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Ste. Anne

Union Cinema

THIS SCREENING IS FREE FOR EVERYONE! This stirring debut feature by Manitoban filmmaker and artist Rhayne Vermette is a formally alluring examination of home by way of places and people. Set and shot in Treaty 1 territory, which today includes... Read More

Animation Showcase

Union Cinema

THIS SCREENING IS FREE FOR EVERYONE! In this year's showcase the theme “whimsical and atmospheric” opens the possibility for manifold forms of animation. Curated by Terrance Corwin Gordon, animator/filmmaker from the department of FVANG.  

Watership Down

Union Cinema

This screening is free for UWM students and Union Cinema members! $5 general admission With this passion project, Martin Rosen brilliantly achieved what had been thought nearly impossible: a faithful big-screen adaptation of Richard Adams’s classic British dystopian novel about... Read More

Red Post on Escher Street

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This screening is free for UWM students and Union Cinema members! $5 General Admission When filmmaker Tadashi Kobayashi begins to hold open auditions for a new studio-sponsored film, a wave of experienced and aspiring actors scramble to apply, yearning for... Read More

Meantime

Union Cinema

This screening is free for UWM students and Union Cinema members! $5 General Admission Unemployment is rampant in London’s working-class East End, where a middle-aged couple and their two sons languish in a claustrophobic public housing flat. As the brothers... Read More

Recurring

Red Post on Escher Street

Union Cinema

This screening is free for UWM students and Union Cinema members! $5 General Admission When filmmaker Tadashi Kobayashi begins to hold open auditions for a new studio-sponsored film, a wave of experienced and aspiring actors scramble to apply, yearning for... Read More

Recurring

Meantime

Union Cinema

This screening is free for UWM students and Union Cinema members! $5 General Admission Unemployment is rampant in London’s working-class East End, where a middle-aged couple and their two sons languish in a claustrophobic public housing flat. As the brothers... Read More

Films by Sandra Lahire

Union Cinema

This screening is free for everyone! Hers is an important body of work that deserves wider recognition – its environmental concerns, its intersectional feminism, its honest discussion of mental health feel poignantly modern and relevant today. Marked by corporeal vulnerability... Read More

Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives on Restoring our World

Union Cinema

This screening is free for everyone! Inhabitants follows five Native American Tribes across deserts, coastlines, forests, and prairies as they restore their traditional land management practices. For millennia Native Americans successfully stewarded and shaped landscapes, but centuries of colonization have... Read More

Swimming Out Till The Sea Turns Blue

Union Cinema

This screening is free for UWM students and Union Cinema Members! $5 General Admission A vital document of Chinese society since 1949. The director interviews three prominent authors—Jia Pingwa, Yu Hua, and Liang Hong—born in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s,... Read More