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Program
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Sunday 5 January 2025, 3:30 pm
Rainbow Cinemas, Northumberland Mall
When a melancholic construction worker Dan (Keith Kupferer) finds himself drifting from his wife and daughter, he discovers community and purpose in a local theatre's production of Romeo and Juliet. As the drama onstage starts to mirror his own life, he and his family are forced to confront a personal loss.
Director: Kelly O'Sullivan, Alex Thompson
Screenwriter: Kelly O'Sullivan
Cast: Keith Kupferer, Katherine Mallen Kupferer, Tara Mallen, Dolly De Leon
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Rating: R (Language)
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 55m
Review
By Filipe Freitas
Ghostlight, set in Chicago, is an intimate drama that delves into themes of family, loss, art, and healing. Directed by Alex Thompson and Kelly O’Sullivan, the film stars Keith Kupferer, Katherine Mallen Kupferer, and Tara Mallen — a real-life father, daughter, and mother trio who portray the same familial roles in this fictional account.
- 637
Sunday 19 January 2025, 3:30 pm
Rainbow Cinemas, Northumberland Mall
Set in 1968, the film tells the story of a conservative plumber from a small east coast village who travels to Toronto in order to get his brother out of jail after he is arrested for having sex with another man in a public park. At the insistence of their strong willed mother, the two brothers must drive the 1000 mile trip back home to New Brunswick, together – discovering each other and themselves along the way.
Directed by Michael Clowater
Written by Michael Clowater
Cast: Alan Cumming, Charlie Creed-Miles, Clare Coulter, Sprague Grayden, Gray Powell
Running time: 100 minutes
Language: English
Not Rated
Review by Kirk Haviland
Inspired by the events of his grandfather and great uncle, Drive Back Home director Michael Clowater has fashioned a film that is both a very Canadian film and a time capsule for the entire world at the time in its treatment of the gay community. A road trip movie that still falls into some of the familiar trappings that all road trip movies do, the film also punctuates itself with crisp dialogue, winning performances, and emotional pathos.
- 350
Sunday 2 February 2025, 3:30 pm
Rainbow Cinemas, Northumberland Mall
In his 23rd film, British director Mike Leigh reunites with Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Secrets & Lies) to create a challenging but ultimately compassionate look at modern family life. Reuniting with Oscar-nominated Secrets & Lies star Marianne Jean-Baptiste and returning to contemporary London for a story inverse to his 2008 Festival favourite Happy-Go-Lucky, the latest from seven-time Oscar-nominated auteur Mike Leigh is bracingly tough, darkly funny, and pierced with insight. Shifting between various members of an extended Black family in London, Hard Truths is a psychologically rich ensemble film as only Leigh can cultivate.
Director/writer: Mike Leigh;
Cast: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Michele Austin, David Webber, Tuwaine Barrett, Ani Nelson, Sophia Brown, Jonathan Livingstone.
Runtime: 97 minutes.
Language: English
Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz
Another outstanding hard-hitting domestic drama by the great Brit filmmaker of the common people, Mike Leigh ("Secrets & Lies"/"Vera Drake"). Twenty-eight years has passed since writer/director Mike Leigh and actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste made Secrets & Lies. Jean-Baptiste received her first Oscar nomination, and the film was nominated for Best Picture. With Hard Truths they reunite, as she has a starring role in this modern-day character study of a dysfunctional family with her playing a bitter middle-aged protagonist raging against the world.
- 360
Sunday 16 February 2025, 3:30 pm
Rainbow Cinemas, Northumberland Mall
Acclaimed conductor Thibaut has leukemia and needs a bone marrow donor. Learning he was adopted, he finds an older brother, a musician and factory worker. Their reunion sparks a fraternal, musical journey amidst the town's factory closure.
Director: Emmanuel Courcol
Cast: Benjamin Lavernhe, Pierre Lottin, Ludmila Mikaël, Jacques Bonnaffé, Sarah Suco, Nathalie Desrumaux
Language: French
Runtime: 103 minutes
Review by Richard Mowe
Inevitably it's going to be compared to Mark Herman's Brassed Off, the British comedy-drama about colliery bands, but this French contribution to what could become a "genre" if there's any more of them, has a beating emotional pulse all of its own.
To be sure it's feel-good and sentimental but none the worse for any of that. Emmanuel Courcol on his third directorial outing after Ceasefire (Cessez-le-feu) in 2016 and The Big Hit (Un triomphe) in 2020 treads the tightrope between tearjerker, social upheaval, and family dynamics with skilful aplomb.
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Sunday 2 March 2025, 3:30 pm
Rainbow Cinemas, Northumberland Mall
Superboys of Malegaon is a film based on the life of Nasir Shaikh, an amateur filmmaker from the town of Malegaon. The residents of the town look to Bollywood cinema for a much needed escape from daily drudgery. Nasir gets inspired to make a film for the people of Malegaon, by the people of Malegaon. He bands together his ragtag group of friends to bring his vision to life, thereby bringing a fresh lease of life into the town. The film is a poignant yet uplifting take on both filmmaking and friendship -- and what happens when those two worlds collide.
Director: Reema Kagti
Cast: Adarsh Gourav, Shashank Arora, Vineet Kumar Singh
Screenwriter: Varun Grover
Rating: PG-13 (Smoking|Some Language)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Language: Hindi
Run time: 127 Min
Review
By Christina Ree
Based on the incredible true story of a theatre operator turned scrappy amateur filmmaker, SUPERBOYS