Jonas Mekas, one of the central figures in American avant-garde cinema, and his brother Adolfas (1925-2011), fled their native Lithuania in 1944 due to the war.
VANCOUVER PREMIERE! Gherman’s dizzying, dazzling drama, adapted from a story by poet and Nobel Prize winner Joseph Brodsky, "resembles nothing else in cinema."
The fourth feature by Canadian writer-director Philippe Falardeau has won a host of national and international honours, among them an Oscar nomination and six Genies.
A collection of short films created as part of “Back Down the Highway,” a Cineworks-sponsored short film competition, followed by Bruce McDonald’s quirky rock ’n’ roll road movie.
VANCOUVER PREMIERE! This uncommonly intimate rock-doc reveals a fascinating, frustrating talent who was as prolific and productive as he was polarizing and self-destructive.
NEW 35mm PRINT! Bruce McDonald’s fabulous faux documentary was famously championed by Quentin Tarantino, and is now both cult favourite and Canadian classic.
Gherman’s arresting third solo feature, is one of the of the most heralded Russian films of the last 30 years, and one of the most celebrated movies of glasnost.
Terrence Malick dares to ponder (and visualize) the hardest, vastest, most daunting questions — and creates a film of awesome, affirmative, haunting beauty.
One of the landmark films of the 1960s, and now often cited as one of the greatest films ever made, Stanley Kubrick's cosmic epic offers a spectacular speculative history.
This arresting documentary follows a young psychotherapist in Gaza as he struggles to provide therapy against a backdrop of armed clashes and his own family issues.
Švankmajer's first feature was this highly perverse, highly personal adult adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, hailed by many as the definitive film version of Lewis Carroll’s classic.