qathet 365
March 7, 2025 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Can I Get a Witness?
Film 7 pm – Director & crew in attendance RUSH SEATS ONLY
• Opening Party Friday March 7 @ 6pm SOLD OUT
• Repeat Screening Sunday March 16 @ 1:30 pm
• Preceded by Big Trees
Sci-Fi/Drama
1 hr 50 min – Not rated – Released 2024
March 9, 2025 All day
How big is time? On the remote Canadian island of Texada, the everyday stuff of human existence – work, play and dreams – is juxtaposed against the tectonic shifts of the planet, rising and falling in cyclical patterns of creation, extinction and renewal.
In this impressionistic VR project, co-directors Claire Sanford and Josephine Anderson merge 360-degree live-action footage, captured across the island, with 3D animation of geologic upheaval to create an immersive, poetic experience. A chorus of residents’ voices ebbs and flows, unravelling the complexities of the surrounding limestone that is central to the community and economy of the island. Present in everything from toothpaste to the great Pyramids of Egypt, this humble yet ubiquitous rock is a critical element in the construction of our modern society.
Texada is about rocks, people, and time – the head-spinning vastness of terrestrial epochs contrasted with the immediacy of day-to-day human experience. Real and imagined landscapes document a journey from the Earth’s formation to the current moment: twinned streams of existence mixing and mingling in an ever-changing flow. As geologic forces continue to unfold, the only constant is transformation. Yet amongst the great heave of history, glimpses of temporal beauty, like discovering beautiful stones on a beach, help us understand our place in the universe.
In this workshop, filmmakers Josephine Anderson and Claire Sanford unpack the techniques and strategies for making work in virtual reality. Using their new VR documentary Texada (produced by the National Film Board of Canada) as a case study, the filmmakers share insights, challenges and real-world examples of what it is like to undertake a virtual reality collaboration. They will demonstrate shooting with a professional 360-degree camera and share experiences working alongside animators, developers and participants. With practices rooted in themes of time, identity and the natural world, the filmmakers unpack the question: how do we think immersively? What opportunities does this present, and how does it help us see the world differently?
3 VR headsets will be set up at the front of the auditorium. To book one of the times below, please register at the Will Call Table outside of the box office.
Saturday March 8 – 12:30pm and 1pm; 6pm and 6:30pm
Sunday March 9 – 12:30pm and 1pm; 6pm and 6:30pm
Monday March 10 – 6pm and 6:30pm
Tuesday March 11 – 6pm and 6:30pm
March 15, 2025 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Kneecap is ballsy, brave and one of the best music biopics ever made. A sweary, crude and brilliantly political Irish comedy, the headline-grabbing Belfast rap trio blend 8 Mile, Trainspotting and The Hunger into a hedonistic but heartfelt film for the ages. The film is a semi-dramatised biopic of the formation and rise of the controversial, headline-grabbing Irish language hip-hop trio, recalling how rappers Móglaí Bap and Mo Chara would write lyrics to reflect their everyday Belfast lives as well as their nights spent scoring and selling drugs or running from the police. One night, after being arrested and refusing to speak English to the police, local music teacher JJ O Dochartaigh is brought in to translate from Irish. Taking Chara’s side after discovering his lyrical prowess, the humble teacher encourages him and Bap to pursue music and offers to lay down some beats – in bid to make Irish language music relevant to a new generation and “set the dodo free”.
March 15, 2025 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Drawn from more than a hundred hours of archival footage and audio, Haida artist and filmmaker, Christopher Auchter’s riveting new feature doc recreates the moment when the Haida Nation took a stand for the future. On a misty morning in the fall of 1985, a small group of Haida people blockaded a muddy dirt road on Lyell Island (then known as the Queen Charlotte Islands).
March 14, 2025 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
The seductive, damaged charm of Daniel Craig kills off his Bond to inhabit a dissolute American expat in Luca Guadagnino’s handsome adaptation of the William S. Burroughs novella Queer. Craig is touchingly vulnerable as the frustrated and exhausted barfly who knows that he isn’t the man he once was, but who still has glints of his old panache. Played with sensitivity and predatory heat by Daniel Craig, Lee has a feverish mind, eyes like searchlights and a mouth that’s quick to sneer. There are moments when he seems possessed, though it’s not often clear what’s taken hold of his soul. Stripping away all the confidence that armoured James Bond and Benoit Blanc, Craig reminds us of what an exceptional actor he is. His portrayal just won him a Golden Globe nomination as best actor in a drama. Is Oscar next? Wait and see.
March 13, 2025 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Anchored by a pair of terrific performances swathed in vivid colors, Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar’s English-language feature debut attests to his universal fluency in provocative filmmaking. After four and a half decades of making rapturously acclaimed Spanish-language films, Pedro Almodóvar has written and directed his first ever feature-length film in English. And he could hardly have chosen two better actors to be in it. Adapted from a novel by Sigrid Nunez, The Room Next Door stars Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton, both of whom are dazzling, even by their own brilliant standards.
March 12, 2025 @ 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Diving Into the Darkness is one of the most thrilling biographical documentaries you will see this year. Filmed in locations you’re unlikely to see in any other film – or anywhere on Earth – it is a jaw-dropping yet intimate portrait of cave diving icon Jill Heinerth, and the nail-biting challenges and risks she’s faced to go where no man or woman has gone before.The film includes stunning footage that Australian director Nays Baghai and his team recorded by following Heinerth on her expeditions around the globe.
March 13, 2025 @ 1:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Queens (Reinas), Klaudia Reynicke’s understated, moving family drama is set in 1990s Lima, Peru as the country is in the grip of inflation and citizens are subjected to rolling blackouts, distant explosions and a threatening military presence that imposes a strict curfew. Not surprising that many residents who can afford to do so are fleeing the country. One is Elena (Jimena Lindo), who’s secured a job in Minnesota and plans to exit with her two daughters, teenager Aurora (Luana Vega) and younger Lucia (Abril Gjurinovic), who emerges as the heart of the film.
March 10, 2025 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Performance 6:30pm Film at 7:00pm
2 hr 30 min
Documentary
Director: Johan Grimonprez
Countries of Origin: Belgium, France, Netherlands
Languages: French, English, Dutch, Russian
Released 2024
Not Rated
March 9, 2025 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
So Surreal: Behind the Masks, co-directed by Joanne Robertson
Neil Diamond is a Cree filmmaker, who made a huge impact with Reel Injun, a documentary about the negative “Indian” stereotypes that so permeate Western society that even the filmmaker as a child wanted to be a cowboy, not himself, when playing with friends. Reel Injun won three Gemini Awards including for best director and went on to win a Peabody Award. His new film So Surreal: Behind the Masks, co-directed by Joanne Robertson, explores the strange but intense relationship between Surrealism and the masks of the Yup’ik ‘and Kwakwaka’wakw nations and how that commingling came to pass. It’s about cultural appropriation, art and dream imagery.