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Bye Bye Tiberias (2023)
Sep
11
7:00 p.m.19:00

Bye Bye Tiberias (2023)

At 23, acclaimed actress Hiam Abbass (Succession, Ramy, The Visitor) left her Palestinian village of Deir Hanna — and the grandmother, mother, and sisters she grew up with — to pursue acting in France. Three decades later, her daughter, filmmaker Lina Soualem, joins her on a journey to retrace their family’s history: from childhood summers by Lake Tiberias, where Abbass’s grandparents were expelled in 1948, to the shifting landscapes of their ancestral home. Blending family archives, historical footage, and intimate testimony, Bye Bye Tiberias becomes a tender portrait of four generations of women bound by memory, shaped by separation, and sustained by enduring connection.

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 Caligula: The Ultimate Cut (2024)
Feb
13
7:00 p.m.19:00

Caligula: The Ultimate Cut (2024)

In 2024, art historian Thomas Negovan undertook an ambitious project to “rescue” Caligula’s reputation. Using hours of previously unreleased footage, Negovan re-edited the film to restore Gore Vidal’s original vision of perverse power. Featuring the talents of Helen Mirren as Empress Caesonia, Peter O’Toole and John Gielgud as Emperor Tiberius and his advisor Nerva, and Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange) as Caligula, Calgary Cinematheque proudly presents the latest incarnation of Rome’s most infamous tyrant: Caligula: The Ultimate Cut.nauguration of the most infamous tyrant of Rome, Caligula: The Ultimate Cut.

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