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The History of Concrete
After attending a workshop on how to write and sell a Hallmark movie, filmmaker John Wilson ("How To With John Wilson") attempts to utilize the same commercial formula to create and sell a documentary about the history of concrete. The project evolves into a humorous and philosophical exploration of urbanism, the built environment, and the mundane textures of American life.
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SOLD OUT - Run Terry Run Director Q&A
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Join us for a special screening of RUN TERRY RUN featuring a Q&A with Director Sean Menard!
The extraordinary story of Canadian icon Terry Fox will be told like never before in Run Terry Run, a new feature-length documentary directed by acclaimed filmmaker Sean Menard. The film offers an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at Terry’s legendary 1980 Marathon of Hope, drawing from 96 reels of never-before-seen footage and unheard audio interviews that have remained untouched for 45 years.
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Scream Queens: Possession
Scream Queens is a tribute to the underestimated women in horror. Those who screamed, ran, fought, and clawed their way into cinematic history, becoming icons in their own right!
Polish director Andrej Zulawski's 1981 'Possession' remains one of the most demented movies of all time, constantly careening from mad creature-feature horror movie to Bergman-esque marital breakdown and back again. This psychological horror drama film stars Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill and was an international co-production between France and West Germany.
Trying to classify Possession, critics drew parallels with Roman Polanski's Repulsion and David Cronenberg's The Brood. The genre of the film is still matter of controversy. Shortly after its release, the film was banned from distribution in the United Kingdom.
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Restoration: Kwaidan
After more than a decade of sober political dramas and socially minded period pieces, the great Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi shifted gears dramatically for this rapturously stylized quartet of ghost stories. Featuring colorfully surreal sets and luminous cinematography, these haunting tales of demonic comeuppance and spiritual trials, adapted from writer Lafcadio Hearn’s collections of Japanese folklore, are existentially frightening and meticulously crafted.
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Northern Frights: Videodrome
Behind the gore and wild special effects, Videodrome is a reverent cautionary tale examining the mounting dangers of, as critic Tim Lucas put it, “the fascination and horror of sex and violence; and the boundaries of reality and consciousness."
In his rich Canadian horror filmography , David Cronenberg’s Videodrome is his most provocative and timeless venture into the genre.
Filmed entirely and proudly in Toronto, this is the director at his most disgusting, inventive, and socio-politically involved. It stands as one of the most important achievements of Canadian horror media; one that shows that our homegrown artists are progressive, vocal, and ahead of the curve.
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Run Terry Run
The extraordinary story of Canadian icon Terry Fox will be told like never before in Run Terry Run, a new feature-length documentary directed by acclaimed filmmaker Sean Menard. The film offers an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at Terry’s legendary 1980 Marathon of Hope, drawing from 96 reels of never-before-seen footage and unheard audio interviews that have remained untouched for 45 years.
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Ever Deadly
Ever Deadly invites its viewers to take a peek behind the curtain of the life and work of award-winning singer, artist, author, and activist Tanya Tagaq. Weaving together concert footage and inspiring sequences filmed on location in Nunavut, seamlessly bridging landscapes, stories and songs with pain, anger and triumph—all through the expressions of Tanya Tagaq, one of the most innovative musical performers of our time.
Best known for her powerful throat singing, Tanya uses her platform to speak about issues that matter to her, and the painful story of her family, Inuit, and Canadian history.
This screening is Pay What You Can! We will be donating all proceeds to the Toronto Council Fire Native Cultural Centre. Minimum recommended donation $10.
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Blood Lines
Beatrice, a Two-Spirit person, spends her days working at the local corner store in her tight-knit Métis community, trading stories and laughs with her best friend Jaz. When Chani, a newcomer searching for her biological family, arrives in town, Beatrice is instantly drawn to her and becomes determined to help in any way she can.
This screening is Pay What You Can! We will be donating all proceeds to the Toronto Council Fire Native Cultural Centre. Minimum recommended donation $10.
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Clearcut (Restoration)
"Clearcut" is an unforgettable exploration of Indigenous folklore, newly restored in 4K from the original 35mm answer print.
A white lawyer arrives in Northern Ontario to defend Indigenous activists who are blocking a logging company's clearcut of old growth on their land. A pacifist by nature, and perceiving himself as sympathetic to Indigenous concerns, the lawyer finds his values shaken when he is paired with an angry, rogue Indigenous activist named Arthur (Graham Greene, one of Canada's most towering and beloved actors). Arthur insists on kidnapping the head of the logging company in the hopes of teaching him the price of his destruction.
This screening is Pay What You Can! We will be donating all proceeds to the Toronto Council Fire Native Cultural Centre. Minimum recommended donation $10.
Restoration courtesy of Severin Films.
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Faust w/ Live Music by Invincible Czars
Those amazing, intrepid, touring sound-trackers are back in town, live on stage with 2 silent era horror classics!
An elderly alchemist named Faust (Gösta Ekman) makes a pact with the demon Mephisto (Emil Jannings) to gain the power to protect his village from plague. Faust soon succumbs to temptation and asks Mephisto to restore his youth and help him acquire all the hedonistic pleasures that earth can offer. Eventually, his love affair with a young woman named Gretchen (Camilla Horn) leads to tragic and devastating consequences for them both.
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Tickets for each Invincible Czars show sold separately.
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Nosferatu w/ Live Music by Invincible Czars
Those amazing, intrepid, touring sound-trackers are back in town, live on stage with 2 silent era horror classics!
Don’t miss this special screening of the silent horror classic Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror featuring an original live score combining rock and orchestral music, created and performed by the acclaimed Austin, Texas music ensemble The Invincible Czars!
The original Nosferatu (1922) follows a young real estate agent, Thomas Hutter, who travels to Transylvania to meet with the mysterious Count Orlok. Hutter becomes increasingly suspicious of Orlok's strange behavior and eventually discovers he is a vampire. Orlok then travels to Hutter's town, causing death and destruction. The Invincible Czars add haunting music that adds depth and intensity to this already renowned film.
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Tickets for each Invincible Czars show sold separately.
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Wicker
"Wicker" takes basket weaving to a whole new level.
“Wicker” is simultaneously a sweet, gently moving love story and audacious comedic fable about sex, marriage, and the absurdities of social convention. Directed and adapted by Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson from the short story "The Wicker Husband" by Ursula Wills-Jones.
On the outskirts of a village by the sea, lives a Fisherwoman (Olivia Colman); smelly, single and perpetually ridiculed. One day, fed up with her stuffy, small-minded neighbours, she commissions herself a husband to be made from wicker (embodied by Alexander Skarsgård). In an otherwise conservative town, this unconventional romance sparks outrage, jealousy and chaos.
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Fjord
Mihai (Sebastian Stan) and Lisbet (Renate Reinsve) Gheorghiu, a Romanian-Norwegian Pentecostal couple, move with their five children from Romania to Norway after Mihai’s parents die, seeking closeness to Lisbet’s family, who share their faith. Settling in an isolated coastal village, they form a bond with their neighbours, the Halbergs. When adolescent Elia Gheorghiu shows up at school with some bruises on her body, the community asks itself if the traditional education that the Gheorghiu children get from their parents might have something to do with it.
Winner of the prestigious Palme d'Or at Cannes, "Fjord" is an intricate, gripping courtroom drama driven by a profound moral dilemma, where private lives are laid bare for public scrutiny. Romania's entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 99th Academy Awards.
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SOLD OUT - The Rocky Horror Picture Show w/Shadowcast!
Join Excited Mental State: Toronto's Only Rocky Horror Shadowcast who are just shivering with antici....PATION at making this the best Rocky Horror night of your life!
Dress up in your best Rocky Horror-inspired outfits and get ready to "Time Warp" to the eerie castle of Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Tim Curry) along with sweethearts Brad (Barry Bostwick) and Janet (Susan Sarandon) who find themselves stuck with a flat tire during a storm and nowhere else to go.
As Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker (Meat Loaf) and a creepy butler (Richard O’Brien), their innocence is slowly surrendered to the hedonistic world they've entered. The night gives way to a series of elaborate dances and rock songs culminating in the unveiling of Frank-N-Furter's latest creation: a muscular man named “Rocky.”
Whether this is your first or 500th viewing, we guarantee that this will be a strange and wonderful journey you won't want to miss!
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Scream Queens: The Fog
Scream Queens is a tribute to the underestimated women in horror. Those who screamed, ran, fought, and clawed their way into cinematic history, becoming icons in their own right!
In a tiny California coastal town, strange things begin to occur as they prepare to commemorate their centenary: inanimate objects spring eerily to life; the local minister stumbles upon a dark secret about the town’s founding; a radio announcer (Adrienne Barbeau) witnesses a mystical fire; and a hitchhiker (Jamie Lee Curtis) discovers the mutilated corpse of a fisherman. Then a mysterious iridescent fog descends upon the village, and more people start to die.
Misty weather has never been so scary…or looked so beautiful on a big screen, thanks to this brand new 4K restoration!
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Scream Queens: Nadja
Scream Queens is a tribute to the underestimated women in horror. Those who screamed, ran, fought, and clawed their way into cinematic history, becoming icons in their own right!
Merging elements from "Dracula's Daughter" (1936) with André Breton’s surrealist novel "Nadja" (1928), and fusing shimmering black-and-white 35mm with hallucinatory Pixelvision video, Michael Almereyda’s ("Tesla", "Experimenter", "Hamlet") acclaimed cult film centers on New York-based vampire Nadja (Elina Löwensohn) as she draws close to her twin brother Edgar (Jared Harris) following their father’s death at the hands of Dr. Van Helsing (Peter Fonda). Edgar’s private nurse (Suzy Amis), Van Helsing’s nephew Jim (Martin Donovan), and Jim’s wife (Galaxy Craze) are entangled in the story as the vampire killer pursues “the fiend” from Manhattan to Transylvania.
Executive produced by David Lynch and presented in a new 4K restoration of the director’s cut!
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Halloween Prom: Carrie
The Fox invites you to an anti-prom screening to honour the 50th anniversary of the ultimate scream and prom queen!
Carrie White, played flawlessly by Sissy Spacek, is a teenage outcast, bullied by her classmates at school, abused by her fanatical mother, with telekinetic powers emerging more by the day. Based on Stephen King’s haunting novel, Brian DePalma’s seminal film adaption slowly burns into a horrific frenzy, famously set at the senior prom.
Don your best prom attire, halloween costume, or some combination of the two for the chance to enter the best-dressed contest to earn the crown (hold the pig’s blood)!
Arrive early to snap a photo in your prom garb and costumes and grab a cup of punch.
Doors open at 9PM
Film at 9:30PM
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Once Upon a Time in Harlem
A decade after his death, genre-defying filmmaker William Greaves has one last trick up his sleeve with what he considered the most important event he captured on film: a 1972 party he engineered with the living luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance. For four hours, this extraordinary group – many of whom had not seen each other in fifty years – reminisced, critiqued, argued, laughed and drank while wrestling with their place in a rapidly shifting cultural landscape.
Shot on 16mm film, newly restored and now directed by Greaves’ son David, this documentary is at once a self-exploration and an inquiry into the heart of the critical mass of energy called the Harlem Renaissance.
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Restoration: The Devils
An enduring masterpiece of cinema starring Academy Award-Winner Vanessa Redgrave and Oliver Reed, "Ken Russell's The Devils" is a prescient epic of obsession and corruption – and a defining work of art from seminal filmmaker Ken Russell. Assembled from the original camera negative, this new 4K restoration presents Ken Russell’s definitive vision of "The Devils" by referencing the edit he privately constructed in 2004.
"Ken Russell's The Devils" is the uncut and unfiltered theatrical experience that Russell always envisioned – restored and presented in glorious 4K!
Please note: the trailer contains flashing lights/patterns that may potentially trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy.
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Unsubculture presents: Samsara
Join Unsubculture for an evening of film, atmosphere, and exploration. We will be screening the enigmatic film Samsara, a visual odyssey that spans 5 years in the making, and 25 countries across the globe. From the same creative team that produced Baraka, with Mark Magidson producing, and Ron Fricke directing, Samsara takes us into a deep meditation of the human condition. With stunning visuals, a haunting soundtrack, Samsara is a true cinematic experience.
The night begins with a live ambient music performance, creating an immersive sonic environment before the screening. Rooted in Unsubculture’s interests in film, art, fashion, and cultural criticism, this event invites audiences to experience Samsara not just as a film, but as a starting point for reflection on image, culture, spirituality, and modernity.
Please note: This event is a rental. If you have any questions, please contact the event organizers directly at unsubcult@gmail.com
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& Sons
Based on the novel of the same name by David Gilbert.
Andrew Dyer (Bill Nighy) is a famous novelist whose first novel became an instant classic and created a cult following around its elusive author. One morning, Andrew wakes up convinced he must mend the broken relationships in his life and summons his sons to be with him. It has been nearly 20 years since an incident tore apart the family. When the sons arrive, each burdened with their own struggles, Andrew reveals something so astonishing it couldn’t possibly be true - or could it?
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NAZA
"Naza," the latest film from the documentary filmmakers behind the Oscar-winning "No Other Land," has won the Special Jury Prize and is notable for being the only documentary selected for the main competition at the Venice International Film Festival, added just a few days before the screening due to safety concerns.
This powerful and important film examines how Israel selects targets for airstrikes in Gaza. Shot secretly on the rooftops of Tel Aviv under the cover of night, "Naza" presents the findings of an investigation that spans nearly three years. It features interviews with 24 Israeli military intelligence officers and soldiers discussing the systems used to identify targets in Gaza.
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You Can See Everything
From boundary-pushing directors Nathan Fielder (THE REHERSAL) and Lance Oppenheim (PRIMETIME, SPERM WORLD) comes YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING.
Thirty-four days before she’s sent to prison, notorious Silicon Valley founder Elizabeth Holmes invites a skeptical film crew to document her every move. What begins as an intimate portrait of an enigmatic felon becomes a mind-bending three-year journey into the abyss.
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Exhibition On Screen: James McNeill Whistler
In an era of great change and great beauty emerged the character of James McNeill Whistler. Considered by some to be one of the great innovators of 19th century art, he was a contemporary of the Impressionists, much admired by Van Gogh and Manet. Boldly experimental and famously witty, Whistler disrupted the strict conventions of Victorian society in pursuit of a new cult of beauty, creating “art for art’s sake” and earning himself a place in the history of great art. He found a parallel between painting and music, and entitled many of his paintings “arrangements”, “harmonies” and “nocturnes”, emphasizing the importance of tonal harmony in his work.
Exhibition on Screen will bring these stunning works and the incredible story behind them to cinemas around the world while the exhibition is still running, bringing this truly global artist to a global audience.
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grlish: Your Name
Join grlish at the Fox to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Your Name – remastered in 4K – by one of Japan’s leading filmmakers, Makoto Shinkai!
Strangers Mitsuha & Taki live opposite lives: one in a small village in Gifu, the other in the heart of Tokyo, & both yearning for something more. When they begin intermittently swapping bodies despite having never met, their otherworldly bond promises to alter the course of both of their lives.
Steeped in Japanese folkloric influences & exploring themes of looming disaster & the tension between tradition & advancement, Your Name quickly became Japan’s top film of 2016 before resonating around the world. Aside from the jaw-dropping animation & slowly unfolding science fiction intrigue, the emotional depth & desire for love & connection make this film universal – & a favourite among Shinkai’s work.
Ten years on, we still feel the pull of the red string towards this film.
Thank you to our community partner, The Japan Foundation!
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MagicLand
MagicLand, The first feature film from Toronto's own Jaymz Bee (co-directed with Jason J. Brown and co-written with poet Robert Priest), is a joyful, all-ages musical fantasy bursting with colour, comedy, and songs spanning every style imaginable.
When Athena, goddess of wisdom, falls for a handsome mortal poet, she trades her immortality for a shot at human love and slides down a rainbow into MagicLand, a whimsical realm full of scheming leprechauns, singing sirens, a grumpy cyclops, a lovable ogre named Oggie, and a kindly wizard. But when she finally meets the man of her dreams, Athena discovers the greatest magic of all is simply being yourself.
Starring Irene Torres and featuring local heroes including Barbra Lica, Denielle Bassels, Lori Cullen, Jef Farquharson, and many more, MagicLand is a homegrown love letter to Toronto's music and arts community, and a big-hearted adventure for the whole family.
Note: This screening is a rental. Regular pricing and discount do not apply
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SOLD OUT - The Room w/ Greg Sestero
NOVEMBER 12 - SOLD OUT
NOVEMBER 21 - SOLD OUT
"Oh hi, Mark!"
Don't miss this special screening of The Room with LIVE appearance by NYT bestselling author/Room costar/Mark himself, Greg Sestero!
For the last two decades, midnight crowds have flocked to screenings of this "so amazingly bad it's [spooning] great" movie written, directed, and starring the infamous Tommy Wiseau.
The story follows Johnny (Wiseau), a successful banker who lives happily in a San Francisco townhouse with his fiancée, Lisa. One day, inexplicably, she gets bored of him and decides to seduce Johnny's best friend, Mark. From there, nothing will be the same again. From there, sheer insanity ensues.
The evening will include a Q&A with Greg Sestero! What a night!
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Warren Miller's DAYS OFF
This fall, drop in on Warren Miller’s 77th film, Days Off. Follow host Katie Burrell as the world’s best athletes show you what they do on their days off—no agenda, no competition, just pure, unscripted joy.
Embark on a global journey from heli-drops in Alaska and high-alpine mountaineering in Chamonix to the legendary powder of Hokkaido, Japan. Take a ride down Banff’s infamous skijoring course, hit the slopes of Deer Valley, and charge Canada’s finest in Revelstoke, Whistler, and Pemberton. Days Off captures the raw, unfiltered heart of mountain culture—a pure celebration of skiing for skiing’s sake and the joy of making time for what matters most.
Winter’s greatest tradition is back!
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Two Seasons, Two Strangers Director Q&A
Join us for this special screening featuring a Q&A with director Sho Miyake!
In summer, Nagisa, a woman from the city, and Natsuo, a young man visiting his relatives, meet by the sea. In winter, Li, a screenwriter in a creative slump, travels to a snow-covered village with an old camera left behind by a late acquaintance.
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Golden Age: The Big Sleep
"You’re not very tall, are you?"
"Well, I try to be"
Howard Hawks’ noir masterpiece is the first film version of a Raymond Chandler novel and boasts a screenplay co-written by none other than William Faulkner.
A story of murder, blackmail, double crosses and, possibly love, the movie stars Humphrey Bogart as famed private detective Philip Marlowe and Lauren Bacall as "exacting, smart and ruthless" playgirl Vivian Rutledge. This is the zenith of the genre, with its hard-boiled crime, crackling, witty dialogue and seedy yet lushly atmospheric Los Angeles underground backdrop. Oh, and of course, Bogart and Bacall’s natural, sizzling chemistry.
Guaranteed to knock your fedora off your head or instantly turn you into a femme fatale!
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Battle of the Sexes: Birth
Battle of the Sexes is a series featuring films directed by women about men and films directed by men about women. Through titles like American Psycho, La Captive, Marnie, and Birth, our speakers will interrogate how films reinforce or distort gender roles. The series is hosted by Gabrielle Marceau from In the Mood Magazine.
"Jonathan Glazer's hypnotic and disturbing Birth examines how social expectations clash with our deepest longings.
Ten years after her husband’s death, a woman is preparing to remarry when a young boy shows up in her home, claiming to be her dead husband reincarnated. Soon, she finds herself increasingly willing to believe him and to unravel her life in the process.
Jonathan Glazer uses upper-class decorum and the backdrop of a gorgeously bleak New York winter to create a suffocating examination of a woman's inner world."
Introduced by Namah. Her writing can be found in Little White Lies, Cornelia & C Magazine. The impossibility of desire keeps her up at night.
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Bitter Christmas
From Fox Theatre favourite filmamker Pedro Almodóvar ("Volver"), comes a breathtakingly beautiful film filled with vibrant colours, stunning locations, and telenovela twists, hallmarks that only Almodóvar can bring to the screen.
"Bitter Christmas" unfolds through two alternating stories. The first follows Elsa, an advertising director in 2004, while the second focuses on Raúl, a screenwriter in 2026, who is writing a script about Elsa.
Elsa acts as Raúl's alter ego as they both confront creative drought through autofiction. Raúl reflects on his own experiences and those of the people closest to him, including his partner and assistant.
A mirror for Almodóvar's own creative process, the film narrates the close relationship between reality and fiction, between inspiration and life, exploring the limits of autofiction and stories within stories.
Tue, Feb 23, 2027 12:00 PM
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Fatherland
Poland's entry for the Oscars
Academy Award-winner Pawel Pawlikowski picks up where he left off with his award-winning "IDA" and "Cold War", exploring – in his elliptic, distilled way – the themes of identity, family, love and guilt amid the turmoil and confusion of post-war Europe.
"Fatherland" centres on the relationship between the Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika (Sandra HÜLLER), actress, writer and rally driver. In the summer of 1949, at the height of the Cold War, father and daughter embark on a challenging and emotional road trip in a black Buick, taking them across a Germany in ruins – from US-dominated Frankfurt to Soviet controlled Weimar. Returning home after sixteen years of exile in the US, Thomas Mann has to face not only a divided fatherland, but also deep fractures within his own family.
The film premiered at Cannes, where Pawlikowski won Best Director.
Tue, Feb 23, 2027 12:00 PM
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Minotaur
2026 Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix Winner. France’s Entry for Best International Feature Film at the 2027 Academy Awards.
After a nine-year hiatus, during which he fled his native Russia into exile, master filmmaker Andrey Zvyagintsev ("Leviathan") returns with a reimagining of Claude Chabrol's "La femme infidèle", adapted to resonate with today's rhetoric of patriarchy and warmongering in his homeland.
Set in 2022, the film follows Gleb, a powerful CEO of a Russian transport company, as he grapples with the fallout from the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Amid conflicting political and corporate pressures, as well as the grim consequences of the draft, he strives to shield his home life from the repercussions of the war. However, when he discovers that his wife, Galina, has been having an affair, the fragile order of his life begins to unravel.
"Minotaur" is a devastating film that addresses the core issues and the fragile moral compass of a nation fixated on its own destruction.
Tue, Feb 23, 2027 12:00 PM
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The Debut
One of the most talked-about films at this year's Toronto International Film Festival, "The Debut," is Writer-Director Jesse Eisenberg's follow-up to his Oscar-nominated film, "A Real Pain."
When Mona Friedman (Julianne Moore) is cast in a minor role at a small community theatre, the opportunity transforms her from a shy, unassuming housewife into a passionate method actor who is willing to do anything to protect the artistic integrity of her limited role—even if it means going to battle against the show's domineering director (Paul Giamatti).
Eisenberg expertly blends rich, dark comedy with the self-importance often found in community theatre, highlighting how every line change and timing beat is scrutinized, despite the relatively low stakes for everyone involved, including the audience.
Tue, Feb 23, 2027 12:00 PM
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