Awards Presentation / Filmmakers Party Saturday, October 17, 9:00 pm Roxy Side Room, 50 Dunlop Street West, Barrie Admission: Free Right after the Short Film Showcase, please join us across the street at the Roxy Side Room for the Awards presentations and some celebrating! A yummy selection of hors d’oeuvres will be catered by a […]

99 Homes Screening: Saturday, October 17, 9:15 pm, Uptown Theatre, Screen 4   Co-written and Directed by Ramin Bahrani USA / 2014 / Drama / Rated 14A for coarse language including some sexual references, and a brief violent image / 112 min. In this timely thriller, single father Dennis Nash (Andrew Garfield) is evicted from […]

Unexpected Screening: Sunday, October 18, 1:00 pm, Uptown Theatre, Screen 1   Co-written and Directed by Kris Swanberg USA / 2015 / Comedy/Drama / Rated 14A for mature thematics and coarse language / 85 min. As spirited Chicago schoolteacher Samantha Abbott (Cobie Smulders) adjusts to an unexpected pregnancy and sudden marriage, she finds new perspective […]

How To Change The World Screening: Sunday, October 18, 3:30 pm, Uptown Theatre, Screen 1 Written and Directed by Jerry Rothwell Canada/USA / 2015 / Documentary/Adventure / Rated PG for language, restrained portrayals of limited violence and disturbing scenes / 109 min. In 1971, a group of friends sailed into a nuclear test zone and […]

Chevalier Screening: Sunday, October 18, 7:00 pm, Uptown Theatre, Screen 1 Directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari Greece / 2015 / Comedy/Drama / Rated 18A for mature thematics, coarse language and male nudity / Greek with English subtitles / 99 min. A buddy movie with a non-traditional twist! On a luxury yacht in the middle of […]

Slow West Screening: Sunday, October 18, 9:00 pm, Uptown Theatre, Screen 1 Written and Directed by John Maclean UK/New Zealand / 2015 / Action/Thriller/Western / Rated 14A for graphic violence and brief coarse language / English and French with English subtitles / 84 min. Set in 19th century Colorado but undeniably European in sensibility, Slow […]

Unexpected Screening: Monday, October 19, 4:00 pm Uptown Theatre, Screen 1   Co-written and Directed by Kris Swanberg USA / 2015 / Comedy/Drama / Rated 14A for mature thematics and coarse language / 85 min. As spirited Chicago schoolteacher Samantha Abbott (Cobie Smulders) adjusts to an unexpected pregnancy and sudden marriage, she finds new perspective […]

Pawn Sacrifice Screening: Monday, October 19, 7:00 pm, Uptown Theatre, Screen 1 Directed by Edward Zwick USA / 2015 / Biography/Drama / Rated PG for some language and sexual content / 116 min. In a gripping true story set during the height of the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer (Tobey Maguire) finds himself […]

Sunshine Superman Screening: Tuesday, October 20, 4:00 pm, Uptown Theatre, Screen 1 Written and Directed by Marah Strauch Norway/USA / 2014 / Documentary/Biography / Rated PG for coarse language and tobacco use / 102 min. A heart-racing documentary portrait of Carl Boenish, the father of the BASE jumping movement, whose early passion for skydiving led […]

Francofonia Screening: Tuesday, October 20, 7:00 pm, Uptown Theatre, Screen 1 Written and Directed by Alexander Sokurov / France/Germany/Netherlands / 2015 / Drama / Rated PG / French, German, Russian with English subtitles / 87 min. June 1940: as German troops marched into Paris, Jacques Jaujard and Count Franziskus Wolff Metternich worked together to protect […]