She’s the He

Just before graduation, Ethan and Alex pose as trans women in a last ditch effort to quell gay rumors about them. It’s all a joke until Ethan realizes: She really is trans. As the school year ends, the two best friends must reckon with their changing friendship, coming out and coming-of-age.

Renoir

Suburban Tokyo, 1987. 11-year-old Fuki’s father, Keiji, is battling a terminal illness, and in and out of hospital. Her mother, Utako, is constantly stressed out from caring for Keiji while holding down a full-time job. Left alone with her rich imagination, Fuki becomes fascinated by telepathy and falls ever deeper into her own fantasy world.

Official Selection: Cannes Film Festival

 

Magic Hour

Charlie and Erin escape to the desert to navigate an unexpected and challenging new phase of their relationship. A Duplass Brothers Production starring Daveed Diggs (Hamilton) and Katie Aselton (The League).

Official selection: SXSW

Jinsei

Our hero (voiced by rapper ACE COOL), called by a different name in each chapter of his life, becomes a J-pop idol, an outcast, a leader, and an oracle in this hundred-year chronicle spanning the past, present, and future. Through a chance encounter with a transfer student, he trains to become an idol, starting his search for self-identity and a journey toward greatness beyond superstardom. Written, directed, edited and entirely hand-drawn by newcomer Ryuya Suzuki over eighteen months, JINSEI (meaning “life” in Japanese) is an anime tour-de-force that announces Suzuki to the world as a bold new talent in independent animation.

Blue Film

When a fetish-catering camboy (Kieron Moore) visits a client in exchange for $50k, he discovers a masked man (Reed Birney) with a camcorder and a series of increasingly intrusive questions. But when the man reveals a disturbing connection to Aaron’s past, the two drop their personas and gradually unravel in a sultry chamber piece being called “one of the most daring American films of recent vintage.”

“Provokes and captivates in equal measure, with the naked honesty of a black box off-off Broadway play.” -The Hollywood Reporter

Marama

1859, North Yorkshire. When young Maori woman Mary arrives from New Zealand, she’s trapped as governess to a wealthy whaler’s granddaughter. Living among her ancestors’ stolen artifacts, she uncovers Sir Cole’s horrific crimes. Embracing her Matakite powers, Mary becomes Marama and must save Anne and avenge her family by destroying him.

Official Selection: TIFF

Rose of Nevada

Three decades ago, the Rose of Nevada vanished at sea, along with its crew. Now, it has returned. In a remote fishing village, its reappearance is embraced as an auspicious sign, with the local citizens convinced the luck of their economically devastated community may turn, if only the ship sails again. Joining the crew is Nick (George MacKay), desperate to provide for his young family, and Liam (Callum Turner), a mysterious drifter eager to escape his past. After a successful voyage, they return to harbour, only to find that nothing is as they remember it.

Shooting on a 16mm Bolex camera and constructing all the sound in post, Mark Jenkin writes, directs, edits and scores a haunting and hallucinatory time-travel mystery that further solidifies him as one of the most distinct, singular artists working in film today. Jenkin conducts a cinematic séance, conjuring a portal into another world that forces us to confront the past and our relationship to it.

True North (Open Captioning)

Please note that there are additional showtimes of TRUE NORTH that screen without open captions (on-screen display of dialogue and sounds). For those showtimes, click here.

Set against the backdrop of 1960s Montreal, TRUE NORTH unearths two pivotal but underrecognized events, the Congress of Black Writers and the Sir George Williams Affair, positioning the city as a powerful nexus in the global Black liberation movement. Through never-before-seen archival footage and intimate first-person testimonies, the film revisits a charged era of resistance, where Black students and activists challenged institutional racism that sparked reverberations across the globe.

Taking a hemispheric view of Black resistance, TRUE NORTH connects threads from the Caribbean, Canada, and the US, tracing the shared legacies of colonialism and state oppression. At the heart of the film are the voices of elders, who lived through this period and whose contributions have largely gone unrecognized. Their stories ground the film’s narrative, offering a rare and poignant perspective on the era. Through their lens, TRUE NORTH becomes both an act of remembrance and a call to action for new generations.

Visually striking and emotionally resonant, TRUE NORTH is a love letter to 1960s Montreal and a radical reimagining of its place in history. With its bold artistic approach and commitment to truth-telling, TRUE NORTH invites audiences into an immersive experience that is as relevant now as it was revolutionary then.

Official Selection: TIFF, DOC NYC

True North

Please note that there are additional showtimes of TRUE NORTH that screen with open captions (on-screen display of dialogue and sounds). For those showtimes, click here.

Set against the backdrop of 1960s Montreal, TRUE NORTH unearths two pivotal but underrecognized events, the Congress of Black Writers and the Sir George Williams Affair, positioning the city as a powerful nexus in the global Black liberation movement. Through never-before-seen archival footage and intimate first-person testimonies, the film revisits a charged era of resistance, where Black students and activists challenged institutional racism that sparked reverberations across the globe.

Taking a hemispheric view of Black resistance, TRUE NORTH connects threads from the Caribbean, Canada, and the US, tracing the shared legacies of colonialism and state oppression. At the heart of the film are the voices of elders, who lived through this period and whose contributions have largely gone unrecognized. Their stories ground the film’s narrative, offering a rare and poignant perspective on the era. Through their lens, TRUE NORTH becomes both an act of remembrance and a call to action for new generations.

Visually striking and emotionally resonant, TRUE NORTH is a love letter to 1960s Montreal and a radical reimagining of its place in history. With its bold artistic approach and commitment to truth-telling, TRUE NORTH invites audiences into an immersive experience that is as relevant now as it was revolutionary then.

Official Selection: TIFF, DOC NYC

Naked Lunch

“In this adaptation of William S. Burroughs’s hallucinatory, once-thought-unfilmable novel Naked Lunch, directed by David Cronenberg, a part-time exterminator and full-time drug addict named Bill Lee (Peter Weller) plunges into the nightmarish Interzone, a netherworld of sinister cabals and giant talking bugs. Alternately humorous and grotesque—and always surreal—the film mingles aspects of Burroughs’s novel with incidents from the writer’s own life, resulting in an evocative paranoid fantasy and a self-reflexive investigation into the mysteries of the creative process.” -The Criterion Collection