Friday Feb 19 to Thursday Feb 25, 2016

"In the beautifully acted drama '45 Years,' a marriage lives and dies; we watch its agonized struggle, like a butterfly impaled on a pin. It’s a quiet movie, taking place over a week in the lives of Kate and Geoff Mercer (Charlotte Rampling, Tom Courtenay), a retired British couple happily anticipating a party for their 45th anniversary.

"The Lacey women, wrote Irish novelist Colm Toibin in his 2009 book BROOKLYN, could do everything, 'except say out loud what it was they were thinking.' In John Crowley’s lovely film made from the novel, Saoirse Ronan ('Atonement') provides a master class in showing, not saying, what her character Eilis Lacey is thinking.

"Adapted from Emma Donoghue’s 2010 novel of the same name, this captivity narrative about a woman and her young son living in a 10-by-10-foot shed is no one’s idea of a feel-good story.

Featuring two brand new short films about resistance in Ferguson, Missouri:

HANDS UP! (http://www.handsupdocumentary.com/)
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FERGUSON DOCUMENTED: IN 36 HOURS (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/a-short-documentary-film-about-fergus...)
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a post-film discussion with a special guest from BLACK LIVES MATTER TORONTO