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Sunday February 23 at 2:30pm & 6pm

Bharat Film Divas – A Free Celebration of Indian Cinema!

Free event, everyone is welcome to attend: join us for a celebration of Indian Cinema with 12th Fail (HIndi language) and 2018: Everybody is a Hero (Malayalam language). Hosted by the High Commission of India.

February 26 to March 2

The 2025 Kingston Canadian Film Festival

KCFF is the largest festival in the world dedicated exclusively to Canadian film. Catch the best films of the year, special guests, parties, and lots more.

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10 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actress!

Wicked ($6 March Break Movies)

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Opens March 7

When ostracized and misunderstood green-skinned Elphaba is forced to share a room with the popular aristocrat Glinda, the two’s unlikely friendship is tested as they begin to fulfill their respective destinies as Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.

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🇦🇺 Uplifting tale of walking the Camino de Santiago

The Way, My Way

ComedyDrama
Opens March 7

An Australian man embarks on the 800-kilometer Camino de Santiago pilgrimage in Spain, seeking meaning and experiencing a profound personal transformation.

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🇨🇦 One of the best Canadian films of recent memory!

Universal Language

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Opens March 7

In a mysterious and surreal interzone somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg, the lives of multiple characters interweave with each other in surprising and mysterious ways

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March 8, 12, 13 & 20 (more shows added!)

Verdi’s Aida – MET Opera

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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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Saturday March 8 at 7pm

Lady Bird – International Women’s Day Watch Party

Coming-of-Age

Lady Bird McPherson, a strong willed, deeply opinionated, artistic 17 year old comes of age in Sacramento. Her relationship with her mother and her upbringing are questioned and tested as she plans to head off to college.

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🇨🇦 New doc charting the career of beloved the Canadian indie rock band

It’s All Gonna Break: Broken Social Scene

CanadianDocumentaryMusic
Opens March 14

The intimate behind-the-scenes footage that shows the creation of Canada’s indie-darlings of the early aughts, Broken Social Scene.

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Ayo Edebiri & John Malkovich star in A24 pop star thriller

Opus

HorrorThriller
Opens March 14

A young writer is invited to the remote compound of a legendary pop star who mysteriously disappeared thirty years ago, only to find herself entangled in his twisted plan.

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🇮🇹 An Italian romance from Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty)

Parthenope

Opens March 14

Parthenope, born in the sea near Naples in 1950, searches for happiness over the long summers of her youth, falling in love with her home city and its many memorable characters.

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🇨🇦 Atom Egoyan's return to form, featuring a fantastic Amanda Seyfried

Seven Veils

Drama
Opens March 14

An earnest theatre director is given the task of producing her former mentor’s most famous work, the opera Salome, but disturbing memories from her past colour her present.

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Saturday March 15 at 7pm

Open Secret x Prismatic Ground – Presented by The Agnes

Free Admission

A free event hosted by The Agnes Etherington Art Centre Open Secret: The Third Edition continues as a series composed of screenings, conversations, and workshops with our third program this season guest curated by Inney Prakash, founder and Artistic Director of Prismatic Ground, an annual festival in New York City centered on experimental documentary and avant-garde […]

🇨🇦 Sunday March 16 @ 3:45pm

Later Is Too Late

Documentary

Free screening! “Later is Too” Late documents a nationwide mobilization calling for urgent action on the climate crisis, organized by Seniors for Climate, on Oct. 1, 2024. A message of hope and resilience: seniors, youth, Indigenous elders, environmental and climate justice activists across Turtle Island rally from Pugwash NS to Victoria BC to Yellowknife NT.

🇨🇦 March 16 & 19

Curl Power

DocumentarySports

An uplifting new doc about a team of girls in the pursuit of curling greatness: five best friends juggle their teenage lives with their goal of winning the Canadian Junior Curling Championship, coached by their former Olympian mothers.

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[SOLD OUT IN ADVANCE] Thursday March 20 @ 6:30pm

[SOLD OUT] The M Factor: Shredding the Silence on Menopause – Screening and Panel Discussion!

Documentary

55 million women in the United States are currently experiencing menopause. The M Factor: Shredding the Silence on Menopause explores the hidden impact of menopause on women’s lives. With evidence-based information, the film empowers women to make informed health decisions and aims to remove the stigma surrounding menopause and aging.

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Thursday March 27 at 7pm

Workhorse – With cinematographer Ryan Randall

Workhorse follows three humans whose work and lives are deeply connected with their stoic equine partners. Filmed in beautiful black-and-white, this lyrical documentary reflects on and honours our ancient dependence on horse power.

Steve Coogan & Jonathan Pryce charm in penguin-centric dramedy

The Penguin Lessons

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Opens March 28

In 1976, a disillusioned Englishman teaching in Argentina rescues an oil-slicked penguin, leading to a transformative friendship that impacts both his life and those of his students.

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🇨🇦 Opens April 4

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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Apirl 12, 16 & 17

 Beethoven’s Fidelio – Met Opera

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Following a string of awe-inspiring Live in HD performances, Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen returns to the Metropolitan Opera as Leonore, the faithful wife who risks everything to save her husband from the clutches of tyranny in Beethoven’s Fidelio. Completing the distinguished cast is British tenor David Butt Philip as the political prisoner Florestan, Polish bass-baritone […]

🇬🇧 Crowd-pleasing British comedy

The Ballad of Wallis Island

Comedy

Old tensions resurface when former bandmates who were former lovers reunite for a private show at the island home of an eccentric millionaire.

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🇨🇦 David Cronenberg returns with an elegiac body horror!

The Shrouds

DramaHorrorSci-Fi

Karsh, an innovative businessman and grieving widower, builds a device to connect with the dead inside a burial shroud.

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May 17, 21, 22 & 29

Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro – Met Opera

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Mozart’s timeless comedy: conductor Joana Mallwitz, in her Met debut, takes the podium to conduct a stellar ensemble cast including American bass-baritone Michael Sumuel as the clever valet Figaro, Ukrainian soprano Olga Kulchynska as the wily maid Susanna, Canadian baritone Joshua Hopkins as the skirt-chasing Count, Italian soprano Federica Lombardi as his anguished wife, and […]

June 14, 18 & 19

Strauss’ Salome – Met Opera

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Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium to conduct Strauss’s one-act tragedy. Leading the company’s first new production of the work in 20 years, Claus Guth, one of Europe’s leading opera directors, gives the biblical story a psychologically perceptive Victorian-era setting. South African soprano Elza van den Heever leads a celebrated cast as the […]

July 5, 9, 10 & 17

Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia – Met Opera

Met OperaMusic

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2024–25 season comes to a close with Rossini’s effervescent comedy. Russian mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina headlines a winning ensemble as the feisty heroine, Rosina, alongside American tenor Jack Swanson, in his Met debut, as her secret beloved, Count Almaviva. Moldovan baritone Andrey Zhilikhovsky stars as Figaro, the ingenious barber of Seville, with Hungarian […]

Upcoming Classic Movies

Saturday February 22 at 1:15pm & 4:15pm

Sleepless in Seattle – Popcorn & Purls: A Craft-Along Movie Matinee

Back by popular demand: Purlin’ J’s Yarn Emporium and The Cinema Society of Kingston are offering Popcorn & Purls: A Craft-Along Movie Matinee… featuring Nora Ephron’s cozy rom-com, Sleepless in Seattle (1993)! Bring your knitting, crochet, embroidery, cross stitch, or other handicrafts, plus your crafty friends for a cozy afternoon at the movies. Tickets include […]

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February 23 & 26

Inland Empire (2006)

As an actress begins to adopt the persona of her character in a film, her world becomes nightmarish and surreal.

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Wednesday March 5 at 6pm

Who Needs A Heart (1991) with Edward George in Attendance

An impressionistic portrayal of Michael X and his associates, exploring themes of Black radicalism, countercultural movements, and disillusionment in 1960s and 1970s Britain.

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Thursday March 6 at 7pm

Society (1989)

A Beverly Hills teenager suspects his wealthy family is part of a gruesome cult for the social elite.

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February 21-26: David Lynch Tribute

February 22: Popcorn & Purls Craft-Along Matinee

Feb 26 to March 2: The Kingston Canadian Film Festival

Tickets On Sale: The Met Opera

March 22: Arsenic, Old Lace & Old Books

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