Your Cinema Needs You traces the origins of the Monarch Theatre and its unexpected, but eventful evolution in becoming the oldest, surviving, purpose-built cinema remaining in Canada today. Through closures, advances in technology, and a cast of characters who have kept it alive through decades of challenges, Your Cinema Needs You tells the story of "the coolest little single-screen movie house you've never heard of" since it first opened its doors on December 21, 1911.
History
Four Mile Creek
Aurore Cormier died in a smallpox quarantine; one hundred years later, her ancestors went looking for her. This is a documentary film that combines reenactments, family archives, and audio interviews.
The foam and the lion
On July 6th, 1808, the "Bom Sucesso" caique and 18fishermen left Olhão, in Portugal, towards Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), taking with them the good news that Portugal was finally free of Napoleon's enemy troops. But in the midst of a great storm, men lose their bearings and faith. The "Bom Sucesso" caique enters an enchanted realm, where a fantastic Marine Creature falls in love with him and will try to save him from a tenebrous Monster in the service of the enemy.
What Travelers Are Saying About Jornada del Muerto
Visitors and residents of the Tularosa Basin, site of the first detonation of an atomic bomb, contribute to the production of public memory as they offer reckonings, advice, and plaintive cries about making "the journey of the dead." 2020 was the 75th anniversary of the detonation of nuclear weapons in Japan and the US and the 340th anniversary of the 1680 Pueblo Revolt. Made in resistance to nuclear colonialism.
Mergen
Great Kazakh Steppe, XVII century, war. In the absence of father, a boy named Mergen will grow up and take care of relatives abandoned by aul. Baksy, Mergen's grandmother, gives him her gift as the only man and protector, but the appearance of Kazakh messenger with an urgent report for the Khan, puts threaten the well-being of the family. A series of rapid events puts life and death on the scales…
The Khe Sanh Peace Garden
A touching and hopeful film about a medevac helicopter pilot who found peace within himself and with his mortal enemies when he tries to build a peace garden at the Khe Sanh Combat Base where he stationed during the Viet Nam war.