SHOLAY June 26, 2019 · 7:30 PM · The Royal Cinema (608 College St, Toronto)  Ramesh Sippy’s SHOLAY is widely celebrated as one of the greatest Hindi films of all times. A standout within the canon of Bollywood blockbusters, it […]

BORN BONE BORN June 24, 2019 · 7:00 PM · Japanese Canadian Culture Centre  Four years after their mother’s death, the estranged children of the Shinjo family return to their home on Aguni Island, near Okinawa, to perform the traditional ritual […]

  BEI BEI June 14, 2019 · 7:00 PM · Revue Cinema With the abortion legislation currently taking place in Alabama, Georgia, and Ohio, BEI BEI is perhaps the most powerful and topical film on the festival circuit. After wowing audiences at […]

MIDNIGHT TRAVELER April 28, 2019 · 9:00 PM · Scotiabank Theatre Afghan filmmaker, Hassan Fazili, directed a film about the Taliban—and in March 2015, the Taliban put a bounty on his head. Fazili, his wife and two daughters are forced to make the […]

CONFUCIAN DREAM April 27, 2019 · 6:30 PM · Scotiabank Theatre Chaoyan discovers the ancient teachings of Confucianism and she becomes a zealous convert, involving her impressionable four-year-old son in her rigorous routine of chanting daily mantras. Chaoyan’s husband, Mei, finds their study schedule excessive, […]

MURKY COLOURS: KC WEI April 13, 2019 · 7:30 PM · Innis Town Hall  Murky Colours is based on a spy novel by Menjin Wei, the filmmaker’s father. It is not, by any measure, a conventional adaptation, although it does begin to chart the […]

A FAMILY TOUR April 04, 2019 · 6:30 PM · TIFF Bell Lightbox  This semi-autobiographical film is director Ying Liang’s reflection on life as an exile from China, but still in the neighbourhood that includes Hong Kong and Taiwan. After China banned her film, […]