Persian Cinema Night 1 – Taxi (2015)
Niagara Artists Centre 354 St. Paul St., St. CatharinesBanned from making movies by the Iranian government, Jafar Panahi poses as a taxi driver and makes a movie about social challenges in Iran.
Banned from making movies by the Iranian government, Jafar Panahi poses as a taxi driver and makes a movie about social challenges in Iran.
Writer/director Nabwana Isaac Godfrey Geoffrey (AKA Nabwana IGG) is a major fan of Western action flicks and kung fu movies, and he crafted this film as something of an homage thereto, with a distinct Ugandan flavor.
Albert Pyun is the Werner Herzog of the b-movie. Not in content, but in the overwhelming desire to make a movie work...even if that means constructing an entire cyber-dystopia out of nothing but abandoned buildings and 100 pairs of cool sunglasses. - Letterboxd
When people call movies "poems" they're embarrassing themselves except if they said that about the kiarostami film Taste of Cherry. - Dylan Gulela, Letterboxd
70s Grindhouse Double Feature curated by Cult Canada's Will Foran
The night kicks off with 25 of the most insane minutes of grindhouse you could ever witness - in 3D!
You of strong will are invited to take part in the Analog Anarchy with the film being decided by the audience.
"Akira's strangeness is very startling and sometimes bewildering. But there is a thanatonic rapture to its vision of a whole world ending and being reborn as something else." - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian; "Perfect Blue's success lies in the twisted, self-referential storyline that intercuts reality with fantasy so fluidly that viewers inevitably take on Mima's shattered point of view, unable to distinguish the truth until the stunning conclusion." - Tasha Robinson, Sci-Fi Weekly
A brave, unofficial and impressionistic history of the Black Power movement that America at one point tried to suppress–an informal history that could only be told by outsiders. The Black Power Mixtape was shortlisted for the prestigious Grierson Award for Best Documentary at the London Film Festival and won the World Cinema Documentary Editing Award at the Sundance Festival. - Movie Metropolis
"The movie grinds along its dark, mordant, and fascinating path until it culminates in one of the most emotionally harrowing scenes ever filmed." - Austin Chronicle
A cop who loses his partner in a shoot-out with gun smugglers goes on a mission to catch them. In order to get closer to the leaders of the ring he joins forces with an undercover cop who’s working as a gangster hitman.
Vtape and NAC co-present the latest Curatorial Incubator V.18: Learning From the Local, a video program based on the idea of Toronto-ness (Vtape) and Niagara-ness (NAC)
Oskar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl.
A captured French Resistance fighter during WWII engineers a daunting escape from a Nazi prison in France.
While touring Tuscany, Italy, promoting his new book, English author James (William Shimell) meets French store owner Elle (Juliette Binoche), and the two hit it off, deciding to spend a free day together. As these two strangers get to know each other, however, it becomes clear there’s more to their new relationship than meets the eye.
Movie Night Market with buy/swap movie and ephemera vendors + Double Feature
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A trainer of fighting cocks takes a vow of silence and gambles his loves and possessions in a bid to win a championship.
A science fiction romantic comedy about an artificial intelligent PC and his human owners rivalry over the same woman.
A portrait of a number of women, both cisgender and transgender, who work on Davie Street in Vancouver, British Columbia. The film profiles them in the context of the early campaign to ""clean up"" the street during the mayoralty of Mike Harcourt.