August 8, 2016
July 7, 2016
Fire At Sea (2016) ***
Old Stone (2016) *
When a drunken passenger causes Lao Shi to swerve and hit a motorcyclist, the driver stops to help the injured man. The repercussions of Shi’s selfless act expose a society rife with bone-chilling callousness and bureaucratic indifference. On the verge of losing his cab, his job and his family, Lao Shi has to resort to desperate measures to survive.
Land Of Mine (2016) **
Depressing drama about Nazi child soldiers POWs forced to clear mines from Danish beaches at the end of WWII.
Powidoki (2016) ***
The passion of Wladyslaw Strzeminski, directed by Andrzej Wajda. Reminiscent of his earlier film, "Bez znieczulenia" (1978).
HEVN Revenge (2016) *
Travelling under a false identity, Rebekka sets out on a mission to confront Morten Holand, a man who, years before, assaulted her recently deceased sister. As Rebekka's plan falls apart, she is forced to face the devestating consequences of her actions and must decide how far she is willing to go to seek revenge.
June 6, 2016
The Northlander (2016) *
In the far future beyond humanity, nature has recovered the land. The hunter Cygnus is called to defend the nomadic tribe of Last Arc in need of a hope growing scarce. This hope must be found before a tribe of murderous Heretics descend.
Born To Be Blue (2016) **
Ethan Hawke stars as Chet Baker in this reimagining of the legendary jazz trumpeter's struggle to overcome his drug addiction and stage a comeback.
Weirdos (2016) **
15-year-old Kit is running away. Enlisting the help of his girlfriend Alice, Kit hitchhikes towards a new home with his glamorous, artistic mother Laura. However, as Kit and Alice near their final destination they find their relationship tested as Kit approaches a realization that will change his life forever. A Canadian film.
Race (2016) *
Jesse Owens' quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics, where he faces off against Adolf Hitler's vision of Aryan supremacy. He became a legend by winning four Olympic gold medals and setting six world records in a single afternoon.
Operation Avalanche (2016) **
In 1967, four undercover CIA agents are sent to NASA posing as a documentary film crew. What they discovered leads to one of the biggest conspiracies in American history.
Waseskun (2016) *
At the Waseskun Healing Center, men with troubled and violent pasts follow a treatment plan based on Indigenous philosophy. A film that captures the daily life in this unique alternative detention facility.
Black Code (2016) **
The story of how governments manipulate the internet to censor and monitor their citizens, and how those citizens are fighting back. This battle for control of cyberspace will challenge our ideas of privacy, citizenship and democracy to the very core.
KONELINE our land beautiful (2016) *
A cinematic celebration of northwestern British Columbia, and all the dreamers who move across it. Set in the traditional territory of the Tahltan First Nation, the documentary captures the moment when one of Canada’s vast wildernesses undergoes irrevocable change. Some hunt on the land. Some mine it.
I Am The Blues (2016) **
Blues music from the Mississippi delta. A musical documentary with some interviews set in western Mississippi.
Gun Runners (2016) *
Two criminals from Kenya transform their lives by trading in their rifles for sneakers to become professional marathon runners—and offer their families a better future.
Giants Of Africa (2016) *
On a continent where dreams are often displaced for necessity and survival, Masai Ujiri, President of the Toronto Raptors, returns to Africa each summer to run basketball development camps. Young men from across the continent overcome staggering odds, with an unwavering spirit, to attend these camps.
The Unseen (2016) *
A man who abandoned his family now risks everything to find his missing daughter, including exposing the secret that he is becoming invisible.
The Other Half (2016) *
A grief-stricken man and a bipolar woman fall in love and attempt to forge a simple life together.
Riverhead (2016) *
A middle-aged widower living in rural Newfoundland finds himself at odds with a pair of vengeful brothers determined to breathe new life into their father's bitter feud.
A Date With Miss Fortune (2016) **
When Jack gets rescued by Maria, a superstitious Portuguese beauty, he has no idea that his life and luck are about to change. During this accidental "first date", Jack and Maria project idealistic images of themselves -- images that are humorously contradicted through a series of flash-forwards to their future life together.
Numb (2016) *
When a couple in financial distress discover GPS coordinates that promise to lead to stolen gold they must partner with a pair of mysterious hitchhikers to enter the remote winter wilderness to recover the coins.
Werewolf (2016) **
Blaise and Nessa are outcast methadone users in a town that doesn’t offer an easy way out. Each day starts in a lineup at the tiny pharmacy, then it’s door-to-door begging to cut grass for people who just want them to not exist. In this bleakness, Nessa plots an escape, while Blaise lingers closer to relapse, arrest, hospitalization, or worse.
Kidnap Capital (2016) **
Trapped and tortured inside a Phoenix 'drop house' after being captured in the Arizona desert, a group of helpless, illegal migrants must unite and find a way to escape the violent human kidnapping ring holding them hostage.
May 5, 2016
Avant les rues (2016) **
Shawnouk tue un homme lors d’un vol à main armée. Après s’être évadé en forêt, il retourne dans sa communauté et cherche à se libérer par la pratique de rituels traditionnels.
Les Mauvaises herbes (2016) **
Jacques a des dettes de jeu et fuit la ville pour échapper à un dangereux créancier. Il se retrouve à la ferme de Simon qui le force à travailler sur sa plantation de cannabis. Malgré des débuts pénibles, Jacques et Simon s'apprivoisent. La dégourdie Francesca se joint à eux. Le trio aura à affronter le malsain créancier de Jacques.
Rupture (2016) ***
Gulistan Land Of Roses (2016) **
The film follows the female fighters of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) as they fight for independence. These women are the revolutionary future of a people and the hidden face of a highly mediatized war: the female, feminist face in the war against ISIS.
Pays (2016) **
Montreal la blanche (2016) *
In Montreal, one evening when Christmas has fallen during Ramadan, the Muslim fast, the paths of two Algerians cross momentarily, resurrecting a past they thought was long buried.
April 4, 2016
Ennemis intérieurs (2016) ****
E.W.A. (2016) ***
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