Wednesday, April 23, 2025 7:00pm
USA 1969 Frederick Wiseman 84 DCP
Just two years after his magnum opus Titicut Follies and decades before hospitals became a popular site of procedural and reality television, Wiseman turned his panoramic lens onto one of society’s greatest collective institutions. Set in the bustling Metropolitan Hospital in East Harlem, Hospital documents numerous emergency encounters of patients suffering from a range of medical and psychological ailments, including states of extreme intoxication.
Wednesday, March 19, 2025 7:00pm
United Kingdom 2024 Director Elizabeth Sankey
Wednesday, March 19, 2025 7:00pm
Grounded in her own story of being admitted to a psychiatric ward within a month of giving birth to her son, Witches writer-director Elizabeth Sankey shares her deeply personal experience of postpartum depression: “I need you to know how it feels to lose your mind completely. I want you to see what I saw; feel what I felt. While I survived, far too many have not.” With clever and unflinching prose, Sankey’s narration weaves her own story with astute pop-culture analysis of the cultural myths and symbolism surrounding witches, illustrating the terrifying and often misunderstood reality of postpartum depression, maternal OCD, and psychosis.
Wednesday February 19, 2025, 7:00pm
Agent of Happiness offers a first-person glimpse into the Kingdom of Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness index through the eyes of Amber, a government data collector. Dressed in a striking red gho, Amber, along with his colleague, administers a 148-question survey that guides national policymaking, asking everything from practical questions about livestock to more intimate probes into emotional states. Underneath the film’s gentle humanist (and at times humorous) lens, darker existential themes emerge.
Canada 2024 Director Thea Loo 56 min Wednesday January 15, 2025 7:00pm Tickets “A moving film, Inay is full of raw moments that illustrate the trauma that can exist as a consequence of the live-in caregiver program … [The film] puts a human face on the complicated relationship between Canada […]
Wednesday, December 18, 2024 6:30 pm
Yohji, a retired professor with a mysterious past, is diagnosed with dementia, his son Takashi is forced to reconcile not only with his father’s newly intensified illness, but also with the
nuances of their fractured relationship.
Wednesday, November 13, 2024 7:00pm
Inspired by the concept of an “autistic camera,” The Stimming Pool is a brilliant exercise in collaborative filmmaking in which the lived experiences of several neurodiverse artists reign supreme. A film curator of a B‑movie film club shares his fascination with underground horror with an engaged audience; a woman takes an eye-tracking biomarker test; a worker tries to settle into a busy office full of overwhelming background noises; Post-screening discussion with Javier Herrera and Kenzie Curby, both neurodiverse individuals and advocates.
Wednesday, October 16, 2024 7:00pm
Vancouver Premiere. Weaving together expert analysis by sociologists and philosophers with testimonials from everyday workers worldwide, After Work explores the existential and material paradoxes of modern work culture.
Wednesday, September 18, 2024 7:00 pm
The Hearing explores the hidden world of asylum hearings—the process that millions of refugees worldwide experience when applying for citizenship in a new country. Through carefully crafted reenactments by real-life asylum seekers and employees of the State Secretariat for Migration in Switzerland, director Lisa Gerig vividly portrays the emotional stakes of these life-changing encounters
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Wednesday, June 19, 2024 7:00pm
Floating on the Seine River in the heart of Paris, the Adamant is a therapeutic day centre whose distinct architectural form—resembling that of a wooden spaceship-turned-barge—defies the clinical setting. Developed in collaboration with staff and persons living with mental illness, the centre opened in July 2010 and operates as part of the Esquirol psychiatric service of the Saint-Maurice hospital network.
Wednesday, May 15, 2024 7:00pm
In 1999, when Nisha Platzer was 11 years old, her older brother Josh died by suicide. Twenty years later, the Vancouver-based artist traces the past using the art of analogue filmmaking in her debut feature documentary, back home. Through contemplative narration and fragmentary film sequences, Nisha documents her efforts to reconnect with the memory of her deceased brother.
