Film Series at The Cinematheque
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- Modern Construction: An MDFF Retrospective
- March 5–April 1, 2021
Toronto-based production and distribution company Medium Density Fibreboard Films — better known by its acronym MDFF — is at the crest of a new wave in English-Canadian cinema.
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Current and Upcoming Series
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- World of Wong Kar-Wai
- Begins December 10, 2020
The Cinematheque marks the 20th anniversary of In the Mood for Love with a career-spanning retrospective devoted to Hong Kong’s best-loved auteur, featuring many brand-new 4K restorations.
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- Fellini 100
- Begins November 1, 2020
The Cinematheque celebrates the centennial of one of cinema’s boldest and most beloved maestros with an extensive retrospective, featuring many new restorations.
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- DIM Cinema
- Ongoing Series
Moving-image art in dialogue with cinema. Programmed by Michèle Smith.
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- Film Club
- Ongoing Series
A movie matinée series for kids and their families.
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- Chan Centre Connects
- Ongoing Series
Chan Centre Connects film screenings at The Cinematheque are curated to accompany musical performances in the Chan Centre Presents concert series at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC.
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- Contemporary Iranian Cinema
- Ongoing Series
Acclaimed and accomplished new films from Iran are in the spotlight in this monthly showcase presented by The Cinematheque in partnership with the Phoenix Cultural Centre of Toronto and Pacific United Productions.
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- Frames of Mind
- Ongoing Series
Monthly mental health film series presented by The Cinematheque and the Institute of Mental Health, UBC Department of Psychiatry.
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Past Film Series
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- Fieldwork: Three Documentaries from Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab
- November 27–December 3, 2020
Occasioned by a digital restoration of Sweetgrass, the film that first signaled the Ivy League collective’s arthouse ambitions, The Cinematheque presents a trio of the Sensory Ethnography Lab’s most indispensable and acclaimed documentaries.
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- European Union Film Festival 2020
- November 13–29, 2020
From November 13 to 29, join us (virtually) for the first-ever Canada-wide European Union Film Festival, featuring 27 recent films from 27 EU member states.
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- J-Horror!
- October 23–31, 2020
There’ll be nightmare fuel aplenty, dear scream seekers, as The Cinematheque serves up a J-horror primer this Halloween featuring five benchmark blood-curdlers from the land of high-art horror, Japan.
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- Penny Slinger: Exorcisms
- October 20–31, 2020
Fillip and The Cinematheque are pleased to present “Penny Slinger: Exorcisms,” a weeklong virtual series focusing on the film work of visionary British artist Penny Slinger.
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- Yorgos Lanthimos × 3
- October 15–22, 2020
Occasioned by the North American release of Greek Weird Wave flag-bearer Yorgos Lanthimos’s first solo feature, the scarcely seen Kinetta, The Cinematheque presents a trio of the Oscar-nominated director’s earliest homegrown efforts.
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- The Anarchic Cinema of Věra Chytilová
- September 6–October 22, 2020
A formal innovator, feminist, film surrealist, and political gadfly, Věra Chytilová (1929–2014) was a central and singular figure in Czech cinema.
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- A Film That Is Also a Handshake: The Cinema of the Dardenne Brothers
- September 8–October 12, 2020
To accompany the Vancouver release of Young Ahmed, The Cinematheque proudly presents a retrospective dedicated to the films of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, cinema’s high priests of social realism.
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- Vancouver International Film Festival 2020
- September 25–October 4, 2020
From September 24 – October 7, film lovers province-wide will enjoy over 100 feature films and events showcasing exciting, groundbreaking and provocative cinema and creators from around the globe.
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- Burning Bright: New French Filmmakers 2020
- August 7–27, 2020
“Burning Bright: New French Filmmakers 2020” is a celebration of emerging French and Francophone voices in cinema, organized by the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) in New York.
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- Film Noir 2020
- July 31–August 27, 2020
This cruel COVID summer got you down in the dumps? Well, doll, we’ve got the antidote! Join us as the sordid, sleazy, cynical world of Film Noir comes crawling out from under a dirty rock for its annual place in The Cinematheque sun!
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- Enter the Dragon: Bruce Lee × 5
- August 6–26, 2020
Man, myth, legend, dragon — Bruce Lee is the greatest action star that ever was. This summer, feast your eyes on a fistful of the kung-fu king's most iconic films at The Cinematheque!
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- Juraj Herz: In & Out of the Czechoslovak New Wave
- July 9–30, 2020
The singular career of the prolific director and occasional actor Juraj Herz, a master of the offbeat and the macabre, is without parallel in the context of the cinema emerging from Czechoslovakia starting in the mid-1960s.
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- UCLA Festival of Preservation Tour
- March 5–July 23, 2020
Renowned preservation work is spotlighted in this biennial festival, featuring superb new restorations of time-honoured classics, nearly lost masterworks, neglected treasures, and rediscovered rarities spanning more than a century of film history.
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- National Indigenous Peoples Day: Tasha Hubbard
- June 19–25, 2020
As part of the (at-home) 2020 edition of NIPD, The Cinematheque has partnered with the National Film Board of Canada to present a trio of vital works by Cree filmmaker and educator Tasha Hubbard.
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- National Canadian Film Day
- April 22–30, 2020
The Cinematheque is pleased to mark National Canadian Film Day, a one-day, coast-to-coast-to-coast celebration designed to bring Canadians together to watch Canadian films.
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- István Szabó × 3
- April 10–16, 2020
Perhaps the most acclaimed Hungarian director of his generation, István Szabó became a major international filmmaker in the 1980s with a series of elaborate, ambitious, and accessible historical works.
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- Viva Varda! The Films of Agnès Varda
- December 12, 2019–March 4, 2020
The Cinematheque is pleased to present a major retrospective — career-spanning and near-complete — devoted to the films of Agnès Varda, one of cinema's paramount female artists.
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- Best of the Decade
- January 8–February 17, 2020
The top films of the 2010s, as selected by The Cinematheque’s film curators.
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- The Rage to Live: Queer Film Legacies and the Work of David Wojnarowicz and Marlon Riggs
- January 31–February 2, 2020
The Cinematheque joins with the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery and Griffin Art Projects in presenting this film and lecture series organized in conjunction with two current art exhibitions.
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- Happy Holidays
- December 21–30, 2019
The Cinematheque wishes you the very best of the festive season with a special selection of must-see, much-loved film classics, all best enjoyed on the big screen.
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- Sean Baker: Peripheries
- December 5–9, 2019
The Cinematheque is delighted to welcome acclaimed American independent filmmaker Sean Baker in person for a program celebrating his three most recent features.
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- And Life Goes On: The Films of Abbas Kiarostami
- October 18–December 4, 2019
The singular cinema of the Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami (1940–2016), one of the most acclaimed filmmakers of the past three decades, is celebrated with this near-comprehensive retrospective.
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- 22nd Annual European Union Film Festival
- November 22–December 2, 2019
Europe without the jet lag! The Cinematheque’s annual European Union Film Festival spotlights acclaimed new and recent films from across greater Europe.
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- Crave Hot Docs Showcase
- November 15–17, 2019
Outstanding titles from Hot Docs screen in the Crave Hot Docs Showcase.
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- It’s in the Trees! It’s Coming! British Folk Horror!
- October 25–31, 2019
This Samhain season, till the fields of British folk horror with a program exploring the lineage and enduring legacy of this most unholy horror subgenre.
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- Elaine May × 2
- September 13–15, 2019
Elaine May, a gifted comic performer, successful screenwriter, and perfectionist filmmaker, was one of the only women directing features in Hollywood in the 1970s and ’80s.
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