https://www.thecinematheque.ca/films/2019/the-american-friend
The Cinematheque / The American Friend
Wim Wenders’s audacious adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley’s Game is, in our humble opinion, one of the great films of the 1970s — and perhaps the...
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https://www.thecinematheque.ca/films/2017/atanarjuat-the-fast-runner
The Cinematheque / Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
Zacharias Kunuk’s spellbinding epic, the first-ever feature in the Inuktitut language, was voted one of Canada’s All-Time Top Ten films in 2004 and 2015 polls...
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https://www.thecinematheque.ca/films/2020/wonders-in-the-suburbs
The Cinematheque / Wonders in the Suburbs
As the new mayor of Montfermeil, an underprivileged municipality on the outskirts of Paris, Emmanuelle Joly (Emmanuelle Béart) has great expectations.
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https://thecinematheque.ca/films/2021/the-jump
The Cinematheque / The Jump
This extraordinary documentary about the Cold War uses rare archival footage and a dramatic, first-person re-enactment to shed a light on a remarkable moment...
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https://www.thecinematheque.ca/films/2023/corpus-callosum
The Cinematheque / *Corpus Callosum
Out of all Michael Snow’s major works, this might be the one we still have yet to fully reckon with.
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https://www.thecinematheque.ca/films/director/112111
The Cinematheque / Films
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https://www.thecinematheque.ca/films/2024/because-i-love-bad-weather
The Cinematheque / Because I Love Bad Weather
An absorbing tale of friendship, time passing, and second chances, writer-director Yana Lekarska’s debut feature film Because I Love Bad Weather captured the...
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https://thecinematheque.ca/films/2018/canyon-cinema-at-50
The Cinematheque / Canyon Cinema at 50: Studies in Natural Magic
This program of works from San Francisco experimental-film distributor Canyon Cinema, one of DIM’s favourite partners, is curated by David Dinnell, visiting...
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https://www.thecinematheque.ca/series/lucrecia-martel
The Cinematheque / Lucrecia Martel × 2
Lucrecia Martel’s newest film Our Land, her first in nearly a decade, is paired with a new restoration of her masterful enigma The Headless Woman.
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https://thecinematheque.ca/films/2023/demi-monde
The Cinematheque / Demi Monde: Short Films by Caroline Monnet
A self-taught filmmaker (with a background in sociology and communication), Caroline Monnet discovered cinema as a “tool to express myself, gain...
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https://www.thecinematheque.ca/films/director/62657
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https://thecinematheque.ca/films/2022/three-colours-white
The Cinematheque / Three Colours: White
The second film in Kieślowski’s “Three Colours Trilogy,” the entertaining White is a black comedy based on the tricolour tenet of egalité.
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https://thecinematheque.ca/series/european-union-film-festival-2020
The Cinematheque / European Union Film Festival 2020
From November 13 to 29, join us (virtually) for the first-ever Canada-wide European Union Film Festival, featuring 27 recent films from 27 EU member states.
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https://www.thecinematheque.ca/films/2020/ceiling-a-bagful-of-fleas-journey
The Cinematheque / Věra Chytilová × 3: Ceiling, A Bagful of Fleas & Journey
Věra Chytilová’s acclaimed graduation film Ceiling is followed by A Bagful of Fleas, her first professional work, and Journey, Jasmina Blažević's documentary...
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https://thecinematheque.ca/films/director/25511
The Cinematheque / Films
The Cinematheque, founded in 1972, is a film institute and media education centre devoted to understanding the art and history of Canadian and...
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https://www.thecinematheque.ca/films/2022/before-tomorrow
The Cinematheque / Before Tomorrow
Named Best Canadian First Feature at TIFF 2008 and selected for Sundance in 2009, this affecting Inuktitut-language film is set against an Inuit group’s first...
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https://www.thecinematheque.ca/films/director/65345
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https://thecinematheque.ca/films/2025/welcome-to-dollhouse
The Cinematheque / Welcome to the Dollhouse
Todd Solondz’s breakthrough comedy Welcome to the Dollhouse, a benchmark of ’90s indie Americana, is a provocatively sanguine (and un-PC) portrait of...
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https://thecinematheque.ca/films/2026/news-from-home
The Cinematheque / News from Home
After the incredible achievement of Jeanne Dielman, Chantal Akerman returned to what might be understood as her cinematic birthplace in New York, where she...
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https://thecinematheque.ca/films/2020/as-tears-go-by
The Cinematheque / As Tears Go By
Wong Kar-Wai's high-octane, hyper-cool debut feature is an auspicious early exercise in the exhilarating stylistics and dreamy romanticism that define the...
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https://thecinematheque.ca/films/2022/keyhole
The Cinematheque / Keyhole
This decidedly unhinged work by idiosyncratic auteur Guy Maddin is a ghost story/gangster flick/Homeric quest in the singular, movie-mad Maddin mode.
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https://thecinematheque.ca/films/director/72778
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https://thecinematheque.ca/films/2022/digger-the-distance-between-us-and-the-sky
The Cinematheque / Digger + The Distance Between Us and the Sky
Winner of ten Hellenic Film Academy Awards, the impressive first feature from Georgis Grigorakis has themes of family conflict and the meaning of land....
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https://cinema.wisc.edu/summer-at-the-cinematheque/
Summer at the Cinematheque – Cinematheque – UW–Madison
Summer at the Cinematheque Our eclectic and cinephilically-driven regular Summer calendar series contains centennial salutes to comedy greats Mel Brooks and...
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https://thecinematheque.ca/films/2018/privacy
The Cinematheque / Privacy
The debut feature of veteran short-film and television director Ahmad Moazzami makes potent drama out of the perils faced by young people in today’s digital...
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https://www.thecinematheque.ca/films/2022/the-novelists-film
The Cinematheque / The Novelist’s Film
Shot in steely, high-contrast black-and-white (well, mostly), and punctuated by Hong’s signature zooms, this almost-latest from the South Korean auteur is a...
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https://www.thecinematheque.ca/films/director/112115
The Cinematheque / Films
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https://www.thecinematheque.ca/films/2024/married-woman
The Cinematheque / A Married Woman
Subtitled “Fragments of a film shot in 1964,” Godard’s A Married Woman is a high-style, free-form exercise in the sociology of contemporary womanhood, centring...
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https://www.thecinematheque.ca/films/2020/the-way-of-the-dragon
The Cinematheque / The Way of the Dragon
Martial-arts megastar Bruce Lee lands as many goofy gags as he does body blows in The Way of the Dragon, his only quadruple-threat film as writer, director,...
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https://thecinematheque.ca/films/2021/solaris-2002
The Cinematheque / Solaris
Remaking the legendary likes of Tarkovsky was asking for critical trouble, but Steven Soderbergh surprised many with the excellence of his achievement.
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https://www.thecinematheque.ca/films/director/87972
The Cinematheque / Films
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https://thecinematheque.ca/films/director/43384
The Cinematheque / Films
The Cinematheque, founded in 1972, is a film institute and media education centre devoted to understanding the art and history of Canadian and...
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https://thecinematheque.ca/films/2022/jules-and-jim
The Cinematheque / Jules and Jim
François Truffaut’s much-loved third feature is a lyrical, nostalgia-suffused exploration of the impossibility of living à trois and, like much of his work, a...
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https://www.thecinematheque.ca/about/venue-rental
The Cinematheque / Venue Rental at The Cinematheque
The Cinematheque, founded in 1972, is a film institute and media education centre devoted to understanding the art and history of Canadian and...
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https://www.thecinematheque.ca/films/2017/old-and-new
The Cinematheque / Old and New
Eisenstein’s last silent picture is one of his most beautiful works—and one of his least seen.
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https://thecinematheque.ca/films/2022/fly-away-home
The Cinematheque / Fly Away Home
In this extraordinary story of a journey across borders, 13-year-old Amy (Anna Paquin) rises to the occasion as animal teacher and caretaker.
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https://thecinematheque.ca/films/2026/stairway-distant-past
The Cinematheque / The Stairway to the Distant Past
The Stairway to the Distant Past, the second installment of Hayashi Kaizo’s Maiku Hama trilogy, spills out in vibrant, full-blown colour as Maiku’s past...
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