Monday Night at the MoviesA Difficult Year
A Difficult Year is driven by a belief in people’s fundamental ability to change — and the ability to find beauty in even the bleakest moments.
Perfect Days
Perfect Days is another masterwork from Wenders, a recognition of life’s curiosities, the small details that make it all worthwhile, and finding beauty in the overlooked things in life.
Café Daughter
March 25, 2024 Showings 4:30, 7:00 and 9:10pm Canada | 2023 | English | Drama, Indigenous filmmaker, Based on a true story | 97 minutes A young half-Cree, half-Chinese girl living in Saskatchewan with her family is instructed to keep her Indigenous identity hidden by her ailing mother in order to escape prejudice from their community. Based on the story of retired-Canadian…
Driving Madeleine
February 26, 2024 Showings 4:30, 7:00 and 9:10pm France | 2022 | French (English subtitles) | Drama/Comedy | 91 minutes A charming nonagenarian takes her gruff cab driver on an unexpectedly life-affirming odyssey, in the touching new comedy-drama from French director Christian Carion. Charles, a taxi driver in Paris, is having a very bad day. Some pressing personal debts are due, he’s…
Flora and Son
February 5, 2024 Showings 4:30, 7:00 and 9:10pm Ireland, United States | 2023 | English | Drama, Music, Family | 94 minutes With Flora and Son, Irish writer-director John Carney has crafted his most soulful song cycle yet, setting a young single mother on a journey of self-discovery. Flora is something of a hot mess. She’s feisty, charismatic, and a trouble magnet….
Joan Baez I Am A Noise
January 22, 2024 Showings 4:30, 7:00 and 9:10pm U.S.A. | 2023 | Rated: PG | English | Documentary/Social Awareness/Music |113 minutes Expansive in scope and deeply insightful, Joan Baez I Am a Noise offers an unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at the iconic musician who was a central figure in the proliferation of folk music and countercultural activism in the 1960s. At almost two…
Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe
November 20, 2023 Showings 4:30, 7:00 and 9:10pm Canada | 2023 | Rated: PG| English | Documentary, Biography | 90 minutes This heartfelt documentary celebrating the life and works of Ernie Coombs left TIFF audiences in tears and won TIFF’s People’s Choice Award for Best Documentary. “In a nation whose culture was so dominated by American culture, Coombs and his show stood…
What’s Love Got To Do With It?
November 6, 2023 Showings 4:30, 7:00 and 9:10pm United Kingdom | 2022 | Rated: PG13 | English, Urdo | Romantic Comedy | 108 minutes Sliding between London and Lahore, love and friendship, tradition and iconoclasm, What’s Love Got To Do With It? is an effervescent romantic comedy that refuses to adhere to easy binaries. Directed by Shekhar Kapur (Elizabeth, Bandit, Queen) from…
The Lesson
October 16, 2023 Showings 4:30, 7:00 and 9:10pm British | 2023 | Rating R | English | Thriller | 103 minutes The Lesson is a British psychological thriller directed by Alice T. Troughton. The English countryside setting is one of ease and luxury, rather like a modernized Downton Abbey without the aristocrats. A young novelist and aspiring writer, Liam (Daryl McCormack) eager to…
Jules
October 2, 2023 Showings 4:30, 7:00 and 9:10pm U.S.A. | 2023 | Rating PG | English | Comedy / Drama / Sci Fi | 87 minutes Jules is a 2023 science fiction comedy film directed by Marc Turtlebaub whose film Little Miss Sunshine was nominated for an Academy Award. The film stars Ben Kinsley (Ghandi) as Milton, a 79 year old widower…