The Choral
Monday March 30, 2:00 p.m.
113 min
Season Sponsor: Rastins PharmaChoice Pharmacy
Film Date Sponsor: Patrick Orovan, Real Broker Ontario
Proceeds to Ancaster Community Services
Nominated for 19 international awards. Won 9 awards to date
Buy tickets at https://www.memorialarts.ca/films/aff-march-aft
As World War I rages on, Dr. Henry Guthrie (Ralph Fiennes) takes over a British choral society that's lost most of its men to the army. The community soon discovers that the best response to the chaos of war is to make beautiful music together.
The Brits do this kind of light and dark juggling act better than almost anybody, and the filmmakers and their cast deliver a movie that's perfect for viewing on a lazy Sunday afternoon at the movie theater. Odie Henderson/Boston Globe
The Choral is a beautifully made film with a great cast and impeccable credentials, a collaboration between writer Alan Bennett and director Nicholas Hytner, as were The History Boys and The Lady in the Van. Liz Braun/Original Cin
A sprawling First World War period comedy drama about a British choir reaching for normalcy through performance, The Choral boasts a humorous approach to a community’s inability to directly speak about the horrors of war. Robert Daniels/Screen International
The Secret Agent
Monday March 30, 7:15 p.m.
160 min
Season Sponsor: Rastins PharmaChoice Pharmacy
Film Date Sponsor: Patrick Orovan, Real Broker Ontario
Proceeds to Ancaster Community Services
Nominated for 246 international awards including 9 Oscars. Won 27 awards to date.
Buy tickets at https://www.memorialarts.ca/films/aff-march-eve
The Secret Agent is a neo-noir political thriller set in 1977 Brazil during the military dictatorship. It follows Armando (Wagner Moura), a former professor and technology expert on the run, who returns to Recife to find peace but becomes entangled in the era's pervasive, paranoid atmosphere of fear, surveillance, and corruption.
Portuguese with English Subtitles
Won 76 International Awards and nominated for 149 others including 4 Oscar noms.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27847051/awards/?ref_=tt_ov_at_op_awd
The complexity of the storytelling here is considerable, and probably wouldn’t work without a strong, grounding central presence. It’s thus hard to say enough about the quality of Moura’s performance. Adam Nayman/Toronto Star
[Writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho] crafts a tight story with startling freedom, leaping between characters in order to conjure their fateful interconnections, while giving them all, persecuted and persecutors alike, an identity and a voice. Richard Brody/The New Yorker
You won’t see a better political thriller this year than Filho’s ultra-chic genre entry, loosely in the spirit of a Costa-Gavras picture. Tomris Laffly/Elle
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27847051/
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_secret_agent_2025
Other Items of Interest
AFF Library of Some of Our Past Films
About 170 titles of past Ancaster Film Fest selections are available for loan at Rastin's Pharmacy.
AFF Season 21 - 2026
Screenings will be at 2:00 and 7:15 p.m.
Dates
January 26 Sentimental Value, 2:00 p.m.
January 26 It Was Just An Accident, 7:15 p.m.
February 23
March 30
April 20
May 11
May 25
June 8
September 14
October 5
October 26
November 16
December 7
Guests on our email list will also be informed via email. To contact us email ancasterfilmfest@cogeco.ca.
AFF Library of Some of Our Past Films
About 170 titles are available at Rastin's Pharmacy. Check out our Archive.
AFF Season 20 - 2025
Screenings were at 2:00 and 7:15 p.m. 12 Screening Dates, 22 Films. Approximately 5000 paid attendan
Dates
January 20: Lee, 2:00 p.m.
January 20: Goodrich, 7:15 p.m.
February 24: I'm Still Here, 2:00 p.m.
February 24: Emilia Pérez, 7:15 p.m.
March 17: Small Things Like These, 2:00 p.m.
March 17: No Other Land, 7:15 p.m.
April 7; Bob Trevino Likes It, 2:00 p.m.
April 7: There's Still Tomorrow, 7:15 p.m.
April 28, The Penguin Letters, 2:00 p.m.
April 28: Shepherds, 7:15 p.m.
May 12: Maria Montessori: Une Nouvelle Femme, 2:00 p.m.
May 12: Bad Shabbos, 7:15 p.m.
May 26: So Surreal: Behind the Masks, 2:00 p.m.
May 26: Santosh, 7:15 p.m.
June 9:Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, 2:00 p.m.
June 9: White Bird, 7:15 p.m.
September 22: The Life of Chuck, 2:00 p.m., 7:15 p.m.
October 6: The Marching Band, 2:00 p.m.
October 6: Exhibiting Forgiveness, 7:15 p.m.
November 3: Eleanor the Great, 2:00 p.m.
November 3: TBA, 7:15 p.m.
December 8: Blue Moon, 2:00 p.m.
December 8: TBA 7:15 p.m.
Guests on our email list will also be informed via email. To contact us email ancasterfilmfest@cogeco.ca.
AFF Library of Some of Our Past Films
About 170 titles are available at Rastin's Pharmacy. Check out our Archive.