November 3, 2024
Seeking Mavis Beacon
If you touched a keyboard in the 1980s, you may very well be familiar with the face and legacy of Mavis Beacon: an unsung hero of Black history who taught a generation of kids to type.
November 3, 2024
All The Haunts Be Ours: Beauty and The Beast
For this richly perverse retelling of the original fairy tale, Slovakian director Juraj Herz puts his own inimitable Gothic stamp on Beauty and the Beast.
November 3, 2024
Matt and Mara
When Mara, a young creative writing professor, reunites with Matt, a charismatic, free-spirited author from her past, a chance encounter threatens to spin her life in a thrilling new direction.
November 5, 2024
Trash Cult Tuesdays: Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701
Spiritually akin to Ms. 45, Coffy, and The Bride Wore Black, Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701 introduces Nami — a gullible, unjustly imprisoned woman who must find a way to escape and exact revenge upon the man who betrayed her.
November 5, 2024
Trash Cult Tuesdays: Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41
Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 finds Nami continuing her quest for dark vengeance and becomes an unlikely symbol of female resistance in a male-dominated world.
November 6, 2024
Gimme Some Truth: A Fidai Film
A Fidai Film aims to create a counter-narrative to loss, presenting a form of cinematic sabotage that seeks to reclaim and restore the looted memories of Palestinian history.
November 6, 2024
Gimme Some Truth: Invisible People
Invisible People is a multi-layered depiction of the unique Japanese contemporary dance Butoh that flows between revolt, eroticism, trance, prayer, ancestral experience, and physical anonymity.
November 7, 2024
Gimme Some Truth: True Canadian Underground
This presentation of Canadian underground films emphasizes works with a direct relation to ’truth’. Curated by Stephen Broomer, a filmmaker and film preservationist.
November 7, 2024
Gimme Some Truth: Malqueridas
Malqueridas builds stories through images captured by women with cell phones inside prison, recovering the collective memory of a forgotten community.
November 8, 2024
Gimme Some Truth: Reconnecting with Reality: Exploring Physical Media, Archives, Restoration and Distribution
Reconnecting with Reality: Exploring Physical Media, Archives, Restoration, and Distribution, moderated by Professor Andrew Burke, will delve into the importance of preserving and rediscovering films of all genres through physical media, archival work, restoration, and innovative distribution strategies.
November 8, 2024
Gimme Some Truth: The Lake Winnipeg Project
The Lake Winnipeg Project is a four-part documentary series that calls attention to stories of ingenuity and resilience among the Anishinaabe, Cree and Métis communities of Matheson Island, Poplar River First Nation, Fisher River Cree Nation and Camp Morningstar, at a time when many external forces are imposing change.
November 8, 2024
Gimme Some Truth: No Other Land
For half a decade, Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israel's occupation, as he builds an unlikely alliance with an Israeli journalist who wants to join his fight.