New This Week: Smart spy thriller Black Bag starring Cate Blanchett & Michael Fassbender!

Saturday April 5 at 9:30pm

QUTV Fest 2025

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Hosted by The Cinema Society of Kingston and Queen’s Television. Don’t miss this celebration of student filmmaking and creative storytelling on the big screen! Join Queen’s Television (QUTV) for the premiere of Unhinged Date, a QUTV short film directed by Jordan Low, alongside screenings of Bilateral by Dylan Innes and Pimple Patch by Noah Berc. […]

🇬🇧 Crowd-pleasing British comedy

The Ballad of Wallis Island

Comedy
Opens April 11

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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Naomi Watts + Bill Murray + a dog... what's not to like?

The Friend

Drama
Opens April 11

Starring Naomi Watts and Bill Murray: After the sudden death of her closest friend, a New York novelist becomes the caretaker of his beloved Great Dane, leading to an unexpected journey of healing.

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🇵🇹 Miguel Gomes' woozy globetrotting period piece!

Grand Tour

On-Screen CaptionsDramaPeriod DramaRomance
Opens April 11

In 1918, British civil servant Edward abandons his fiancée Molly on their wedding day in Rangoon, prompting her to embark on a journey across Asia to find him.

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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 […]

Tuesday April 15 at 6pm

In Celebration of Richard Fung: Sea in the Blood + Steam Clean

Free Admission

Open Secret: The Third Edition continues as a series composed of screenings, conversations, and workshops with a fourth and final program this season in co-partnership with Reel Out: Kingston’s Queer Film + Video Festival, and Trellis HIV & Community Care. To mark the 25th anniversary of Sea in the Blood (2000), Open Secret pays homage to Richard Fung’s iconic video […]

🇫🇷 This Hitchcockian crime thriller was Cahiers du Cinema's #1 film of 2024

Misericordia

On-Screen CaptionsComedyCrimeDrama
Opens April 18

A man returns to his hometown for a mentor’s funeral, leading to a series of macabre and unpredictable events.

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Immersive John Lennon and Yoko Ono documentary!

One to One: John & Yoko

DocumentaryMusic
Opens April 18

An expansive and revelatory inside look at John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s life in Greenwich Village in the early 1970s, featuring newly restored footage from their 1972 Madison Square Garden concerts.

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Rated 95% Fresh! A delightful romantic comedy starring Bowen Yang and Lily Gladstone!

The Wedding Banquet

ComedyRomance
Opens April 18

A gay man makes a deal with his lesbian friend: a green-card marriage for him, in exchange for in vitro fertilization treatments for her. Plans evolve as Min’s grandmother surprises them with a Korean wedding banquet.

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Daisy Edgar-Jones & Jacob Elordi star in a sweeping romantic epic!

On Swift Horses

DramaRomance
Opens April 25

Muriel embarks on a secret life, gambling on racehorses and discovering a love she never thought possible.

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Tuesday April 29 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 […]

Thursday May 1 @ 6:30pm

The M Factor: Shredding the Silence on Menopause – Screening Hosted by Resolve Counselling Services

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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🇨🇦 David Cronenberg returns with an elegiac body horror!

The Shrouds

DramaHorrorSci-Fi
Opens May 2

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

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May 9, 10 & 11

Björk: Cornucopia

Concert Film

The highly-anticipated concert film, featuring Björk’s spectacular stage production and a setlist spanning her iconic early works to the visionary Utopia (2017) and Fossora (2023).

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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

April 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

Blade Runner: The Final Cut (1982)

In a dystopian future, a blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who have returned to Earth to find their creator.

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April 4, 5 & 8

The French Connection (1971)

Remembering Gene Hackman (1930-2025) with his Oscar-winning role in William Friedkin’s crime masterpiece: A relentless New York detective goes to extreme lengths to dismantle a sprawling heroin smuggling ring linked to France.

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🇯🇵 April 4 to 14 - Tickets on sale now!

Princess Mononoke (1997) – New 4K Restoration

A new restoration of Miyazaki’s epic fantasy masterpiece: A prince becomes involved in the struggle between a forest princess and the encroachment of mechanization.

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April 5, 8, 10

Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

In a dystopian future, a replicant blade runner uncovers a secret that leads him to former blade runner Rick Deckard, missing for thirty years.

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Classic Cinema in April

Opens April 11: The Friend

Opens April 11: The Ballad of Wallis Island

April 27: Craft-Along Matinee of Jane Austen’s Emma

New Vintage Poster Exhibit: Sci-Fi Movies

The Met Opera 2025

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