A giddy work of dissident art, No One Knows About Persian Cats follows two recently imprisoned musicians speeding around Tehran on the back of a motorbike, attempting to secure travel documents for a gig in London.

The Happiness of the Katakuris is Japanese provocateur Takashi Miike’s deliciously bizarre song-and-dance remake of the darkly comic Korean film The Quiet Family, telling the story of a family of innkeepers whose guests keep dying and need to be disposed of.

Legendary Egyptian director Youssef Chahine’s Destiny is an opulent large-scale musical spectacle revolving around 12th century Arab Andalusian philosopher Averröes.

Office is Hong Kong director Johnnie To’s gorgeously art-directed and wholly intoxicating star-studded widescreen musical set before, during, and after the 2008 global financial crisis.

Sandrine Bonnaire and Isabelle Huppert become fast friends with deadly results in La cérémonie, master auteur Claude Chabrol’s sinister black comedy inspired by the same true events as Jean Genet’s The Maids.

Isabelle Huppert flexes her comic muscles in Serge Bozon’s Tip Top, a topical madcap screwball detective story set in a suburb of the northern French city of Lille.

One of her earliest star turns, The Lacemaker features Isabelle Huppert playing a reserved young hairstylist who experiences the tragic fall-out from an abortive first love.

In Catherine Breillat’s autobiographical Abuse of Weakness, Isabelle Huppert plays a film director progressively scammed out of a sizeable amount of money by a charming con man, who takes advantage of her after her debilitating stroke.

In The Piano Teacher, Isabelle Huppert gives one of cinema's most fearless performances as a piano instructor at a Viennese conservatory whose repressed fantasy life precipitates a series of increasingly aberrant sexual outbursts.

Isabelle Huppert gives as good as she gets in Loulou, Maurice Pialat’s film of love as battleground.

A profound and emotionally resonant film telling the intersecting stories of four characters in the north-east of China, An Elephant Sitting Still is both the debut and, tragically, the final feature film by filmmaker and novelist Hu Bo, who tragically passed away at the age of twenty-nine during postproduction on the film. 

A highly episodic experiment set in Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine, Donbass is the latest narrative feature from the controversial Sergei Loznitsa, the Ukraine’s preeminent contemporary filmmaker.    

Made in the mode of his ephocal series Histoire(s) du cinéma, combining fervidly intercut archival footage and a bracing deluge of oracular commentary, The Image Book finds Jean-Luc Godard making peerless art at the apex of a peerless career.

Winner of the FIPRESCI prize at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, Burning is a loose adaption of the 1983 Haruki Murakami story “Barn Burning.” Informed by what director Lee Chang-dong has described as his growing concern with “the rage of young people,” the film presents a simmering love triangle and pyromaniacal acting out within the context of a corroding social fabric.

Mohammad Rasoulof’s Cannes-winning A Man of Integrity is a powerful film that smartly shows how corruption can take hold in society aided by men who lurk in the shadows and pull the strings.

We're heading back to 1967 for our final screening of the season! In The Young Girls of Rochefort, twin sisters Delphine (Catherine Deneuve) and Solange (Françoise Dorléac) both look for love when a fair comes to their sleepy port town. Join us for this charming French film that pays homage to Golden Age Hollywood musicals.  

State of the world getting you down? Friend, it could be so much worse. Come spend pre-Christmas Christmas with Calgary Cinematheque, FOUR Marx Brothers, Leo “Golden Boy” McCarey, and a little movie called Duck Soup.