First Weekend Club

Great Canadian Films Screening Across the Country

Check out the list below for Canadian films now playing or coming soon to a theatre near you.  For theatre locations and screening times visit Tribute.ca

Last Train Home
Opens March 5th Vancouver (The Ridge), Richmond (SilverCity Richmond Hill), The Varsity (Toronto)
Note:  Special advance screening event on March 4th in Vancouver.  See Canada Screens for details.

Director: Lixin Fan

Once a year during China's spring-time, a chaotic wave of millions of migrant factory workers -a force-field of human persistence and dog-eat-dog survival- pushes through turnstiles and squeezes down narrow passage ways for what is the considered the largest human migration on the planet. It is the one weekend they have this chance to make it home for the Chinese New Year.  More info...

At Home By Myself ... With You
Opens March 5th Toronto (The Royal)

Director: Kris Booth

Girl meets boy. Girl falls in love with boy. Girl can’t leave her apartment. Romy Scott (Kristin Booth)is afraid of lobsters, closed boxes, kissing, and storms. But her biggest fear is of going outside because every time she does, something bad happens. Choosing not to go outside ever again, Romy constructs a new life inside her apartment and figures out how to negotiate her debilitating fears by using the help of her close acquaintances. But when her most important helper – an old lady who lives across the hall (Rosemary Dunsmore) – kicks the bucket, Romy is suddenly standing at the doorstep to face her fears. More info...

Crackie
Opens March 5th Halifax (Empire Theatres Park Lane)

Director: Sherry White

Mitsy, seventeen, lives in a ramshackle house in a small town, with her grandmother, BRIDE, who has raised her since she was four. Bride spends her days scrounging in the local dump and her nights entertaining men in her bedroom. Mitsy is accepted as a student at the local college, studying hair design. Her harsh-tongued grandmother is secretly proud of her. She wants Mitsy to elevate her life. She has no idea that Mitsy secretly plans to move to Alberta to live with her real mother, Gwennie, after graduating. More info...

Cooking with Stella
Opens March 19th Toronto, Vancouver 

Director: Dilip Mehta

A warmhearted social satire about a Canadian diplomat (Lisa Ray) and her chef husband Michael (Don McKellar) who are posted to New Delhi. Upon arrival they inherit a household of Indian servants headed by the charming, totally inspiring -- and wily -- cook Stella (Seema Biswas). When Stella agrees to become Michael`s cooking guru, to teach him traditional Indian dishes, little does he know that she`s cooking up a scheme of her own. More info...

Defendor
Now Playing: Opened February 19th - Vancouver (Cinemark Tinseltown), Toronto (AMC) & Calgary (Uptown)

Director: Peter Stebbings

ARTHUR POPPINGTON, is a regular man who adopts a superhero persona known as "DEFENDOR" and combs the city streets at night in search of his arch enemy CAPTAIN INDUSTRY.  In his attempts to combat crime and bring down this drug and weapons dealer, whom he mistakenly blames for the death of his mother, Defendor ends up befriending a young prostitute.  Armed with unconventional weapons like marbles and paper clips, and with his new friend by his side, Defendor  proves that every one is capable of making a difference as he puts his life on the line and foils the entire crime operation. More info...

 

Reel Injun
Now Playing: Opened February 19th - Toronto (AMC)

Director: Neil Diamond

Reel Injun is about the Native American experience in film from its beginning to the cinema of today. More info...