The Cinematheque

Featuring film offerings from all 27 European Union members, festival opens with Hungary’s Some Birds and closes with Ukraine’s The Hardest Hour

The Cinematheque curator Sonja Baksa delivers a week of programming centred on celluloid witches, just in time for Halloween

Jean-Luc Godard’s principal collaborator introduces Vancouver audiences to Godard’s final film Scénarios, along with Goodbye to Language

Rita Hayworth and Alain Delon pair up for an opening-night sizzler featuring American noir classic Gilda and French neo-noir Le samouraï

Lineup features eight shadow-steeped works released in the 1940s and ’50s, spanning Gilda, To Have and Have Not, T‑Men, and more

Sofia Exarchou’s compelling and heartbreaking look at the performers hired to dance, sing, and run karaoke and bingo games for tourists

At the Cinematheque, Costa-Gavras's fast-paced masterpiece warns of the precarity of truth amid the rise of right-wing zealots

An ensemble cast sings its way through Chantal Akerman’s 1986 musical, Golden Eighties

French filmmaker probes themes of free will, psychopathy, and perversity in his two most recent works at The Cinematheque

Running May 2 to 12, fest also features nanekawâsis, Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story, Tea Creek, and Caravan Farm Theatre doc The Originals

The series opens with A Confucian Confusion and includes both Yi Yi and the epic A Brighter Summer Day

Seven films by the 1980s new-wave cinema figurehead, including A Confucian Confusion (1994) and Yi Yi (2000), screen throughout April

It’s the sometimes self-lacerating words and the visible emotions of Gabor Maté that viewers will remember of this exceptional documentary

If you’re of a certain disposition, there’s much pleasure to be extracted from a film like this

Rising Mexican filmmaker is attracting buzz for richly written characters and atmospheric use of camera and sound

The groundbreaking, still effortlessly cool film joins Godard’s final works in opening night for JLG Forever

Series features his epochal 1967 short Wavelength, plus a variety of rarely screened works

Following one engineering student’s experience, the documentary takes a close look at the personal fallout from the growing form of online harrassment

Spanish romantic comedy Ramona opens the festival, and Ukrainian comedy Luxembourg, Luxembourg closes

Masterful lineup includes P.P. Rider (1983), Typhoon Club (1985), and Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (1982)

The atomic lizard suffers a critical wounding from an organism made entirely of pollution in a monster marathon made for Halloween

Collaboration with the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery higlights Itter’s exhibition, which includes archival multidisciplinary materials

Collection of films by Senegalese writer-director Ousmane Sembène oppose conformity

Work by The Biting School’s Aryo and Arash Khakpour incorporates a previous dance-and-theatre production of the same name

Beautiful characters and old-world enchantment make it a great introduction to a country’s cinema that has only recently been rediscovered by Western viewers

Robert Mitchum’s jaded P.I., Jane Greer’s enigmatic femme fatale, and a swirl of cigarette smoke

This year’s round-up features 12 masterpieces of the era, opening with The Maltese Falcon

The uncomfortably honest The Mother and the Whore and the autobiographical coming-of-age movie Mes petites amoureuses were the late, great director’s only two feature-length films

Burning, Poetry, Secret Sunshine, and more exquisite portraits of pain

Works profile a divinely gifted teen, an Athens sex worker, and a bracingly candid Olympia Dukakis