Oscar Restrepo’s obsession with poetry has brought him no glory. Aging and erratic, he has succumbed to the cliché of the poet in the shadows. Meeting Yurlady, a teenage girl from humble roots, and helping her cultivate her talent brings some light to his days. But dragging her into the world of poets may not be the way.

An eccentric documentary crew treks across the vast roadways of Alberta, Canada, to document monuments, museums, and other roadside curios. Armed with only a loose idea of the project’s final form, the wayward director struggles to manage a slew of messy personal entanglements and rivalries embroiling her collaborators. They look for meaning in the landscape, but their search turns inward as they’re inspired to reckon with their own lives. Directed with a light touch, this charming cross-country odyssey is part revisionist Western and part road movie. Punctuated by moments of extraordinary tenderness and unexpected violence, it invokes poetry, magic, and prayer to imagine a radical, caring form of wildness on the Canadian frontier.

A deeply moving, multigenerational drama, All That’s Left of You follows a Palestinian teenager who gets swept into a protest in the Occupied West Bank and experiences a moment of violence that rocks his family. The film unfolds as his mother recounts the political and emotional threads that led to that fateful moment. Spanning seven decades, the film traces the hopes and heartaches of one uprooted family, bearing witness to the scars of dispossession and the enduring legacy of survival. Jordan's Official Selection for the 98th Academy Awards.

An avant-gutter psychedelic dream, Anything That Moves is an erotically charged, blood-soaked thriller set in the sticky corridors of Chicago. Shot on fleshy Super 16mm, director Alex Phillips' rust belt giallo continues on his trajectory of taboo-shattering horror cinema with this tense, funny, and absolutely twisted murder mystery. The film follows nubile sex worker Liam who bikes with his girlfriend—his partner in both business and pleasure—through the city delivering snacks and divine satisfaction to his love-hungry clients. Meanwhile, a serial killer's gory murders are piling up and all the evidence seems to point back to the lover's bed... Produced in collaboration with cult home video outfit Vinegar Syndrome, the film features stand-out supporting performances from erotic film legends Ginger Lynn (The Devil’s Rejects) and Nina Hartley (Boogie Nights). With an original instrumental score by Chicago-based artists Cue Shop calling to mind the lush orchestrations of Bruno Nicolai and lurid visuals by acclaimed cinematographer Hunter Zimny (The Scary of Sixty-First, Funny Pages), Anything That Moves provides an immersive throwback to 70s exploitation flicks.

Sylvia Hamilton and Claire Prieto’s contributions to Canadian film are invaluable, as their work explores and traces the lives, histories and perspectives of Black people in Canada. This February, the Winnipeg Film Group presents works by two pioneers of Black Canadian cinema. Born in 1950 in Beechville, Nova Scotia, in a Halifax community first settled by Black refugees from the War of 1812, Sylvia Hamilton is a multi-award-winning Canadian filmmaker, writer and poet. She is considered, alongside Roger McTair, Claire Prieto and Jennifer Hodge, a pioneer of Black Canadian cinema. Renowned and multi-award winning Nova Scotian filmmaker Sylvia D. Hamilton illuminates underrepresented stories from Black Nova Scotians in poignant vignettes, character portraits, and incisive testimonies, revealing a dark side to the often forgotten history of racial inequality and segregation of Black communities in Canada, from coast-to-coast. Clarie Prieto is a Trinidadian-Canadian TV and film producer, director and distributor whose work was vital to the birth and growth of Black Canadian cinema. Her films focus on Black history and culture and the experiences of Black Canadian women. Some Black Women (1975), which Prieto produced, is considered to be the first film ever made by a Black Canadian about the perspectives of the Black community in Canada. Prieto also played an important role in the Black Film and Video Network, whose goal, as she put it, was “to encourage and promote the development, production and distribution of the work of Black film and video-makers in Canada.” Black Mother Black Daughter Dir. Sylvia Hamilton and Claire Prieto 1989, Canada, 28 min Black Mother Black Daughter, was one of the first NFB productions ever created by an all-female crew. It chronicles the lives of Black women in Nova Scotia, their contributions to the home, the church and the community, and the strengths they pass on to their daughters. Older Stronger Wiser Dir. Claire Prieto 1989, Canada, 27 min In this short documentary, five Black women talk about their lives in rural and urban Canada between the 1920s and 1950s. What emerges is a unique history of Canada’s Black people and the legacy of their community elders. Produced by the NFB’s iconic Studio D. Speak It! From the Heart of Black Nova Scotia Dir. Sylvia Hamilton 1992, Canada, 28 min In their predominantly white high school in Halifax, a group of Black students face daily reminders of racism, ranging from abuse to exclusion. They work to establish a Cultural Awareness Youth Group, a vehicle for building pride and self-esteem through educational and cultural programs. With help from mentors, they discover the richness of their heritage and learn some of the ways they can begin to effect change.

On behalf of “oppressed bugs everywhere,” an inventive ant named Flik hires a troupe of warrior bugs to defend his bustling colony from a horde of freeloading grasshoppers led by the evil-minded Hopper.

The Winnipeg Film Group presents a program filled with lots of fun and dynamic animated short films for growing minds! This program is rated G. The Dreamer, Dir. John Paizs, 1976, Canada, 3 min The dreams of a frightened baby elephant, animated in the old Disney style, with the music of the Electric Light Orchestra. A Small Misunderstanding, Dir. Leslie Supnet, 2008, Canada, 1 min A hungry bird mistakes a piece of yarn for a worm entangled in the hair of a young man, which leads to a terrible accident. Automoto, Dir. Neil McInnes and Cathy McInnes, 2007, Canada, 5 min A tour de force, stop-motion animation re-imagining of the filmmaking process, Automoto takes place inside the ornately mechanized cinematic workshop of a wooden skeleton. Shot entirely using stop-motion animation, the film follows the movie-making travails of the skeleton. When he runs into a bad case of writer's block, only one of his factory workers can help him get back in touch with his muse. Seasick, Dir. Eva Cvijanovic, 2013, Canada, 3 min Soaking in the sand, a forlorn figure seeks the refuge of the sea. Drifting in the current, he enters an ethereal underwater world. Eva Cvijanovic's pen-and-ink drawings subtly conjure a dreamlike ambiance that pulses like a quiet tide in this animated maritime escapade set to traditional Croatian music. Sijjil, Dir. Yasmin P. Karim, 1995, Canada, 3 min This animation celebrates the dot. The Importance of Dreaming, Dir. Tara Audibert, 2017, Canada, 12 min Owl dreams of having his own family. He finds a skulk of foxes. Owl thinks they are beautiful and watches over them for many days and nights. One unique Fox notices Owl and watches him. Their forbidden love drives Fox and Owl away to try to find happiness together. Face | Time, Dir. Anita Lebeau, 2019, Canada, 3 min A study of the cyclical nature of time, as seen through portraits and the hands that create them. Walter, Dir. Curtis L. Wiebe, 2015, Canada, 5 min The Christmas misadventures of tiny Sasquatch extraordinaire, Walter! Baked Goods For Norman, Dir. Cooper D. (Roger) Wilson, 2015, Canada, 4 min Baked Goods For Norman was created to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of NFB filmmaker Norman McLaren. The film's unique colours and textures were created through the process of soaking the film in a variety of concoctions and then baking it in the oven. Gerald The Genie, Dir. Patrick Lowe, 1997, Canada, 8 min A cartoon about getting labeled. When Gerald innocently bounces into view, a group of off screen voices try to figure out who he is. Chroma-dance, Dir. James Pomeroy, 2007, Canada, 4 min Chroma-dance is a short abstract film that is an experiment in colour rhythm and movement, referencing both the visual music and materialist/conceptualist traditions in avant-garde filmmaking. Once Upon A Weiner, Dir. Adam Fuchs, 2000, Canada, 2 min A cartoon dog named Fred tries to catch himself a steak by using a fishing rod but instead his line gets caught on a truck. After getting dragged through town, he flies through a deli window and gets turned into a weiner. Cattle Call, Dir. Mike Maryniuk and Matthew Rankin, 2008, Canada, 4 min Cattle Call is a high-speed animated documentary about the art of livestock auctioneering. Structured around the mesmerizing talents of 2007 Man-Sask Auctioneer Champion, Tim Dowler, and using a variety of classic and avant-garde animation techniques (including stop-motion, cut-outs, open-exposures, hole-punching and rubbing lettraset directly on the celluloid) filmmakers Maryniuk and Rankin have tried to create images as dazzlingly abstract, absurd and adrenalizing as the incredible language of auctioneering itself. It is our hope that the film will induce near-bovine levels of dumbfoundedness in all those who gaze upon it.

Cursed by the evil fairy Maleficent when she was a baby, Princess Aurora is sent into hiding under protection from three good fairies. As she grows up far away, Maleficent becomes increasingly determined to seal the princess’s fate.

This February, from the visionary pioneer of animation, Max Fleischer, enjoy a collection of family-friendly restored animated romantic classics just in time for Valentine’s Day. Featuring Betty Boop & Bimbo the dog, Popeye the Sailor Man and more! Newly restored in high definition, these cartoons will look beautiful on the big screen! This program is rated G. Dancing on the Moon (1935, 7min) Honeymooning couples of various animal species take a rocket ship excursion to the moon. Spectacular lunar scenery. A Date to Skate (1938, 7min) Popeye takes Olive roller skating in a rink. She’s never skated before, so he has to teach her, and she’s not a quick learner. Before long Olive ends up outside the rink, rolling wildly out of control. Dizzy Red Riding Hood (1931, 6min) Betty Boop goes to Grandma’s through the woods despite wolf warnings; but Bimbo follows and gives the old story a new twist. Musical Memories (1935, 7 min) An elderly couple recall their life while listening to music on the radio. Koko’s Courtship (1928, 7min) Koko the Clown and Fitz the dog escape into the live-action world. Mask-a-Raid (1931, 7min) Betty Boop is queen of the Masquerade Ball where, among other antics, Bimbo and a lecherous old man vie for her affections. Poor Cinderella (1934, 11min) In the only Betty Boop color cartoon, Cinderella (Betty) goes to the ball thanks to her fairy godmother. Later, only her foot fits the glass slipper. Jack and the Beanstalk (1931, 7min) Bimbo climbs a beanstalk to find Betty Boop captured by the giant.

In a time of superstition and magic, a young apprentice hunter, Robyn Goodfellowe, journeys to Ireland with her father to wipe out the last wolf pack. While exploring the forbidden lands outside the city walls, Robyn befriends a free-spirited girl, Mebh, a member of a mysterious tribe rumored to have the ability to transform into wolves by night. As they search for Mebh’s missing mother, Robyn uncovers a secret that draws her further into the enchanted world of the Wolfwalkers and risks turning into the very thing her father is tasked to destroy.

Merging elements from Dracula’s Daughter (1936) with André Breton’s surrealist novel Nadja (1928), and fusing shimmering black-and-white 35mm with hallucinatory Pixelvision video, Michael Almereyda’s (Tesla, Experimenter, Hamlet) acclaimed cult film follows young vampire Nadja (Elina Löwensohn) as she returns to NYC to avenge her father’s death at the hands of Dr. Van Helsing (Peter Fonda). Executive produced by David Lynch. New 4K restoration of the director’s cut. An Arbelos Films and Grasshopper Release.

Ramona works in a concert agency and is sent after the rock band 'Children of Paradise' who have disappeared. Since she can't drive, she has to take the train and bus and eventually hitchhike. On her way through the Canadian back country she meets the weirdest people - and learns to drive, which leads to... roadkill. A rock'n'road movie about a girl who learns to drive. Welcome to Cult-O-Rama, our monthly screening series exploring beloved sleaze, trash, and underground cinema! A celebration of bad taste curated and introduced by Cinematheque Film Programmer Olivia Norquay. Presented in partnership with Sookram’s Brewing Co. Generously sponsored by IATSE 856 Manitoba.

As he mulls over the budget for his new film, director-gangster Clem sends his artist cronies after an old comrade rumoured to be a leaker.

Vahid, an unassuming mechanic, has a chance encounter with Eghbal, a man he strongly suspects to be his former sadistic jailhouse captor. Panicked, Vahid gathers several former prisoners, all abused by that same captor, to try and confirm Eghbal's identity. As the bickering group drives around Tehran with the captive, they must confront how far to take matters into their own hands with their presumed tormentor. From master filmmaker Jafar Panahi comes a searing moral thriller that engages with complex ideas about the uncertainty of the truth and the choice between revenge and mercy, as Panahi turns his personal dissonance into a profound and galvanizing work of art.

The Winnipeg Film Group (WFG) is delighted to partner with Lights On the Exchange Festival to present “Lights on the Catalogue”, a two-part initiative featuring a lightbox installation and short film program. Lights On the Exchange is a public winter arts festival in Winnipeg’s Exchange District running from January 21 through March 21, 2026. On opening night of the festival, three lightboxes will illuminate the WFG windows along King Street (Artspace Building, #100 Arthur Street). These lightboxes will feature film stills from Plant Dreaming Deep by Charlotte Clermont, Four Seasons Bouquet by Emma Roufs, and On the Bus by Ryan Steel. The lightboxes will be on display until the end of the festival. The “Lights on the Catalogue” short film program screens on Friday, February 13, 2026 at 7:00pm at the WFG’s Dave Barber Cinematheque. Consisting of 13 short films from the WFG Distribution Collection, “Lights on the Catalogue” features a majority of films by Manitoba filmmakers, with select films by directors from Ontario and Quebec. This program is rated PG. Plant Dreaming Deep Dir. Charlotte Clermont, 2018, Canada, 8 min Strange, dreamy landscapes hide emotional moods and states of transitions through thick textures and VHS glitches. Waterfilm Dir. Dan Browne, 2007, Canada, 7 min The Peak Experience Dir. Leslie Supnet, 2018, Canada, 8 min A meditation experience to unlock and reconcile with one's past in an effort to imagine a future actualized self. kauaʻi ʻōʻō Dir. Samy Benammar, 2023, Canada, 4 min In 1987, the song of the kauaʻi ʻōʻō, an endemic bird of Hawaii, was recorded for the last time. To the rhythm of its song, super 8 images build a chaotic landscape. SWEAT Dir. Kristin Snowbird, 2016, Canada, 5 min A re-creation of my journey to the sweat lodge ceremony through sound image and narration. Echoes Dir. Jaimz Asmundson, 2015, Canada, 6 min A process-based, experimental film about loss, and the parallel between memory and the physical self: how it evolves, degrades and disintegrates. Bees & Space Dir. Trinity Linklater, 2019, Canada, 3 min Personal reflections on those we love and the impact they have on our lives. Isle of Hermaphrodites Dir. Noam Gonick, 2010, Canada, 4 min The film focuses on the social ecology of Highway 59, the road to the Beaconia Research Station in Manitoba. It was shot on Super 8 film on a rainy day in late August, and the ‘script’ flew out of the truck on the third shot, but it didn't seem to matter. The soundtrack is by The Wilderness of Manitoba, a band that was inspired in part by The Wildflowers of Manitoba, an installation that was also shot at the Beaconia Research Station by Noam Gonick and Luis Jacob. The colour bars in the movie are from Michael Morris and Vincent Trasov’s Colour Bar Research Project. The title comes from a 14th century satirical French novel about a shipwrecked explorer who stumbles upon a lost island civilization. Hangover Dir. Farrah Murdock, 2023, Canada, 4 min 3:07 | Experimental | Colour | March 2023 Hangover explores the anxiety creatives may feel from the self-expectation of constant creation. Four Seasons Bouquet Dir. Emma Roufs, 2022, Canada, 4 min Nature and body at work over the course of a still yet disorderly year on a foreign land. On the Bus Dir. Ryan Steel, 2018, Canada, 4 min A meditation on the buses, people and ghosts of Winnipeg Transit. Snowshoes Dir. Milos Mitrovic, 2014, Canada, 1 min Walking for hours in the snow puts you in a trance. The Last of the Nepinaks Dir. Darryl Nepinak, 2005, Canada, 3 min A nephew's journey

At the dawn of the modern era, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (Gael García Bernal) navigated a fleet of ships to Southeast Asia, attempting the first voyage across the vast Pacific Ocean. On reaching the Malay Archipelago, the crew pushed to the brink of madness in the harshness of the high seas and overwhelming natural beauty of the islands, Magellan's obsession leads to a rebellion and reckoning with the consequences of power. A vast, globe-spanning epic from Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz (Norte, The End of History), Magellan presents the colonization of the Philippines as a primal, shocking encounter with the unknown and a radical retelling of European narratives of discovery and exploration.

Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin attempts to achieve success in show business by stalking his idol, a late night talk-show host who craves his own privacy. Please note that Ten-Passes and Unlimited Passes are not applicable to this screening. Join us for McDonald at The Movies, where comedian, star and co-founder of Kids in the Hall, Kevin McDonald presents a film handpicked from the archives of comic history. Generously sponsored by IATSE 856 Manitoba.

Uniting from across continents to bring representation to the sport they love, Indigenous Rising laces up their skates to claim their space on the roller derby track. Indigenous Rising is the first team in roller derby history to break the barriers of representing a single country at the Roller Derby World Cup – igniting a movement that pulsates throughout the sport and within each other. Rising Through the Fray follows the team as it welcomes a new generation of players set on changing the face of roller derby – a sport that champions female empowerment and inclusivity but lacks diversity. With a compassionate and candid lens, filmmaker Courtney Montour weaves energetic on-track game play with tender moments in teammates’ daily lives as skaters from over 30 Indigenous Nations navigate and learn each other’s play styles at tournaments and find strength within each other to compete and skate onto the track with pride. Intimate portraits of teammates Sour Cherry, Krispy and Hawaiian Blaze reveal stories of displacement and disconnection from their culture and identities and the journey of finding belonging within team Indigenous Rising. Rising Through the Fray offers a poignant exploration of resiliency, healing and reconnection of a roller derby family with a bond that goes beyond sport.

3 Hours of Retro Cartoons, Commercials and PSAs – and all the cereal you can eat! Remember Saturday mornings? Kids today may not realize the significance of the Saturday morning ritual, but once upon a time, we had to wait a whole week to get our cartoon fix, and when we got it, we tended to binge. Well – welcome to the Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat Cereal Cartoon Party - that special time when kids and kids-at-heart get to relive the exciting Saturday Morning ritual of non-stop retro cartoons, and binge on the multi-colored sugary cereals that used to be a part of every “balanced” breakfast! The cartoon lineup is always a mystery, but expect to see monsters, sci-fi, sleuths, superheroes and all kinds of 2D silliness, both faves and obscurities spanning the '50s through the '90s, all punctuated with vintage commercials, PSAs and station IDs for a 3-hour trip down memory lane! So get ready for a sugar rush and an explosion of nostalgia all wrapped up in one candy-coated package. Dairy free options available! Curated by David Bertrand

In one of Verhoeven's most provocative films, Detective Nick Curran (Michael Douglas) becomes ensnared in a web of sex, lies, and violence, all leading back to Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone), a seductive, mysterious crime novelist. As the bodies pile up and hidden obsessions are revealed, Curran begins to doubt his investigatory instincts and give in to his baser ones. Join us for our Staff Picks series, where our Winnipeg Film Group staff select and introduce new and old favourites. This month’s selection was chosen by Cinematheque Box Office Manager Julianne Taron. Generously sponsored by IATSE 856 Manitoba.

The Red Shoes, the singular fantasia from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, is cinema’s quintessential backstage drama, as well as one of the most glorious Technicolor feasts ever concocted for the screen. Moira Shearer is a rising star ballerina torn between an idealistic composer and a ruthless impresario intent on perfection. Featuring outstanding performances, blazingly beautiful cinematography by Jack Cardiff, Oscar-winning sets and music, and an unforgettable, hallucinatory central dance sequence, this beloved classic, dazzlingly restored, stands as an enthralling tribute to the life of the artist. Join us for our Staff Picks series, where our Winnipeg Film Group staff select and introduce new and old favourites. This month’s selection was chosen by Distribution Director Jillian Groening. Generously sponsored by IATSE 856 Manitoba.

A poetic story of growth, death and the choices that define us, The Business of Fancydancing reunites Spokane Reservation best friends Aristotle Joseph (Gene Tagaban) and Seymour Polatkin (Evan Adams, Smoke Signals) sixteen years after their high school graduation.

Anna, an artist, and Magnús, a fisherman, live with their three children and charismatic sheepdog in the quiet grandeur of the Icelandic countryside. As the fractures in their marriage come to the surface, the couple try to hold onto the afterimages of a life together and make sense of a deep and lingering devotion. Filmmaker Hlynur Pálmason (Godland) brings surprising humor and emotional weight to this gorgeous, intimate, and brilliantly expansive scenes from a marriage, amidst the majestic backdrop of the changing seasons.

When her daughter falls into a temporary coma after an accident at her home in Winnipeg, Sara, an overbearing Korean mother travels from Seoul to Canada and vows to keep her daughter safe forever by catfishing a husband for her online.

After the French New Wave, the sexual revolution, and May ’68 came The Mother and the Whore, the legendary, autobiographical magnum opus by Jean Eustache that captured a disillusioned generation navigating the post-idealism 1970s within the microcosm of a ménage à trois. The aimless, clueless, Parisian pseudo-intellectual Alexandre (Jean-Pierre Léaud) lives with his tempestuous older girlfriend, Marie (Bernadette Lafont), and begins a dalliance with the younger, sexually liberated Veronika (Françoise Lebrun, Eustache’s own former lover), leading to a volatile open relationship marked by everyday emotional violence and subtle but catastrophic shifts in power dynamics. Transmitting his own sex life to the screen with a startling immediacy, Eustache achieves an intimacy so deep it cuts.

Set in a remote Chilean mining town in 1982, Diego Céspedes’ dazzling debut feature follows young Lidia, who grows up within a vibrant queer household led by drag performers and trans women. When a mysterious illness—rumored to spread through the gaze between men—sows fear and hysteria, the community becomes the target of suspicion and violence. Through Lidia’s eyes, Céspedes crafts a haunting allegory of love, myth, and prejudice that reimagines the early AIDS era as a queer western with poetic intimacy and desert-dry surrealism. Winner of the Un Certain Regard Award at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo recalls the emotional vibrancy of Almodóvar and continues Chile’s proud legacy of queer cinema—marking Céspedes as one of the most exciting new voices in world cinema.