Showtimes Mar 25-31: Oscar-Nominated LUNANA, A Yak in the Classroom | Ukraine Benefit | Rock This Town | Oscar Night!

Best International Film Nominee, Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom opens Friday!

"Opening the doors to a land and people most Westerners know little about, the director crafts a crowd-pleaser in stunning, mostly unseen locations..." - Los Angeles Times

From Bhutan. A disillusioned schoolteacher is transferred to the most remote school in the world deep in the Himalayan glaciers. In a classroom with no electricity or even a blackboard, he finds himself with only a yak and a song that echoes through the mountains.

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Saturday Only! 4:00pm. Come out and show your support for Ukraine with this special screening of the most-heralded Ukrainian film in history, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors.

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Very rarely screened, this is a stunningly beautiful, poetic film. Please come out and support! Introduction by Professor John Jaworsky.

All ticket proceeds go to the Canada-Ukraine Foundation Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal.

Thursday! March 31. A perennial hit, the 2022 World Paddling Film Festival is an international adventure film tour presenting the world’s best paddling films of the year.

One show only. Tickets going fast!

Thanks to presenting partners Salus Marine Wear & Waterloo Wellington Canoe Club.

Opening on the 24th! Get tickets here

March 24, 25, 26, 27; April 2, 3, 9 & 10!

Tickets are selling fast, get yours ASAP!

March 27th! Join us on Sunday night for our 20th annual FREE live-broadcast of Hollywood's most glamourous night, the Oscars! Fun, prizes, trivia!

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All we ask is that you arrive with a non-perishable food donation that will go towards The Food Bank of Waterloo Region.

Held-Over! The fantastic thriller, The Outfit continues for more screenings this week, this weekend and next week.

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"A refreshingly grown-up, original work, as pleasingly assembled as a good crossword puzzle." - Hollywood Reporter

COMING SOON TO THE PRINCESS

We're celebrating on April 20th with a tribute to the late Jean-Marc Vallée on National Canadian Film Day. A one-night-only screening of his break-out film, C.R.A.Z.Y.

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FILMS SHOWING Friday March 25 to Thursday March 31

Lunana: A yak in the Classroom

Oscar Nominated for Best International Feature Film

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Ukraine Benefit: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

We are screening this classic of world cinema to fundraise for the Ukraine Humanitarian Crisis. Very rarely screened, this is a beautiful, poetic film. Please come out and support!

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is considered to be the most internationally heralded Ukrainian film in history and a classic of Ukrainian magical realist cinema.

All ticket proceeds will go to the Canada-Ukraine Foundation Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal.

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Rock This Town - Encore!

When live music rocked Kitchener-Waterloo! Featuring Q&A with producer Betty Anne Keller

Rock This Town brings to life the exciting history of rock music concerts in KW from the 1960s & ‘70s. An insider’s look into the gritty reality of building the local live music scene. A 70-minute documentary featuring interviews with music business pros plus performances by today’s musicians. Rock stars come and go but live music is here to stay!

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The Outfit

An expert tailor must outwit a dangerous group of mobsters in order to survive a fateful night.

From the Academy Award-winning writer of The Imitation Game (Graham Moore) comes The Outfit, a gripping and masterful thriller in which an expert tailor (Academy Award winner Mark Rylance) must outwit a dangerous group of mobsters in order to survive a fateful night.

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Death on the Nile

"Branagh’s second Agatha Christie adaption is a classy, captivating whodunit." - Newsday

Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot's Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple's idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short.

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Licorice Pizza

"Paul Thomas Anderson's sunniest movie yet, this San Fernando Valley palimpsest is so buoyant and bubbly, it practically floats off the screen." - Time Out

Nominated for 3 Oscars (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay)

The story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.

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Oscars 2022 (94th Academy Awards) Live Broadcast

In-person Oscars are back!

Pre-registration required. Sign up here.

FREE with non-perishable food donation to Food Bank of Waterloo Region.

We also will be accepting cash donations for the Canada-Ukraine Foundation - Ukraine Humanitarian Crisis Appeal.

Join us for a casual, come-as-you-are (or dress-to-the-nines, your choice!) evening celebrating the 94th Academy Awards®. Red carpet starts at 6:30pm.

Enjoy Hollywood's most glamourous night and celebrate the return of cinema!

WATERLOO - PADDLING FILM FESTIVAL 2022

Presented in partnership with Salus Marine Wear and Waterloo Wellington Canoe Club

Tickets ($20) on sale at the link!

The Paddling Film Festival is an international adventure film tour presenting the world’s best paddling films of the year whitewater, sea kayaking, canoeing, SUP, action and lifestyle in more than 120 cities and towns across Canada,
United States and around the world.

This Much I Know to Be True

The new feature film directed by Andrew Dominik, featuring Nick Cave & Warren Ellis, captures their exceptional creative relationship as they bring to life songs from albums Ghosteen and Carnage.

Shot on location in London & Brighton, THIS MUCH I KNOW TO BE TRUE captures Nick Cave and Warren Ellis’ exceptional creative relationship as they bring to life the songs from their last two studio albums, Ghosteen (Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds) and Carnage (Nick Cave & Warren Ellis).

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AFKW Presents 2022 French Film Festival

French Film Festival 2022 Schedule:

Friday April 1st: Le Club Vinland (The Vinland Club) (French w/ English subtitles) 125 min.

Saturday April 2nd: Le Trésor du Petit Nicolas (Little Nicholas' Treasure) (French w/ English subtitles) 103min.

Saturday April 2nd: La Fine Fleur (The Rosemaker) (French w/ English subtitles) 94 min.

Gimme Shelter

STC

“It’s not an exaggeration to say Albert and David Maysles‘ famous documentary Gimme Shelter about the Rolling Stone‘s ill-fated free concert at the Altamont Speedway, is the best rock film ever made. It is.

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Time Bandits

A young boy accidentally joins a band of time travelling dwarves, as they jump from era to era looking for treasure to steal.

Young history buff Kevin (Craig Warnock) can scarcely believe it when six dwarfs emerge from his closet one night. Former employees of the Supreme Being (Ralph Richardson), they've purloined a map charting all of the holes in the fabric of time and are using it to steal treasures from different historical eras.

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Together We Grow

KW Professional Organizers Celebrate 10th Anniversary with First Canadian Screening of 'Together We Grow'.

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Memoria

From the extraordinary mind of Palme D’or winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and starring Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton, comes a intriguing drama about a Scottish woman, who, after hearing a loud ‘bang’ at daybreak, begins experiencing a mysterious sensory syndrome while traversing the jungles of Colombia.

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Coming Soon!

2021 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity

The World's Best Commercials!

Join us for the 2021 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity – AKA The World’s Best Commercials!

Representing almost every continent and spanning cultures from around the globe, the award-winning ads are a fascinating window to the world.

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Mothering Sunday

"Olivia Colman and Colin Firth star in this deeply affecting adaptation of Graham Swift’s bittersweet novel about secret love in post-WWI England." - TIFF

On a warm spring day in 1924, house maid and foundling Jane Fairchild (Odessa Young) finds herself alone on Mother's Day. Her employers, Mr. and Mrs. Niven (Colin Firth and Olivia Colman), are out and she has the rare chance to spend quality time with her secret lover.

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