RDisturbing scenes
After the disappearance of her girlfriend a young trans woman comes into contact with an ancient evil.
PG-13
Classroom 5 Productions, a Charlottetown based film production company, is showcasing five short films created over the last year. Join us for a premiere of these films, follow by a Q&A by their creators. PARASOMNIA When a severely depressed woman is given an experimental miracle drug, she must contend with the side-effects as she is studied in secret for the drug’s true purpose: awakening another self within. MESS OF FLOWERS When a best selling author is kidnapped, he must write his next best seller to pay his many debts or lose a finger for every idea that doesn’t work, all while his ideas playfully act themselves out around him in an abandoned potato warehouse. ASTERIA An interstellar traveler breaks into a PEI man’s house on a cold winter night. THE LAST COBBLER Fading in the shadow of massive show corporations, the last cobbler cobbles onward, reflecting on the past he lived through and the future that has left him behind. THE WHITE FEATHER In 1915, Two Canadian soldiers, lost on their way to the frontline in Ypres, Belgium, come under sniper fire and must decide between survival or victory.
RViolence, strong language, disturbing scenes
ALIEN During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed. DARK STAR In John Carpenter's first feature film, a group of scientists are sent on a mission to destroy unstable planets. Twenty years into their mission, they have to battle their alien mascot as well as a “sensitive” and intelligent bombing device that starts to question the meaning of its existence.
Rfor pervasive depiction of anti-social behavior of juveniles,including violence, substance abuse,sexuality and language
Lonely residents of a tornado-stricken Ohio town wander the deserted landscape trying to fulfill their boring, nihilistic lives.
NR
Hippo examines the coming-of-age of two step-siblings: Hippo, a video-game addicted teenager and Buttercup, a Hungarian Catholic immigrant with a love of classical music and Jesus. Like the Ancient Greek Aphrodite, Buttercup's love is unrequited by a brother who prefers to indulge the art of war and chaos. The result is a hormone-fueled, tragicomic waking nightmare that must be seen to be believed.
NR
A young professor struggles in her marriage, only to meet Matt, a man from her past who wanders onto her university campus.
TBC
Leonard Fife, one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam, shares all his secrets to de-mythologize his mythologized life.
Rfor violent and sexual images
When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patients' dreams is stolen, all Hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist, Paprika, can stop it.
NC-17for nudity and erotic sexuality throughout, and for some graphic language and sexual violence
Nomi, a young drifter, arrives in Las Vegas to become a dancer and soon sets about clawing and pushing her way to become the top of the Vegas showgirls.
PGfor fantasy action violence, language, some thematic material and smoking
A young boy befriends a giant robot from outer space that a paranoid government agent wants to destroy.
Rfor language and nudity.
The Last Showgirl, a poignant film of resilience, rhinestones and feathers, stars Pamela Anderson as Shelly, a glamorous showgirl who must plan for her future when her show abruptly closes after a 30-year run. Directed by Gia Coppola, The Last Showgirl co-stars Oscar®, SAG® Award and Golden Globe® winner Jamie Lee Curtis as Shelly’s best friend, who brings her own unique interpretation and brilliance to the story, Dave Bautista, Brenda Song, Kiernan Shipka and Billie Lourd. Written by Kate Gersten, the film is produced by Robert Schwartzman, Natalie Farrey and Gia Coppola and features a new original song “Beautiful That Way,” sung by pop superstar Miley Cyrus, produced by Academy Award nominee Andrew Wyatt and written by Wyatt, Cyrus and Lykke Li.
A young woman who is unknowingly in possession of a legendary “cursed tape” takes a collection of old video tapes to a video store. She and the store owner re-awake its curse, which leads to the release of a raft of cinematic villains.
R
A research facility in Antarctica comes across an alien force that can become anything it touches with 100% accuracy. The members must now find out who's human and who's not before it's too late.