Wednesday, June 18, 2025 7:30 pm
Canada 2024 Liz Cairns
While straining to emotionally connect with those around her, a young woman named Cora experiences debilitating and painful allergic reactions to food. Looking for answers to her medical mystery, Cora discovers Sun Haven, an isolated community practicing breatharianism—the pseudoscientific belief that humans can survive solely on light and air.

Wednesday, May 21, 2025 7:00pm
Australia 2024 Director Adam Elliot

Recently nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, Adam Elliot’s tragicomedy recounts the misfortunes of a misfit named Grace who becomes obsessed with snails. After she is separated from her twin brother Gilbert, traumatic events and failed relationships compound and lead to a myriad of mental health conditions including hoarding, kleptomania, and depression. To cope, a melancholic Grace becomes an ardent collector of romance novels and guinea pigs.

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 and the Philippines.” Gail Johnson, […]

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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