Cheryl Dunye made cinematic history with THE WATERMELON WOMAN, the first American feature to be directed by a black lesbian as well as an incisive, humorous critique of classic Hollywood’s racist stereotypes. Dunye plays an eponymous video store employee and burgeoning filmmaker who sets out to make a documentary on the Watermelon Woman (Lisa Marie … Read more
“BENNY AND THE RICKSHAW” is a celebration of the life and times of Benjamin Kemp, 1990-2025, as a collection of his personal close friends and family pay homage to him through his previous bands and close confidants bands. Showcasing his musical writing and lyrics, Rebel Priest, Lust Boys, Barbarians, The Toxiks, RoadRash, Scalding, The Highsides, … Read more
This summer, STArt Film Studio presents Dear Home, a touring showcase of acclaimed Chinese-language films. For our Vancouver stop, we are proud to co-present this program with the Rio Theatre, inviting you to look closely once more at the moments of love and parting. As the places we grew up in drift further away, how … Read more
This summer, STArt Film Studio presents Dear Home, a touring showcase of acclaimed Chinese-language films. For our Vancouver stop, we are proud to co-present this program with the Rio Theatre, inviting you to look closely once more at the moments of love and parting. As the places we grew up in drift further away, how … Read more
Carole Pope’s fearless voice redefined Canadian rock and broke barriers for LGBTQ+ artists. ANTIDIVA traces her journey from underground cult figure to celebrated pioneer, revealing never-before-seen archival footage, candid interviews, and a live performance. The film captures her ongoing fight for artistic expression, cultural history, and inter-generational connection in the face of censorship and erasure. … Read more
We’re tipping our hat to Father’s Day with a Peter Weir‘s Oscar-winner MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD, which was digitally restored in 2025 (and looks stunning on the big screen!). Known for films including WITNESS, THE TRUMAN SHOW, and DEAD POETS SOCIETY, Weir’s 2003 sea-faring epic is adapted from author Patrick … Read more
Clarence has spent his whole life face-down in the dirt — the only Chinese kid in a redneck town where being different is a crime punishable daily. With a timid mother who cannot protect him and nothing but a faded polaroid of a father he never knew, Clarence builds himself a mythology: that man with … Read more
AMORES PERROS (“Love’s a Bitch”) is Mexican filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu‘s blisteringly bold, intensely emotional, and ambitious story of lives that collide in a Mexico City car crash. Inventively structured as a triptych of overlapping and intersecting narratives, AMORES PERROS explores the lives of disparate characters who are catapulted into unforeseen dramatic situations instigated by … Read more
The scintillating feature debut of Mary Harron (AMERICAN PSYCHO) and one of the most controversial independent films of the 1990s, I SHOT ANDY WARHOL stars an electric Lili Taylor as Valerie Solanas, a militant feminist whose attempted murder of Andy Warhol brought instant fame to her radically anti-male SCUM Manifesto. Dropping out of grad school … Read more
Dead Lover is the story of a lonely Gravedigger who reeks so strongly of corpses that she can’t attract a lover. She concocts fragrant perfumes in her workshop, but nothing can save her romantic prospects from her ghastly odor… Until one day, when Gravedigger meets Lover, an aristocratic dandy in town for his sister’s funeral. … Read more
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