New York – Kazakhstan’s Official Submission for the Academy Awards, STRANGER (ZHAT) by Yermek Tursunov, will premiere at Toronto International Film Festival. This is not Tursunov’s first brush with Oscar, he was short-listed for Best Foreign Film with his nomadic-time drama KELIN in 2010 – making it the furthest a Kazakh film has ever made […]
Festival Screening – August 26, 2015 @ 7:00 PM at Carmike Cinemas Tangerine takes place on Christmas Eve in Tinseltown. Sin-Dee Rella (newcomer Kitana Kiki Rodriguez) is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend (James Ransone) hasn’t been faithful during the 28 days she was locked up, the working girl and her […]
First Festival Screening – August 21, 2015 @ 6:45 PM at SFU GCA Also known as Ce Qu’on A Building from the complexities arising from gay cruising and relationships in a small town, What We Have is a gorgeously constructed film marking the arrival of a signature new queer Canadian talent, Maxime Desmons (writer/director/star). Maurice, […]
Festival Screening – August 15, 2015 @ 11:00 AM at Auditorium FEVI The whole world is against Matteo. At least this is how the 15-year-old sees it. He has no friends and his parents seem to live on another planet. All his efforts to earn his father’s respect fail. One night, two men march Matteo […]
First Festival Screening – August 13, 2015 @ 6:30 PM at ACMI 2 Last Festival Screening – August 15, 2015 @ 4:00 PM at Forum Hours before leaving Tehran for a three-year stay in Melbourne, young couple Amir and Sara pack up their apartment. Amid the hustle and bustle, Sara also agrees to babysit a […]
First Festival Screening – August 13, 2015 @ 7:00 PM at Vancouver Playhouse “The greatest film practitioner we’ve ever seen” is how Peter Greenaway refers to Sergei Eisenstein, the 20th century creator of the masterpieces Battleship Potemkin and October. Here, Greenaway offers us his own sumptuous rendition of the director’s 1931 trip to Mexico to […]
Festival Screening – August 9, 2015 @ 4:40 PM at CGV Shinchon Cinema 9 Here is a family struggling with an everyday battle a box of noodles disappears in a couple of days, 20kg of rice gets devoured in just a month and laundry piles up so quickly. Nothing comes in abundance neither food nor […]
Festival Screening – August 8, 2015 @ 7:00 PM at Hoyts Published in 1995, Holding the Man – winner of the United Nations Human Rights Award for Non-Fiction – is one of Australia’s favourite books. A tender, celebratory and refreshingly honest memoir about the author’s long-term love for John Caleo, his Melbourne high school’s football […]
First Festival Screening – August 6, 2015 @ 5:40 PM at CGV Shinchon Cinema 9 Last Festival Screening – August 11, 2015 @ 8:40 PM at Arthouse Momo Cinema 1 Also known as Kapgang. In a quirky, small town, situated in the outskirts of everything, 14-year-old Martin is getting ready for one of the most […]
Festival Screening – August 7, 2015 @ 3:30 PM at Providence Public Library Director Issa Ibrahim spent 18 years as a patient in an insane asylum. Since his release in 2009, Ibrahim has used the arts as a tool of transformation and healing to create a dialogue about the mental health system. This documentary explores […]
