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Lynn
Hershman
USA
Filmed over four decades, this inspiring cultural history tracks the struggles and breakthroughs of women artists from Judy Chicago to Guerilla Girls to Miranda July and more, packed with rare archival footage and overflowing wit...
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September 12, 2021 12:15 PM
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September 14, 2021 7:45 PM
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September 19, 2021 3:45 PM
Pelin
Esmer
Turkey, France, Germany
An elderly man clashes with his neighbours as they try to remove him -- and his elaborate collections of ephemera -- from his apartment.
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September 15, 2021 8:15 PM
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September 18, 2021 9:00 PM
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September 19, 2021 9:30 AM
Danny
Boyle
USA
127 Hours is the true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston’s (James Franco) remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah. Over the next five days Ral...
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September 12, 2021 6:00 PM
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September 13, 2021 3:00 PM
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September 18, 2021 6:00 PM
Takashi
Miike
Japan
Cult director Takeshi Miike delivers a bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne...
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September 14, 2021 6:00 PM
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September 16, 2021 2:00 PM
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Koen
Mortier
Belgium/The Netherlands/Germany
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September 13, 2021 6:45 PM
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September 14, 2021 7:00 PM
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September 18, 2021 3:00 PM
Douglas
Gordon
A dual-channel video installation which consists of two side-by-side projections of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960). Both projections are slowed down to a duration of twenty-four hours, one playing forwards and the other in reve...
Emre
Sahin
Turkey, USA
Capturing the dazzling intensity of Istanbul's twelve million souls, Sahin's groundbreaking feature crisscrosses the lives of a petty crook, an ambitious nurse and an African migrant as they seek money, luck or just a way out.
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September 10, 2021 7:00 PM
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September 13, 2021 12:00 PM
Kevin Jerome Everson
USA
Life may not go on but careful work continues at this Mansfield Ohio address.
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September 12, 2021 9:15 PM
Atom
Egoyan
Atom Egoyan’s discomfort and fascination with the relationship of viewer and viewed finds a perfect match in the famous projection room sequence in Federico Fellini’s 81/2. Egoyan reverses the relationship between projector, audi...
Greg
Atkins
Canada
Jack’s suit-and-tie career never quite fit. As he summons the courage to dress for the job he wants, he risks changing the way his co-workers and his wife see and treat him.
Firas
Momani
Canada
On the surface, all is calm. In a dark and humid cavern, an abominable ceremony to which grotesque creatures devote themselves is interrupted by the arrival of an intruder. The piercing short The Adder's Bite, inspired by the bol...
Debs
Gardner-Paterson
United Kingdom
Africa United tells the extraordinary story of three Rwandan children and their bid to achieve their lifelong dream – to take part in the opening ceremony of the 2010 Football World Cup in Johannesburg.
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September 11, 2021 3:30 PM
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Feng
Xiaogang
China
The most successful Chinese movie of all time, Aftershock is based on the novel of the same name by Chinese Canadian author Zhang Ling. An intimate epic, the film sweeps across three crucial decades in recent Chinese history and ...
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September 17, 2021 6:00 PM
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September 19, 2021 9:00 AM
Ann
Hui
Hong Kong, China
All About Love takes a rare look at not only the lives of queer women, but also the challenges of creating a family. Ann Hui expertly balances the serious themes of motherhood, sexuality and discrimination, rarely addressed in Ho...
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September 14, 2021 4:45 PM
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Katrin
Bowen
Canada
Characters reveal hidden depths as Katrin Bowen’s first feature tells the tale of a struggling actress named Jana. Delving into the high-stakes world of keeping up appearances for which Los Angeles is infamous, Amazon Falls craft...
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September 11, 2021 5:00 PM
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Sam
Mendes
USA
Hilariously macabre, this is a tale of suburban angst taken to extremes. Lester (Kevin Spacey) is a sexually frustrated forty-something who quits his job in favour of full-time self-indulgence. His neurotic wife pursues various i...
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September 15, 2021 5:30 PM
John
Sayles
USA
The US occupation of the Philippines in 1900 provides the backdrop to this story of squad of American soldiers who occupy a village and learn how to live and negotiate with the natives. They focus on the local head man who finds ...
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September 14, 2021 10:30 PM
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Pierre
Thoretton
France
Yves Saint Laurent built one of fashion's most celebrated empires. This moving documentary chronicles his rise, his lifelong partnership with Pierre Bergé and their decision to auction off a lifetime of precious art and objects.
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September 11, 2021 6:30 PM
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September 17, 2021 5:00 PM
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September 19, 2021 12:30 PM
Ming
Wong
Angst Essen / Eat Fear is a compressed remake of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's interracial melodrama Ali: Fear Eats The Soul in which Ming Wong himself plays all the roles, including the Moroccan male and German female protagonist.
Kire
Paputts
Canada
Larry is an amateur taxidermist who, as the pick-up man for the local Animal Services, gets all his specimens through work.
Jem
Cohen
USA
A lovely, observational portrait of Minimalist painter and sculptor Anne Truitt, who is finally receiving long-overdue recognition for her critical contribution to the American avant-garde painting scene of the 60s.
Mike
Leigh
United Kingdom
A happily married, middle-aged couple are visited by a number of unhappy and lonely friends who use them as confidantes. When an unmarried friend falls for their young son, they watch as events unfold. The film stars Jim Broadben...
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September 13, 2021 6:00 PM
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September 14, 2021 2:30 PM
Linda
Hoaglund
Japan, USA
ANPO depicts resistance to U.S. military bases in Japan through an electrifying collage of paintings and photographs, as well as animated, narrative and documentary films by Japan’s foremost contemporary artists.
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September 12, 2021 5:15 PM
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Achero
Mañas
Spain
Four year-old Dafne's life is unhinged when her mother Alicia suddenly dies. Her father Leo tries to be both father and mother to her, but Dafne really just wants her mom. Leo strives to be just that, and in the process, nearly l...
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September 15, 2021 9:00 PM
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September 17, 2021 9:30 AM
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Janus
Metz
Denmark
Winner of Cannes Critics Week, Armadillo is a harrowing portrayal of the current conflict in Afghanistan. The film follows a contingent of Danish troops into the chaos of combat in a way that stirs debate over the rules of engage...
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September 11, 2021 5:45 PM
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Juanita
Wilson
Ireland, Macedonia, Sweden
As If I Am Not There relates one woman’s experience of the horrors that took place at the beginning of the Bosnian War. Disturbing and powerful, the film is an important testament to the survivors of the atrocities in the former ...
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September 14, 2021 6:00 PM
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September 18, 2021 1:30 PM
Yoel
Meranda
Turkey
An abstract, impish spot of light leads the camera onto Istanbul's streets.
Pia
Marais
Germany
A German flight attendant falls into increasingly bizarre adventures when she leaves her husband, quits her job and joins a radical group of animal activists.
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September 17, 2021 10:00 PM
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September 18, 2021 9:15 PM
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Mati
Diop
Senegal, France
Winner of International Film Festival Rotterdam's Best Short Film Award, Atlantiques is by Mati Diop, who recently starred in Claire Denis's 35 Rhums. Atlantiques recounts the oddysey of Senegalese friends who attempt a life-thre...
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Rachel Tsangari
Greece
A dying architect and his emotionally stunted daughter inhabit the remains of a once booming industrial community in the middle of nowhere, now populated by the precious few who didn’t have the heart to leave it behind.
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September 14, 2021 8:30 PM
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Nathaniel
Dorsky
USA
"An aubade is a poem or morning song evoking the first rays of the sun at daybreak. Often, it includes the atmosphere of lovers parting. This film is my first venture into shooting in color negative after having spent a lifetime ...
Andrei
Ujica
Romania
Culled from one thousand hours of archival footage and four years in the making, this spellbinding montage epic unfolds as if from the nostalgic, solipsistic memory of former Romanian ruler Nicolae Ceausescu, after his reign was ...
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September 16, 2021 5:30 PM
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Aamir
Bashir
India
Shot in striking, widescreen images in India's Kashmir region, Bashir's debut tells the story of Rafiq, a young man struggling to come to terms with the loss of his older brother, who has disappeared in the ongoing border conflic...
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Sarah
Polley
Canada
When Fiona’s (Julie Christie) memory starts to deteriorate, her husband Grant (Gordon Pinsent) must move her to a rest home. Distressed by the intimate relationship she strikes up with fellow patient, Aubrey (Michael Murphy), Gra...
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September 18, 2021 7:00 PM
Kristian
Petri
Sweden
On her way home from work Mona finds the victim of a serial killer. She is shocked but the experience triggers something within and her fascination becomes obsession. She decides to find the killer on her own. Her hunt leads to v...
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September 10, 2021 3:00 PM
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Álex
de la Iglesia
Spain, France
Álex de la Iglesia's genius for dark humour is at its most eloquent in his latest parody about the Spanish Civil War. Two clowns attack and disfigure one another in jealous rages over a beautiful dancer. In the name of love, they...
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September 14, 2021 9:45 PM
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Steven
Silver
Canada, South Africa
The Bang Bang Club was the name given to four young photographers, Greg Marinovich, Kevin Carter, Ken Oosterbroek and Joao Silva, whose photographs captured the final bloody days of white rule in South Africa and the final demise...
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September 15, 2021 9:30 PM
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Richard J.
Lewis
Canada, Italy
From producer Robert Lantos, Barney’s Version is a film based on Mordecai Richler's prize-winning comic novel. Barney Panofsky (Paul Giamatti) is a seemingly ordinary man who lives an extraordinary life. Barney’s candid confessi...
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September 12, 2021 6:30 PM
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Shawn
Ku
USA
A married couple on the verge of separation are leveled by the news their 18-year-old son committed a mass shooting at his college, then took his own life. Stars Michael Sheen and Maria Bello.
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Mike
Mills
USA
When his seventy-one-year-old father (Christopher Plummer) comes out of the closet, Oliver (Ewan McGregor) must explore the honesty of his own relationships. From the director of Thumbsucker.
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September 11, 2021 9:00 PM
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Jonathan
Sobol
Canada
Raucous, charming and very funny, Jonathan Sobol's comedy A Beginners Guide to Endings follows three sons as they deal with their gambler father's somewhat complicated legacy. Featuring the legendary Harvey Keitel, the film also...
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September 17, 2021 6:30 PM
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September 18, 2021 11:45 AM
Hannes
Holm
Sweden
In Hannes Holm's beautiully crafted Behind Blue Skies, Bill Skargard stars as a young man on the cusp of manhood who escapes his troubled home to work at a summer resort, but somehow finds himself embroiled in one of the most sca...
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September 10, 2021 6:30 PM
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Lawrence
Kasdan
USA
When a group of friends reunite for the funeral of a friend who has committed suicide, they realize how much they’ve changed since the idealism of their youth. Each has a deep need to re-establish intimacies they once shared in t...
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September 19, 2021 7:00 PM
Eric
Lartigau
France
Paul Exben is a success story. He has a great job, a glamorous wife and two wonderful sons, except that this is not the life he has been dreaming of. A moment of madness is going to change his life, forcing him to assume a new id...
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Various
and Anonymous
Amazing images gleaned from the archives of the EYE Film Institute Netherlands.
Alejandro
González Iñárritu
Spain, Mexico
This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected with the afterlife, Uxbal is a tragic hero and father of two who's sensing the danger of death. He struggles with a tainted real...