2025 Season
In our 19th year we’re trying something new with our programming. We’ll transition from bi-weekly to weekly screenings for our series, running them one month on and one month off. During the off months, we’ll feature special screenings or Contemporary World Cinema screenings.
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Art by Jacob Paris.
Summer of heat
As on-screen temperatures rise, so do tensions. This heat-induced desperation can be found across genres, decades, and countries. When brainstorming titles for this series, Calgary Cinematheque discussed erotic thrillers, heist films, prison dramas, buddy cop movies, white-knuckle roller coasters, and traditional dramas that all fell under the grip of summer heat. We settled on three wildly different but equally engaging American releases to put together our version of a summer blockbuster series. Beat the heat at Globe Cinema and enjoy our latest series, Summer of Heat.
Previously programmed
Art by Harbin Harrison.
MEXSORCISMO: Death, Blood, and Identity
When we think of Mexican culture, it’s often filtered through clichés—Day of the Dead, mariachis, tequila, and tacos. But beyond the familiar lies a much deeper landscape: one shaped by colonial legacy, religious fervor, social inequality, magical thinking, and the shadow of everyday violence.
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Throughout film history, there has always been a lack of movies where women take center stage and their daily lives are the main focus. It was a minor miracle that, back in 1980, we got four of these girl-power films in the same year. Calgary Cinematheque proudly brings together these four hard-to-find and underappreciated films on their 45th anniversary for our Girls Just Wanna Have Fun series.
Fabulous Fleischer Cartoons Restored w/Q&A
After almost 90 years, these classic cartoons have been restored from their original film elements by Fabulous Fleischer Cartoons Restored, an effort led by Max Fleischer's granddaughter Jane Reid. Calgary Cinematheque Society and Quickdraw Animation Society are proud to present six classic restored cartoons from the Fleischer catalogue.