Films We Like, in partnership with Janus Films and Sideshow Pictures, has acquired Canadian distribution rights to Alain Guiraudie’s thriller Misericordia (Miséricorde), which had its world premiere at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.
Films We Like, in partnership with Janus Films and Sideshow Pictures, has acquired Canadian distribution rights to Gints Zilbadolis’ animated adventure film Flow, which premiered in Un Certain Regard at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. Flow marks the second feature by Gints Zalbadolis following his standout debut Away.
Films We Like is pleased to announce the acquisition of Story & Pictures by, the first feature documentary to take audiences behind the scenes to meet the authors and artists who create children’s picture books. Emmy nominated director Joanna Rudnick explores the power and reach of children's picture books through the lens of three of today's most original authors/illustrators.
MUBI, the global distributor, streaming service and production company, has released a new trailer and artwork for Levan Akin’s (And Then We Danced, Sweden’s 2019 Academy Award® entry) latest feature film, Crossing. A moving, compassionate tale of identity, acceptance and unlikely connection that transcends borders and generations, the film will be released in cinemas in Canada on July 26 via Films We Like.
Films We Like is pleased to announce the acquisition of The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane by acclaimed director and film editor Maureen Gosling, who chronicles the extraordinary story of Barbara Dane, an unsung hero of American roots music.
Films We Like is pleased to announce the Canadian acquisition of Caught by the Tides by Jia Zhangke, the multi-award-winning director of Still Life (Venice Golden Lion), A Touch of Sin (Cannes Best Screenplay) and Ash is Purest White (Cannes Competition).
MUBI, the global distributor, streaming service and production company and Films We Like, are pleased to announce the theatrical and streaming release dates for Levan Akin’s (And Then We Danced, Sweden’s 2019 Academy Award® entry) latest feature film, Crossing. A moving, compassionate tale of identity, acceptance and unlikely connection that transcends borders and generations, the film will be released theatrically in Canada on July 26 and will stream from August 30, 2024.
Films We Like and Sideshow and Janus Films are pleased to announce Academy Award® winning director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s Evil Does Not Exist (Aku Wa Sonzai Shinai) opens in theatres across Canada Friday, May 10, 2024. Evil Does Not Exist had its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival, a North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival and screenings at the New York Film Festival and BFI London Film Festival where it won Best Film.
Films We Like has acquired Canadian distribution rights to Never Look Away, the directorial debut of actress Lucy Lawless (Xena: Warrior Princess). Lawless’s unflinching documentary delves into the life and work of swashbuckling CNN combat camerawoman, Margaret Moth, and the personal challenges she faced.
Films We Like is delighted to present THE MONK AND THE GUN, Bhutan writer and director Pawo Choyning Dorji’s follow-up to his 2019 break out debut, the Academy Award nominated Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom, which premiered at last year’s Telluride and Toronto Film Festivals.
Films We Like has acquired the Canadian distribution rights to Occupied City, a moving meditation on wartime Amsterdam produced and directed by filmmaker Steve McQueen (12 Years A Slave, Shame) and based on the book Atlas of an Occupied City, Amsterdam 1940 - 1945 by Bianca Stigter.
Films We Like has acquired the distribution rights to Return to Reason, an anthology of four recently restored silent films by surrealist artist Man Ray with a new original music score by SQÜRL (Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan). Return to Reason premiered at the 2023 Cannes and New York Film Festivals.
Films We Like has partnered with Janus Films to release in Canada Academy Award® winning composer Ryuichi Sakamoto’s final concert film, Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus, directed by Neo Sora. Opus was a standout at this year’s Venice International Film Festival where it premiered out-of-competition.
MUBI, the global film distributor, streaming service and production company, has announced the theatrical release date of Academy Award®-winning director Kevin MacDonald’s (Whitney, Touching the Void, One Day In September) gripping and thought-provoking new documentary High & Low - John Galliano, coming to cinemas in Canada on 15 March 2024.
Films We Like has acquired Canadian rights to THE MONK AND THE GUN, Bhutanese director Pawo Choyning Dorji’s heart-warming tale which premiered at this year's Telluride Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival. THE MONK AND THE GUN is Bhutan’s official selection for Best International Film at the 96th Academy Awards. Pawo Choyning Dorji’s debut film Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom was nominated in the same category at the 2019 Academy Awards.
Debut writer-director Felipe Gálvez asserts himself as a revelatory new cinematic voice with The Settlers, a searing and indelible take on the Western. Blending historical specificity with vivid visual style, this Cannes Un Certain Regard FIPRESCI Prize winner creates a singular immersive vision, arresting in both content and form.
Films We Like has acquired Canadian rights to DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE END OF THE WORLD, the new satire by Romanian director Radu Jude (Bad Luck Banging, Looney Porn). DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH premiered at the 2023 Locarno Film Festival, followed by its Canadian premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in the Wavelengths category. Romania has picked it to be its official entry for the 2024 Oscars for Best International Feature Film.
French director Mehdi Fikri spent a decade working as a reporter covering social conflict and the issues of police violence and justice in France’s deprived suburbs. His observations inspired a fictional story that follows Malika, a French woman of North African descent, living in an outer suburb of the city of Strasbourg, who seeks justice after her younger brother dies in suspicious circumstances after being stopped by the police.
Le réalisateur français Mehdi Fikri a couvert pendant une dizaine d'années en tant que journaliste les conflits sociaux et les questions de violence policière et de justice dans les banlieues défavorisées de France. Ses observations lui ont inspiré cette fiction qui suit Malika, une Française d'origine maghrébine vivant dans une banlieue de la ville de Strasbourg qui cherche à obtenir justice pour son jeune frère, décédé dans des circonstances suspectes à la suite d'un contrôle de police.
Following its successful North American Premiere at TIFF, and Opening Night at VIFF, Films We Like and MUBI are delighted to unveil the trailer for Aki Kaurismäki’s (Le Havre, The Other Side of Hope) timeless love-story Fallen Leaves ahead of its opening in cinemas across Canada from November 24 2023. The award-winning Kaurismäki makes a masterful return with this hopeful and satisfying love story that won the Jury Prize at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. The film is also Finland’s official Best International Feature Film entry to the 96th Academy Awards®.
For immediate release – Films We Like is thrilled to announce the world premiere of Archangel by iconoclastic filmmaker Guy Maddin, at the Jio Mami Mumbai Film Festival, India. The new digital 4K digital remaster was supervised by Guy Maddin and was made possible by the generous financial support of Telefilm Canada’s Canadian Cinema Re-Ignited digitization initiative.
Following its world premiere, Archangel will be theatrically released across Canada, beginning November 14, 2023 at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, Toronto, with director Guy Maddin in attendance.