-month-old daughter on a beach in northern France.
To celebrate the 4K remaster of Tales from the Gimli Hospital Redux by Guy Maddin, Canadian film distributor Films We Like has commissioned Winnipeg-based artist and designer Galen Johnson to create a limited edition print signed by director Guy Maddin.
Set during a smallpox epidemic in the village of Gimli, Manitoba near the turn of the century, Tales From The Gimli Hospital is a dreamlike, elliptical film which explores the jealousy and madness instilled in two men who share a hospital room "in a Gimli we no longer know."
With his first film in seven years, director Jerzy Skolimowski directs one of his most free and visually inventive films yet, following the travels of a nomadic grey donkey named EO. After being removed from the traveling circus, which is the only life he’s ever known, EO begins a trek across the Polish and Italian countryside, experiencing cruelty and kindness in equal measure, all the while observing the follies and triumphs of humankind.
Films We Like has acquired the Canadian rights to Sierra Pettengill’s riveting documentary Riotsville, USA. Pettengill uses unearthed military training footage of Army-built model towns called “Riotsvilles,” where military and police were trained to respond to civil unrest in the late sixties. Film Critic Susannah Gruber in Indiewire wrote: “This unique framework succeeds in turning history on its head, forcing us to question how these violent tactics from the past have led to the increasingly armed present we're witnessing today.”
Canadian distributor Films We Like announces the acquisition of Let There Be Drums!, a new documentary film by Justin Kreutzmann, son of Grateful Dead’s drummer Bill Kreutzmann. The on-beat documentary features a constellation of all-star drummers who examine the essential role drumming plays in popular music.
Joe Papp, founder of The Public Theater, Free Shakespeare in the Park and producer of groundbreaking plays like "Hair," "A Chorus Line" and "for colored girls," created a 'theater of inclusion' based on the belief that great art is for everyone.
Benoit Magimel stars as a high ranking government official in French Polynesia, dealing with hearsay sightings of a submarine whose ghostly presence could herald the return of French nuclear testing. Film Critic Peter Bradshaw wrote, “Pacifiction is an authentic descent into darkness.”
