More Canadian Films

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BREAKFAST WITH SCOT
(2007) 90 min. English Rating: PG Director: Laurie Lynd Writer(s): Michael Downing (novel), Sean Reycraft
A former sportscaster (Tom Cavanagh) and his gay partner have to come to terms with their identities when an effeminate nephew is left in their care and teaches them the true meaning of family.

UN CRABE DANS LA TETE / SOFT SHELL MAN
(2001) 102 min. French Rating: AA Director: Andre Turpin Writer(s): André Turpin
An underwater photographer returns home after a diving mishap and must face the complex and intricate web of his relationships.

DELICATE ART OF PARKING
(2003) 86 min. English Rating: 14A Director: Trent Carlson Writer(s): Trent Carlson, Blake Corbet, Bridget Hill, Ross Ferguson
An absurd comedy about a Parking Enforcement Officer, who - despite constant abuse from the public - finds truth, honour and serenity in the act of ticketing.

DOG PARK
(1998) 91 min. English Rating: AA Director: Bruce McCulloch Writer(s): Bruce McCulloch
This quirky look at modern romance hypothesizes that the new hot spot for singles is the dog walking park.

EVERYTHING'S GONE GREEN
(2006) 95 min. English Rating: 14A Director: Paul Fox Writer(s): Douglas Coupland
Good natured slacker is tempted into a money laundering scheme while working at a lottery magazine. Starring Paulo Costanzo.

HEARTACHES
(1981) 105 min. English Rating: AA Director: Don Shebib Writer(s): Terence Heffernan
When neglected housewife Bonnie (Annie Potts) discovers a one-night stand has left her pregnant, she decides her only option is to hit the road! With Margot Kidder.

HOLLYWOOD NORTH
(2003) 89 min. English Rating: 14A Director: Peter O'Brian Writer(s): Barry Healey, John Hunter, Tony Johnston
In this sharp satire, a documentary filmmaker captures a producer's attempts to adapt a Canadian novel to the screen.

KIDS IN THE HALL: BRAIN CANDY
(1996) 89 min. English Rating: AA Director: Kelly Makin Writer(s): Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney, Scott Thompson, Bruce McCulloch, Norm Hiscock
Scientists develop an amazing anti-depressant that makes people remember their happiest memories … with unfortunate side effects.

MASALA
(1991) 105 min. English Rating: R Director: Srinivas Krishna Writer(s): Srinivas Krishna
A young man named Krishna returns to his aunt after his family dies in a plane crash, and is forced to deal with his Indian Canadian identity.

LA MOITIE GAUCHE DU FRIGO / THE LEFT SIDE OF THE FRIDGE
(2000) 90 min. French Rating: PG Director: Philippe Falardeau Writer(s): Philippe Falardeau
Christophe agrees to be filmed by his roommate, while he is searching for a more meaningful career. Unfortunately, the camera crew proves to be a hindrance in his job hunt.

MONKEY WARFARE
(2006) 75 min. English Rating: 14A Director: Reginald Harkema Writer(s): Reginald Harkema
A sly and funny look at countercultural politics, this film follows two bohemians in a ramshackle Toronto neighbourhood as they try to score drugs after their dealer is busted. Starring Don McKellar, Tracy Wright, Nadia Litz.

MY AMERICAN COUSIN
(1985) 90 min. English Rating: PG Director: Sandy Wilson Writer(s): Sandy Wilson
Twelve year old Sandy yearns for adventure when her older cousin Buck unexpectedly arrives from America.

OUTRAGEOUS!
(1977) 100 min. English Rating: AA Director: Richard Benner Writer(s): Richard Benner & Margaret Gibson Gilboord
An unlikely but strong bond between a female impersonator and a pregnant schizophrenic.

PERFECTLY NORMAL
(1991) 107 min. English Rating: AA Director: Yves Simoneau Writer(s): Eugene Lipinski & Paul Quarrington
A shady entrepreneur convinces a shy brewery worker to open an opera themed restaurant in their sleepy town.

PHIL THE ALIEN
(2004) 85 min. English Rating: 14A Director: Rob Stefaniuk Writer(s): Rob Stefaniuk
A young alien crashes in a small Ontario town and gets embroiled in hilarious adventures while a black ops organization tries to track him down.

SECRET NATION
(1992) 110 min. English / French Rating: PG Director: Mike Jones Writer(s): Edward Riche
A graduate student returns home to Newfoundland, searching for proof of a conspiracy surrounding the referendum that saw Newfoundland join Canada.

TRAILER PARK BOYS: THE MOVIE
(2006) 95 min. English Rating: 14A Director: Mike Clattenburg Writer(s): Mike Clattenburg, Robb Wells
Ricky, Julian and Bubbles get arrested for robbing an ATM and land in jail. Upon their release, they come up with a scheme to steal a huge sum of untraceable coins.

WAYDOWNTOWN
(2000) 87 min. English Rating: 14A Director: Gary Burns Writer(s): Gary Burns & James Martin
Young friends bet a month's salary on who can last the longest without going outside.

WEIRDSVILLE
(2007) 90 min. English Rating: 14A Director: Allan Moyle Writer(s): Willem Wennekers
A pair of slackers get in way over their heads when they try to dump a body in the basement of a drive-in movie theater where a satanic cult performs ritual sacrifices..

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A CHRISTMAS STORY
(1983) 84 min. English Rating: PG Director: Bob Clark Writer(s): Jean Shepherd, Bob Clark, Leigh Brown
All Ralphie Parker wants for Christmas is a BB gun, and he'll go to any lengths to get it, in spite of his parents' admonitions that he'll 'shoot his eye out'.

LA GRENOUILLE ET LA BALEINE / THE TADPOLE AND THE WHALE
(1987) 91 min. French Rating: F Director: Jean-Claude Lord Writer(s): Jean-Claude Lord, Lise Thouin, Jacques Bobet, André Mélançon
A young girl has a special friendship wit a whale and a dolphin, but her world could change dramatically if her grandfather sells his hotel by the ocean!

LA GUERRE DES TUQUES / THE DOG WHO STOPPED THE WAR
(1984) 92 min. French Rating: NR Director: Andre Meancon Writer(s): Roger Cantin & Danyèle Patenaude
During Christmas' holidays, the children of a village split in two gangs for a snowball war.

ONE MAGIC CHRISTMAS
(1985) 88 min. English Rating: G Director: Phillip Borsos Writer(s): Phillip Borsos, Barry Healey
An angel is sent by Santa to help a cynical woman (Mary Steenburgen) and her family believe in Christmas again.

LE PAPILLON BLEU / THE BLUE BUTTERFLY
(2004) 97 min. English / Spanish Rating: PG Director: Lea Pool Writer(s): Pete McCormack
The true story of a terminally ill 10 year old boy who's dream is to capture the most beautiful butterfly on earth.

THE PEANUT BUTTER SOLUTION
(1985) 94 min. English Rating: PG Director: Michael Rubbo Writer(s): Vojtech Jasny, Andrée Pelletier
Peanut butter is the secret ingredient in a magic potion that makes eleven-year-old Michael grow a whole lot of hair!

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BLACK CHRISTMAS
(1974) 98 min. English Rating: 14A Director: Bob Clark Writer(s): Roy Moore
Just before Christmas break, a psycho killer terrorizes a sorority house … from within.

BLOOD AND DONUTS
(1995) 89 min. English Rating: 14A Director: Holly Dale Writer(s): Andrew Rai Berzins
A vampire from 1969 is awakened to discover that there's a place between the living and the dead … and it's open 24 hours!

CHANGELING, THE
(1980) 115 min. English Rating: AA Director: Peter Medak Writer(s): Russell Hunter, William Gray & Diana Maddox
A grieving widower experiences supernatural phenomena in his new secluded mansion.

CUBE
(1997) 90 min. English Rating: 18A Director: Natali Vincenzo Writer(s): André Bijelic, Vincenzo Natali & Graeme Manson
Six strangers awaken to find themselves trapped in a mysterious cubical maze full of deadly booby traps.

eXistenZ
(1999) 97 min. English Rating: R Director: David Cronenberg Writer(s): David Cronenberg
A game designer creates a virtual reality game that truly taps into players' minds.

GINGER SNAPS
(2000) 108 min. English Rating: 18A Director: John Fawcett Writer(s): Karen Walton (story and screenplay), John Fawcett
Puberty is a curse in more ways than one for a girl bitten by a werewolf on the night of her first period.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME
(1981) 110 min. English Rating: R Director: Lee Thompson Writer(s): John C.W. Saxton, Peter Jobin, Timothy Bond
On the eve of her 18th birthday, a popular girl's friends start falling prey to a gruesome killer.

MY BLOODY VALENTINE
(1981) 91 min. English Rating: R Director: George Mihalka Writer(s): Stephen A. Miller & John Beaird
After a deadly Valentine's Day accident, a mining town vows never to celebrate the holiday again. 20 years later, some teens throw a party - with deadly results.

LA PEAU BLANCHE / WHITE SKIN
(2004) 92 min. French Rating: 14A Director: Daniel Roby Writer(s): Joël Champetier (novel and screenplay), Daniel Roby
A pair of friends discover that the girls they've been meeting may be vampires.

SCANNERS
(1981) 103 min. English Rating: R Director: David Cronenberg Writer(s): David Cronenberg
A scientist sends a man with extraordinary psychic powers to hunt others like him.

TOP OF THE FOOD CHAIN
(1999) 99 min. English Rating: PG Director: John Paizs Writer(s): Phil Bedard, Larry Lalonde
The residents of a secluded Canadian town are being mysteriously, gruesomely devoured.

VIDEODROME
(1983) 87 min. English Rating: R Director: David Cronenberg Writer(s): David Cronenberg
A kinky satellite signal traps a TV producer in a nightmare of hallucination, mind control and identity fragmentation.

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BEFORE TOMORROW
(2008) 93 min. Inuktitut Rating: NR Director: Madeline Ivalu Writer(s): Susan Avingaq, Marie-Hélène Cousineau, Madeline Ivalu, Jørn Riel
Based on the book Før Morgendagen by famed Danish author Jørn Riel, this touching story distills the grand narrative of first contact into an intimate tale of two women in a 19th century Inuit village.

BLINDNESS
(2008) 120 min. English Rating: R Director: Fernando Meirelles Writer(s): Jose Saramago (novel) Don McKellar (screenplay)
Based on the novel by Nobel Prize winning author Jose Saramago, this thoughtful drama explores the chaos and turmoil that results when an entire population is stricken with an epidemic of white blindness.

C'EST PAS MOI, JE LE JURE
(2008) 105 min. French Rating: NR Director: Philippe Falardeau Writer(s): Philippe Falardeau, Bruno Hebert
10 year old Leo has a dysfunctional family, an overly fertile imagination, and an entire summer to spend destroying the neighbours’ property, becoming a professional liar, and even falling in love.

DANCING IN THE DARK
(1986) 93 min. English Rating: AA Director: Leon Marr Writer(s): Leon Marr
When Edna discovers her husband's affair, after 20 years of marriage, the sense of betrayal is devastating, and literally drives her mad. From the novel by Joan Barfoot.

FUGITIVE PIECES
(2007) 104 min. English Rating: 14A Director: Jeremy Podeswa Writer(s): Jeremy Podeswa
In this adaptation of Anne Michaels' novel, a Greek Archeologist smuggles a young boy out of Nazi-occupied Poland and takes him to Canada, where he comes of age and becomes consumed by his family's tragedy and the search for his beloved sister, Bella.

I, CLAUDIA
(2004) 75 min. English Rating: 18A Director: Abraham Chris Writer(s): Kristen Thomson
Claudia is 'twelve and three quarters' - a precocious and disarmingly honest pre-teen who's juggling the demands of puberty with the impact of her parents divorce. Based on Kristen Thomson's play.

KAMOURASKA
(1973) 124 min. French Rating: R Director: Claude Jutra Writer(s): Anne Hébert, Claude Jutra
Based on Anne Hébert's novel, this story of a woman's dramatic life in mid-1800s Quebec is told in a series of flashbacks at her second husband's deathbed.

LIES MY FATHER TOLD ME
(1975) 103 min. English Rating: PG Director: Jan Kadar Writer(s): Ted Allan
Ted Allan adapts his own story for the screen, about a young Jewish boy who comes of age in a 1920s Montreal, with modern parents and a whimsical old-world grandfather.

LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT
(1996) 173 min. English Rating: AA Director: David Wellington
An aspiring writer's account of his life with a drug-addled mother, an aging actor father and an unstable, drunk brother. Based on Eugene O'Neill's play.

THE LUCK OF GINGER COFFEY
(1964) 100 min. English Rating: PG Director: Irvin Kershner Writer(s): Brian Moore
Ginger Coffey and his wife move from Dublin to Montreal, and struggle to find acceptance and build a new life for themselves and their daughter. Based on Brian Moore's novel.

LES NOCES DE PAPIER / PAPER WEDDING
(1990) 95 min. French Rating: PG Director: Michel Brault Writer(s): Alberto Kurapel, Hélène Lebeau, Jefferson Lewis, Andrée Pelletier
A teacher (Geneviève Bujold) with a married lover agrees to a marriage of convenience to a Latin American refugee.

THE OUTSIDE CHANCE OF MAXIMILIAN GLICK
(1989) 97 min. English Rating: F Director: Allan A. Goldstein Writer(s): Phil Savath
Morley Torgov's novel is turned into a touching film about a young Jewish adolescent from an overbearing family, who likes a Christian girl and is helped by a fun-loving rabbi.

LES PLOUFFE / THE PLOUFFE FAMILY
(1981) 227 min. French Rating: PG Director: Gilles Carles Writer(s): Gilles Carle, Roger Lemelin
A comical saga about the Plouffe family in working-class WWII era Quebec, based on Roger Lemelin's novel.

PONTYPOOL
(2008) 95 min. English Rating: NR Director: Bruce McDonald Writer(s): Tony Burgess
When a small town morning show DJ receives reports of extreme and violent events occurring around them, he and his small team struggle to understand the dangerous virus afflicting the townspeople.

THE TRACEY FRAGMENTS
(2007) 80 min. English Rating: 14A Director: Bruce McDonlad Writer(s): Maureen Medved
Maureen Medved adapted her own novel about social outcast Tracey (Ellen Page), as she leaves her small town for the big city of Winnipeg in search of her missing younger brother. Presented almost entirely in split-screen frames.

THE WARS
(1983) 120 min. English Rating: 14A Director: Robin Phillips Writer(s): Timothy Findley
Brent Carver stars as a withdrawn adolescent with a troubled family life, who enrolls in the army in 1914 to resolve his conflicts, dramas and passions. Adapted from Timothy Findley's book.

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FESTIVAL EXPRESS
(2003) 90 min. English Rating: PG Director: Bob Smeaton
In the summer of 1970, a chartered train crossed Canada carrying some of the world's greatest rock bands - this is their journey.

FUBAR
(2002) 76 min. English Rating: AA Director: Michael Dowse Writer(s): Michael Dowse, David Lawrence, Paul Spence
Headbangers Terry and Dean explore the depths of friendship and the art & science of drinking beer like a man.

HARD CORE LOGO
(1996) 92 min. English Rating: AA Director: Bruce McDonald Writer(s): Noel S. Baker, Michael Turner (book)
Pseudo-rockumentary follows punk band Hard Core Logo on a harrowing last-grasp reunion tour.

LIFE AND HARD TIMES OF GUY TERRIFICO
(2005) 86 min. English Rating: 14A Director: Michael Mabbott Writer(s): Michael Mabbott
A faux documentary about the rise and fall of fictional country singer Guy Terrifico, featuring some legendary real-life performers.

LONELY BOY
(1974) 27 min. English Rating: PG Director: Wolf Koenig, Roman Kroitor
Chronicle of the career of teen singing sensation Paul Anka.

ROCK AND RULE
(1983) 77 min. English Rating: PG Director: Clive A. Smith Writer(s): John Halfpenny, Patrick Loubert, Peter Sauder
A malevolent rock star kidnaps a singer to force her to participate in the summoning of a demon, and her band must help her stop him. Canada's first animated feature.

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ACT OF THE HEART
(1970) 103 min. English Rating: PG Director: Paul Almond Writer(s): Paul Almond
A deeply religious woman's piety is tested when a charismatic Augustinian monk becomes the guest conductor in her church choir. With Geneviève Bujold.

AMAL
(2007) 101 min. English / Hindi Director: Richie Mehta Writer(s): Richie Mehta, Shaun Mehta
A wealthy but disillusioned man leaves his fortune to a kind autorishaw driver he met only once - Amal. However, Amal must be found before time runs out and the billionaire's scheming children get their hands on the inheritance.

ATANARJUAT
(2002) 172 min. Inuktitut Rating: AA Director: Zacharius Kunuk Writer(s): Paul Apak Angilirq, Norman Cohn, Zacharias Kunuk, Herve Paniaq & Pauloosie Qulitalik
A warrior battles an evil spirit and determines the fate of his life and community in this brilliant telling of an Inuit legend.

AVOIR 16 ANS / TO BE SIXTEEN
(1979) 125 min. French Rating: NR Director: Jean-Pierre Lefebvre Writer(s): Claude Paquette, psychiatrists’ text by Julien Bigras, Jean Pierre Lefebvre
An austere and moving study of youthful dissent and institutional repression, told from the point of view of a rebellious sixteen-year-old, Louis.

CALENDAR
(1993) 75 min. English / Armenian Rating: NR Director: Atom Egoyan Writer(s): Atom Egoyan
An Armenian-Canadian photographer and his wife tour their homeland, taking pictures for a calendar. Drawn to her roots, his wife stays with their guide in Armenia, while the disillusioned photographer returns to Toronto.

CANADA’S SWEETHEART
(1985) 115 min. English Rating: NR Director: Donald Brittain Writer(s): Richard Neilsen, Donald Brittain
The violent and corrupt state of labour-management relations in Canada from the late 1940s to early 1960s is explored through the true story of an American thug imported to Canada to crush the Seafarers' International Union. Featuring Maury Chaykin.

LE CONFESSIONAL
(1995) 100 min. French Rating: 14A Director: Robert Lepage Writer(s): Robert Lepage
After the death of his father, an adopted man begins to question his true identity, only told by his mother to a priest in the confessional.

COSMOS
(1996) 99 min. French Rating: AA Director: various Writer(s): Marie-Julie Dallaire, Sebastien Joannette, Denis Villeneuve
Through Cosmos, an immigrant cab driver, our world collides with six seemingly disparate yet interconnected characters and stories.

EARTH
(1998) 102 min. Hindi / English / Parsee / Punjabi / Urdu Rating: AA Director: Deepa Mehta Writer(s): Bapsi Sidhwa (novel), Deepa Mehta
Emotionally charged tale of India and Pakistan's road to independence told through a diverse group of friends in Lahore.

EMPORTE-MOI
(1999) 95 min. French Rating: AA Director: Lea Pool Writer(s): Nancy Huston, Léa Pool, Isabelle Raynault
Tomboy-ish 13 year old girl finds escape at the movies and navigates the tricky terrain of adolescence.

EVE AND THE FIREHORSE
(2005) 92 min. English Rating: PG Director: Julia Kwan Writer(s): Julia Kwan
Precocious 9 year old with a wild imagination grows up amid her traditional Chinese immigrant family in Vancouver.

LA FACE CACHEE DE LA LUNE / THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
(2003) 105 min. French Rating: PG Director: Robert Lepage Writer(s): Robert Lepage (based on his stage play)
After the death of his mother, a lonely 40-something tries to rekindle a relationship with his brother, while undertaking an extraterrestrial outreach project.

FAMILY VIEWING
(1987) 86 min. English Rating: AA Director: Atom Egoyan Writer(s): Atom Egoyan
Van plots to get his grandmother out of a nursing home and into his care, while his estranged father destroys the record of his childhood by using the old home movie videotapes to rerecord scenes of perversion with his new wife, Van's stepmother.

THE FIVE SENSES
(1999) 105 min. English Rating: AA Director: Jeremy Podeswa Writer(s): Jeremy Podeswa
The stories of a massage therapist, an eye doctor who's losing his hearing, a professional house cleaner with a keen sense of smell and a high-strung baker are intertwined in the search for a lost child. Starring Mary Louise Parker.

FLOWER AND GARNET
(2002) 103 min. English Rating: 14A Director: Keith Behrman Writer(s): Keith Behrman
Gritty portrait of love, loss, and dysfunctional family relations in a small Canadian town.

I'VE HEARD THE MERMAIDS SINGING
(1987) 1981 min. English Rating: PG Director: Patricia Rozema Writer(s): Patricia Rozema
The quirky relationships between three women, a gallery curator, a secretary and a painter, are revealed with humour and charm. Starring Sheila McCarthy.

JESUS DE MONTREAL / JESUS OF MONTREAL
(1989) 118 min. French Rating: AA Director: Denys Arcand Writer(s): Denys Arcand
A group of actors put on an unorthodox Passion Play which incites the opposition of the Church while the actors' lives begin to mirror the Passion itself. With Lothaire Bluteau.

LAST WEDDING
(2001) 100 min. English Rating: R Director: Bruce Sweeney Writer(s): Bruce Sweeney
Three couples tie the knot, but their relationships begin to quickly unravel.

LIFE CLASSES
(1987) 117 min. English Rating: PG Director: William D. MacGillivray Writer(s): William D. MacGillivray
A young Cape Breton woman moves to Halifax with her child and tries to become an artist.

LOLA
(2001) 97 min. English Rating: AA Director: Carl Bessai Writer(s): Carl Bessai
Frantic Lola leaves her controlling boyfriend and leaves town, assuming the identity of a prostitute who she spends the evening with.

MAELSTROM
(2000) 87 min. French Rating: 18A Director: Denis Villeneuve Writer(s): Denis Villeneuve
After plunging her car into a river in a hit and run, a troubled woman (Marie-Josée Croze) encounters her victim's son, who helps her come to terms with her life.

MAMAN EST CHEZ LE COIFFEUR
(2008) 97 min. French Rating: NR Director: Léa Pool Writer(s): Isabelle Hébert
Set in the mid-sixties, this vibrant and beautifully crafted film focuses on teenaged Élise, who is about to realize that the adult world is not exactly what she thought or hoped it would be.

MARGARET'S MUSEUM
(1995) 114 min. English Rating: AA Director: Mort Ransen Writer(s): Sheldon Currie, Mort Ransen, Gerald Wexler
In a Cape Breton mining town, Margaret MacNeil (Helena Bonham Carter) does everything she can to avoid falling in love with a miner, until a charming dishwasher and the twists of fate intervene.

MARIAGES
(2001) 95 min. French Rating: AA Director: Catherine Martin Writer(s): Catherine Martin
When Yvonne's young romance is thwarted by her sister, she heads to the woods in search of a supernatural solution.

MARION BRIDGE
(2002) 90 min. English Rating: 14A Director: Wiebke von Carolsfeld Writer(s): Daniel MacIvor
Molly Parker and Ellen Page star in this film about three sisters who reunite in their Nova Scotia hometown to take care of their ailing mother, causing family secrets and conflicts erupt.

MEMOIRES AFFECTIVES / LOOKING FOR ALEXANDER
(2004) 100 min. French Rating: PG Director: Francis Leclerc Writer(s): Marcel Beaulieu, Francis Leclerc
Disturbing and violent memories haunt a man after he emerges from a lengthy coma. Starring Roy Dupuis.

LA NEUVAINE
(2005) 97 min. French Rating: G Director: Bernard Emond Writer(s): Bernard Emond
The stories of two strangers brought together by chance are woven into a meditation on the true meaning of retaining faith when faced with senseless violence.

ONE WEEK
(2008) 94 min. English Rating: 14A Director: Michael McGowan Writer(s): Michael McGowan
Ben Tyler (Joshua Jackson) has recently been diagnosed with a terminal illness. When the reality sinks in, he decides to hit the road on a cross-Canada road trip on a vintage motorcycle.

PARSLEY DAYS
(2000) 79 min. English Rating: AA Director: Andrea Dorfman Writer(s): Andrea Dorfman
Kate, a bicycle maintenance instructor and Ollie, a birth control educator, seems like a perfect couple, but after 5 years she worries she's no longer in love, and worse yet - she's pregnant.

POOR BOY'S GAME
(2007) 104 min. English Rating: 14A Director: Clement Virgo Writer(s): Chaz Thorne, Clement Virgo
Racial tensions are reignited in working class Halifax when a young white man is released from prison and forced to face after the family and community of his victim - a young black man beaten so brutally he is left handicapped for life. Starring Danny Glover.

POUVOIR INTIME
(1986) 87 min. French Rating: AA Director: Yves Simoneau Writer(s): Pierre Curzi, Yves Simoneau
A security man at a government ministry tries to plan a heist with the help of some ex-cons, but it may all be blown apart by a security guard who takes his job very seriously.

PROLOGUE
(1969) 88 min. English Rating: 14A Director: Robin Spry Writer(s): Sherwood Forrest; based on a story by Forrest and Robin Spry
A Montreal political activist and his girlfriend experience passion and disillusionment during the turbulent events of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

ROLLERCOASTER
(1999) 90 min. English Rating: AA Director: Scott Smith Writer(s): Scott Smith
Five teenagers break into a defunct amusement park in search of fantasy, but find personal demons instead.

SABAH
(2005) 86 min. English Rating: AA Director: Ruba Nadda Writer(s): Ruba Nadda
One day, when Sabah least expects it, she falls in love with the wrong man and embarks on a whirlwind affair in which culture and love collide.

SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD
(2004) 99 min. English Rating: AA Director: Guy Maddin Writer(s): Kazuo Ishigurob (original screnplay), Guy Maddin, George Toles
A beer baroness in Depression-era Winnipeg organizes a contest to find the saddest music in the world.

SAINT RALPH
(2004) 98 min. English Rating: PG Director: Michael McGowan Writer(s): Michael McGowan
The unlikely story of Ralph Walker, a ninth grader who outruns everyone's expectations except his own in a bold quest to win the 1954 Boston Marathon.

THE SILENT PARTNER
(1978) 105 min. English Rating: R Director: Daryl Duke Writer(s): Curtis Hanson
A mild mannered bank clerk stows away some cash during a holdup by a man dressed as Santa Claus, but the thief discovers the deception and comes after him! Featuring John Candy and Elliot Gould.

SKIP TRACER
(1977) 94 min. English Rating: AA Director: Zale R. Dalen Writer(s): Curtis Hanson
A zealous repo man gets embroiled in a dangerous game of cutthroat professional competition with colleagues as ambitious as he is.

SONANTINE
(1984) 91 min. French Rating: AA Director: Micheline Lanctot Writer(s): Micheline Lanctôt
Two teenage girls on the brink of womanhood refuse to give up the secrets, confidences and adventures of childhood.

SPIDER
(2002) 98 min. English Rating: AA Director: David Cronenberg Writer(s): Patrick McGrath, based on his novel
A mentally-disturbed man (Ralph Fiennes) takes residence in a halfway house, where his mind's tenuous grip on reality begins to slip away.

SUNSHINE
(1999) 180 min. English / French Rating: R Director: Istvan Szabo Writer(s): István Szabó, Israel Horovitz
Three generations of a Hungarian-Jewish family are followed through the twentieth century's most tumultuous decades. (Hungarian / Canadian co-production)

LES TRIPLETTES DE BELLEVILLE / THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE
(2003) 80 min. French Rating: G Director: Sylvain Chomet Writer(s): Sylvain Chomet
When her cyclist grandson is kidnapped during the Tour de France, Madame Souza and her dog team up with an aged trio of singing & dancing sisters to rescue him. Animated. (Canadian / French co-production).

WHITE ROOM
(1990) 90 min. English Rating: R Director: Patricia Rozema Writer(s): Patricia Rozema
Norm, a confused young man, is drawn into the events surrounding the mysterious death of rock star Madelaine X.

WINTER KEPT US WARM
(1965) 81 min. English Rating: NR Director: David Secter Writer(s): David Secter
A well-liked university senior with a popular girlfriend develops a quasi-romantic friendship with a shy freshman named Peter.

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ARARAT
(2003) 74 min. English, Armenian, French, German Rating: 14A Director: Atom Egoyan Writer(s): Atom Egoyan
A film within a film about the making of an historical epic about the Armenian genocide between 1915 and 1918.

THE BAY BOY
(1974) 107 min. English Rating: 14A Director: Daniel Petrie Writer(s): Daniel Petrie
A Catholic teen (Keifer Sutherland) in Nova Scotia in the 1930s faces the growing pains of adolescence, as well as more serious problems.

BETHUNE: THE MAKING OF A HERO
(1990) 168 min. English Rating: PG Director: Phillip Borsos Writer(s): Ted Allan
A fighter, a lover, a healer, a hero: the true story of Canadian doctor Norman Bethune. Starring Donald Sutherland.

BLACK ROBE
(1991) 101 min. English, Algonquin Rating: AA Director: Bruce Beresford Writer(s): Brian Moore
In 1634, an aboriginal group agrees to escort a young white man on a journey none of them fully understands. Starring Lothaire Bluteau.

BYE BYE BLUES
(1989) 117 min. English Rating: PG Director: Anne Wheeler Writer(s): Anne Wheeler
A WWII wife and mother joins a local dance band to provide for her family while her husband is at war.

JOHN AND THE MISSUS
(1987) 100 min. English Rating: PG Director: Gordon PInsent Writer(s): Gordon PInsent
A small Canadian town is devastated when a local mine – the town’s only source of income – is closed.

THE JOURNAL OF KNUD RASMUSSEN
(2006) 112 min. English Rating: 14A Director: Zacharius Kunuk Writer(s): Eugene Ipkarnak, Madeline Ivalu, Herve Paniaq, Pauloosie Qulitalik, Lucy Tulugarjuk, Louis Uttak
A portrait of the lives of the last great Inuit shaman, Avva, and his beautiful and headstrong daughter, Apak.

LUCK
(2004) 91 min. English Rating: 14A Director: Peter Wellington Writer(s): Peter Wellington
During the 1972 Canada/Russia hockey series, Shane Bradley’s failure to win the girl of his dreams leads to a fixation with luck and gambling. Starring Sarah Polley and Luke Kirby.

LES ORDRES
(1974) 109 min. French Rating: PG Director: Michel Brault Writer(s): Michel Brault
In 1970, under the pretext of waging war against the FLQ, the Canadian Parliament votes in the War Measures Act.

PASSCHENDAELE
(2008) 114 min. English Rating: NR Director: Paul Gross Writer(s): Paul Gross
One of the most stirring and ambitious films ever made in Canada, Passchendaele recounts what may have been the most savage battle of the First World War, a pivotal moment in Canadian history.

QUEST FOR FIRE
(1982) 100 min. No language Rating: AA Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud Writer(s): J.H. Rosny, Sr. (novel), Gérard Brach (screenplay)
A trio of prehistoric warriors travel the earth in search of fire, encountering sabre-toothed tigers, mammoths and cannibals.

LA SARRASINE
(1992) 109 min. French Rating: AA Director: Paul Tana Writer(s): Tony Nardi, Bruno Ramirez, Paul Tana
A beautifully rendered story of an Italian-Canadian couple in 1904 Montreal, caught in the tension between the city’s Italian and French-Canadian communities.

WHY SHOOT THE TEACHER?
(1977) 100 min. English Rating: PG Director: Silvio Narizzano Writer(s): Max Braithwaite (novel), James Defelice (screenplay)
A young man from the East struggles with life as a teacher in a one-room prairie schoolhouse in the 1930s.

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AU CLAIR DE LA LUNE
(1983) 90 min. French Rating: AA Director: Andre Forcier Writer(s): Bernard Lalonde, Guy L'Écuyer, Jacques Marcotte, André Forcier, Michel Pratt, Michel Côté
An average guy whose only passion is bowling forms an unlikely friendship with a gay albino named François.

BACK TO GOD'S COUNTRY
(1919) 73 min. Silent Rating: NR Director: David M. Hartford Writer(s): James Oliver Curwood, Nell Shipman
After her father is killed by an outlaw disguised as a mountie, Dolores marries Peter, a government official. While they're at sea in the Arctic, Dolores comes face to face with her father's killer - the captain of their ship.

BETWEEN FRIENDS
(1973) 90 min. English Rating: AA Director: Don Shebib Writer(s): Claude Harz
A group of friends plan a heist that goes terribly wrong, testing friendships and loyalties against a desolate northern Ontario backdrop.

THE BITTER ASH
(1963) 80 min. English Rating: 14A Director: Larry Kent Writer(s): Larry Kent
This edgy exploration of love and class tensions follows a self-involved young man as he considers throwing away his marriage for a fling.

LES BONS DEBARRAS
(1980) 120 min. French Rating: R Director: Francis Mankiewicz Writer(s): Réjean Ducharme
A mother who has to take care of her simple minded brother is in trouble with her rebellious daughter.

LE CHAT DANS LE SAC / THE CAT IN THE BAG
(1964) 74 min. French Rating: NR Director: Gilles Groulx Writer(s): Gilles Groulx
Claude is coming to terms with his place in Québécois society, and cannot decide whether to compromise, or try to change the world.

CHRISTOPHER'S MOVIE MATINEE
(1968) 88 min. English Rating: F Director: Mort Ransen
When cameras were put in the hands of a few young people, they film themselves at sit-ins, love-ins, discussions and encounters with adults.

ENTRE LA MER ET L'EAU DOUCE / DRIFTING UPSTREAM
(1967) 85 min. French Rating: PG Director: Michel Brault Writer(s): Denys Arcand, Michel Brault, Marcel Dubé, Gérald Godin, Claude Jutra
Claude Tremblay leaves his small town for Montreal, where he falls in love with a waitress, and begins a successful career as a singer. However, when he tries to return home, he finds that things have changed forever.

GOIN' DOWN THE ROAD
(1970) 90 min. English Rating: AA Director: Don Shebib Writer(s): William Fruet, Donald Shebib
Two friends travel from Nova Scotia to Toronto in search of a better life.

J.A. MARTIN, PHOTOGRAPHE
(1976) 101 min. French Rating: PG Director: Jean Beaudin Writer(s): Marcel Sabourin, Jean Beaudin
A 19th century Quebecois photographer and his wife travel the countryside photographing weddings and gatherings, and revive their 15 year marriage. Starring Monique Mercure.

THE MASK
(1961) 83 min. English Rating: PG Director: Julian Roffman Writer(s): Franklin Delessert, Sandy Haver, Frank Taubes, Slavko Vorkapich
A young archaeologist believes he is cursed by a mask that causes him to have weird nightmares and possibly to commit murder. Originally in 3D

NOBODY WAVED GOODBYE
(1964) 80 min. English Rating: PG Director: Don Owen Writer(s): Don Owen
A stark portrayal of the realities of teenage love in strait-laced mid '60s Toronto.

NOTES FOR A FILM ABOUT DONNA AND GAIL
(1966) 49 min. English Rating: NR Director: Don Owen Writer(s): Don Owen, Gerlad Taaffe
Two young women move to the city, work in a dress factory and share a room, eventually having to cope with the fact that sharing everything is driving them apart.

POUR LA SUITE DU MONDE
(1962) 105 min. French Rating: F Director: Michel Brault, Marcel Carrière, Writer(s): Michel Brault, Pierre Perrault
For centuries, the inhabitants of a small island in the St. Lawrence River trapped beluga whales by sinking saplings into the offshore mud at low tide - in 1962, a team of NFB filmmakers arrives to document the resumption of the practice decades after it was abandoned.

REJEANNE PADOVANI
(1973) 94 min. French Rating: PG Director: Denys Arcand Writer(s): Jacques W. Benoît, Denys Arcand
A biting social satire about a highway developer who throws a fancy dinner party to celebrate the opening of a new highway, with many important politicians, judges, and movers-and-shakers in attendance.

ROADKILL
(1989) 85 min. English Rating: 14A Director: Bruce McDonald Writer(s): Don McKellar , Bruce McDonald
Ramona is sent to recover an errant band who are in danger of missing the final date in their tour, and has an adventure in the wilds of Canada. With Don McKellar.

THE ROWDYMAN
(1972) 95 min. English Rating: 14A Director: Peter Carter Writer(s): Gordon Pinsent
Will is in his thirties, lives in a small town in Newfoundland and sees no reason to take life seriously, but his pranks and antics bring tragedy and pain.

THE RUBBER GUN
(1977) 86 min. English Rating: R Director: Allan Moyle Writer(s): Stephen Lack, Allan Moyle, John Laing
A funky street community in Montreal is threatened from within and from without - by drugs, cops and the disillusioned group's eventual disintegration.

TALES FROM THE GIMLI HOSPITAL
(1988) 72 min. English Rating: AA Director: Guy Maddin Writer(s): Guy Maddin
A deadly pestilence rages in the fantastical and nonsensical pre-Confederation era town of Gimli, Manitoba.

A TOUT PRENDRE
(1964) 99 min. French Rating: NR Director: Claude Jutra Writer(s): Claude Jutra
A young man in 1960s Montreal has a bright future, but begins to question the choices he's made and the possibilities in his life.

LE VIEUX PAYS OU RIMBAUD EST MORT / THE OLD COUNTRY WHERE RIMBAUD DIED
(1977) 113 min. French Rating: NR Director: Jean-Pierre Lefebvre Writer(s): Mireille Amiel, Jean Pierre Lefebvre
Abel travels to France to see the land of his ancestors, but discovers that the France he believes in no longer exists.

LA VRAIE NATURE DE BERNADETTE / THE TRUE NATURE OF BERNADETTE
(1972) 115 min. French Rating: PG Director: Gilles Carles Writer(s): Gilles Carles
A middle-class woman moves to the countryside with her two year old son to discover her "true nature" and becomes involved in a the politics of rural life.

WEDDING IN WHITE
(1972) 103 min. English Rating: PG Director: William Fruet Writer(s): William Fruet
Set in a small prairie town during WWII, this films follows a girl who is raped by a visiting soldier friend of her brother's.

WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND
(1977) 100 min. English Rating: PG Director: Allan King Writer(s): W.O. Mitchell (novel), Patricia Watson
A young boy comes of age in rural Saskatchewan during the Great Depression.

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BOYS OF ST. VINCENT
(1992) 186 min. English Rating: NR Director: John N. Smith Writer(s): John N. Smith & Sam Grana
The true story of boys who were sexually abused in an orphanage run by a religious Catholic community in Newfoundland. Starring Henry Czerny.

COOPER'S CAMERA
(2008) 95 min. English Rating: NR Director: Warren P. Sonoda Writer(s): Mike Beaver, Jason Jones
The Cooper family gets a video camera for Christmas in 1985, and proceeds to record the funny, chaotic and often shocking events of their holiday.

DEAD RINGERS
(1989) 113 min. English Rating: R Director: David Cronenberg Writer(s): Norman Snider, David Cronenberg
Twin gynecologists Elliot and Beverly Mantle (Jeremy Irons in a dual role) share everything - professionally and personally - until a beautiful actress comes between them and disrupts their disturbing and fragile equilibrium.

DECLIN DE L'EMPIRE AMERICAIN / THE DECLINE OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE
(1986) 101 min. French Rating: 14A Director: Denys Arcand Writer(s): Denys Arcand
A comedy of manners constructed around conversations about sex, love and life between 8 academics who are friends, lovers or both.

EDISON & LEO
(2008) 79 min. French Rating: NR Director: Neil Burns Writer(s): George Toles, Daegan Fryklind
Inventor George T. Edison accidentally electrified his son Leo after a a skirmish with a tribe of native women. Now, adult Leo must face his past, his future, and his imposing, difficult dad.

EXOTICA
(1994) 103 min. English Rating: 18A Director: Atom Egoyan Writer(s): Atom Egoyan
A group of people become involved with one another as they try to deal with the disappearance and murder of a child with whom each was involved in some way.

FALLING ANGELS
(2003) 109 min. English Rating: 14A Director: Scott Smith Writer(s): Barbara Gowdy (novel) & Esta Spalding
Three sisters come of age in a wildly dysfunctional family set against the turbulent backdrop of the 1960s. Starring Miranda Richardson and Callum Keith Rennie.

FIRE
(1996) 104 min. English / Hindi Rating: 14A Director: Deepa Mehta Writer(s): Deepa Mehta
Two women in New Delhi find disappointment in marriage, but physical and emotional comfort with each other.

THE HANGING GARDEN
(1997) 91 min. English Rating: R Director: Thom Fitzgerald Writer(s): Thom Fitzgerald
A once-obese troubled teen returns after ten years to his hometown a well adjusted gay man, but finds his family still haunted by his past.

HORLOGE BIOLOGIQUE
(2005) 100 min. French Rating: 14A Director: Ricardo Trogi Writer(s): Ricardo Trogi, Patrice Robitaille, Jean-Phillipe Pearson
Three men's tales give a funny and touching glimpse at the deep ambivalence men often feel towards parenthood.

I LOVE A MAN IN UNIFORM
(1993) 97 min. English Rating: R Director: David Wellington Writer(s): David Wellington
An actor (Tom McCamus) finds his new purpose in life when he's cast as a cop on a TV show, but he takes his new role too far.

LES INVASIONS BARBERES / THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS
(2003) 122 min. French Rating: 14A Director: Denys Arcand Writer(s): Denys Arcand
A man dying of cancer tries to find peace with friends and family in his last moments.

IT’S ALL GONE PETE TONG
(2004) 90 min. English Rating: NR Director: Michael Dowse Writer(s): Michael Dowse
A comic look at the rise and fall of legendary DJ Frankie Wilde.

LEOLO
(1991) 97 min. French Rating: R Director: Jean-Claude Lauzon Writer(s): Jean-Claude Lauzon
Young Leo is torn between two worlds - the Montreal tenement he lives in with his dysfunctional family, and the world he imagines in his writing.

LILIES
(1996) 95 min. English / French Rating: AA Director: John Greyson Writer(s): Michel Marc Bouchard
A bishop visits a Québécois prison to hear the confession of a boyhood friend jailed for murder 40 years ago, and is forced to watch a play depicting the true events of the murder.

LOVE, SEX AND EATING THE BONES
(2003) 100 min. English Rating: 18A Director: David Sutherland Writer(s): Sudz Sutherland
A young, urban guy discovers that love can be stronger than fantasy, when he falls for the girl of his dreams.

RUDE
(1995) 89 min. English Rating: AA Director: Clement Virgo Writer(s): Clement Virgo
From her illicit broadcast booth, pirate radio DJ Rude guides us through three stories of hope and transformation.

WARRENDALE
(1967) 100 min. English Rating: R Director: Allan King Writer(s): Allan King
Explosive chronicle of the lives of 12 emotionally disturbed children and the therapists who force them to confront their pain.

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CE QU'IL RESTE DE NOUS / WHAT REMAINS OF US
(2004) 77 min. English / Tibetan Rating: G Director: Hugo Latulippe, François Prévost Writer(s): Hugo Latulippe, François Prévost
A Tibetan-Canadian smuggles a message from the Dalai Lama into her homeland and documents the suffering of her people.

CLINTON SPECIAL: A FILM ABOUT THE FARM SHOW
(1974) 70 min. English Rating: AA Director: Michael Ondaatje
In 1972, a group of actors go into an Ontario farming community and then build a play of what they saw and learned.

CYBERMAN
(2001) 87 min. English Rating: F Director: Peter Lynch Writer(s): Peter Lynch
Portrait of Steve Mann, University of Toronto engineering professor and self proclaimed cyborg.

DEADLY CURRENTS
(1991) 115 min. English Rating: AA Director: Simcha Jacobovici
This fast-paced documentary probes the murky world of Arab-Israeli politics, focusing on the lives of refugees and settlers and interspersing street footage from Gaza and the West Bank with interviews with journalists, soldiers, artists, academics and victims of violence.

THE FALLS
(1991) 89 min. English Rating: NR Director: Kevin McMahon Writer(s): Kevin McMahon
The history of mankind's interactions with Niagara Falls - from original awe to harnessing the falls' power.

FAMINE WITHIN
(1991) 90 min. English Rating: PG Director: Katherine Gilday Writer(s): Katherine Gilday
The contemporary obsession with an unrealistic body size and shape among North American women and the eating disorders it engenders.

FINAL OFFER: Bob White and the Canadian Auto Workers Fight for Independence
(1985) 79 min. Rating: AA Director: Robert Collinson, Sturla Gunnarsson Writer(s): Robert Collison
A fly-on-the-wall account of the dramatic 1984 negotiations between the Canadian United Auto Workers and General Motors.

FIX: THE STORY OF AN ADDICTED CITY
(2002) 92 min. English Rating: 14A Director: Nettie Wild Writer(s): Nettie Wild
Former IBM salesman and outspoken drug addict Dean Wilson heads the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users, and the help of an unlikely ally - the conservative mayor of Vancouver.

HITMAN HART: WRESTLING WITH SHADOWS
(1998) 93 min. English Rating: AA Director: Paul Jay Writer(s): Paul Jay
The highs and lows in the career of champion pro wrestler Bret "the hitman" Hart, and his controversial exit from the WWF.

IF YOU LOVE THIS PLANET
(1982) 26 min. English Rating: PG Director: Terre Nash
Devastating and simple, this documentary cuts between horrifying images of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and Dr. Helen Caldicott's lecture about the true human costs of a nuclear war.

JUST WATCH ME: TRUDEAU AND THE '70s GENERATION
(1999) 75 min. English Rating: PG Director: Catherine Annau
Journey into the heart of an era and into the hearts of the people who will shape our future: the Trudeau Generation.

KANEHSATAKE: 270 YEARS OF RESISTANCE
(1993) 119 min. English / French Rating: PG Director: Alanis Obomsawin Writer(s): Alanis Obomsawin
A comprehensive and compelling review of the Oka Crisis - a standoff between the Mohawks of Kanehsatake and the Quebec provincial police and Canadian army in the summer of 1990.

THE MAN WHO SKIED DOWN EVEREST
(1974) 84 min. English Rating: F Director: Bruce Nyznik, Lawrence Schiller
The unbelievable journey of a Japanese skier who literally dreams of climbing up Mount Everest in order to ski down it.

MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES
(2006) 90 min. English Rating: G Director: Jennifer Baichwal
A remarkable meditation on humanity's impact on the environment - internationally acclaimed photographer Edward Burtynsky goes to China to capture images of nature transformed by industry.

MANUFACTURING CONSENT
(1992) 167 min. English Rating: PG Director: Mark Achbar, Peter Wintonick
Noam Chomsky's primer in intellectual self-defense and a warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda.

A MARRIED COUPLE
(1969) 96 min. English Rating: R Director: Allan King Writer(s): Allan King
An astonishing fly-on-the-wall look at the disintegration of the marriage of a suburban couple.

LE MEMOIRE DES ANGELS
(2008) 80 min. English Rating: NR Director: Luc Bourdon
A glorious reminder of Canada's rich motion picture history, and a chronicle of the evolution of the city of Montreal, from its industrial heyday to its time as a stage for the Quiet Revolution and Expo 67.

MY WINNIPEG
(2007) 80 min. English Rating: NR Director: Guy Maddin Writer(s): Guy Maddin
A touching and often bizarre and hilarious docucomedy about filmmaker Guy Maddin's hometown, Winnipeg.

MYSTIC BALL
(2006) 83 min. English Rating: NR Director: Greg Hamilton
Greg Hamilton shares his passion for the dance, meditation and culture of Chinlone, Myanmar's traditional sport. Hamilton, a Canadian, has become a national champion of chinlone in Myanmar.

A PLACE CALLED CHIAPAS
(1998) 89 min. English Rating: NR Director: Nettie Wild Writer(s): Manfred Becker, Nettie Wild
The mid-90s conflict between the Zapatista National Liberation Army and the Mexican government sheds light on the plight of Mexico's indigenous people.

RADIANT CITY
(2006) 86 min. English Rating: PG Director: Gary Burns Writer(s): Gary Burns, Jim Brown
An examination of the sprawling suburban residential developments that have dominated North America since the end of World War II.

SCAREDSACRED
(2004) 105 min. English Rating: 18A Director: Velcrow Ripper Writer(s): Velcrow Ripper
A five-year search around the world for ways in which people take the experience of being scared and turn it into something sacred - sites of catastrophe are scoured for signs of hope.

STRAND, UNDER THE DARK CLOTH
(1989) 81 min. English Rating: PG Director: John Walker Writer(s): Seaton Findlay
A poetic and deeply personal documentary about the life and career of Pall Strand, a pioneering but little known photographer.

THE TAKE
(2004) 87 min. English / Spanish Rating: PG Director: Avi Lewis; Naomi Klein Writer(s): Naomi Klein
In suburban Buenos Aires, thirty unemployed auto-parts workers walk into their idle factory, roll out sleeping mats, and refuse to leave.

TALK 16
(1991) 114 min. English Rating: PG Director: Jancie Lundman, Adrienne Mitchell Writer(s): Jancie Lundman, Adrienne Mitchell
A revealing look at five sixteen-year-old girls' views on sex, education, parents, their own futures, and much more.

TOTEM: THE RETURN OF THE G'PSGOLOX POLE
(2003) 70 min. English Rating: 14A Director: Gil Cardinal Writer(s): Gil Cardinal
In 1929, the Haisla people of British Columbia returned from a fishing trip to find their tribe’s nine-metre mortuary pole missing, severed at the base. The pole's fate was a mystery for over sixty years, until it surfaced in a Stockholm museum, where members of the Haisla Nation journeyed to get it back in 1991.

VINYL
(2000) 180 min. English Rating: NR Director: Alan Zweig Writer(s): Alan Zweig
Explores the obsessive world of record collecting.

WAITING FOR FIDEL
(1974) 58 min. English / Spanish Rating: NR Director: Michael Rubbo
Director Michael Rubbo constructs an eye opening look at Cuba while waiting for an interview with Fidel Castro which never takes place.

THE WORLD IS WATCHING
(1988) 60 min. English Rating: F Director: Peter Raymont Writer(s): Harold Crooks, Peter Raymont
This acclaimed and revealing documentary follows the press in Nicaragua during the political tumult of 1987, with unprecedented access to the TV crews that reveals the pressures and decisions that shaped the news being presented.

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GAMBLING, GODS, AND LSD
(2002) 180 min. English Rating: AA Director: Peter Mettler
An experimental documentary about the human quest for meaning - the film takes a journey around the globe, observing ways in which different people seek transcendence.

THE HART OF LONDON
(1970) 80 min. English Rating: NR Director: Jack Chambers
A sprawling, ambitious film that combines newsreel footage of disasters, imagery of nature and urbanization, and footage evoking the cycles of life and death.

IMITATIONS OF LIFE
(2003) 75 min. English Rating: NR Director: Mike Hoolboom
An abstract work that's beautiful and absorbing as a purely aesthetic experience. The video is separated into ten chapters, and explores themes of childhood memory through a variety of cinematic methods.

LIKE A DREAM THAT VANISHES
(2000) 40 min. English Rating: NR Director: Barbara Sternberg
The ephemerality of life is echoed in the temporal nature of film - imageless emulsion is intercut with brief shots of natural elements and the stages of human life.

PASSING THROUGH/TORN FORMATIONS
(1988) 43 min. English Rating: NR Director: Philip Hoffman Writer(s): Philip Hoffman
A kaleidoscopic and labyrinthine study of a family's migration from Czechoslavakia to Canada, exploring tragedy, loss and the potential of the image to transform reality.

REASON OVER PASSION
(1969) 80 min. English Rating: NR Director: Joyce Wieland
An examination of notions of Canada, joining the country's physical landscape with the familiar symbols — the flag, the anthem, bilingualism, the national railway — which stand in for Canadian identity.

ROAD ENDED AT THE BEACH
(1983) 33 min. English Rating: NR Director: Philip Hoffman Writer(s): Philip Hoffman
Film images, stills and sound collected for over six years coalesce in this journey with filmmaker Hoffman and fame American photographer Robert Frank.

WAVELENGTH
(1967) 45 min. English Rating: NR Director: Michael Snow
This meditation on cinematic practice takes the form of a zoom that moves from the end of an 80-foot urban loft to a photograph of waves on the wall at the opposite end of the room, accompanied by a sine wave as it gradually progresses from its lowest note to its highest.

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