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Our screenings take place at 162 Mackenzie St. (unless otherwise noted.)

Köln 75

2025, Germany, Biography/Coming of Age, 1 hour 52 min
German and English, with English subtitles

9 Wins/Nominations including 3 Wins @ Barcelona-Sant Jordi International Film Festival

opens January 8

Keith Jarrett’s legendary performance in January 1975 nearly didn’t happen. Based on a true story, Köln 75 follows how the concert was conceived and orchestrated by the efforts of a teenage up and coming concert promoter, Vera Brandes, (played by German actress Mala Emde). Her enthusiasm set her to multitasking — from organizing the concert venue (the Cologne Opera House), promoting the event, and selling the tickets, to convincing Jarrett to perform when he almost dropped out when the Bösendorfer Imperial Grand piano he was promised was nowhere to be found. John Magaro plays Jarrett with his own intensity, a sublime counterpoint to Mala Emde’s joyful portrayal of the enthusiastic and unstoppable Vera. Köln 75 captures the compelling, entertaining and, until now, unknown back story about Jarrett’s one-hour, entirely improvised concert, which became the best-selling solo album in jazz history.

Resurrection

2025, CHINA, FRANCE, Sci-Fi/Drama, 2 hours 40 min

17 Wins & Nominations including Special Jury Prize Winner & Plame d’Or nominee

opens January 8

In a society where people stop dreaming to extend their lifespan, some dangerous individuals still dream, warping the fabric of time. We experience five dreams, for each of the senses, each chronologically representing a period of cinema.

The Mother & The Bear

2024, Canada, Comedy/Drama, 1 hour 40 min

2 wins including Best Canadian Film Cinefest Sudbury

opens January 9

After 26-year-old Sumi suffers an accident on the streets of wintry Winnipeg, her overbearing mother Sara flies in from Seoul to be by her now comatose daughter’s side. As Sara meddles in Sumi’s life via a dating app, she ends up on a journey that will leave her forever changed.

Father Mother Sister Brother

2025, USA, Drama/Comedy, 1 hour 50 min

2 wins & 3 nominations including the top prize at Venice Film Festival

opens January 15

Winner of the Golden Lion Best Film prize at the 2025 Venice Film Festival, FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER is the eagerly-awaited new film from Jim Jarmusch. Funny, tender and astutely observed, this is an intimate exploration of the universal intricacies of family dynamics. Starring Tom Waits, Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Charlotte Rampling, Cate Blanchett, Vicky Krieps, Indya Moore and Luka Sabbat. Told in the form of a triptych divided into chapters set in New Jersey, Dublin and Paris, each story concerns the relationships between adult children, their somewhat distant parent (or parents), and each other. Blending remarkable performances from its ensemble cast with Jarmusch’s wry and idiosyncratic observations of everyday life, the iconic indie director’s latest serves as a timely reminder that you can choose your friends and your lovers, but you can’t choose your family.

Sound of Falling

2025, Germany, Drama, 2 hours 29 min

6 wins & 26 nominations including winner of a Jury Prize at Cannes

opens January 16

Four girls, Alma (1910s), Erika (1940s), Angelika (1980s), and Lenka (2020s) each spend their youth on the same farm in northern Germany. As the home evolves over a century, echoes of the past linger in its walls. Though separated by time, their lives begin to mirror each other, revealing shared secrets that have been kept hidden.

The Voice of Hind Rajab

2025, Tunisia/France, Drama, 1 hour 29 min

15 wins & 13 nominations including 9 wins at Venice & 1 Golden Globe nomination

opens January 30

January 29, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A 6-year-old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her. Her name was Hind Rajab. NOTE: The film is based on real events and emergency calls recorded by the Palestine Red Crescent. The voices on the phone are real.

EVENTS TO CATCH

"We’re Mad As Hell"

A Curated Trilogy of 50th Anniversary Classics

RETROSPECTIVE

Network

1976, USA, Drama, 2 hours 1 min
Saturday, January 10 7pm

In 1975 terrorist violence is the stuff of network nightly news programming and the corporate structure of the UBS television network is changing. Meanwhile, Howard Beale, the aging UBS news anchor, has lost his once strong ratings share and so the network fires him. Beale reacts in an unexpected way. We then see how this affects the fortunes of Beale, his coworkers (Max Schumacher and Diana Christensen), and the network.

RETROSPECTIVE

News from Home

1976, France, Documentary, 1 hour 29 min
Saturday, January 17 7pm

Letters from Chantal Akerman’s mother are read over a series of elegantly composed shots of 1976 New York, where our (unseen) filmmaker and protagonist has relocated. Akerman’s unforgettable time capsule of the city is also a gorgeous meditation on urban alienation and personal and familial disconnection.

RETROSPECTIVE

Taxi Driver

1976, USA, Drama/Thriller, 1 hour 54 min

4 Academy Award(r) nominations including Best Picture! (1976) Special Collector’s Edition is digitally remastered and includes a never-before-seen making-of documentary featuring interviews with the creators and stars of the film. Robert De Niro stars with Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Peter Boyle, and Albert Brooks in the all-too-real story of a psychotic New York cabby who is driven to violence in an attempt to rescue a teenage prostitute.

HELD-OVER

Bugonia

2025, USA/Ireland, Thriller, 1 hour 58 min.

72 Wins/Nominations including nomination for Best Film at Venice, and Best Feature at Gotham

opens December 4

Two conspiracy-obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.
In this fifth teaming of director Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone is a return to form, a dizzying, wild ride of a story that ranks right up there with the filmmaker’s best films THE FAVORITE, THE LOBSTER, DOGTOOTH. With bravura turns from both Stone and a magnificently unhinged Jesse Plemons, who won the Cannes Best Actor prize for playing three different roles in KINDS OF KINDNESS, this film lives on the edge of complete absurdity but with just enough credibility in its wildest moments to give it a place of honor in the paranoid thriller genre.
Here Plemons plays Teddy, a disgruntled guy who blames the world for his own miserable life but seems ready to act on his belief that the ecological disasters of the modern world, the opioid experiment that put his mother into a permanent coma, and his own failures are really the work of Michelle (Stone), the uber-slick corporate CEO of a pharmaceutical bioengineering company. Teddy, who also is a beekeeper, as we see at the beginning of the film, and his shy cousin Don set out to kidnap her, convinced she is really an alien sent to destroy Earth.

 

It Was Just an Accident

2025, Iran, Crime, 1 hour 43 min.

137 Wins/Nominations including Winner of Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival 2025

opens December 6

Vahid, an unassuming mechanic, has a chance encounter with Eghbal, a man he strongly suspects to be his former sadistic jailhouse captor. Panicked, Vahid gathers several former prisoners, all abused by that same captor, to try and confirm Eghbal’s identity. As the bickering group drives around Tehran with the captive, they must confront how far to take matters into their own hands with their presumed tormentor. From master filmmaker Jafar Panahi comes a searing moral thriller that engages with complex ideas about the uncertainty of the truth and the choice between revenge and mercy, as director Jafar Panahi ( NO BEARS, 3 FACES) turns his personal dissonance into a profound and galvanizing work of art.

Sentimental Value

2025, Norway, Drama, 2 hours 13 min.
English and Norwegian, with English subtitles
opens December 18

269 Wins/Nominations including Winning the Grand Prize of the Festival @ Cannes Film Festival 2025 & Best Supporting Actor @ Golden Globe Award 2026

Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned director who offers stage actress Nora a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film. When Nora turns it down, she soon discovers he has given her part to an eager young Hollywood star. Suddenly, the two sisters must navigate their complicated relationship with their father –and deal with an American star dropped right into the middle of their complex family dynamics. Deftly exploring the uneasy tension between artistic expression and personal connection, Sentimental Value is a bracingly mature work from writer-director Joachim Trier ( WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD) that’s marvelously acted across the board. Stars Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Elle Fanning, and Anders Danielsen Lie.

The Secret Agent

2025, Brazil, Crime/Drama, 2 hour 28 min.
Portuguese with English subtitles

114 Wins/Nominations including Win for Best Actor and Director @ Cannes Film Festival 2025 and Best International Feature & Best Actor @ Golden Globe 2026

opens December 27

Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho delivers one of the year’s greatest films with The Secret Agent, a sly, genre-bending political thriller starring Wagner Moura in a brilliant performance as Marcelo, a technology researcher on the lam in 1977 during Brazil’s notorious military dictatorship. Told in three parts, and toggling between multiple timelines, The Secret Agent reveals its plot in a puzzle-play of intrigue and information that reflects the ways in which truth is often concealed and memory contradicted under oppressive regimes.