Movies

Friday, February 21 @ 7 pm
TOUKI BOUKI (1973)
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With a stunning mix of the surreal and the naturalistic, Djibril Diop Mambéty paints a fractured portrait of the disenchantment of post-independence Senegal in the early 1970s that demonstrates Mambéty’s commitment to telling African stories in new ways. 

Saturday, February 22 @ 7 pm
TRAINSPOTTING (1996)
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Danny Boyle’s hilariously raucous, raunchy take on Irvine Welsh’s bestselling book is a wild, freeform, Rabelaisian trip through the darkest recesses of Edinburgh low-life, focusing on Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) and his attempt to give up his heroin habit, set to a kinetic and iconic soundtrack.

Thursday, February 27 @ 7 pm
SANTOSH (2024)
Monthly Screening

A gripping neorealist procedural and a patiently observed, complex character study of women working in the pressure cooker environment of a corrupt, machismo-plagued workplace, Sandhya Suri’s narrative feature debut combines cool-headed directorial control and a palpable sense of fiery outrage.

Friday, February 28 @ 7 pm
MOONLIGHT (2016)
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As we close out Black History Month and head into Oscar weekend, it seems like the perfect time to celebrate Moonlight, Barry Jenkins’ “brilliant, achingly alive work about black queerness” (The New Yorker), winner of a surprising Best Picture Oscar that is directed with sublime sensitivity by Jenkins.

Saturday, March 1 @ 7 pm
THE GOLD RUSH (1925) & SHERLOCK JR. (1924)
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VTIFF celebrates the first anniversary of The Screening Room with a double-feature of two of the finest films by America’s greatest comic geniuses, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.

Friday, March 7 @ 7 pm
PERSEPOLIS (2007)
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Adapted from Satrapi’s own autobiographical graphic novel, Persepolis is a brilliant coming of age story set against the decades-long fallout of the Iranian Revolution. Young Marjane tries to embrace her identity amidst the hardline policies of a fundamentalist regime.

Saturday, March 8 @ 7 pm
WALTZ WITH BASHIR (2008)
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Singularly blending animation with documentary, Waltz with Bashir is a mind-bending odyssey through painful memories, with an ending that will leave you speechless. The film is the second of a two-film series in animated histories presented by Orly Yadin.

Wednesday, March 12 @ 7 pm
THE ROOM NEXT DOOR (2024)
Monthly Screening

Pedro Almodóvar, one of cinema’s most sensitive dramatists and vivacious stylists, returns with his first English-language film, featuring incandescent performances from beloved A-listers Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton.

Friday, March 14 @ 7 pm
LA DOLCE VITA (1960)
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The biggest hit from the most popular Italian filmmaker of all time, La Dolce Vita rocketed Federico Fellini to international mainstream success—ironically, by offering a damning critique of the culture of stardom.

Saturday, March 15 @ 2 pm
JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES (1975)
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The surprise (and semi-controversial) big winner of the 2022 Sight & Sound poll of the greatest films of all time, Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman is a flat-out masterpiece and a welcome addition to the upper rungs of the film canon.

Saturday, March 15 @ 7 pm
TOKYO STORY (1953)
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“Isn’t life disappointing?” Quite a question, and it gets a profound answer in Ozu’s highly influential mega-masterpiece, Tokyo Story, which has long been considered one of the greatest films of all time for a simple reason… it is.

Friday, March 21 @ 4 pm
I’M STILL HERE (2024)
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The surprise Oscar contender of the year. A phenomenon in Brazil, director Walter Salles’ (The Motorcycle Diaries, On the Road) first film in 12 years seemingly came out of nowhere to score nominations for Best Picture, Best Actress, and Best International Feature.

Friday, March 21 @ 7 pm
I’M STILL HERE (2024)
Monthly Screening

The surprise Oscar contender of the year. A phenomenon in Brazil, director Walter Salles’ (The Motorcycle Diaries, On the Road) first film in 12 years seemingly came out of nowhere to score nominations for Best Picture, Best Actress, and Best International Feature.

Saturday, March 22 @ 3 pm
DUNE (1984)
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After Eraserhead set midnight audiences’ brains on fire, and Mel Brooks shepherded The Elephant Man into an art house hit, Lynch was offered the chance to move up to the Big Leagues and helm Return of the Jedi. He opted to adapt Frank Herbert’s unwieldy space opera instead, and the rest is history.

Saturday, March 22 @ 7 pm
ERASERHEAD (1977)
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David Lynch’s debut feature started as a student project and ended up being one of the defining midnight movies. Under its thick layer of industrial grime and nightmare-fuel imagery, it’s also simply one of the best ever movies about becoming a parent.

Thursday, March 27 @ 7 pm
HARD TRUTHS (2024)
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Acclaimed filmmaker Mike Leigh returns to the contemporary world with a fierce, compassionate, and often darkly humorous study of family and the frayed ties that bind us, featuring a volcanic lead performance from Marianne Jean-Baptiste.