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Join director patricia sims for Q & A after 7:00pm show with director in attendance for q&a after the 7:15pm show! lorenzo magzul, ph.d., a kaqchikel mayan Q & A after 7:00pm show! sept 18 (3:15 matinee & 5:15 & 7:15) sept 19 (7:00 & 9:10) sept 20 (7:00 & 9:10) sept 21 (7:00 & 9:00) sept 22 (7:00 & 9:15) sept 23 (7:00 & 9:15) sept 24 (7:00 & 9:10) WHEN ELEPHANTS IXCANUL MAGALLANES THE CLUB THE MAN WHO SAW TOO MUCH THE SECOND MOTHER THE CLAN Jayro Bustamante · Guatemala · 2015 · 93 min Salvador del Solar · Perú · 2015 · 109 min Pablo Larraín · Chile · 2015 · 98 min Trisha Ziff · Mexico · 2015 · 89 min Anna Muylaert · Brazil · 2015 · 112 min Pablo Trapero · Argentina · 2015 · 108 min WERE YOUNG This drama revolves around María, a 17-year- An aged Peruvian taxi driver, formerly an In a small seaside town live four men. All This documentary by British-Mexican direc- After leaving her daughter to be raised This political and family drama, based on Director: Patricia Sims; Canada/Thailand, old Mayan living on the slopes of an active aide to a military officer, unexpectedly re- former priests, they have been sent to this tor Trisha Ziff is about Enrique Metinides, by relatives, Val spends the next 13 years a true story that rocked Argentina, tells 2016, 86 minutes volcano and who dreams of seeing ‘the city’, encounters a young indigenous woman who quiet exile to purge sins of their pasts. Their a photo-reporter who worked for decades working as a nanny in São Paulo. Val gets the unbelievable tale of the Clan Puccio, a William Shatner narrates this intimate story but her status as an indigenous woman does was victimized by his superior. Set in con- fragile stability is disrupted by the arrival of in Mexico City and who was obsessed with ready for the long-dreamed moment of seemingly normal middle-class family who of a young man and a young elephant liv- not, traditionally, allow her to go out into the temporary Lima, this is the story of a ter- a newly-disgraced counterpart, and an emis- accidents and crime scenes. A timely film being near her daughter again. Set in kidnapped wealthy people off the street. ing in Thailand. A surprising view into the wider world. rible secret and its long-term effects on two sary of the Church. Both bring the outside about photography, violence and ethics in Brazil, this is an endearing family com- Argentina’s submission for the 2015 Best paradoxes of elephants in captivity. —Palm people trapped in their own socio-economic world, and the secrets they had thought mass media. edy that reflects on the ties that bind us. Foreign Film Oscar. Beach Film Festival chokeholds. deeply buried.

THE 7th LATIN AMERICAN & OCT 1 KIDS MATINEE 12:45PM WILLY WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY SPANISH FILM WEEK! Sept 19–25 sept 26, 27 & 28 (7:00 only) Special Event! SEPT 30 & OCT 1 (3:00 MATINEE & 7:00 & 9:10) THE MUSIC OF STRANGERS: HUNT FOR THE Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble Director: Morgan Neville, USA, 2016, 96 min; PG WILDERPEOPLE Oscar-winner Morgan Neville (“20 Feet From Stardom”) follows the Silk Road Ensemble as the troupe brings its transnational folk music Benefit screening for Ancient Forest Taika Waititi; 2016, 101 min; PG to audiences. Revelations about the musicians’ tragic lives surprise even the group’s founder, renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma. The Music of A sullen boy bouncing around foster care. A curmudgeonly widower. Writer-director Taika Strangers is a lovely look at the joy music can bring when it connects with its roots. 4 stars. —CBC Alliance. Students: $9 / Others: $15 Waititi’s concocts a subversive, wildly entertaining comedy about the power of misfits & and the strength of good humour. 101 minutes of pure comic joy. —Globe and Mail sept 25 (7:00 9:10) sept 29 (7:00 & 9:15) sept 26, 27 & 28 (9:00 only) TRUMAN SEPT 30 & OCT 1 (11:15PM) Cesc Gay · Spain · 2015 · 108 min HADWIN’S JUDGEMENT Julián receives an unexpected visit from LO AND BEHOLD: Sasha Snow, Canada, 2015, 87 min $4.75 his childhood friend. Diagnosed with can- Environmental documentary based on THE ROCKY HORROR cer, Julián has decided to put his affairs in John Vaillant’s ‘The Golden Spruce,’ cov- for order and find a home for his beloved dog, Reveries of the Connected World ering events that led up to the infamous Director: Werner Herzog, USA, 2016, 98 minutes; G PICTURE SHOW Truman. Gay brings humour and sensitivity destruction of a 300-year-old tree held uvic UK · 1975 · 101 min; PG to this personal story, creating a singular Werner Herzog’s documentary takes a curious, awe-struck, and terrified look at the origins and future of the web and the interconnected sacred by the indigenous Haida nation of undergrads reflection on friendship and acceptance at reality it’s begat. It’s a masterful inquiry into technological evolution. That development has spawned innovation that few science fiction Haida Gwaii, BC. The most popular, CRAZIEST cult film returns! Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick end the end of life. writers ever dreamed of and yet it’s also created a potential tomorrow fraught with harrowing emotional, social, moral, and philosophical up in a scary mansion inhabited by a sweet transvestite from transsexual Transylvania dilemmas apt to give a rational person ceaseless nightmares. —The Playlist CINECENTA TKTS/PASSES NOT VALID. (Tim Curry). Let’s Do The Time-Warp Again!

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OCT 5 7:00pm SHOW ONLY: Join David presented by the japan foundation & Bradley of Bird Studies Canada for Q&A consulate general of japan, vancouver OCT 2 (3:00 MATINEE & 5:00 & 7:15) oct 3 (7:15 & 9:20) oct 4 (7:00 ONLY) oct 5 & 6 (7:00 & 9:15) “GORGEOUS SLOW-MOTION FOOTAGE OF BIRDS OCT 7 & 8 (3:00 MATINEE & 7:00 & 9:15) “A GENTLE AND CAUGHT MIDFLIGHT AGAINST BLACK BACKDROPS CHARMING INDIGNATION IS ENTHRALLING!” –Toronto Star FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS Director: James Schamus, USA, 2016, 111 minutes; 14A A TALE OF SAMURAI THE MESSENGER Director: Stephen Frears, UK, 2016, 111 min; PG ENTERTAINMENT.” Director: Su Rynard, Canada/France, 2015, 90 min; rated G Based on Philip Roth’s novel, “Indignation” takes place in 1951, as Marcus Messner (Logan Cast: Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant, Simon Helberg – The Guardian Hard science and awe share center stage in this study of songbirds’ dwindling numbers. Lerman), a brilliant working class Jewish boy from New Jersey, travels on scholarship to COOKING - A True Love Story Traveling the world to spotlight solutions, filmmaker Su Rynard never loses sight of the In this fact-based music comedy, Meryl Streep is enchanting as one of the most lovable a small, conservative college in Ohio, thus exempting him from being drafted into the Yûzô Asahara, 2013, 123 min, Japanese with winged tunesters’ sheer beauty, or their emotional and symbolic pull as perceived inter- eccentrics in modern history - a woman panned by critics as the world’s worst singer. Korean War. But once there, Marcus’s growing infatuation with his beautiful classmate English subtitles; PG mediaries between the earthly and spiritual. The film posits that songbirds, which account Streep is simply aglow as an heiress who so loved opera that she couldn’t stop herself Olivia (Sarah Gadon), and his clashes with the college’s imposing Dean (Tracy Letts), put Great cook Haru has married into the leg- for half the planet’s birds, are the canary in the coalmine of the planetary ecosystem. The from treating friends, employees - and all of Manhattan - to her cacophonous, shrieking his and his family’s best laid plans to the ultimate test. endary “Kitchen Samurai” family. But her director visits with ornithologists, biologists and ecologists who study migratory patterns, soprano. Hugh Grant is affable, gentle, and a little sad as her husband. Simon Helberg husband who is the successor of the family track populations and growing threats: light and noise pollution, habitat destruction, is the young pianist she hires as her accompanist. Directed with tremendous style and “THE BEST PHILIP ROTH ADAPTATION BY A MILE.” can’t cook at all. Haru vows to make him a climate change, insecticides, and species-devastating predation by outdoor domestic vibrant, buoyant energy by Stephen Frears (The Queen, High Fidelity). — Philadelphia superb samurai chef, and starts teaching her felines. Rynard shows how activism has led to policies that benefit the delicate creatures. Inquirer – New York Magazine new husband how to cook. —Hollywood Reporter

OCT 9 KIDS MATINEE 12:30PM THE BFG Special HOMELESSNESS BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! OCT 15 KIDS MATINEEJAN 30 KIDS 12:45PM MATINEE KUBO 1PM AND THE THE PEANUTS TWO STRINGS MOVIE ACTION WEEK Event! “AN INTIMATE, WARM EMBRACE OF A FILM.” –Time Out

“RIVETING!” PRESENTED by Frontrunners & Sponsored by – Toronto Star OCT 9 (3:00 MATINEE & 5:15 & 7:30) OCT 10 (7:30 ONLY) the centre for Addictions Research of BC, OCT 12 (7:00 & 9:10) oct 13 (7:10 & 9:00) oct 14 & 15 (3:00 MATINEE & 7:00 & 9:10) panel discussion after 7pm show “A SMART THRILLER!” OCT 11 (7:00 & 9:15) FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS OUR KIND OF TRAITOR ORIENTED EQUITY –The Hollywood Reporter Director: Stephen Frears, UK, 2016, 111 min; PG Susanna White; UK, 2016, 109 min; 14A Jake Witzenfeld, Israel/UK, 2015, 86 min Director: Meera Menon, USA, 2016, 101 minutes; PG Cast: Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant, Simon Helberg US AND THEM More smart sleuthing in exotic locations This documentary follows three gay In this explosive corporate thriller, a dynamite Anna Gunn fights back. As investment PLEASE SEE OCT 7 & 8 FOR DESCRIPTION Krista Loughton & Jennifer Abbott from the master of the spy thriller, John Le Palestinian men in their 20s living in Tel banker Naomi Bishop, the ‘Breaking Bad’ Emmy winner comes out blazing, and it’s not Carré. Ewan McGregor and Naomie Harris Aviv, portraying their struggles and vic- just the dickheads at the top she’s gunning for. Even her hedge-funder boyfriend (James Canada, 2015, 82 min play Perry and Gail, two Londoners on holi- tories. Khader who lives with his Jewish Purefoy, oozing seductive sleaze), will exploit her. Her protégé (Sarah Megan Thomas) is Ten years in the making, this documentary day in Marrakesh. Perry befriends a Russian boyfriend; Naim is struggling to come out eying her job. And her college BFF (a superb Alysia Reiner) is now working for the feds, follows one woman as she aims to give the (Stellan Skarsgård), who begs him to take to his family; and Fadi with his Palestinian and is close to nailing Naomi for securities fraud. Gunn’s performance, alert to every “STREEP IN GRANDE DAME MODE IS NOT TO BE MISSED.” homeless a voice. She never imagined how information back to the UK. Back home, nationalism. Funny, moving, and examines nuance, is award-caliber. Gunn is a sight to see. —Rolling Stone – Time Out London much they would help her. Each interviewee MI6 agent (Damian Lewis) struggles to get the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through a will shatter your assumptions of homeless- support from higher up. —Time Out London unique lens. —VICE ness, and open your heart.

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LIVE ELECTRONIC MUSIC SOUNDTRACK OCT 23 (3:00 MATINEE & 5:00 & 7:00) OCT 24 (7:00 & 9:00) OCT 25 & 26 (7:00 & 9:10) performed by David Bodrug & OCT 28 & 29 (3:00 matinee & 7:00 & 9:00) “ONE OF THE FUNNIEST Joseph Sheppard. Regular prices! exclusive A TALE OF LOVE AND DARKNESS BAD MOMS MOVIES OF THE YEAR!” OCT 27 (7:00 ONLY) Director: Natalie Portman, Israel/US, 2016, 99 min; Hebrew with subtitles; PG Jon Lucas & Scott Moore, USA, 2016, 101 min; 14A –Entertainment Weekly victoria Natalie Portman makes an impressive directing debut, also writing the screenplay and Amy (Mila Kunis) has a great marriage, over-achieving kids, beautiful home and a career. starring in this quiet and often beautiful drama based on the 2002 memoirs of celebrated However she’s over-worked, over-committed and about to snap. Fed up, she joins THE GOLEM UNLESSDirector: Alan Gilsenan, Canada/Ireland, 2016, 93 min premiere! Paul Wegener & Carl Boese, Germany, writer Amos Oz (played in childhood by Amir Tessler) and his Jerusalem growing up. Set forces with two other stressed moms (Kristen Bell, Kathryn Hahn) on a quest to liberate Cast: Catherine Keener, Matt Craven, Chloe Rose, 1920, 91 min around the time of the creation of the State of Israel, Amos’s story centres on his mother themselves--going on a wild, un-mom-like binge of long overdue freedom, fun and self- Brendan Coyle, Hanna Schygulla Fania (Portman), a fragile storyteller whose romantic soul is battered by the realities of indulgence--putting them on a collision course with PTA Queen Bee Gwendolyn (Christina Introduced by Dr. Peter Gölz and Irish director Alan Gilsenan’s adaptation of Pulitzer Prize– being the wife of a less-than-passionate scholar (Gilad Kahana) and the challenges of Applegate) and her clique of devoted perfect moms. Honours student Tatiana Dickson from winning author Carol Shields’ final novel is that rarest of things: life in a conflict zone. Portman is heartbreaking as she explores the constant presence of the Department of Germanic and Slavic a powerful, accessible work of cinema that ardently explores the Fania’s depression, which eventually overwhelms her. A passion project for the Jerusalem- Studies, this German silent horror clas- extraordinary experience of ordinary women. Shot in Toronto and starring Oscar nomi- born Portman and told primarily in Hebrew, she shows early promise behind the camera. sic drawn from Jewish folklore is consid- “A FUNNY, GIDDY, SENTIMENTAL LAUGH-IN.” nee Catherine Keener in one of her most emotionally rich roles, Unless tells the story —Toronto Star –New York Times ered to be an influence on Mary Shelley’s “A FILM OF BEAUTIFUL MELANCHOLY.” –Los Angeles Times ‘Frankenstein.’ of a mother’s struggle to reach a child who seems all but lost to her. OCT 30 KIDS MATINEE 12:45PM THE WIZARD OF OZ NOV 5 & 6 KIDS MATINEE TO BE ANNOUNCED

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UNLESSDirector: Alan Gilsenan, Canada/Ireland, 2016, 93 minutes Cast: Catherine Keener, Matt Craven, Chloe Rose, Brendan Coyle, Hanna Schygulla An accomplished writer and translator, Reta Winters (Keener) is blindsided and flummoxed by the We come to understand the complex emotional histories of Reta and Norah. The former is a middle- Irish director Alan Gilsenan’s adaptation of Pulitzer Prize–winning author Carol Shields’ final novel is recent actions of her eldest daughter, Norah (Hannah Gross). For no discernible reason, Norah has aged woman for whom language is the key to comprehending life, the latter a young woman who that rarest of things: a powerful, accessible work of cinema that ardently explores the extraordinary dropped out of university and now spends her days panhandling on the sidewalk outside of Toronto has lost her faith in the ability of language, and society in general to imbue her life with meaning. experience of ordinary women. Shot in Toronto and starring Oscar nominee Catherine Keener in one landmark Honest Ed’s. Her cardboard sign features only one word: GOODNESS. Reta fears losing her Keener is both devastating and radiant, while Gross (I Used To Be Darker) valiantly immerses herself in of her most emotionally rich roles, Unless tells the story of a mother’s struggle to reach a child who connection to her daughter, but is it possible Norah is seeking some way of reconnecting to the world? Norah’s wild agitation — this is a breakout turn from a fiercely talented young actor. Reta and Norah seems all but lost to her. are actually two sides of the same coin, with opposing responses to a world in which it is hard for a woman to find her rightful place. —Toronto International Film Festival

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