Forty Acres
Opens July 4
Members $10
Non-members $14
All day Tuesday Members $6 Non-Members $8
Thursday matinees Members $6 Non-Members $8
Lifetime Memberships for $60.
Our screenings take place at 162 Mackenzie St. (unless otherwise noted.)
After a series of plagues and wars leaves society in ruins, the Freemans are surviving -even thriving- on a farm in the middle of nowhere… so long as they repel the occasional raiding party. Former soldier Hailey (Danielle Deadwyler) and her partner Galen (Michael Greyeyes) fled the collapse along with their children, training them to fight (and, yes, kill). But now Hailey’s eldest Emanuel (Kataem O’Connor) is a young man, and when he meets a young woman (Milcania Diaz-Rojas) in the forest beyond the fence, his need for human contact could place the whole family in jeopardy.
An enduring but fragile love story shared by Qiao Qiao and Guao Bin, set in China, from the early 2000s to the present day. One day, a restless Guao Bin leaves without any notice to try his luck in another province. Qiao Qiao decides to go looking for him. An intimate epic that captures the passage of time with melancholic clarity, Caught by the Tides might be director Jia Zhangke and star Tao Zhao’s most profound collaboration yet.
When a group of students at Columbia University in New York launch a movement protesting the war in Gaza, they spark a nationwide uprising in solidarity with the people of Gaza. Encampments spring up at hundreds of other campuses as students object to their own university’s investment in the US and Israeli arms industry. Featuring detained student activist Mahmoud Khalil, The Encampments takes viewers inside America’s student uprising with incredible intimacy and urgency. Professors, whistleblowers, and student activists shed light on a moment that captivated the nation’s attention and continues to make headlines today.
A troubled young man launches a bizarre crime spree against the citizens of Toronto.
À la suite d’un accident de voiture, Suzanne perd la garde de ses trois enfants. Elle n’a plus le choix et doit se soigner dans un centre pour alcooliques. À peine arrivée, elle y rencontre Alice et Diane, deux femmes au caractère bien trempé… Denis, éducateur sportif, va tenter de les réunir autour du même objectif : participer au rallye des Dunes dans le désert marocain. Il devra s’armer de beaucoup de patience et de pédagogie pour préparer cet improbable équipage à atteindre son objectif.
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Suzanne has turned to alcohol to ease her pain but is having an increasingly tough time maintaining a functioning façade: until an accident on the way to school changes everything. Social services give Suzanne no choice: she must go into rehab. Missing her children, Suzanne joins forces with the other women, as they sometimes painfully learn to adapt to life without booze. And as bonds of friendship and solidarity grow between them, the Hope Center women prepare for the race of a lifetime, a challenge that could ultimately bring back their self-respect and save them from themselves.
Something bad happened to Agnes. But life goes on… for everyone around her, at least. Carrying off difficult subject matter with a light touch and wry sense of humor, Sorry, Baby triumphantly announces writer-director and star Eva Victor as a formidable talent.
Inspirée de l’univers de Menteur (2019), Menteuse est la nouvelle comédie d’Émile Gaudreault. Habitée par l’idée de rendre les gens autour d’elle heureux, Virginie ment constamment. Comme le craint son conjoint Phil, ses multiples mensonges deviennent réalité et façonnent des multivers qui bouleversent complètement leur vie et celle de leur entourage. Ayant menti toute sa vie sur sa vraie nature, Virginie pourra-t-elle retrouver le chemin vers la vérité?
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Driven by the desire to make those around her happy, Virginie lies constantly. As her partner Phil fears, her many lies start becoming reality, shaping multiverses that completely upend their lives and those of their loved ones. Having spent her life lying about her true nature, will Virginie find her way back to the truth?
Marlee Matlin was born into a hearing family, like roughly 95% of Deaf people. Growing up in Illinois, she faced episodes of isolation and abuse. She found joy in performing at a local deaf theater. In 1987, Marlee Matlin became the first Deaf actor to win an Academy Award and was thrust into the spotlight at 21 years old. Reflecting on her life in her primary language of American Sign Language, Not Alone Anymore explores the complexities of what it means to be a trailblazer.
Suburban dad Craig falls hard for his charismatic new neighbor, as Craig’s attempts to make an adult male friend threaten to ruin both of their lives. Tim Robinson expands his exquisitely painful cringe comedy style to feature length with seamless results in Friendship, a toxic bromance that’ll make audiences laugh and wince in equal measure.
Agathe finds herself in desperate singlehood. Her dream is to experience love akin to a Jane Austen novel and her ultimate aspiration is to become a writer. Invited to the Jane Austen Writers’ Residency in England, she must confront her insecurities to finally fulfill her ambition of becoming a novelist and put an end to wasting her sentimental life.
At the height of summer, 18-year-old Cécile (Lily McInerny) is languishing by the French seaside with her handsome father, Raymond (Claes Bang), and his girlfriend, Elsa (Naïlia Harzoune), when the arrival of her late mother’s friend, Anne (Chloë Sevigny), changes everything.
Violette et Florence ne comprennent plus ce qui leur arrive. Respectivement, en congé de maternité, et en arrêt de travail, l’une, est à fleur de peau, l’autre ne ressent plus rien. La première infidélité de Florence sera une révélation. Et si le bonheur, c’était de se rebeller contre notre rigide société de performance?
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Two struggling mothers grapple with unfulfilled expectations and societal pressures. As they navigate their roles as wives and professionals, one woman’s unexpected affair sparks a reevaluation of their lives and priorities.
The Fairy Creek (Ada’itsx) valley sprawls across Pacheedaht First Nation territory on southwestern Vancouver Island and its old growth forest ecosystem thrives with lush foliage, ancient tree trunks, and a variety of wildlife. Fairy Creek captures the vast collective protests against a destructive logging operation that threatens it: a movement which has spawned both the largest demonstration of civil disobedience in Canadian history and the mass arrests of 1200 people.
Naveen Gavaskar is a self-effacing, soft-spoken doctor with a boisterous mother, seemingly perfect sister and quiet father. The Gavaskars are outwardly accepting of Naveen’s sexuality but have never had to confront it in practice. While at temple, Naveen meets Jay Kurundkar, a white man adopted by two Indian parents. Buoyed by appealingly sweet performances, A Nice Indian Boy navigates cultural mores and romance with an infectiously kind heart.
In 2003, eight Rhode Islanders created a secret apartment inside the busy Providence Place Mall and kept it going for four years, filming everything along the way. Far more than just a wild prank, the secret mall apartment became an incredibly meaningful act for all the participants, at once an act of defiance against local gentrification, a boundary-pushing work of public/private art, and a 750 square foot space that sticks it to the man.
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Two struggling mothers grapple with unfulfilled expectations and societal pressures. As they navigate their roles as wives and professionals, one woman’s unexpected affair sparks a reevaluation of their lives and priorities.
