What's On in Calgary

Join Contemporary Calgary, Pink Flamingo and Fonda Fora for their presentation of In the Mood for Love as part of their Perspective Film Series. Bring a friend and enjoy the film with a cocktails & canapés package for two and a complimentary salsa tasting after the screening.

Six emerging Alberta filmmakers screen their inspiring short documentary films, created during the pandemic about our own local heroes with funding from TELUS Storyhive. The two simultaneous screenings present three films each, in individual theatres at the Globe Cinema. Choose the theatre that inspires you!

Join THIRD ACTion Film Festival for a screening of the Alberta-based documentary OMA, which follows Sandy Moser, who decided to make 970 masks as a way to give back during the COVID-19 pandemic. The filmmaker and subject of the film will be speaking after the film.

Part of Calgary Cinematheque’s Japanese Theatre Series, An Actor’s Revenge is a backstage drama set in the world of kabuki theatre following the efforts of anonnagata, played by legendary actor Kazuo Hasegawa to enact a dramatic vengeance against the men responsible for his parent’s deaths.

The Calgary International Film Festival’s monthly Global Perspective Series, which takes local audiences around the globe with six of the year’s most talked-about films, presents The Lost Daughter. The film marks the feature directorial debut by Maggie Gyllenhall as she adapts Elena Ferrante’s striking 2006 novel.

As part of their Japanese Theatre Series, Calgary Cinematheque presents The Ballad of Narayama double feature: the 1958 version by director Keisuke Konishita, as well as the 1983 version by director Shohei Imamura who embarked on a remake of this visionary kabuki classic. Grab tickets to one, or both films!

As part of their Japanese Theatre series, Calgary Cinematheque presents one of the most unique films of the Japanese silent era. Created by an avant-garde movement of artists and highly influenced by Noh theatre, A Page of Madness is commonly interpreted as an early horror film.

As part of Calgary Cinematheque’s Japanese Theatre Series and the second film of their Kinugasa double feature, Martin Scorsese named Teinosuke Kinugasa’s Gate of Hell one of the greatest colour films ever made. It is a stylized vision of overwhelming passions contained within ritualistic societal bounds.

Join Contemporary Calgary, Pink Flamingo and Fonda Fora for their presentation of Curtis as part of their Perspective Film Series. Bring a friend and enjoy the film with a Fonda Fora Cocktails & Canapés package for two and a complimentary salsa tasting after the screening.