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We have confirmation of our Winter/Spring dates 2026.
January 21, le 21 janvier: La venue de l'avenir, (The Colours of Time) France
February 18, le 18 février Sentimental Value
March 25, le 25 mars The Penguin Lessons
April 22, le 22 avril The Presidents Cake
The remaining films as arranged with Film Circuit will be confirmed soon:
Le programme convenu avec le circuit de cinéma sera confirmé prochainement.
The cinemas remain the same: Cinema Two for 2:30pm, Cinema One for 5:30pm
Four international films for $50 (cash or cheque please)
Thanks to everyone for a successful renewal!
Merci à tous pour un renouvellement réussi !
January 21, 2026 le 21 janvier
La venue de l'avenir (The Colours of Time)
Aujourd’hui, en 2024, une trentaine de personnes issues d’une même famille apprennent qu’ils vont recevoir en héritage une maison abandonnée depuis des années.
In 2024, a family inherits an abandoned house and is plunged back to 1895 when four of them, Seb, Abdel, Céline and Guy, discover the existence of Adèle, their ancestor who left her native Normandy for Paris.
| Directed by Cédric Klapisch | |
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| Written by Cédric Klapisch, Santiago Amigorena
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February 18, le 18 février
Sentimental Value
After film director Gustav Borg and psychotherapist Sissel end their troubled marriage, Gustav uses the divorce as an excuse to leave Norway and focus on his career. Sissel raises daughters Nora and Agnes in their Oslo home, which Gustav's family has owned for generations. In adulthood, Agnes works as a historianand is married with a son. Nora becomes a fairly successful actress, although she suffers from crippling bouts of stage fright.
After Sissel dies, Gustav returns to Norway to reclaim the house.
On 10 April 2025, Sentimental Value won the Palme d'Or at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, where it had its world premiere on 21 May 2025 and received a 19-minute standing ovation. The film's trailer was released on 1 July.
Agnes et Nora voient leur père débarquer après de longues années d’absence. Réalisateur de renom, il propose à Nora, comédienne de théâtre, de jouer dans son prochain film, mais celle-ci refuse avec défiance. Il propose alors le rôle à une jeune star hollywoodienne, ravivant des souvenirs de famille douloureux.
| Norwegian | Affeksjonsverdi |
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| Directed by | Joachim Trier |
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March 25, le 25 mars The Penguin Lessons
Disillusioned itinerant educator Tom Michell arrives at St. George's College, an exclusive boys school in Argentina, to teach English and coach rugby. He befriends his housekeeper Maria, her granddaughter Sofia, a political activist protesting the escalating 1976 Argentine coup d'état, and St. George's science teacher Tapio.
Despite Headmaster Buckle's full confidence in Michell's background, the latter struggles to keep his class attentiveand well-behaved.
Un Anglais part travailler dans une école en Argentine en 1976. S'attendant à une vie facile, il découvre au contraire une nation divisée - et une classe de jeunes garçons turbulents. Lorsqu'il trouve un petit pingouin échoué sur une plage souillée par le pétrole, sa vie va en être bouleversée.
| Directed by | Peter Cattaneo |
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| Screenplay by | Jeff Pope |
| Based on | The Penguin Lessons by Tom Michell |
| Countries | United Kingdom Spain |
April 22, le 22 avril The Presidents Cake 
The President's Cake (Arabic: مملكة القصب) is a 2025 drama filmwritten and directed by Hasan Hadi. It stars Baneen Ahmad Nayyef, Sajad Mohamad Qasem, Waheed Thabet Khreibat and Rahim AlHaj.
The film is set in Iraq under President Saddam Hussein in the 1990s, after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and during the period of economic sanctions by western countries that followed.[4] Nine-year-old Lamia must gather ingredients to bake a mandatory cake to celebrate the president's birthday, or face punishment at her school. She is poor, and lives with her grandmother Bibi and her cockerel Hindi in the Mesopotamian Marshes.
Dans l’Irak de Saddam Hussein, Lamia, 9 ans, se voit confier la lourde tâche de confectionner un gâteau pour célébrer l’anniversaire du président. Sa quête d’ingrédients, accompagnée de son ami Saeed, bouleverse son quotidien.
| Arabic | مملكة القصب |
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| Directed and written by | Hasan Hadi |
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| Language | Arabic (Iraqi dialect) |
From the Fall Series 2025
September 17 Septembre, Shepherds
Sur un coup de tête, Mathyas troque sa vie de publicitaire à Montréal pour celle de berger en Provence. Il découvre un métier éreintant et des éleveurs souvent à bout.
A young Montreal advertising executive quits his job and travels to become a Provençal shepherd. Set in the French Alps, the scenery is breathtaking and the challenges for the young novice shepherds are intense.
October 15 Octobre, Blue Sky Jo
Années 80, Québec. Hélène, n'a que dix ans, trois soeurs, un père très occupé à être malheureux et une mère compréhensive, mais stricte et Monsieur Roger, un vieil homme bourru qui cache un coeur tendre.
A gruff old neighbor and a little girl from Limoilou, blessed with a fertile imagination, embark on a heartwarming journey to bring joy back into her father's life.
November 12 novembre, Can I get a Witness?
Starring Sandra Oh in a compelling performance, there is a reality where in order to save our planet, difficult sacrifices have to be made.
Avec Sandra Oh dans une performance captivante, il existe une réalité où, pour sauver notre planète, des sacrifices difficiles doivent être faits.
Please Note:
We are still trying to consolidate both subscriber and wait lists.
Please make sure you keep us updated if you change your phone/internet contact info. (If you have not updated your email contact our update email blasts can not be delivered.)
Please check your junk mail ocasionally to make sure you are getting our mail-out!
Rappel important :
Nous travaillons à la consolidation de nos listes de abonnés et de personnes en attente, et nous avons besoin de votre aide !
Veuillez mettre à jour vos informations de contact si vous avez changé de numéro de téléphone ou de coordonnées internet. Si votre adresse e-mail n’est pas à jour, vous risquez de manquer nos informations importantes, car nos envois par e-mail ne seront pas livrés.
De plus, vérifiez régulièrement votre courrier indésirable pour vous assurer que vous recevez nos envois. Nous ne voulons pas que vous manquiez nos communications !
Merci de rester connecté !
Looking forward to seeing you at the films!
Films from Last Winter/Spring:
Wed 26-Feb-2025
YOUNG WERTHER (confirmed)
Werther, a carefree and charming young writer, stumbles across the love of his life only to find out she's engaged.
Director/writers: José Avelino Gilles Corbett Lourenço
Country: Canada Language: English
Wed 19-Mar-2025
Le temps d'un été (One Summer)
Marc Côté, aumônier de rue et curé depuis plus de 25 ans, hérite d'un domaine sur une vaste propriété dans le Bas-Saint-Laurent. Il décide d'y amener les itinérants qui vivent dans son église pour l'été afin que ceux-ci profitent de vacances salvatrices loin de la ville. .
For more than 25 years, Marc Côté, street chaplain and parish priest, has lived with the poor and the homeless. One day, Marc inherits a property and decides to take them on a vacation.
Director Louise Archambault. Writer Marie Vien
Country of origin Canada Language French
Stars Patrice Robitaille Sylvio Archambault Victoria Barkoff
Wed 30-Apr-2025
SUPERBOYS OF MALEGAON (confirmed)
The journey of an aspiring filmmaker as he bands together his group of friends to make films for his remote home town, Malegaon.
Language: Hindi
Recent films:
Les hommes de ma mère(My mother's Men)
À la mort de sa mère , Elsie apprend que celle-ci lui a laissé une mission en héritage . Elsie, a woman who is fulfilling her recently deceased mother Anne's wishes that she finds each of her ex-husbands.
Director: Anik Jean,
Starring: Léane Labrèche-Dor, Colm Feore, Marc Messier, Patrick Huard, François Lambert, Benoît Gouin
Country: Canada
Runtime: 2 hours, 6 minutes
Irena's Vow
Through the eyes of a strong-willed woman comes the remarkable story of Irena Gut, as she risked her life to save a generation of Jews from the atrocities of the Holocaust.
Varsovie, 1939. Lorsque les nazis envahissent la Pologne, l'infirmière Irena Gut risque tout pour sauver une douzaine de réfugiés juifs en les cachant dans la maison de son patron, un commandant nazi.
Director: Louise Archambault
Writer: Dan Gordon
Starring:Sophie Nélisse, Dougray Scott, Andrej Seweryn
Countries of origin: Poland, Canada
Language: English
Filming Locations: Konstancin-Jeziorna, Mazowieckie, Poland
Runtime: 2 hours, 1 minute
Wed 29-Jan-2025
Sage Homme (The Midwife)
Après avoir raté le concours d’entrée en médecine, Léopold intègre par défaut l’école des sage-femmes en cachant la vérité à son entourage.
Failing to make the highly competitive cut to get into med school, 19-year-old Leopold chooses to enroll in the university’s midwifery program, the only path left open to him to become a doctor.
Director: Jennifer Devoldère
Writers: Jennifer Devoldère Cécile Sellam
Starring: Karin Viard, Melvin Boomer, Steve Tientcheu
Country: France. Language: French
Previous shows:
Director/writer: Josh Margolin
Starring:June Squib, Richard Rountree, Fred Hechinger
Countries: Switzerland, United States
le 24 janvier, January 24, 2024
C'est Magnifique
Pierre, la quarantaine, a toujours vécu loin des désordres du monde, entre ses abeilles et ses hibiscus. Lorsque ses parents disparaissent, c’est tout son univers qui bascule : il découvre qu’il a été adopté et doit apprendre à survivre dans une société moderne qu’il n’a jamais connue.
When Pierre learns that his parents are not his parents, he wants to find out who he is and where he comes from. Director Clovis Cornillac
le 21 février, February 21, 2024
Anatomie d'une chute Anatomy of a Fall
March 20, le 20 mars 2024
The Peasants La jeune fille et les paysans
Created by the same animation that brought us Loving Vincent, Jagna is a young woman determined to forge her own path in a late 19th century Polish village
Au XIXe siècle, dans un village polonais en ébullition, la jeune Jagna, promise à un riche propriétaire terrien, se révolte.
le 17 avril, April 17 2024
Divertimento
À 17 ans, Zahia Ziouani rêve de devenir cheffe d’orchestre. Sa sœur jumelle, Fettouma, violoncelliste professionnelle.
At 17, Zahia Ziouani dreams of becoming a conductor while Fettouma, her twin sister, a professional cellist from the working class city of Seine Saint Denis, France.
Our Fall Series was
September 13th, le 13 septembre On est fait pour s'entendre (Hear Me Out)
A fifty-year old history professor who discovers that he's losing his hearing and starts having a recluse life because of his handicap. His encounter with Claire, a widow whose daughter is mute, will help him open up again to the world.
October 18 le 18 octobre Past Lives
Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrested apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Twenty years later, they are reunited for one fateful week
le 8 novembre, November 8 Adieu Monsieur Haffman
After the Nazi occupation of Paris, a talented jeweller, Joseph Haffmann, arranges for his family to flee the city and offers one of his employee the chance to take over his store until the conflict subsides.
Times will remain the same: 2:30pm and 5:30pm.
Les projections se feront à 14h30 et 17h30 pour nos abonnés.
dial/composer le 905 735-8470
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The Seaway Mall Cineplex
800 Niagara Street, Welland
800, rue Niagara, Welland
All foreign-language screenings are subtitled in English.
Entry to our regular films is by subscription only.
L'entrée à nos films réguliers est uniquement par abonnement.
Our supporters and sponsors:
merci beaucoup à tous nos partenaires qui nous permettent de visionner les films
Cinéfest Niagara gratefully acknowledges our partnership with Film Circuit, presented by TIFF, and its sponsors and supporters.
For more information about Film Circuit and to view a full list of their sponsors and supporters, please visit www.tiff.net/filmcircuit
