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Directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Amy Berg, IT’S NEVER OVER, JEFF BUCKLEY illuminates one of modern music’s most influential and enigmatic figures. The doc covers the life of the rising young star with an otherworldly voice and boundary-pushing artistry, who left the ’90s music world reeling when he died suddenly, at age 30, after the release of his critically acclaimed debut album “Grace.” The film features never-before-seen footage from Buckley’s archives and intimate accounts from his mother Mary Guibert, former partners Rebecca Moore and Joan Wasser, Jeff’s bandmates, including Michael Tighe and Parker Kindred, and luminaries like Ben Harper and Aimee Mann.
Souleymane, cycliste livreur de repas à Paris et demandeur d’asile, a deux jours pour préparer son histoire en vue d’un entretien décisif pour l’obtention d’un permis de séjour.
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Racing through the streets of Paris making food deliveries on his bicycle, Guinean immigrant Souleymane (Sangare) is struggling to stay afloat. In two days, he has to report for an asylum application interview, where he must plead his case to an immigration officer (Nina Meurisse) who will determine his future in France. As he rides, he repeats his story. But Souleymane is not ready. Drawing inspiration from Cristian Mungiu’s 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days and evoking the humanist films of the Dardennes, Boris Lojkine’s urgent, propulsive third feature never leaves Souleymane’s side in a deeply affecting account of the daily trials and uncertain futures faced by migrants in France and around the world.
À quarante ans, Fabio se laisse porter par le courant. Un peu largué, il trouve du réconfort dans l’alcool. Et un peu auprès de Marie, de vingt ans son aînée, avec qui il entretient une relation secrète. Un jour, il reçoit une convocation pour être juré d’assises, il va devoir juger un jeune pyromane accusé d’homicide involontaire.
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Marco goes through life without a compass, finding comfort in alcohol and also with Madeleine, an older woman with whom he secretly has a relationship. One day, his name is called to serve on a jury. Incapable of discernment for himself, Marco will have to decide the life of a young arsonist, accused of manslaughter.
After Ashley (Adria Arjona) asks for a divorce, good-natured Carey (Kyle Marvin) runs to his friends, Julie (Dakota Johnson) and Paul (Michael Angelo Covino), for support. He’s shocked to discover that the secret to their happiness is an open marriage, that is until Carey crosses the line and throws all of their relationships into chaos.
At his mother’s New Year’s Eve party Lucas, a young police officer, loses a letter no one was ever meant to read. Amid the backdrop of the suffocating family party, the search for the letter unlocks memories of a past he’s tried to forget: months earlier, while working undercover in a mall bathroom, Lucas arrested men by seducing them. But when he encounters Andrew, everything changes. What begins as another setup becomes something far more electric and intimate. As their secret connection deepens and police pressure to deliver arrests intensifies, Lucas finds himself torn between duty and desire. With time running out and his past closing in, PLAINCLOTHES builds toward a New Year’s Eve reckoning where everything he’s buried threatens to erupt.
An intimate portrait of Setsuko Thurlow, a passionate survivor of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima. She was 13 years old when the atomic bomb was dropped (in Hiroshima) in 1945. Her moving story is told through the lens of her growing friendship with a second-generation survivor, Mitchie Takeuchi. The film is a timely exploration of the global dangers of nuclear weapons and provides an insider’s perspective as we see Setsuko campaign with ICAN (the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons). The culmination of Setsuko’s decades of activism is her acceptance speech at the 2017 Nobel Peace Awards.
Northern Ontario Premiere, with moderated Q&A to follow screening with filmmakers Louise Leroux & Richard Blackburn.
Faisant suite aux violentes émeutes anti-ONU, ce cinéma vérité témoigne de la mission des Casques bleus québécoises en République démocratique du Congo, un pays en état de siège où le viol est devenu une arme de destruction massive.
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Shot during the violent anti-UN riots, this cinema vérité documentary records a ground-level perspective of Canadian women peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where rape has become a weapon of mass destruction.
Final screening of Together, with audience talk back led by cinema staff. Just $6-8.
Years into their relationship, Tim and Millie (Dave Franco and Alison Brie) find themselves at a crossroads as they move to the country, abandoning all that is familiar in their lives except each other. With tensions already flaring, a nightmarish encounter with a mysterious, unnatural force threatens to corrupt their lives, their love, and their flesh. Together may leave you weirded out for sure.
Northern Ontario Premiere, followed by a panel discussion with reps from Coalition for a Liveable Sudbury, Junction Creek Stewardship, and more.
De Montréal à Vancouver, en passant par Toronto, Laval, Varennes et New Westminster, le documentaire Forêts urbaines explore différents projets canadiens de restauration de la nature en ville. Portrait d’un mouvement populaire rassemblant toutes les générations, le film agit comme un véritable antidote au pessimisme en nous montrant que le virage écologique est plus proche qu’il n’y paraît. La solution que nous cherchons serait-elle à portée de branche?
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From Montreal to Vancouver by way of Toronto, Laval, Varennes and New Westminster, Urban Forests explores nature-restoration projects in cities across Canada. Painting a portrait of a grassroots movement spanning all generations, the film is nothing less than an antidote to pessimism, proving that the “green shift” is closer than we think. Is the solution we seek just a branch’s length away?
Mutual Aid Benefiting SWANS
The cinema is partnering with the Coalition for a Liveable Sudbury and SWANS for a free screening of CLUELESS (30th anniversary.) Items requested by SWAN will be circulated in advance.
Shallow, rich and socially successful Cher (Alicia Silverstone) is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school’s pecking scale. Seeing herself as a matchmaker, Cher first coaxes two teachers into dating each other. Emboldened by her success, she decides to give hopelessly klutzy new student Tai (Brittany Murphy) a makeover. When Tai becomes more popular than she is, Cher realizes that her disapproving ex-stepbrother (Paul Rudd) was right about how misguided she was — and falls for him.
Special Free Screening Co-Presented with PSAC
The Indie is partnering with the Public Service Alliance of Canada to co-present Academy-award nominee SUGARCANE as a free screening for National Truth and Reconciliation Day on September 30.
A stunning tribute to the resilience of Native people and their way of life, SUGARCANE, the debut feature documentary from Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie, is an epic cinematic portrait of a community during a moment of international reckoning.
In 2021, evidence of unmarked graves was discovered on the grounds of an Indian residential school run by the Catholic Church in Canada. After years of silence, the forced separation, assimilation and abuse many children experienced at these segregated boarding schools was brought to light, sparking a national outcry against a system designed to destroy Indigenous communities. Set amidst a groundbreaking investigation, SUGARCANE illuminates the beauty of a community breaking cycles of intergenerational trauma and finding the strength to persevere.
Fidelity was produced, written and directed by local filmmaker B. P. Paquette, and features a diverse array of local performers, including renowned local Franco-Ontarian theatre director-actor-academic Hélène Dallaire, and Greater Sudbury-based YES Theatre members Alessandro Costantini, Ruthie Nkut, and Katie Wise. Distributed by Toronto-based Indiecan Entertainment, Fidelity is a comedic drama featuring Dora, a woman in her mid-30s who finds herself stuck in a loveless marriage, and stumbling into an affair with another man, who, like Dora, is not single, and whose former student Stacy further complicates his life. Set during the casting call for a movie-within-a-movie also titled “Fidelity,” Fidelity playfully contemplates the meanings of fiction, authorship, autobiography, and reality.
Chatila (Mahmoud Bakri) and Reda (Aram Sabbagh) are saving to pay for fake passports to get out of Athens. But when Reda loses their hard-earned cash to his dangerous drug addiction, Chatila hatches an extreme plan, which involves them posing as smugglers and taking hostages in an effort to get him and his best friend out of their hopeless environment before it is too late. Considered a masterpiece of Palestinian cinema.
Heartfelt and funny, the film follows three sisters who return to their childhood home for a momentous weekend: the third wedding of their twice-widowed mother, Diana Frost (Kristin Scott Thomas). The three daughters are from vastly different walks of life: Katherine (Scarlett Johansson) is a Captain in the Royal Navy; Victoria (Sienna Miller) is a Hollywood star; and Georgina (Emily Beecham) is a hospice nurse. Over the weekend, the family gathers to celebrate the new marriage, but mother and daughters alike are forced to revisit the past and confront the future, all with help from a colorful group of unexpected wedding guests.
A gallery of dynamic characters clash over the possession of a rare Native American artifact in this wildly entertaining modern-day western. After the artifact falls onto the black market, a shy waitress with big dreams (Sydney Sweeney) teams up with a lovelorn military veteran (Paul Walter Hauser) to gain possession of it, putting them in the crosshairs of a ruthless criminal (Eric Dane) working on behalf of a Western antiquities dealer (Simon Rex). Bloodshed ensues when others join the battle, including the leader of an indigenous group (Zahn McClarnon) and a desperate woman fleeing her mysterious past (Halsey). Welcome to the New West!
Years into their relationship, Tim and Millie (Dave Franco and Alison Brie) find themselves at a crossroads as they move to the country, abandoning all that is familiar in their lives except each other. With tensions already flaring, a nightmarish encounter with a mysterious, unnatural force threatens to corrupt their lives, their love, and their flesh. Together may leave you weirded out for sure.
Abandoned as a child, Jack (Dacre Montgomery) travels to remote New Zealand for the funeral of his estranged mother, Elizabeth. There, he meets her widow, Jill (Vicky Krieps), and over the nights that follow, Elizabeth’s spirit begins to possess them in turn. What starts as a search for closure soon unearths deeper wounds. Bound by grief and haunted by what remains, Jack and Jill must break free from Elizabeth’s grasp before she pushes them to the edge. Set against the deeply atmospheric backdrop of New Zealand’s South Island, Went Up the Hill is an intimate, modern ghost story from Samuel Van Grinsven that explores the legacy of loss and the struggle to let go.
A stylish, subversive thriller from suspense-maverick Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Wife of A Spy, Cure, Pulse), concerning Yoshii, an ambitious, yet directionless, young factory worker from Tokyo who side hustles in the murky realm of black market reselling, cheating buyers and sellers alike. After swindling his way into loads of cash, he becomes slowly disconnected to humanity, moving out of the city, shunning his girlfriend, and hiring a devoted assistant. But after a series of mysterious, sinister incidents occur, he begins to suspect his former victims could be plotting the ultimate revenge. A master of carefully simmering tension to a bloody crescendo, Kurosawa delivers a searing portrait of digital greed and vengeance.
