| Title | Official Site | IMDb |
Sketches of Frank Gehry - 83 min - Rated: PG
Director Sydney Pollack's first feature length documentary on the life and work of acclaimed architect, Frank O. Gehry. |  |  |
Small Town Gay Bar - 81 min - Rated: R
The story of a community in the deep south that is forced to deal with the struggles of ignorance, hypocrisy and oppression. |  |  |
La Planète Blanche - 86 min - Rated: G
A look at climate change and its effect on the Artic and its inhabitants. |  |  |
Snow Cake - 112 min - Rated: 14A
A drama focused on the friendship between a high-functioning autistic woman and a man who is traumatized after a fatal car accident. | |  |
The White Planet - 86 min - Rated: G
A look at climate change and its effect on the Artic and its inhabitants. |  |  |
La Moustache - 86 min - Rated: PG
Adapted from his own novel, Emmanuel Carrère directs an engrossing existential thriller, a story about a man who inadvertently loses himself. |  |  |
Half Nelson - 106 min - Rated: 14A
An inner-city junior high school teacher with a drug habit forms an unlikely friendship with one of his students after she discovers his secret. |  |  |
Monkey Warfare - 75 min - Rated: 14A
It’s not easy being young, idealistic, and militant when you’re not, you know, living in the ’60s. |  |  |
F*CK - 93 min - Rated: R
A documentary on the expletive's origin, why it offends some people so deeply, and what can be gained from its use. |  |  |
Snow Cake - 112 min - Rated: 14A
A drama focused on the friendship between a high-functioning autistic woman and a man who is traumatized after a fatal car accident. | |  |
Sk8 Life - 85 min - Rated: PG
A group of skaters are assembled to make a video at a legendary spot. They soon discover its days are numbered and band together to save it. | |  |
Deliver Us From Evil - 101 min - Rated: 14A
This controversial documentary is the story of Father Oliver O'Grady, the most notorious pedophile in the history of the modern Catholic Church. |  |  |
Only Human - 89 min - Rated: 18A
This gloriously irreverent family comedy fuses brilliant characterization and unrelenting humor to rework the age-old story of meeting the parents. |  |  |
Pretty Broken - 11 min - Rated: Not rated
Showing with Only Human. A woman in a psychiatric ward struggles through various treatments and wonders if it is she or society that is truly mad. | |  |
Shortbus - 102 min - Rated: R
A group of New Yorkers caught up in their romantic-sexual milieu converge at an underground salon infamous for its art, music, politics, and carnality. |  |  |
The Making of “Looking for Angelina” - 55 min - Rated: PG
A behind the scenes look at the making of the movie plus the amazing result of the search for the fate of Angelina. Plus selected shorts. | | |
Pushing Up Daisies - 30 min - Rated: PG
Death: It's a living. A look into the world of American funeral directors, revealing the rarely witnessed behind-the-scenes action of the death care industry. | |  |
Sleeping Dogs Lie - 89 min - Rated: 14A
A youthful, impulsive sexual encounter opens the door to a dark comedy about the complexities of honesty. |  |  |
The Aura - 134 min - Rated: R
On his first ever hunting trip, a shy taxidermist who dreams of executing the perfect robbery stumbles upon an opportunity to make his dreams come true. |  |  |
Le Secret De Ma Mère - 87 min - Rated: 18A
Le Secret De Ma Mère takes place during a snowstorm in Montreal on New Year's day, where wacky friends and relatives reunite and gather around Jos' casket. | |  |
Frida - 123 min - Rated: 18A
Chronicles the life Frida Kahlo, shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera, as the young couple took the art world by storm. | |  |
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead - 123 min - Rated: 18A
When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelery store, the job goes horribly wrong, triggering events that send them hurtling towards a shattering climax. |  |  |
On Your Mark, Party! - 119 min - Rated:
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Lars and the Real Girl - 106 min - Rated: PG-13
A delusional young guy strikes up an unconventional relationship with a doll he finds on the Internet. | |  |
Extra Ordinary People - 90 min - Rated:
This new feature length documentary by Laura Sky is a richly layered portrait of people dealing with mental health issues. | | |
All Hat - 90 min - Rated:
Fresh out of prison, ex-ballplayer Ray Dokes returns home to discover the rural landscape of his youth has been transformed. | | |
Jack Paradise - 90 min - Rated:
The film depicts Montreal's jazz age in the 1930's and 40's when the city was a 'hotbed of hedonism and jazz'. |  |  |
Full Moon Lightnin' - 103 min - Rated:
It has been over 60 years since New York City bluesman Floyd Lee left the hill country of Mississippi and turned his back on a troubled childhood. | | |
Walk All Over Me - 95 min - Rated: 14A
A small town girl runs into big time trouble as she takes on her roommates identity as a dominatrix to pay the bills. |  |  |
La Brunante - 100 min - Rated:
At 73, Madeleine has just learned that she is suffering from Alzheimer disease and decides to take her life. | |  |
The Union: The Business Behind Getting High - 104 min - Rated:
BC's illegal marijuana trade industry has evolved into a business giant, dubbed by some involved as 'The Union'. |  |  |
Breakfast With Scot - 94 min - Rated:
The lifestyle and relationship of a very straight gay couple are turned upside down when they become the guardians of Scot, a budding queen of an eleven-year-old boy. |  |  |
The Making of Monsters - 35 min - Rated:
A short that follows Breakfast With Scot. A film dealing with the 1985 murder of a gay school teacher by five teenage boys in Toronto's High Park. | |  |
Lust Caution - 151 min - Rated: NC-17/R
An espionage thriller set in WWII-era Shanghai, in which a young woman gets swept up in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue with a powerful political figure. |  |  |
Everything's Gone Green - 95 min - Rated: 14A
Ryan, a good-natured slacker, is tempted into a money laundering scheme while working for a lottery magazine. |  |  |
Not That Kind of Christian!! - 82 min - Rated: Brazil:12
A feature documentary that explores gay and lesbian Christians' struggle for acceptance in the Episcopal Church. | |  |
My Brother is an Only Child - 108 min - Rated: R
Two brothers come of age in a small Italian town in the '60s and '70s. |  |  |
Surviving My Mother - 95 min - Rated:
A dramatic comedy about the complex and sometimes trying relationship between mothers and daughters. | |  |
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - 112 min - Rated: Rated PG-13 for nudity, sexual content and some language.
The true story of Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby who suffers a stroke and has to live with an almost totally paralyzed body; only his left eye isn't paralyzed. |  |  |
Sky High - 110 min - Rated: G
Most teenagers cringe at the thought of meeting their parents' high expectations -good grades, well-behaved friends, and a plan for the future--and none more so than Will Stronghold when he is sent to a special high school reserved for the sons and daughters of Superheroes!!! A delightful family movie. |  |  |
Annihilation of Fish - 108 min - Rated: PG
This delightful 3 hand comedy deals the release of patients from institutions without support. Fish deals with his demon everyday until… | |  |
The Edge of Heaven - 122 min - Rated: 14A
The story begins when Ali (Tuncel Kurtiz) an elderly man of Turkish extraction, visits a prostitute named Yeter (Nursel Köse), also a native of Turkey, working the red light district of Bremen, Germany. Ali, consumed by loneliness, asks Yeter to move in with him. Yeter, threatened by Moslem zealots unless she "repents," and worn down by the boredom and weariness of her job, agrees. |  |  |
Films by Locals Film Makers - 180 min - Rated: 14A
In addition to the Algoma International Films Video Competition and to celebrate our 10th Anniversary, Shadows of the Mind Film Festival will be adding to the festival mandate, "Local Shadows". Which will screen films produced by local film makers allowing us to bring Sault Ste. Marie to the World. | | |
Milk - 128 min - Rated: 14A
Using flashbacks from a statement recorded late in life and archival footage for atmosphere, this film traces Harvey Milk's career from his 40th birthday to his death. He leaves the closet and New York, opens a camera shop that becomes the salon for San Francisco's growing gay community, and organizes gays' purchasing power to build political alliances. |  |  |
Cruising Bar - 98 min - Rated: 18A
This amusing comedy was a smash hit when AIF brought it in 1991, Robert Ménard’s look at 4 types of men and their attempted relationships with opposite sex. The Bull, The Peacock, The Lion and the Worm are all played by Michel Côté. | |  |
Astérix aux Jeux olympiques - 116 min - Rated: G
Based on the comic book Astérix Astérix and his pals go to the Olympic Games, Flying the flag for Gaul at the Games is Lovesix , a young swain in love with Greece's Princess Irina, whom he's been courting from afar with poems that turn out to be written by Obelix (G Depardieu). This allows for a spoof of the balcony scene in "Cyrano de Bergerac", one of Depardieu's best-known roles. |  |  |
The Freedom Tour - 90 min - Rated: G
In August 2007, 16 men and women with intellectual disabilities and their friends travelled across the prairies in an RV to raise awareness about people still living in institutions. The Freedom Tour documents an incredible journey; a quest to free people with intellectual disabilities from lives of isolation, congregation and segregation in institutions. The film challenges Canadians to think about how we treat our citizens with intellectual disabilities. | | |
Pierrepoint The Last Hangman - 95 min - Rated: 14A
(Not for Children) Albert Pierrepont delivered groceries - and was a hangman. Following his father's footsteps he quickly became known for his efficiency and compassion, rising to become "the best in the land". From the early 1933 until the end of his career in 1955, he executed some 608 people including 47 of the Nuremburg Nazis. | |  |
Four Minutes - 112 min - Rated: 14A
Another powerful film about a young woman, trained as a classical pianist and serving a sentence in jail for murder. |  |  |
Cruising Bar 2 - 100 min - Rated: 18A
The boys are back and how has life been to them? Have they changed? I don’t think so. Once again Ménard’s look at men’s relationship with women is wonderously humerous. |  |  |
Borderline - 109 min - Rated: R
Borderline tells the story of Kiki the daughter of an institutionalized mother. She is often left on her own. Her life is not fairytale –drugs, sex and men are her escape until age 30 she has to face the love that's hardest to accept: love of herself. | |  |
C'est pas moi, je le jure! (It's Not Me, I Swear) - 105 min - Rated: R
This film follows young Leon over the summer of 1968 when he almost accidentally hangs himself. He has a wild imagination and is always into mischief. He has almost drowned in a pool, been locked in a freezer and has many things to worry about including his parents, the insufferable Lea next door and of course his neighbours whom he does not like. Not the kind of kid you want in your neighbourhood! |  |  |
XXY - 91 min - Rated: 14A
For just about everybody, adolescence means having to confront a number of choices and life decisions, but rarely any as monumental as the one facing 15 year-old Alex who was born an intersex child. As Alex begins to explore her sexuality, her mother invites friends from Buenos Aires to come for a visit at their house on the gorgeous Uruguayan shore, along with their 16-year-old son Álvaro. |  |  |
Kenny - 100 min - Rated: 14A
From the biggest festival to the smallest church social, Kenny Smyth delivers porta-loos to them all. Part philosopher, part comedian and all heart, Kenny is one of the cogs in society’s machinery; a knight in shining overalls taking care of business with his faithful ‘Splashdown crew’. |  |  |
Eating Buccaneers - 88 min - Rated: 14A
An airplane crashes in the bush. Someone is stealing the rations. Director Bill Keenan and actor Steve M cCarthy will be here to present. Steve grew up in the Sault and has family here. |  |  |
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days - 113 min - Rated: R
During the final days of communism in Romania, two college roommates, Otilia and Gabita, are busy preparing for a night away to, make arrangements for Gabita's illegal abortion and unwittingly, both find themselves burrowing deep down a rabbit hole of unexpected revelations. |  |  |
Shorts including 106, Miss Tutli Putli and more. - - Rated: 14A
Shorts including 106, Miss Tutli Putli, Club Native,Ryan & more | | |
Waltz with Bashir - 90 min - Rated: 18A
One night at a bar, an old friend tells director Ari Folman about a recurring nightmare in which he is chased by the same 26 vicious dogs every night. The two men conclude that there's a connection to their Israeli Army mission in the first Lebanon War of the early eighties. |  |  |
Growing Op - 95 min - Rated: 18A
Quinn is a teenage boy living in the midst of a marijuana-growing operation run by his neo-hippie parents. Sheltered all his life, and home-schooled by loving parents, he yearns to experience the normalcy of the suburban world around him. When his new neighbour Crystal turns out to be the girl of his dreams, Quinn is motivated to rebel against his parents and attend high-school for the first time. |  |  |
Il y a longtemps que je t'aime (I've Loved You So Long) - 115 min - Rated: 14A
The story of a female doctor who has just be released from prison. She served 15 years for murder. Why was she incarcerated? See this powerful movie with Kristen Scott-Thomas and find out why. |  |  |
Temporada de patos (Duck Season) - 91 min - Rated: 14A
This is the story of 2 - 14 yr old boys, who've been best friends forever. On a Sunday Afternoon, they expect to spend a quite day eating junk food while playing video games but the pizza delivery man and the girl next door change all that. |  |  |