Tears of Laughter: Feel-Good Dramatic Comedies about Friendship and Love
June 14 at 7:00 PM Pay What You Can Buy Tickets CONTENT WARNING: Nudity and on-screen depictions of sex Bounce DIRECTOR: Elizabeth Hicks • NL • 10 minutes Darcy is a fifteen-year-old mix of energy, perfectionism, and insecurity. When an ultra-cute boy from her cadet corps insists that she attend that night’s Trampoline Social, […]
The Edge of Reality: Mind-Bending Films after Dark
June 14 at 9:30 PM Pay What You Can Buy Tickets CONTENT WARNING: Depictions of violence, torture Calamus Variations DIRECTOR: Kenneth J Harvey • NL • 9 minutes The final installment of Newfoundland filmmaker Kenneth J. Harvey’s experimental short series inspired by Walt Whitman. The film features a score by Andrew Staniland, played […]
Creative Resilience: Stories about Artists and the Power of Art
June 15 at 3:30 PM Pay What You Can Buy Tickets After Heather DIRECTOR: Clint Butler • NL • 22 minutes Before suffering a severe traumatic brain injury overseas, Heather Williams was a rising Canadian dancer. This poignant documentary reveals a portrait of Williams’ lifelong love of dance, her resilient creative spirit, and […]
Undercurrents: Moving Dramatic Shorts
June 15 at 7:00 PM Pay What You Can Buy Tickets Ballad of North Whale DIRECTOR: Ehsan Mohammadi • NL • 13 minutes After Raam, an international student, moves to Newfoundland to pursue his dreams and education, his housemate Joseph loses his job amidst the global pandemic. As they set out on a whale […]
Three Promises and others: True stories about roots, survival, and legacy
June 15 at 1:00 PM Pay What You Can Buy Tickets In the Whiteness DIRECTOR: Niya Abdullahi • Ontario • 4 minutes In the Whiteness is a poetic exploration of language, land, and identity through the eyes of a Harari-Ethiopian woman displaced by war. Now living in Canada, she uses poetry and movement […]
Reflecting on Truth: Vivid Stories about Memory and Reconstructing the Past
June 16 at 3:30 PM Pay What You Can Buy Tickets Cumha DIRECTOR: Elena Horgan • Ireland • 6 minutes In this moving experimental documentary, a young Irish filmmaker contemplates her Gaelic roots, and their intersection with language, land, and identity. A Fish Story DIRECTOR: Yasmine Majchrzak, Michael Peers • NL • […]
Plan 709 from Outer Space
June 16 at 7:00 PM Pay What You Can Buy Tickets Plan 709 from Outer Space The Nickel’s collaborative fan remake challenge of Ed Wood's so-bad-it's-good classic! It’s not a contest, it’s open to everyone and registration is open until the challenge is over on June 15. Sign up and you'll receive a […]
Blackout
June 21 at 6:30 PM General: $25.00 Senior/Student: $20.00 Buy Tickets Blackout: A coming-of-age musical that delves into the lives of high school students grappling with LGBTQ identity and homophobia. Follow the journey of Chris and his friends as they navigate the complexities of self-acceptance and prejudice, set against a backdrop of catchy […]
The Arch Method presents: Scandal in the Suburbs
June 28 at 7:00 PM June 28 at 9:30 PM June 29 at 7:00 PM June 29 at 9:30 PM 18+ General: $39.00 Buy Tickets In a small suburb, just like any other suburb, a short trip from any major city you'll find a tight-knit group of friends. Each with their own unique personalities […]
Party Pirate
July 5-6 at 7:00 PM General: $16.00 Buy Tickets Directed by Ruth Lawrence, Produced by Jennifer Hawley, Written by Luke Lawrence Starring Luke Lawrence, Che Durena, Sima Sepeheri, Joel Thomas Hynes, Patricia Andrews, Mary Walsh and other swashbucklers. In this heartwarming comedy, Tommy is a young actor/dishwasher with dyslexia who can’t […]