Metro Cinema Society: Free Sunday Matinees from the NFB

Free Sunday Matinees from the NFB

Wild Horse Redemption (FREE)

Director: John Zaritsky

Canada 2007, 91 min

Jan 18 (2009) @ 2pm

At a prison in the high desert foothills of the Colorado Rocky Mountains, hardened criminals are taught the training methods of 'horse whisperers' and given 90 days to tame wild mustangs taken from the herd that roams government lands. Failure... view more

Junior, w/ The Sweater (FREE NFB Matinee)

Feb 15 (2009) @ 2pm

As part of our ongoing series of FREE NFB Matinees, we're proud to present a pair of films about hockey: Junior, a season-in-the-life of the Baie-Comeau Drakkar; and Sheldon Cohen's classic 'The Sweater'.

The Strangest Dream

Director: Eric Bednarski

Canada 2008, 90 min, DigiBeta

Mar 15 (2009) @ 2pm

The Strangest Dream tells the story of Joseph Rotblat, the history of nuclear weapons and the efforts of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs – which he co-founded – to halt nuclear proliferation. Nuclear physicist Joseph Rotblat was... view more

NFB Free Screening: Carts of Darkness

Director: Murray Siple

Canada 2008, 60 min

Apr 19 (2009) @ 2pm

In the picture-postcard community of North Vancouver, local bottle pickers have turned the act of binning into a thriving subculture of shopping cart racing. Murray Siple, a former snowboarder and sport film director injured in a serious car accident ten... view more

Toxic Trespass

Director: Barri Cohen

Canada 2007, 81 min

May 17 (2009) @ 2pm

In Toxic Trespass, intrepid filmmaker Barri Cohen launches an investigation into the effects of the chemical soup bubbling up around us. She begins with her 10-year-old daughter, whose blood carries carcinogens such as benzene and the long-banned DDT. Cohen then... view more

Everybody's Children

Director: Monika Delmos

Canada 2008, 51 min

Jun 21 (2009) @ 2pm

NFB Double Bill to Honour World Refugee Day They arrive underage and alone, often traumatized and seeking asylum in a country completely alien to their own. In some provinces, specifically Ontario, these unaccompanied refugee minors have surprisingly no government system in... view more

Twelve

Director: Lester Alfonso

Canada 2008, 43 min

Jun 21 (2009) @ 3:30pm

NFB Double Bill to Honour World Refugee Day Twelve was produced as part of the Reel Diversity Competition for emerging filmmakers of colour. Reel Diversity is a National Film Board of Canada initiative in partnership with CBC Newsworld. If you could... view more