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All We Imagine as Light - Poster

All We Imagine as Light

Synopsis:


A League of Their Own Presents: All We Imagine as Light (2024)

The light, the lives, and the textures of contemporary, working-class Mumbai are explored and celebrated by writer/director Payal Kapadia, who won the Grand Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for her revelatory fiction feature debut. 

Centering on two roommates who also work together in a city hospital—head nurse Prabha (Kani Kusruti) and recent hire Anu (Divya Prabha)—plus their coworker, cook Parvaty (Chhaya Kadam), Kapadia’s film alights on moments of connection and heartache, hope and disappointment. Prabha, her husband from an arranged marriage living in faraway Germany, is courted by a doctor at her hospital; Anu carries on a romance with a Muslim man, which she must keep a secret from her strict Hindu family; Parvaty finds herself dealing with a sudden eviction from her apartment. 

Kapadia captures the bustle of the metropolis and the open-air tranquility of a seaside village with equal radiance, articulated by her superb actresses and by the camera with a lyrical naturalism that occasionally drifts into dreamlike incandescence. All We Imagine as Light is a soulful study of the transformative power of friendship and sisterhood, in all its complexities and richness.

Genre: Drama, Romance

Director: Payal Kapadia
Stars: Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha, Chhaya Kadam               
Running time: 1 hr 58 min 
Rating: 14A (Sexual Content)  


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Upcoming Showtimes
  • March 19 - 7:30pm
Gun Crazy - Poster

Gun Crazy

Synopsis:

Calgary Cinematheque Presents: Gun Crazy (1950)


This explosive potboiler ran as a B-picture when it first debuted, but became an undeniable influence on the development of the subgenre. Even more so than films like Detour and They Live by Night, Gun Crazy lays bare the American obsession with cars, guns, and sex. Peggy Cummins and John Dall portray a couple of fugitive criminals whose intense sexual chemistry is ignited and fueled almost entirely by their fetish for guns. Director Lewis told Cummins to play her part like a dog "in heat" and Dall like he'd "never been so hard," resulting in a pair of charged performances that sell what the script, written by the blacklisted Dalton Trumbo under a pseudonym, could not explicitly talk about.

Genre: Noir, Thriller

Director: Joseph H. Lewis
Stars: MacKinlay Kantor, Millard Kaufman, Dalton Trumbo   
Running time: 1 hr 27 min 
Rating: PG




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Upcoming Showtimes
  • March 20 - 7:00pm
El Cantante - Poster

El Cantante

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Blackbyrd Myoozik Presents: El Cantante (2006)

The rise and fall of salsa singer Héctor Lavoe (1946-1993), as told from the perspective of his wife Puchi, who looks back from 2002. In the early 1960s, Héctor arrives in New York from Ponce, Puerto Rico. Success comes quickly. "The more he grew as an artist," Puchi says, "the more he sank as a person." It's a tale of talent-creating salsa with Willie Colón, with the Fania All Stars, and as a soloist-and a story of disintegration fueled by drugs, alcohol, partying, and depression. Puchi's voice, proud and querulous, dominates offstage as Héctor's does onstage.

Genre: Biopic, Drama

Director: Leon Ichaso
Stars: Jennifer Lopez, Mark Anthony, John Ortiz           
Running time: 1 hr 46 min 
Rating:  14A (Coarse Language, Substance Abuse)


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Upcoming Showtimes
  • March 20 - 8:00pm
Brazil: 40th Anniversary - Poster

Brazil: 40th Anniversary

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Globe Cinema Presents: Brazil (1985) 40th Anniversary

It's only a state of mind!

Monty Python alum Terry Gilliam's neon '80s take on the classic dystopian George Orwell novel 1984 will capture your dreams once more on its 40th Anniversary this March!

Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry (Pryce) escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel (Helmond). Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle (De Niro), he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.

Genre: Comedy, Satire, Sci-Fi

Director: Terry Gilliam
Stars: Jonathan Pryce, Bob Hoskins, Robert de Niro   
Running time: 2 hr 12 min 
Rating: 14A (Violence)


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Upcoming Showtimes
  • March 16 - 3:00pm
  • March 21 - 7:00pm
  • March 22 - 6:00pm
  • March 23 - 5:00pm
  • March 26 - 7:30pm
No Other Land - Poster

No Other Land

Synopsis:



Globe Cinema Presents: No Other Land

Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta, has been fighting his community's mass expulsion by the Israeli occupation since childhood. Basel documents the gradual erasure of Masafer Yatta, as soldiers destroy the homes of families - the largest single act of forced transfer ever carried out in the occupied West Bank. He crosses paths with Yuval, an Israeli journalist who joins his struggle, and for over half a decade they fight against the expulsion while growing closer. Their complex bond is haunted by the extreme inequality between them: Basel, living under a brutal military occupation, and Yuval, unrestricted and free. This film, by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four young activists, was co-created during the darkest, most terrifying times in the region, as an act of creative resistance to Apartheid and a search for a path towards equality and justice. 

Genre: Documentary

Director: Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham & Rachel Szor
Running time: 1 hr 36 min 
Rating: PG (Mature Subject Matter)


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Upcoming Showtimes
  • March 16 - 6:15pm
  • March 21 - 7:30pm
  • March 22 - 10:30am
  • March 22 - 3:00pm
  • March 22 - 7:00pm
  • March 23 - 3:00pm
  • March 23 - 6:00pm
  • April 2 - 7:30pm
  • April 3 - 7:30pm
Rubber - Poster

Rubber

Synopsis:

The Festival of Animated Objects and CAOS Presents: Rubber (2010)


A group of spectators is watching a mock-projection in the middle of the desert. They make comments on the scenes of the “film” as it is occurring before their eyes: Robert, a tire that has been abandoned in the desert, suddenly comes to life, for no reason. He learns how to get around, explores the desert and discovers in himself a passion for destroying insects and various lost items. Robert soon develops a telepathic gift, which gives him the ability to destroy anything he wants, without moving...  

Genre: Horror, Comedy

Director: Quentin Dupieux
Stars: Stephen Spinella, Jack Plotnick, Wings Hauser, Roxane Mesquida        
Running time: 1 hr 24 min 
Rating:  14A (Gory Scenes)



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Upcoming Showtimes
  • March 19 - 8:30pm
Animovies - Poster

Animovies

Synopsis:

The Festival of Animated Objects and CAOS Presents: Animovies 


These intriguing shorts from around the world tackle complex and challenging subjects, offering deep, thought-provoking narratives. Each film in this collection provides a sophisticated exploration of themes such as identity, morality, and the human condition, using the medium of animated objects to present stories that resonate on a profound level.

Featured films:
Camping - Sacha Michaud (Calgary, Canada)
Out of the Hands of the Wicked - The Holy Gasp/ Luke Sargent and Benjamin Hackman (Toronto, Canada)
Circles - Sarah Houle-Lowry (Calgary, Canada)
Humanus Plasticus - Pedro M. Siqueira, Ingrid Hansen (Victoria, Canada)
The Human Under the Bed - Euan O’Leary (Montreal, Canada)
Ghariba & Ajeeb - Boubaker Boukhari (United Arab Emirates)
World Naked Bike Tour - William Bradford (Vancouver, Canada)
Play Along - Esandi Amarakoon (Montreal, Canada)
Don't Bother Bigfoot - Bryan DeMarco (United States)
More Hugs - Matt Sandbank (United States)
VHX by Alisa Stern & Scott Ampleford

Genre: Animation
    
Running time: 1 hr 24 min 
Rating:  STC



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Upcoming Showtimes
  • March 19 - 6:45pm
Cloud + CUFF 2025 Lineup Announcement - Poster

Cloud + CUFF 2025 Lineup Announcement

Synopsis:

The Calgary Underground Film Festival Presents: Cloud + CUFF 2025 Lineup Announcement


Yoshii, a young man who resells goods online, finds himself at the center of a series of mysterious events that put his life at risk.

Ryosuke Yoshii (Masaki Suda) works at a small factory and makes money on the side as a reseller operating under the pseudonym “Ratel.” He deals in medical devices, handbags, figurines... Anything he can flip to make a profit. Buy low, sell high – that’s all there is to it. Muraoka (Masataka Kubota), a senior classmate from Yoshii’s technical college days who taught him the ins and outs of reselling, approaches him with a potentially high-earning proposal, but he shuns it and devotes himself to his own dubious deeds. For Yoshii, his growing bank balance is the only thing he can trust.

When Yoshii is offered a promotion to a managerial position by his employer at the factory, Takimoto (Yoshiyoshi Arakawa), he steadfastly refuses, calling time on his three-year stint, and resigns on the spot. He rents a lakeside house outside the city for both residential and business purposes, and starts a new life with his girlfriend, Akiko (Kotone Furukawa). With the help of Sano (Daiken Okudaira), a local youth hired as a helper, Yoshii’s reselling schemes appear to be going from strength to strength until unsettling incidents begin occurring consecutively around him. Suspicious vehicles roaming his vicinity, a broken window, stalking shadows, and online malice... A negative spiral of animosity gathers momentum, eventually taking physical form and transforming into a crazed mob of unknown number. Their target is Yoshii, whose oblivious existence is rapidly torn apart...

Genre: Action, Drama

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Stars: Masaki Suda, Kotone Furukawa, Daiken Okudaira
Running time: 2 hr 3 min 
Rating: STC

ABOUT THE EVENT:
Doors @ 6:00 pm
Lineup Announcement w/ CUFF Lead Programmers @ 6:30 pm 
Film @ 7:00 pm



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Upcoming Showtimes
  • March 26 - 6:30pm