Films Shown by NFS since our Premiere late 2003
| Name | Short Synopsis | Film Number |
| The Queen of My Dreams Sunday May 26 2024 |
Azra, a Pakistani woman living in Toronto, is worlds apart from her conservative Muslim mother. When her father suddenly dies on a trip home to Pakistan, Azra finds herself back home being asked to play the role of perfect daughter. | 270 |
| The Teachers' Lounge Sunday May 5 2024 |
Carla Nowak is a dedicated, idealistic young teacher in her first job at a German middle school. Her relaxed rapport with her seventh-grade students is put under stress when a series of thefts occur at the school. | 269 |
| The Monk and the Gun Sunday April 21 2024 |
The remote Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan was the last nation to connect to the internet and television and if that weren't enough change, the King announced shortly afterwards that he would cede his power to the people via their vote and a new form of government: Democracy. | 268 |
| My Mother's Men Sunday April 7 2024 |
Young Elsie is surprised by her eccentric mother's last wishes that her ashes be distributed amongst her five ex-husbands to scatter in a place most significant to each of them and is determined to honour her mother's memory. But the trip profoundly changes her trajectory. | 267 |
| Perfect Days Sunday March 24 2024 |
Hirayama feels content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine, he cherishes music on cassette tapes, reads books and takes photos. Through unexpected encounters, he reflects on finding beauty in the world. | 266 |
| Rose Sunday, 7 January 2024 |
The story of two sisters, Inger and Ellen, and how their relationship is challenged on a highly anticipated coach trip to Paris. When Inger announces her struggles with mental health to the group, the sisters are faced with pity from some and discrimination from others. | 265 |
| Jules Sunday, 21 January 2024 |
Jules follows Milton who lives a quiet life of routine in a small western Pennsylvania town, but finds his day upended when a UFO and its extra-terrestrial passenger crash land in his backyard. | 264 |
| Fallen Leaves Sunday, 4 February 2024 |
In modern-day Helsinki, two lonely souls in search of love meet by chance in a local karaoke bar. However, the pair's path to happiness is beset by numerous obstacles - from lost numbers to mistaken addresses, alcoholism, and a charming stray dog. | 263 |
| Scrapper Sunday, 25 February 2024 |
This film follows Georgie, a resourceful 12-year-old girl who secretly lives alone in her flat in a working class suburb of London following the death of her mother. Out of nowhere, her estranged father Jason arrives and forces her to confront reality. | 262 |
| The Zen Diary Sunday, 3 March 2024 |
Writer Tsutomu lives alone at a mountain cabin in Nagano. Every day, he cooks his meals with natural ingredients. Doing that, he can feel the flow of the seasons and he writes his book. | 261 |
| The Crime is Mine Sunday, 19 November 2023 |
In 1930s Paris, Madeleine, a pretty, young, penniless and talentless actress, is accused of murdering a famous producer. Helped by her best friend Pauline, a young unemployed lawyer, she is acquitted on the grounds of self-defense. A new life of fame and success begins, until the truth comes out. | 260 |
| Driving Madeleine Sunday, 5 November 2023 |
Madeleine, 92 years old, calls a taxi to take her to the retirement home where she will be living. Charles, a disillusioned driver with a tender heart, agrees to drive by the places that affected Madeleine's life. Through the streets of Paris, her extraordinary past is revealed. | 259 |
| Riceboy Sleeps Sunday, 22 October 2023 |
The story finds young Korean newcomer mother So-Young and her son Dong-Hyon/David as new immigrants in 90s Vancouver. Emotionally frozen, they live in an in-between space between a Korean past they were forced to leave behind and a Canadian present that is unwelcoming of them. | 258 |
| EO Sunday, 1 October 2023 |
Trained to be part of a daily Polish circus act, humble grey donkey EO finds himself torn from Kasandra, his sympathetic, doting handler. The gentle soul meanders through the vast countryside on a peril-laden grand mission to reunite with his only friend at all costs. | 257 |
| Past Lives Sunday, 17 September 2023 |
Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life, in this heartrending modern romance. | 256 |
| Living Sunday, 30 April 2023 |
In 1950s London, a humourless bureaucrat decides to take time off work to experience life after receiving a grim diagnosis. | 255 |
| Parasite Sunday 8 March 2020 |
Greed and class discrimination threaten the newly formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan. | 254 |
| 2020 Winter Film Festival The Grizzlies Sunday, 26 Jan 2020 |
An inspiring true story based on a group of Inuit students in the small Arctic town of Kugluktuk. Suffering from widespread drug use, alcohol abuse, domestic violence and one of the highest teen suicide rates in the world, this northern community is periled by the legacy of colonialism. | 253 |
| 2020 Winter Film Festival And the Birds Rained Down Sunday, 26 Jan 2020 |
Three elderly hermits live deep in the woods, cut off from the rest of the world. While wildfires threaten the region, their quiet life is about to be shaken by the arrival of two women... A luminous octogenarian, unjustly institutionalized her whole life, and a young photographer charged with interviewing survivors of the region's deadliest forest fire. | 252 |
| 2020 Winter Film Festival The Biggest Little Farm Saturday, 25 Jan 2020 |
Documentarian John Chester and wife Molly, true romantics, buy 200 acres of dry land one hour north of LA. They document the next eight years with love and glorious photography. | 251 |
| 2020 Winter Film Festival Clemency Saturday, 25 Jan 2020 |
Years of carrying out death row executions have taken a toll on prison warden Bernadine Williams. As she prepares to execute another inmate, Bernadine must confront the psychological and emotional demons her job creates, | 250 |
| 2020 Winter Film Festival Pain & Glory Friday, 24 Jan 2020 |
Pain and Glory tells of a series of reencounters experienced by Salvador Mallo, a film director in his physical decline. Some of them in the flesh, others remembered. | 249 |
| The Souvenir Sunday, 12 Jan 2020 |
A shy but ambitious film student (Honor Swinton Byrne) begins to find her voice as an artist while navigating a turbulent courtship with a charismatic but untrustworthy man | 248 |
| Sometimes, Always, Never Sunday 24 Nov 2019 |
Alan is a stylish tailor with moves as sharp as his suits. He has spent years searching tirelessly for his missing son Michael who stormed out over a game of Scrabble. | 247 |
| The Last Black Man in San Fransisco Sunday 3 Nov 2019 |
Jimmie Fails dreams of reclaiming the Victorian home his grandfather built in the heart of San Francisco. Joined on his quest by his best friend Mont, Jimmie searches for belonging in a rapidly changing city that seems to have left them behind. | 246 |
| The Farewell Sunday 20 Oct, 2019 |
The film follows a Chinese family who, when they discover their beloved Grandmother has only a short while left to live, decide to keep her in the dark and schedule an impromptu wedding to gather before she passes. | 245 |
|
All is True |
In 1613, Shakespeare is acknowledged as the greatest writer of the age but disaster strikes when his renowned Globe Theatre burns to the ground. Devastated, Shakespeare returns to Stratford, where he must face a troubled past and a neglected family. | 244 |
|
Wild Rose |
Rose-Lynn has all the trappings of a country star. A single mother and an ex-con with a name that just demands a Tennessee accent, she lives and breathes Country. Rose-Lynn dreams of Nashville and stardom. | 243 |
| Woman at War Sunday April 14, 2019 |
Halla is a fifty-year-old independent woman. But behind the scenes of a quiet routine, she leads a double life as a passionate environmental activist. Halla secretly wages a one-woman-war on the local aluminum industry (Set in Iceland) | 242 |
| SIR Sunday March 24, 2019 |
Set in India, an impossible romance between domestic live-in Ratna and Ashwin, a man from a wealthy family. | 241 |
|
The Happy Prince |
In a cheap Parisian hotel, Oscar Wilde lies on his deathbed and recalls his past with wit and irony. | 240 |
| Roma Sunday February 10, 2019 |
An acclaimed masterpiece about a young domestic worker for a family in the middle-class neighborhood of Roma in Mexico City. | 239 |
| 2019 Winter Film Festival Puzzle Sunday Jan 27, 2019 |
A woman who has a talent for assembling jigsaw puzzles sneaks away from her suburban town and goes to New York City, where she partners with a man for a puzzle tournament in Atlantic City. As she experiences independence for the first time, she begins to view her value and the pieces of her own life in a whole new light. | 238 |
| 2019 Winter Film Festival Beautiful Boy Sunday Jan 27, 2019 |
Beautiful Boy is a deeply moving portrait of a family's unwavering love and commitment to each other in the face of their son's addiction and his attempts at recovery. | 237 |
| 2019 Winter Film Festival If Beale Street Could Talk Saturday Jan 26, 2019 |
Set in early-1970s Harlem, If Beale Street Could Talk is a timeless and moving love story of both a couple's unbreakable bond and the African-American family's empowering embrace, as told through the eyes of 19-year-old Tish Rivers. | 236 |
| 2019 Winter Film Festival Transit Saturday Jan 26, 2019 |
A young man fleeing the camps in Nazi Germany finds himself in possession of papers that will allow him to go to Mexico. All he needs is to impersonate the dead man. His efforts take him to Marseille where he meets the man's wife and a convoluted tale unfolds. | 235 |
| 2019 Winter Film Festival Bel Canto Friday Jan 25, 2019 |
BEL CANTO is a dramatic love story that follows a famous soprano who travels to a military dictatorship in South America to give a private concert at a party for a wealthy Japanese industrialist. Just as the glittering gathering of diplomats and politicians convenes, the mansion is taken over by a guerrilla rebel group demanding the release of their imprisoned comrades. | 234 |
| Colette Sunday 13 January, 2019 |
After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as "Willy" (Dominic West), Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (Keira Knightley) is transplanted from her childhood home in rural France to the intellectual and artistic splendor of Paris. Soon after, Willy convinces Colette to ghostwrite for him. | 233 |
| Maria by Callas Sunday 18 November 2018 |
From first time director Tom Volf, MARIA BY CALLAS: IN HER OWN WORDS is the definitive doc on the life and work of the Greek-American opera singer. Volf has spent nearly five years working on the film, which features never before seen or heard footage and performances of Callas. | 232 |
| The Children Act Sunday 20 October, 2018 |
Fiona Maye (Thompson) is an eminent High Court judge in London presiding with wisdom and compassion over ethically complex cases of family law. Fiona is asked to rule on the case of Adam (Whitehead), a brilliant boy who is refusing the blood transfusion that will save his life. | 231 |
| Leave no Trace Sunday 30 September, 2018 |
Will (Ben Foster) and his teenage daughter, Tom (Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie), have lived off the grid for years in the forests of Portland, Oregon. When their idyllic life is shattered, both are put into social services. | 230 |
| Finding your Feet Sunday 16 September 2018 |
When 'Lady' Sandra Abbott discovers that her husband of forty years is having an affair with her best friend she seeks refuge in London with her estranged, older sister Bif. The two could not be more different. | 229 |
| Call Me by Your Name Sunday May 13, 2018 (rescheduled from Sunday April 15th 2018) |
It’s the summer of 1983 in the north of Italy, and Elio Perlman, a precocious 17- year-old American-Italian, spends his days in his family’s 17th century villa transcribing and playing classical music, reading, and flirting with his friend Marzia. | 228 |
| The Rider Sunday April 29, 2018 |
After a tragic riding accident, young cowboy Brady (Brady Jandreau), once a rising star of the rodeo circuit, is warned that his competition days are over. Back home, Brady finds himself wondering what he has to live for when he can no longer do what gives him a sense of purpose: to ride and compete. | 227 |
| Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool Sunday March 25, 2018. |
Based on Peter Turner's memoir, the film follows the playful but passionate relationship between Turner (Bell) and the eccentric Academy Award (R) - winning actress Gloria Grahame (Bening) in 1978 Liverpool. | 226 |
| The Leisure Seeker Sunday March 4, 2018. |
The film stars Academy Award-winner Helen Mirren and two-time Golden Globe-winner Donald Sutherland as a runaway couple going on an unforgettable journey in the faithful old RV they call The Leisure Seeker, travelling from Boston to the Ernest Hemingway Home in Key West. | 225 |
| Novitiate Sunday February 11, 2018. |
Spanning over a decade from the early 1950s through to the mid-60s, Novitiate is about a young girl's first initiation with love, in this case with God. | 224 |
| Lost in Paris Sunday January 21, 2018 |
Filmed in Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon's signature whimsical style, LOST IN PARIS stars the filmmakers as a small-town Canadian librarian and a strangely seductive, oddly egotistical vagabond. | 223 |
| The Other Side of Hope Sunday January 21, 2018 |
Finland’s master of deadpan comedy, Aki Kaurismäki returns with the story of an unlikely friendship between a Syrian asylum seeker and an elderly Finnish restaurant owner. | 222 |
| Loving Vincent Saturday January 20, 2018 |
A 2017 biographical animated drama film about the life of painter Vincent van Gogh, and in particular, the circumstances of his death. It is the first fully painted animated feature film. | 221 |
| The Divine Order Saturday January 20, 2018 |
Political and religious leaders in Switzerland cited the Divine Order as the reason why women still did not have to right to vote as late as 1970. | 220 |
| C'est La Vie Friday January 19, 2018 |
This effervescent comedy from celebrated French directing duo Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano (The Intouchables) invites us to an opulent château to attend a très extravagant wedding, where the groom is an obnoxious tyrant, the band is at war with the organizers, and the chief planner is looking for the exit. | 219 |
| Lucky Sunday January 7, 2018 |
Acclaimed character actor John Carroll Lynch's directorial debut "Lucky", is at once a love letter to the life and career of Harry Dean Stanton as well as a meditation on morality, loneliness, spirituality, and human connection. | 218 |
| Tulip Fever Sunday, Nov. 12, 2017 |
Set against the backdrop of the 17th-century Tulip Wars, a married noblewoman (Alicia Vikander) has an affair with an artist (Dane DeHaan) and switches identities with her maid to escape the wealthy merchant she married. | 217 |
| Tanna Sunday Oct. 22, 2017 |
In one of the last traditional tribes in the South Pacific, a young girl, Wawa (Marie Wawa), falls in love with the chief's grandson, Dain (Mungau Dain). When an inter-tribal war escalates, Wawa is unknowingly betrothed as part of a peace deal. | 216 |
|
Churchill |
Tensions mount for the beleaguered British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (Brian Cox) in the days leading up to infamous Allied D-Day landings in Normandy, France in June, 1944. | 215 |
|
The Sense of an Ending |
Tony Webster's life of habit and routine is upturned by a solicitor's letter which awakens a troubling incident from the past involving his first love. | 214 |
| It's Only the End of the World Sunday Aug 27, 10:30am Canada 150 Event |
After 12 years away, Louis, 34, a writer with a terminal illness, goes back to his hometown with the intention that he's going to tell his family he's dying. |
213 |
| Jean of the Joneses Sunday Aug 13, 10:30am Canada 150 Event |
Follows the dysfunctional Jones family as they go through an unusual family tragedy. |
212 |
| KONELINE: our land beautiful Sunday July 23, 10:30am Canada 150 Event |
A sensual, cinematic celebration of northwestern British Columbia, and all the dreamers who move across it. |
211 |
|
Maudie |
Show again - An unlikely romance in which the reclusive Everett Lewis hires a fragile yet determined woman named Maudie to be his housekeeper. Maudie, yearns, passionately, to create art. |
210 |
| Spirit Unforgettable Sunday May 7, 2017 |
The powerful, devastating and inspiring story of the iconic Canadian Celtic rock band Spirit of the West, and their charismatic frontman John Mann, who in 2014, at the age of 51, was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's. | 209 |
| Maudie Sunday April 30, 2017 |
An unlikely romance in which the reclusive Everett Lewis hires a fragile yet determined woman named Maudie to be his housekeeper. Maudie, yearns, passionately, to create art. | 208 |
| Paterson Sunday April 9, 2017 |
Paterson is a bus driver in the city of Paterson, New Jersey -- they share the name. Every day, Paterson adheres to a simple routine that includes writing poetry into a notebook. | 207 |
| Toni Erdmann Sunday March 19, 2017 |
A suddenly student-less music teacher decides to surprise his daughter with a visit. Practical joker Winfried loves to annoy her with corny pranks and so he creates the character Toni Erdmann | 206 |
| Lion Sunday March 5, 2017 |
Five-year-old Saroo gets lost on a train which takes him thousands of kilometers across India. Twenty-five years later, he sets out to find his lost family and finally return to his first home. | 205 |
| Moonlight Sunday February 19, 2017 |
A young man deals with his dysfunctional home life and comes of age in Miami during the "War on Drugs" era. The story of his struggle to find himself is told across three defining chapters. | 204 |
| 2017 Film Festival Our Little Sister Sunday January 22, 2017 |
A story that revolves around three sisters who live in their grandmother's home and the arrival of their thirteen-year-old half sister. | 203 |
| 2017 Film Festival Eagle Huntress Sunday January 22, 2017 |
The Eagle Huntress follows Aisholpan, a 13-year-old girl, as she trains to become the first female in twelve generations of her Kazakh family to become an eagle hunter. | 202 |
| 2017 Film Festival Denial Saturday January 21, 2017 |
Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel. | 201 |
| 2017 Film Festival Little Men Saturday January 21, 2017 |
A new pair of best friends have their bond tested by their parents' battle over a dress shop lease. | 200 |
| 2017 Film Festival Manchester by the Sea Friday January 20, 2017 |
An uncle is asked to take care of his teenage nephew after the boy's father dies. | 199 |
| The Last Cab to Darwin Sunday, November 13, 2016 |
When Rex, a Broken Hill cab driver, is told he doesn't have long to live, he sets out on an epic journey to Darwin in a bid to die on his own terms. | 198 |
| Captain Fantastic Sunday, October 23, 2016 |
In the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a father devoted to raising his six kids with a rigorous physical and intellectual education is forced to leave his paradise and enter the world, challenging his idea of what it means to be a parent. | 197 |
| The Man who knew Infinity Sunday, October 2, 2016 |
The story of the life and academic career of the pioneer Indian mathematician, Srinivasa Ramanujan, and his friendship with his mentor, Professor G.H. Hardy. | 196 |
| Sing Street Sunday, September 18, 2016 |
A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes. | 195 |
| Mustang Sunday, April 24, 2016. |
Set in Northern Turkey, five young girls rebel against family restrictions. A powerful portrait of female empowerment. | 194 |
| Rams Sunday, April 10, 2016 |
In a secluded valley in Iceland, Gummi and Kiddi live side by side, tending to their sheep. Although they share the land and a way of life, Gummi and Kiddi have not spoken to each other in four decades. | 193 |
| The Lady in the Van Sunday, March 20 and Monday, March 21 2016 |
Legendary Maggie Smith stars in this adaptation of the based-on-fact play by acclaimed author Alan Bennett, about a high-born homeless woman fallen on hard times who found temporary shelter parking her van in Bennett's driveway - for fifteen years. | 192 |
| Carol Sunday, March 6 and Monday, March 7 2016 |
A young woman in her 20s, Therese Belivet is a clerk working in a Manhattan department store and dreaming of a more fulfilling life when she meets Carol, an alluring woman trapped in a loveless, convenient marriage. | 191 |
| 45 Years Sunday February 21, 2016 |
There is just one week until Kate Mercer's 45th wedding anniversary and the planning for the party is going well. But then a letter arrives for her husband. | 190 |
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2016 Film Festival |
Royal Night Out follows the story of two young Princesses as they venture out of Buckingham Palace to enjoy the 1945 VE Day celebrations. |
189 |
| 2016 Film Festival Macbeth Sunday, January 24, 2016 |
An adaptation of William Shakespeare's famous play about Macbeth |
188 |
| 2016 Film Festival Room Saturday, January 23, 2016 |
A mother and her son are imprisoned for 7 years but finally break free. | 187 |
| 2016 Film Festival Sleeping Giant Saturday, January 23, 2016 |
Sleeping Giant is set in an isolated Ontario cottage community during a bleak midsummer, where the volatile dynamics between three teenage friends-by-chance are gradually pushed towards a potentially dangerous imbalance. |
186 |
| 2016 Fiilm Festival Trumbo Friday, January 22, 2016 |
In 1947, Dalton Trumbo was Hollywood's top screenwriter until he and other artists were jailed and blacklisted for their political beliefs. |
185 |
| Brooklyn January 10, 2016 |
An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a new romance. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within. |
184 |
|
What we did on our Holiday |
Doug and Abi are taking their three children on a trip to Scotland for a big family gathering. They are in the midst of a difficult divorce, and have asked the kids to keep it a secret from their extended family. | 183 |
| A Brilliant Young Mind November 1, 2015 |
Autistic teenage math prodigy Nathan struggles when it comes to building relationships with other people, not least with his mother, Julie. | 182 |
| Suite Française October 18, 2015 |
Set during the German occupation of France in the 1940's, Suite Française tells the story of Lucile Angellier as she awaits news from her husband, a prisoner of war. | 181 |
| Learning to Drive September 27, 2015 |
Wendy is shocked to reality by the sudden end of her marriage. Always dependent on her husband for driving, she must now learn to take the wheel on her own. | 180 |
| Mommy Sunday, April 26, 2015 |
A feisty widowed single mom finds herself burdened with the full-time custody of her unpredictable 15-year-old ADHD son. | 179 |
|
Zero Motivation |
Set in a remote desert military base, a platoon of young women soldiers, all Israeli conscripts, serve out their time playing computer games, singing pop songs, and conspiring to get transferred to Tel Aviv. | 178 |
|
Living is Easy - with Eyes closed |
It is 1966 in Albacete, Spain. English teacher and die-hard Beatles fan Antonio decides to go on a road trip to Almería in the hope of meeting John Lennon, who is shooting a film there. | 177 |
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Calvary |
CALVARY's Father James (Brendan Gleeson) is a good priest who is faced with sinister and troubling circumstances brought about by a mysterious member of his parish. | 176 |
| Elsa & Fed Sunday March 1, 2015 |
After losing his wife, Fred moves to a small apartment, where he meets Elsa, a youthful woman who teaches him to live life to the fullest. | 175 |
| Two Days One Night Sunday February 15, 2015 |
A young Belgian mother, discovers that her workmates have opted for a significant pay bonus, in exchange for her dismissal. | 174 |
| 2015 Film Festival Mr Turner Sunday February 1, 2015 |
An exploration of the last quarter century of the great, if eccentric, British painter J.M.W. Turner's life. | 173 |
| 2015 Film Festival Whiplash Sunday February 1, 2015 |
A promising young drummer enrolls at a cut-throat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student's potential. | 172 |
| 2015 Film Festival Force Majeure Saturday January 31, 2015 |
A family on a ski holiday in the French Alps find themselves staring down an avalanche during lunch one day; in the aftermath, their dynamic has been shaken to its core, with a question mark hanging over their patriarch in particular. | 171 |
| 2015 Film Festival Monsoon Saturday January 31, 2015 |
Part road movie, part spectacle, part drama, Monsoon is Sturla Gunnarsson's meditation on chaos, creation and faith, set in the land of believers. | 170 |
| 2015 Film Festival Pride Friday January 30, 2015 |
U.K. gay activists work to help miners during their lengthy strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984. | 169 |
|
My Old Lady |
An American (Kevin Kline) inherits an apartment in Paris that comes with an unexpected resident (Maggie Smith). | 168 |
| Land-Ho Sunday November 30, 2014 |
Aaron Katz and Martha Stephens blend their respective talents amidst the awe-inspiring landscapes of Iceland, where ex-brothers-in-law Colin and Mitch are vacationing in an effort to stave off the blues |
167 |
| IDA Sunday November 2, 2014 |
Stark and minimalist, the film relates the story of a young woman, Anna (Agata Trzebuchowska), on the verge of taking her final vows as a nun in the place she has lived most of her life as an orphan. |
166 |
| The Trip To Italy Sunday October 19, 2014 |
Rob has been commissioned by a newspaper to go on a driving tour of Italy from Liguria to Capri, partly following in the footsteps of the great Romantic poets. | 165 |
|
Magic in the Moonlight |
The film follows an Englishman (Colin Firth) brought in to help unmask a possible swindle by a fortune teller (Emma Stone). | 164 |
| Algonquin Monday, July 14, 2014 |
JAKE, an unhappy school teacher, has his life upended when his shifty, rogue of a father, LEIF – an absentee parent and a man who best days as a travel writer are well past him – insists that Jake help him with his next project, a book about Algonquin Park. | 163 |
| The Lunchbox Sunday, Apr 27 |
The film revolves around a mistaken delivery by the lunchbox service of Mumbai, which leads to a relationship between a lonely widower close to retirement and an unhappy housewife, as they start exchanging notes through the daily lunchbox. | 162 |
| Tim's Vermeer Sunday, April 13, 2014 |
Tim Jenison, a Texas based inventor, attempts to solve one of the greatest mysteries in all art: How did 17th century Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer manage to paint so photo-realistically. | 161 |
| Like Father, Like Son Sunday, March 30, 2014 |
Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman driven by money. When he learns that his biological son was switched with another child after birth, he must make a life-changing decision and choose his true son or the boy he raised as his own. | 160 |
| Le Weekend Sunday, March 16, 2014 |
A British couple return to Paris many years after their honeymoon there in an attempt to rejuvenate their marriage. | 159 |
| The Past Sunday, March 2, 2014 |
An Iranian man deserts his French wife and two children to return to his homeland. Meanwhile, his wife starts up a new relationship, a reality her husband confronts upon his wife's request for a divorce. | 158 |
| The Invisible Woman Sunday, Feb 16, 2014 |
At the height of his career, Charles Dickens meets a younger woman who becomes his secret lover until his death. | 157 |
| 2014 Film Festival All is Lost Sunday, Feb 2, 2014 |
After a collision with a shipping container at sea, a resourceful sailor finds himself, despite all efforts to the contrary, staring his mortality in the face. | 156 |
| 2014 Film Festival Haute Cuisine Sunday, Feb 2, 2014 |
Hortense Laborie is astonished when the President of the Republic appoints her his personal cook, responsible for creating all his meals at the Elysée Palace. | 155 |
| 2014 Film Festival Inside Llewyn Davis Saturday, Feb 1, 2014 |
INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. | 154 |
| 2014 Film Festival Dallas Buyers Club Saturday, Feb 1, 2014 |
Based on the story of real-life Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof who was diagnosed as HIV-positive and given 30 days to live. | 153 |
| 2014 Film Festival Wajdja Friday, January 31, 2014 |
The Saudi Arabian story of a young girl determined to raise enough money to buy a bike in a society that sees bicycles as dangerous to a girl's virtue. | 152 |
| 20 Feet from Stardom January 12, 2014 |
The untold true story of the backup singers behind some of the greatest musical legends of the 21st century. | 151 |
| Unfinished Song December 1, 2013 |
Story of Arthur, a curmudgeon old soul perfectly content with sticking to his dull daily routine until his beloved dying wife introduces him to a spirited local singing group led by the youthful and charming Elizabeth. | 150 |
| Much Ado about Nothing November 10, 2013 |
Shakespeare's classic comedy is given a contemporary spin by director Joss Whedon. | 149 |
| Blue Jasmine October 20, 2013 |
After everything in her life falls to pieces, elegant New York socialite Jasmine moves into her sister Ginger's modest apartment in San Francisco to try to pull herself back together again. | 148 |
| Blancanieves September 29, 2013 |
A silent film that tells the story of Snow White, but set in the Seville of the 1920s: a girl, the daughter of a famous bullfighter, is raised by an evil stepmother. | 147 |
| Chasing Ice April 28, 2013 |
National Geographic photographer James Balog uses time lapse photography to document the shrinking of our glaciers. | 146 |
| The Angels' Share April 14, 2013 |
The tale of a young Glaswegian father who, while serving community service for a crime, is taken to a whisky distillery as a reward for good behaviour and discovers that he has a remarkable ability to identify different malts by their smell. | 145 |
| A Royal Affair March 24, 2013 |
The true story of an ordinary man who wins the Danish queen's heart and starts a revolution. An intriguing love triangle between the insane Danish King Christian VII, the royal physician and Queen Caroline Mathilda. | 144 |
| Searching for Sugar Man Feb 24, 2013 |
The incredible true story of Rodriguez, the greatest '70s rock icon who never was. | 143 |
| Quartet Feb 17, 2013 |
Set in an English retirement home for musicians and musical performers, a trio of residents and long time friends plan for the annual benefit concert. |
142 |
|
2013 Film Festival |
When the beloved cellist of a world-renowned string quartet receives a life changing diagnosis, the group's future suddenly hangs in the balance. |
141 |
|
2013 Film Festival |
An exquisitely mounted and deeply affecting love story about one man's determination to create a suitable home for his ailing wife. |
140 |
|
2013 Film Festival |
A 38-year-old man who has spent most of his life in an iron lung enlists the help of a sexual surrogate in order to lose his virginity. |
139
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2013 Film Festival |
The story of a WWII veteran who gets caught up in a quasi spiritual movement, The Cause, headed by a charismatic leader. |
138 |
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2013 Film Festival |
Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. |
137 |
| Anna Karenina Jan 13, 2013 |
Set in late-19th-century Russia high-society, the aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the affluent Count Vronsky | 136 |
| Hysteria Dec 16, 2012 |
The truth of how Mortimer Granville devised the invention of the first vibrator in the name of medical science. | 135 |
| Inescapable Dec 2, 2012 |
Inescapable is a thriller about a father's desperate search for his daughter and the chaos of the Middle East he left behind | 134 |
| We have a Pope Nov 18, 2012 |
On the death of the pope, early ballots end with black smoke, since none of the main candidates reaches the quorum. After several rounds of voting, Cardinal Melville is elected, but he's reluctant. | 133 |
| Midnight's Children Nov 4, 2012 |
Midnight's Children is an epic film from Oscar-nominated director Deepa Mehta, based on the novel by Salman Rushdie. | 132 |
| Intouchables Oct 14, 2012 |
After he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caretaker. | 131 |
| Beasts of the Southern Wild Sept 30, 2012 |
Hushpuppy, an intrepid six-year-old girl, lives with her father, Wink, in "the Bathtub," a southern Delta community at the edge of the world. | 130 |
| Salmon Fishing in the Yemen May 13, 2012 |
A visionary sheik believes his passion for the peaceful pastime of salmon fishing can enrich the lives of his people, and he dreams of bringing the sport to the not so fish-friendly desert. | 129 |
| Monsieur Lazhar April 29, 2012 |
A middle-aged Algerian immigrant seeking political refuge in Quebec jumps at the opportunity to replace a Montreal elementary school teacher who committed suicide one night after class. | 128 |
| Iron Lady April 15, 2012 |
Combining the past and present, The Iron Lady follows Margaret Thatcher's life as a wife, widow, mother, daughter, Prime Minister and frail old woman. | 127 |
| A Separation March 25, 2012 |
About an Iranian middle-class married couple who are faced with a difficult decision: to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating father who has Alzheimers. | 126 |
| Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy February 26, 2012 |
Based on the classic novel of the same name, the international thriller is set at the height of the Cold War years of the mid-20th Century. | 125 |
| A Dangerous Method February 12, 2012 |
Dr. Carl Jung takes the unbalanced yet beautiful Sabina Spielrein as his patient in A Dangerous Method. Jung's weapon is the method of his master, the renowned Sigmund Freud. Both men fall under Sabina's spell. | 124 |
| 2012 Film Festival My Week with Marilyn January 29, 2012 |
Michelle Williams does an uncanny portrayal of the tormented sex symbol, Marilyn Monroe; from her kitten-esque voice to her slinky walk, Williams is the main event in this picture. | 123 |
| 2012 Film Festival Sarah's Key January 29, 2012 |
An American comes across the story of Sarah, a ten year old Jewish girl who desperately tried to save her younger brother from the police during the Vel'd'Hiv Roundup in 1942 France by locking him in a cupboard. | 122 |
| 2012 Film Festival Starbuck January 28, 2012 |
Québécois comedy follows a 42 year-old slacker who's informed that the sperm he once donated has fathered no less than 533 children. | 121 |
| 2012 Film Festival The Way January 28, 2012 |
An American doctor comes to St. Jean Pied de Port, France to collect the remains of his adult son and then embarks on the same historical pilgrimage to honor his son's desire to finish the journey. | 120 |
| 2012 Film Festival The Artist January 27, 2012 |
A black-and-white silent film follows George Valentin a silent-era film star struggling to make it in the talkies. | 119 |
| Anonymous January 15, 2012 |
A wonderful hypothetical story about the identity of William Shakespeare, a story of intrigue and facades, all pivoting on the extraordinary writing that we now regard as the work of The Bard. | 118 |
| Oranges and Sunshine December 4, 2011 | The story of Margaret Humphrey who uncovered one of the most significant social scandals of recent times; the mass deportation of children from the United Kingdom to Australia. | 117 |
| Beginners November 20, 2011 |
A son copes with memories of his father who - following 44 years of marriage - came out of the closet at age 75 to live a full, energized, and wonderfully tumultuous gay life. | 116 |
| The Debt November 6, 2011 |
Traces fictional events taking place in 1965 as three young Mossad agents are charged with the duty of bringing a Nazi war criminal to justice | 115 |
| The Tree of Life October 16, 2011 |
Brad Pitt plays a complicated father raising his sons in the '50s, Sean Penn is one of Pitt's sons in the future, still struggling with his upbringing and the loss of one of his brothers to war. | 114 |
| Midnight in Paris October 2, 2011 |
A lush and charming fantasy, Midnight in Paris is very much about romantic attachments to different era - and how the past always seems much more exciting than the present one lives in. | 113 |
| Jane Eyre May 1, 2011 |
A bold new feature version by director Cary Fukunaga of Charlotte Brontë’s timeless, classic story. | 112 |
| Another Year April 10, 2011 |
A look at four seasons in the lives of a happily married English couple and their relationships with their family and friends. | 111 |
| Incendies March 27, 2011 |
After their mother's death, twins Jeanne and Simon embark on a journey to the Middle East in search of their tangled roots and to fulfill their mother’s last wishes. In the process, a disturbing light is shone on their mother’s past, culminating in a shocking revelation. | 110 |
| King's Speech March 6, 2011 |
Moving story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II who is plagued by a dreaded stutter and considered unfit to be king. |
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| Inside Job February 13, 2011 |
A documentary on the roots of the 2008 economic crisis. To most people, Uncle Sam's economic crisis of 2008 defied sanity. How could the world's most powerful nation stand on the brink of financial collapse due to a few dodgy deals and bankruptcies? | 108 |
| 2011 Film Festival The Social Network January 30, 2011 |
The story of the founding of Facebook by Mark Zuckerberg | 107 |
| 2011 Film Festival Never Let Me Go January 30, 2011 |
An alternate-history version of postwar Britain where director Mark Romanek captures the slightly seedy and rundown reality of '70s and '80s British life set to a story of human guinea pigs. | 106 |
| 2011 Film Festival Made in Dagenham January 29, 2011 |
In 1968 Dagenham, young wife and mother Rita O'Grady works with 186 other women as machinists for Ford UK, sewing car seat covers - for a wage well below male rates of pay. She gets all the women to go on strike and establishes the principle worldwide of equal pay for women. | 105 |
| 2011 Film Festival Force of Nature - The David Suzuki Movie January 29, 2011 |
A documentary about David Suzuki, the man and his work, as seen by Sturla Gunnarsson. | 104 |
| 2011 Film Festival Barney's Version January 28, 2011 |
Based on a Mordecai Richler story of Barney Panofsky - a Jewish man who believes he cannot “fit in” to the overwhelmingly Christian Quebec and Canada. | 103 |
| Howl January 16, 2011 |
The film weaves the story of Howl's creation with its first reading in San Francisco, and the subsequent obscenity trial against its publisher, City Lights Books. | 102 |
| Nowhere Boy December 5, 2010 |
Biopic of the young John Lennon, directed by the renowned British artist, Sam Taylor-Wood. | 101 |
| Tamara Drewe November 28, 2010 |
Based on Posy Simmonds's graphic novel (itself loosely derived from Far From The Madding Crowd), Stephen Frears's Tamara Drewe centres on a sultry young journalist who returns to the local village where she grew up and sends three very different men into a tizzy. | 100 |
| Mao's Last Dancer November 14, 2010 |
The remarkable true story of Chinese ballet superstar Li Cunxin, who was plucked from poverty at a tender age to study dance, not fully comprehending the extraordinary journey he was about to embark on. | 99 |
| MICMACS October 31, 2010 |
A whimsical French comedy by Jean-Pierre Jeunet that walks a fine line between sweetness and indulgence. It's a farce of broad physical gestures and wide-eyed expressions that could be from the silent era were it not for the sound. | 98 |
| Secret in their eyes October 17, 2010 |
Benjamin, a retired court employee, decides to write a book about an old rape/murder case that he believes wasn't properly solved. | 97 |
| Get Low October 3, 2010 |
Inspired by the true story of 1930's Tennessee recluse Felix "Bush" Breazeale, who planned his funeral while he was still alive. | 96 |
| The Last Station April 25, 2010 |
The story of Tolstoy and his love for his wife and for his country. Tolstoy is at odds with his wife because he believes the proceeds from his novels belong to the Russian people. | 95 |
| Invictus April 11, 2010 |
In his first term as President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela faces the tensions and divisions of a post apartheid nation. Mandela makes it his mission, through the captain, Francois Pienaar to inspire and encourage the struggling Springboks to lift their game as they head for the 1995 Rugby World Cup. | 94 |
| A Single Man March 28, 2010 |
Surprising, heart-warming, depressing, thought-provoking and above all interesting. It's a story about a gay teacher in the 60's who loses his lover in an accident and is left in a world that he no longer wishes to be a part of. | 93 |
| Me and Orson Welles March 7, 2010 |
Teenage student Richard Samuels lucks his way into a minor role in the legendary 1937 Mercury Theatre production of Julius Caesar, directed by a youthful Orson Welles. | 92 |
| A Serious Man February 14, 2010 |
A Serious Man is directors Joel and Ethan Coen’s contemporary, black comedy re-telling of The Book of Job. Larry Gopnik is their Job. | 91 |
| 2010 Film Festival Cooking with Stella January 31, 2010 |
A warmhearted social satire about a Canadian diplomat and her chef husband Michael who are posted to New Delhi. Upon arrival they inherit a household of Indian servants headed by the charming but wily cook, Stella. | 90 |
| 2010 Film Festival Broken Embraces January 31, 2010 |
A story about filmmaking that celebrates the triumphs and tragedies of storytelling: multi-stranded narratives unfold within other stories; seemingly unrelated characters are slowly revealed to be linked by deep secrets. | 89 |
| 2010 Film Festival The Young Victoria January 30, 2010 |
Emily Blunt makes an impressive leading role debut with a portrayal of the young Victoria, a troubled teenage monarch cursed by opportunist hangers-on but blessed with the love of her German cousin Prince Albert . | 88 |
| 2010 Film Festival Cairo Time January 30, 2010 |
Cairo Time stars Patricia Clarkson as a magazine editor who travels to Cairo to meet her husband, (Tom McCamus), a UN official working in Gaza, for a three week vacation. | 87 |
| 2010 Film Festival Creation January 29, 2010 |
How evolutionist Charles Darwin came to terms with the death of his beloved daughter to publish the groundbreaking On The Origin Of Species is the subject of director Jon Amiel's biopic. | 86 |
| The Boys are Back January 10, 2010 |
Inspired by a true story, THE BOYS ARE BACK is a deeply moving, wryly confessional tale of fatherhood | 85 |
| Coco before Chanel December 5, 2009 |
The story of Coco Chanel from her upbringing in an orphanage to her later success. | 84 |
| Bright Star November 29, 2009 |
The Bio pic about Poet John Keats. Set in London 1818, he has a secret love affair with the girl next door, Fanny Brawne, and the sparks fly. | 83 |
| An Education November 15, 2009 |
Jenny is a bright young girl on the cusp of her 17th birthday who finds herself in a whirlwind romance with a much older David. But she has a lot to learn! | 82 |
| Sin Nombre November 1, 2009 |
A very realistic portrayal of the gang violence, poverty, and dangerous train trips taken by hundreds of Central Americans every day, yet beautifully cast, directed, and shot. | 81 |
| Goodbye Solo October 18, 2009 |
William offers a nice chunk of change for taxi driver Solo to drive him in two weeks to the remote mountaintop Blowing Rock, a place known because when a stick is thrown down it returns to you because of the wind. | 80 |
| Departures October 4, 2009 |
A gentle film about a quiet man in conflict with his world, his father, himself. It is also about death and its rituals. Yet the film manages to be anything but dark; whimsy and sweet irony are laced throughout. | 79 |
| Milk April 19, 2009 |
The first openly gay Mayor of San Francisco, or anywhere for that matter was Harvey Milk. This is his story. | 78 |
| The Stone of Destiny March 29, 2009 |
Based on the true story of how some Scots reclaim their Stone of Scone from Westminster Abbey. It was originally taken by England in 1296 and became a symbol of their dominance. | 77 |
| Fifty Dead Men Walking March 8, 2009 |
In the 1980s, a 22-year-old from West Belfast was recruited by the British police to infiltrate the IRA and spy on them from the inside. | 76 |
| Rachel Getting Married February 22, 2009 |
The return of an estranged daughter to the family home for her sister's wedding throws a wrench into the family dynamics, forcing long-simmering tensions to surface in ways both hilarious and heartbreaking. | 75 |
| I've Loved You So Long February 8, 2009 |
This powerful story of familial struggles and redemption follows a shell-shocked Juliette, who returns to live with her young sister Lea after being banished from the family for 15 years. | 74 |
| 2009 Film Festival Thirty Two Short Films about Glenn Gould January 25, 2009 |
A dramatised documentary about the eccentric Canadian pianist Glenn Gould broken up into thirty-two short films, each giving us an insight into some aspect of Gould's life and career. | 73 |
| 2009 Film Festival Real Time January 25, 2009 |
Andy Hayes, a nervous, hyperactive gambler, gets a one hour reprieve from Reuben (Randy Quaid), the hitman sent to kill him. This gives Andy a chance to make up for past regrets and missed opportunities. | 72 |
| 2009 Film Festival One Week January 24, 2009 |
An elementary school teacher learns that he has stage four cancer and embarks on a cross-country trip across Canada - an effort that ultimately comes off as a moving and tremendously involving piece of work. | 71 |
| 2009 Film Festival Heaven on Earth January 24, 2009 |
Deepa Mehta's film about a young Indian bride who marries a Canadian man in the hope of finding a better life, but soon finds herself battered and powerless in a strange landscape. | 70 |
| 2009 Film Festival Necessities of Life January 23, 2009 |
Natar Ungalaaq of "The Fast Runner" stars as a stricken man yanked from his isolated home terrain to a Quebec City hospital, where he experiences both profound culture shock and some barrier-transcending human connections. | 69 |
| The Duchess Jan 11, 2009 |
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire was beautiful, glamorous and adored by the public but stranded in a loveless marriage. Frustrated, she rebelled, both publicly and privately - but finally discovered true love. | 68 |
| Bottleshock December 7, 2008 |
The true story of an upstart band of wine makers and their dream of winning the historical 1976 blind wine tasting in Paris. | 67 |
| Brideshead revisited November 16 |
Charles Ryder becomes entranced with the provocative Sebastian Flyte and then his sophisticated sister, Julia. The rise and fall of Charles' infatuations reflect a decadent era in England between the wars. | 66 |
| Amal November 2, 2008 |
Autorickshaw driver Amal is content but his sense of duty is tested by an eccentric, aging billionaire, who, moved by Amal's humility, bequeaths him his entire estate before passing away. | 65 |
| The Stone Angel October 19, 2008 |
Hagar Shipley's passionate heart has always ruled her head and with her life nearly behind her, she sets out in search of a way to reconcile herself to her turbulent past. | 64 |
| The Visitor October 5, 2008 |
College professor Walter Vale returns to the little-used apartment he owns in Manhatten and discovers that globalization has come to him in the form of Syrian Tarek and Senegalese Zainab. | 63 |
| The Band's Visit April 20, 2008 |
Once, not long ago, a small Egyptian Police band arrived in Israel. They came to play at an initiation ceremony but, due to bureaucracy, bad luck, or for whatever reason, they were left stranded at the airport. | 62 |
| Atonement March 30, 2008 |
The consequences are huge when a 13-year-old falsely accuses her older sister’s boyfriend of a terrible crime. | 61 |
| The Kite Runner March 2, 2008 |
In a divided country on the verge of war, two childhood friends, Amir and Hassan, are about to be torn apart forever. | 60 |
| The Diving Bell and the Butterfly February 10, 2008 |
The highly emotional story of Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. | 59 |
| 2008 Film Festival Brick Lane Sunday Jan 27 |
An immigrant family finds a way to cope with their new life in England |
58 |
| 2008 Film Festival No Country for Old Men Sunday Jan 27 |
Acclaimed modern western by the Coen brothers Named best film of 2007 by National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. |
57 |
| 2008 Film Festival Eastern Promises Saturday Jan 26 |
David Cronenburg's latest (and acclaimed) masterpiece |
56 |
| 2008 Film Festival Lars and the Real Girl Saturday Jan 26 |
A man's unusual attempt to solve his loneliness Named best original screenplay of 2007 (tied with Juno) by National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. |
55 |
| 2008 Film Festival Into the Wild Friday Jan 25 |
A spellbinding film adaptation of the book about a man who leaves civilization for Alaska |
54 |
| Jane Austen Book Club January 13, 2008 |
As five women and one enigmatic man meet to discuss the works of Jane Austen, they find their love lives playing out in a 21st century version of her novels. | 53 |
| In the Valley of Elah December 9, 2007 |
The story of a war veteran, his wife and the search for their son, a soldier who recently returned from Iraq but has mysteriously gone missing, | 52 |
| La Vie en Rose November 25, 2007 |
From the slums of Paris to the limelight of New York, Edith Piaf's life was a battle to sing and survive, live and love. | 51 |
| Waitress November 4, 2007 |
The story of one woman trapped in a life from which she dreams of escape. Jenna's secret ambition is to save enough money from her waitressing job to leave her overbearing and controlling husband. | 50 |
| Amazing Grace October 14, 2007 |
William Wilberforce makes it his mission to end slavery in the British Empire and he annually presents a bill for abolition to Parliament. | 49 |
| Lives of Others April 22, 2007 |
An historical snapshot of East Germany in 1984. A Stasi agent slowly gets empathy towards the couple he's spying on. | 48 |
| Away from Her April 1, 2007 |
The moving story of a couple torn apart by the need for the wife to go into a Retirement home because of Alzheimer's disease. | 47 |
| Volver March 18, 2007 |
An entertaining, whimsical and fantastical film about the power of motherhood and friendship. | 46 |
| Babel February 25, 2007 |
Babel starts with a tragic incident involving an American couple in Morocco that sparks a chain of events for four families in different countries throughout the world. | 45 |
| 2007 Film Festival Catch a Fire January 28, 2007 |
A political thriller that powerfully tells the real-life story of a South African hero's journey to freedom. | 44 |
| 2007 Film Festival Kardia January 28, 2007 |
Hope discovers that the experimental heart operation she underwent as a child has mysteriously linked her life with another. | 43 |
| 2007 Film Festival For Your Consideration January 27, 2007 |
Ageing actress Marilyn Hack (Catherine O’Hara) gets swept up in the excitement of film awards season after a website kicks off the buzz that she deserves to get nominated for a Best Actress Oscar. | 42 |
| 2007 Film Festival Manufactured Landscapes January 27, 2007 |
The film follows renowned artist Burtynsky to China as he travels the country photographing the evidence and effects of China's massive industrial revolution. | 41 |
| 2007 Film Festival The Journals of Knud Rasmussen January 26, 2007 |
The story of the last great Inuit shaman, Avva, and his beautiful and headstrong daughter, Apak, who lives one foot in her father's world and the other on the verge of the future. | 40 |
| Un Dimanche à Kigali January 7, 2007 |
A beautiful love story, touching and tragic, and a moving personal view of what man’s inhumanity had wrought in Rwanda. | 39 |
| Bon Cop, Bad Cop December 3, 2006 |
Successful Quebec movie that pits two provincial officers one a reserved Ontario Anglophone, the other more Québécois than poutine against one another to solve a murder. | 38 |
| Merry Christmas November 12, 2006 |
World War 1 story of soldiers putting aside war to celebrate Christmas with "the enemy". | 37 |
| Neil Young - Heart of Gold May 7, 2006 |
Chronicles the trip to Ryman Auditorium in Nashville as well as the performances, weaving interviews with meticulously choreographed Steadicam shots from two concerts. | 36 |
| The World's Fastest Indian April 23, 2006 |
The life story of the legendary New Zealand motorcycle biker Burt Munro (Anthony Hopkins). Burt spent years modifying a 1920 Indian motorcycle then set a world record at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. | 35 |
| Her Majesty April 9, 2006 |
Set in 1953, Her Majesty is a widely appealing coming of age story about a young girl who realizes her lifelong dream when Queen Elizabeth comes to visit her small hometown. | 34 |
| Breakfast on Pluto March 12, 2006 |
An Irish orphan tries to find his birth mother is his place in the world and reinvents himself as the glamorous transvestite Kitten. | 33 |
| Pride and Prejudice February 26, 2006 |
The classic Jane Austen tale of love and values unfolds in the class-conscious England of the late 18th century. | 32 |
| 2006 Film Festival A History of Violence January 29, 2006 |
David Cronenburg's look at the idea that you can't hide from your past violence. | 31 |
| 2006 Film Festival Capote January 29, 2006 |
Truman Capote's life changed as a result of his research into writing the book "In Cold Blood" | 30 |
| 2006 Film Festival C.R.A.Z.Y January 28, 2006 |
The highly successful Quebec film about one boy's life in Montreal from birth to adulthood | 29 |
| 2006 Film Festival Good Night and Good Luck January 28, 2006 |
The story of Edward R Murrow's fight with McCarthyism in the fifties | 28 |
| 2006 Film Festival Water January 27, 2006 |
Deep Mehta's highly acclaimed story about the treatment of widows in India in 1938 | 27 |
| Constant Gardener January 8, 2006 |
Set in northern Kenya, an activist has been found brutally murdered and the evidence points to a crime of passion. The seemingly mild-mannered and unambitious widower investigates. Based on the novel by John Le Carre. | 26 |
| Ladies in Lavender November 20, 2005 |
The lives of two old ladies are turned upside down when a young man is almost literally washed up on their doorstep in 1939 England. | 25 |
| Turtles can Fly November 6, 2005 |
A moving story about survival in Iraq’s Kurdish north, where children fix satellite antennas that bring remote villages their only news of the outside world. | 24 |
| Darwin's Nightmare October 16, 2005 |
In the 1960's, the Nile Perch was introduced into Lake Victoria as a little scientific experiment. A voracious predator, it extinguished almost the entire stock of the native fish species but now the poor fisherman are totally dependant on it to survive. | 23 |
| Sabah October 2, 2005 |
A 40-year-old Muslim, Arab woman falls in love with the wrong man: She’s Muslim, he’s not. Keeping him secret from her family, she goes on a whirlwind affair before both culture and love collide. | 22 |
| Crash Sept 18, 2005 |
A group of very different people all live in Los Angeles. And during the next 36 hours, they all collide | 21 |
| The Merchant of Venice April 25, 2005 |
The classic Shakespeare story with a more current viewpoint of the Jewish merchant, Shylock. | 20 |
| Hotel Rwanda April 17, 2005 |
Ten years ago, some of the worst atrocities in the history of mankind took place in the country of Rwanda. Harrowing and deeply moving, Hotel Rwanda is the story of an ordinary man who saves the lives of over a thousand helpless refugees. | 19 |
| Kinsey April 3, 2005 |
An exploration of the life of the pioneer of human sexuality research, Alfred Kinsey. The film turns the microscope on the man whose landmark studies on the sexual behaviors of the common man rocked a nation. | 18 |
| The Take March 6, 2005 |
Written and produced by the Canadian husband/wife team of Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein, it is a documentary about workers in Argentina who take over a factory and make it successful when the owners could not. | 17 |
| Wilby Wonderful February 13, 2005 |
Paul Gross stars as the island's policeman who must juggle old and new love affairs while trying to untangle the mystery of an attempted suicide and a plot to turn Wilby's pristine shoreline into an exclusive golf club. | 16 |
| Stage Beauty January 30, 2005 |
In the 1660's, live theatre women's roles were played by men such as 'Ned' Kynaston but when Charles II allows real women to tread the boards and men may no longer play women's parts, Ned becomes a nobody virtually overnight. | 15 |
| Motorcycle Diaries January 16, 2005 |
The true story of Che Guevara's personal odyssey with his friend Alberto Granado across South America on a motorcycle. This would ultimately inspire him to become the revolutionary who had a profound impact on the history of several nations. | 14 |
| Being Julia November 28, 2004 |
Based on the play Theatre by W. Somerset Maugham, this film is about the reigning diva of the London stage in 1938 who falls head over heels in love with a young American, is betrayed by him and plots a delicious revenge. | 13 |
| Zatoichi November 7, 2004 |
Behind his humble facade of a blind masseur, Zatoichi is a master swordsman who uses his lightning-fast draw and strokes of breathtaking precision to dispose of anyone in his way and help two beautiful geishas avenge their parents' murder. | 12 |
| Vanity Fair October 17, 2004 |
Based on the novel by William Thackeray, this film follows a lower-class woman as she uses her wit and guile to make her way through London society in the 1820's. | 11 |
| Rivers and Tides October 3, 2004 |
A fascinating chronicle of Scottish artist Andy Goldworthy's hours altering the landscape by working elemental materials into paths and patterns of harmonious grace. | 10 |
| The Notebook September 19, 2004 |
A sentimental and passionate love story of a wealthy debutante and a millworker who are driven apart by World War II. | 9 |
| Barbarian Invasions May 16, 2004 |
In this sequel to 'Decline of the American Empire,' Remy finds himself hospitalized, dependent on the care of his estranged son, and visited by merry band of old friends, mistresses, and relatives. | 8 |
| La Grande Seduction/Seducing Doctor Lewis April 25, 2004 |
An endearing film in which a desolate island community off Quebec's maritime coast connives to secure a local doctor - with hilarious results. | 7 |
| Girl with a Pearl Earring April 4, 2004 |
A gloriously detailed vision of the period inspired by Vermeer's beloved portrait of the same name. | 6 |
| Sylvia March 14, 2004 |
Based on the true story of the romance and tumultuous marriage of American poet Sylvia Plath and English poet Ted Hughes. | 5 |
| The Station Agent February 22, 2004 |
A big-hearted film in which a reclusive dwarf, a gregarious Cuban food vendor and a middle-aged painter form an unlikely trio. | 4 |
| Falling Angels February 1, 2004 |
A wickedly funny and touching story of three sisters' coming of age in a wildly dysfunctional family in the 1960's. | 3 |
| Mambo Italiano January 11, 2004 |
A charming film that explores the complexities of the quintessential Italian-Canadian family straddling the cultures, traditions and mores of the old and new worlds. | 2 |
| Lost in Translation November 2003 |
Bob Harris (Bill Murray) may be a big American star, but in Tokyo, his fame's only as good as the whiskey he sells. While in Japan, he finds a kindred spirit in Charlotte, the equally lonely wife of a successful fashion photographer. | 1 |