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Tuesday January 21 at 6pm

Show & Tell: A Filmmakers’ Open Mic Night

A joint production between Kingston Film & Media and the The Cinema Society of Kingston. Free Admission, everyone is welcome to attend. Ever wondered what your latest project would look like on the big screen of an actual cinema? Then join us for our quarterly Show & Tell Filmmaker Open Mic event, where you to […]

Tickets are on sale now for the Golden Globe Best Drama winner & Oscar front-runner

The Brutalist

DramaEpic
Opens January 24

When visionary architect László Toth and his wife Erzsébet flee post-war Europe in 1947 to rebuild their legacy and witness the birth of modern America, their lives are changed forever by a mysterious and wealthy client.

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Robert Eggers' daring new take on Nosferatu

Nosferatu

FantasyHorror

A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.

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Sunday February 1 at 1pm

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

DocumentaryFree Admission

Jazz and decolonization are entwined in this historical rollercoaster that rewrites the Cold War episode that led musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach to crash the UN Security Council in protest against the murder of Patrice Lumumba.

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Two shows: February 5 (with panel discussion) & 11

Music For Mushrooms

Documentary

Can pairing music with psychedelics bring transformative healing to the world? Interviews with artists, academics, and cultural experts in the fields of psychedelics, science, music and philosophy.

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🇺🇦 February 6 (with special discussion), 8, 11 & 13

Porcelain War

Documentary
Opens February 6

Under roaring fighter jets, Ukrainian artists Slava, Anya, and Andrey choose to stay behind. Defiantly finding beauty amid destruction, they show that although it’s easy to make people afraid, it’s hard to destroy their passion for living.

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🇬🇧 Mike Leigh (Naked, Vera Drake, Happy-Go-Lucky) returns with one of the best films of 2024!

Hard Truths

ComedyDrama
Opens February 7

Ongoing exploration of the contemporary world with a tragicomic study of human strengths and weaknesses.

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🇮🇹 Italy’s Official Selection for the 2025 Academy Awards!

Vermiglio

DramaPeriod Drama
Opens February 14

1944, Vermiglio, a remote mountain village. The arrival of Pietro, a deserter, into the family of the local teacher, and his love for the teacher’s eldest daughter, will change the course of everyone’s life.

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Rock doc about Led Zeppelin's heyday!

Becoming Led Zeppelin

DocumentaryMusic
Opens February 14

The journeys of the four members of the Stairway To Heaven rockers through the music scene of the 1960s and their meeting in the summer of 1968, culminating in 1970.

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🇧🇷 An award-winning Brazilian drama rated 91% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes

I’m Still Here

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Opens February 21

A mother is forced to reinvent herself when her family’s life is shattered by an act of arbitrary violence during the tightening grip of a military dictatorship in Brazil, 1971.

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🇨🇦 Coming in March after premiering at KCFF!

Shepherds

Drama

A young Montreal advertising executive, converted to a Provençal shepherd, has various misadventures with a civil servant who has cavalierly quit her job.

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March 8, 12 & 13

Verdi’s Aida – MET Opera

American soprano Angel Blue headlines as the Ethiopian princess torn between love and country in a new production of Verdi’s Aida by Michael Mayer that brings audiences inside the towering pyramids and gilded tombs of ancient Egypt with intricate projections and dazzling animations.

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One of the most acclaimed movies of 2024 finally arrives and it is one of the most exciting narrative directorial debuts of the century!

Nickel Boys

Drama

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, “Nickel Boys” chronicles the powerful friendship between two young African-American men navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.

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Upcoming Classic Movies

January 24, 25, 28 & 29

Black Swan (2010) – 15th Anniversary!

Nina is a talented but unstable ballerina on the verge of stardom. Pushed to the breaking point by her artistic director and a seductive rival, Nina’s grip on reality slips, plunging her into a waking nightmare.

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January 31, February 1, 4 & 6

Back to the Future (1985) – 40th Anniversary!

Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.

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February 7 to 14 (Valentine's Day)

La La Land (2016)

When Sebastian, a pianist, and Mia, an actress, follow their passion and achieve success in their respective fields, they find themselves torn between their love for each other and their careers.

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February 7 to 14 (Valentine's Day)

An Affair to Remember (1957)

A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building – but will it happen?

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More Classic Movies

Announcements

Opens January 24: The Brutalist

Opens February 21: I’m Still Here 🇧🇷

Starts January 30: The Reelout Queer Film Festival

Opens February 7: Hard Truths

$7 School PA Day Matinee on January 31

Porcelain War: Panel discussion on February 6

Classic Cinema in January and February

Met Opera at The Screening Room

Current Poster Exhibit: Psycho Killers

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