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Our Archive

2004

  • Dirty Pretty Things
  • The Station Agent
  • The Corporation
  • The Snow Walker
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • Seducing Doctor Lewis
  • I'm Not Scared
  • The Festival Express
  • Since Otar Left
  • Wilby Wonderful

2005

  • Stage Beauty
  • The Motorcycle Diaries
  • A Very Long Engagement
  • The Machinist
  • Hotel Rwanda
  • Saint Ralph
  • Millions
  • Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room
  • Sabah
  • Junebug
  • Proof

2006

  • Capote
  • Good Night And Good Luck
  • Paradise Now
  • Mrs Henderson Presents
  • World's Fastest Indian
  • C.R.A.Z.Y.
  • Prairie Home Companion
  • A Simple Curve
  • The Journals Of Knud Rasmusen
  • WordPlay
  • Joyieux Noel
  • Half Nelson

2007

  • Catch A Fire
  • Volver
  • Snow Cake
  • The Italian
  • The Painted Veil
  • The Lives Of Others
  • Away From Her
  • The  Namesake
  • La Vie En Rose
  • Amazing Grace
  • Shake Hands With The Devil
  • Waitress
  • Mon Meilleur Ami

2008

  • Lars And The Real Girl
  • Into The Wild
  • Before The Devil Knows You're Dead
  • BTDKYD
  • Amal
  • The Savages
  • The Kite Runner
  • The Diving Bell And The Butterfly
  • The Band's Visit
  • Young At Heart
  • The Visitor
  • Up The Yangtze
  • Boy A
  • When Did You Last See Your Father
  • Outsourced

2009

  • One Week
  • I Loved You So Long
  • The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas
  • The Class
  • The Stone Of Destiny
  • The Necessities Of Life
  • Welcome To The Sticks
  • The Soloist
  • Is Anybody There?
  • Moon
  • Departures
  • Cairo Time
  • The Damned United
  • Food Inc.

2010

  • Empties
  • Me And Orson Welles
  • An Education
  • The Young Victoria
  • The Last Station
  • A Prophet
  • The Messenger
  • Micmacs
  • The Secret In Their Eyes
  • Mother And Child
  • Soul Kitchen
  • Nowhere Boy
  • Tamara Drewe

2011

  • The Father Of My Children
  • Barney's Version
  • Made In Dagenham
  • Incendies
  • Blue Valentine
  • Another Year
  • Music From The Big House
  • The First Grader
  • Win Win
  • In A Better World
  • Whistleblower
  • The Tree Of Life
  • Sarah's Key
  • Starbuck

2012

  • The Way
  • My Week With Marilyn
  • Cafe De Flore
  • A Separation
  • Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
  • Salmon Fishing In Yemen
  • Coriolanus
  • Monsieur Lazhar
  • In Darkness
  • The Intouchables
  • Bernie
  • Oslo August 31
  • Beasts Of The Southern Wild
  • Queen Of Versailles
  • Rebelle

2013

  • The Sessions
  • Anna Karenina
  • Still Mine 
  • A Late Quartet
  • The Perks Of Being A Wallflower
  • Amour
  • The Impossible
  • The Royal Affair
  • Quartet
  • The Angel's Share
  • No
  • The Sapphires
  • The Reluctant Fundamentalist
  • Love Is All You Need
  • Hannah Arendt
  • Good Ol' Freida
  • The Way Way Back
  • A Hitchhiking
  • Wadjda
  • In A World
  • Race For The Double Helix

2014

  • Enough Said
  • Our Man In Tehran
  • Short Term 12
  • All Is Lost
  • Nebraska
  • Cas & Dylan
  • Inside Llewyn Davis
  • The Book Thief
  • The Great Beauty
  • Tim's Vermeer
  • Like Father Like Son
  • Labor Day
  • Philomena
  • The Lunchbox
  • The Wind Rises
  • Belle
  • The Grand Seduction
  • Words And Pictures
  • Pride
  • My Old Lady
  • The Hundred Year Old Man
  • Calvary
  • The Skeleton Twins

2015

  • Beyond The Lights
  • Citizenfour
  • Fall
  • Rosewater
  • Red Army
  • Mr. Turner
  • Still Alice
  • Wild
  • Phoenix
  • Living Is Easy With Eyes Closed
  • Boychoir
  • A Brilliant Young Mind
  • Learning To Drive
  • Testament Of Youth
  • Jimmy's Hall 
  • This Changes Everything
  • What We Did On Our Holiday

2016

  • Truth
  • Trumbo
  • My Internship In Canada
  • Room
  • The Second Mother
  • James White
  • Carol
  • Mustang
  • Where To Invade Next
  • 45 Years
  • Theeb
  • Hitchcock Truffault
  • The Lady In The Van
  • A Perfect Day
  • Love & Friendship
  • Dheepan
  • The Dark Horse
  • Last Cab To Darwin
  • Captain Fantastic
  • American Pastoral
  • The Dressmaker

2017

  • The Eagle Huntress
  • Things to Come
  • Queen Of Katwe
  • Denial 
  • The Salesman
  • I Daniel Blake
  • Burn Your Maps
  • Manchester By the Sea
  • Paterson
  • A Man Called Ove
  • Lion
  • I Am Not Your Negro
  • Frantz
  • Maudie
  • Beatriz at Dinner
  • Their Finest
  • The Big Sick
  • Graduation
  • Inconvenient Sequel
  • Tulip Fever
  • Loving Vincent
  • The Wedding Plan

2018

  • Breathe
  • Faces Places
  • Florida Project
  • Bombshell
  • Battle of the Sexes
  • The Square
  • C’est La Vie
  • Sami Blood
  • Meditation Park
  • Call Me By Your Name
  • Molly’s Game
  • Tulipani: Love, Honour and a Bicycle
  • The Breadwinner
  • Finding Your Feet
  • Death of Stalin
  • Leave No Trace
  • The Puzzle
  • The Wife
  • Bel Canto
  • The Bookshop
  • Nothing Like a Dame
  • Mary Shelley

2019

  • Sir!
  • The Guilty
  • Can You Ever Forgive Me
  • First Reformed
  • A Beautiful Boy
  • A Private War
  • Stan & Ollie
  • Village rockstars
  • If Beale Street Could Talk
  • The Old Man and the Gun
  • Wild Rose
  • Woman at war
  • You Are Here: A Come From Away Story
  • Capernaum
  • Stockholm
  • All Is True
  • Photograph
  • The Last Black Man in San Francisco
  • The Souvenir
  • The Farewell
  • Luce
  • Judy
  • The Biggest Little Farm

2020

  • Parasite
  • Official Secrets
  • Clemency
  • Raise Hell: Life and Times of Molly Ivins
  • Toni Morrison
  • Queen & Slim
  • Sorry We Missed You
  • La Belle Epoque
  • Ordinary Love
  • And The Birds Rained Down

2021 (AFF's Virtual Film Fest)

  • Radioactive
  • Summerland
  • John Lewis
  • Another Round
  • 2040
  • Jasmine Road
  • From the Vine
  • The Climb
  • Minari
  • The Last Vermeer
  • The Father
  • Quo Vadis Aida

2023


  • Peace by Chocolate
  • The Territory
  • Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On
  • Living
  • Broker
  • Viking
  • I Like Movies
  • Riceboy Sleeps
  • The Quiet Girl
  • The Starling Girl
  • The Miracle Club
  • Jules
  • Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe
  • Flora and Son
  • Driving Madeleine
  • Anatomy of a Murder

2024

  • Better Days
  • Rose
  • The Teachers' Lounge
  • The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
  • Freud's Last Session
  • The Monk and the Gun
  • Origin
  • One Life
  • Suze
  • The Old Oak


Files coming soon.

Peace By Chocolate

Already screened: Mon. January 9, 2:00 p.m., Tues. January 10, 4:00 p.m.

Paid Attendance 519

$1000 will donated to the Hamilton Out of the Cold from the January 9/10 screenings.

After the bombing of his family's chocolate factory, Tareq Hadhad, a charming young Syrian refugee, struggles to settle into small-town life in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Despite moving to a new country, he's intent on pursuing his dream to become a doctor. But when his father, Issam, insists that he must focus on survival, Tareq and his family move towards a different, but familiar path: Rebuilding Issam's chocolate business. As father and son both struggle to find common ground and navigate the complexities of family duty, the heightening tension between them threatens to tear the family apart. Based on the internationally recognized true story.


All proceeds to Hamilton Out of the Cold. $1000

Thanks to our Season Sponsor: Rastin's Wilson Street PharmaChoice Pharmacy


Time: 96 min


BUY TICKETS HERE: https://www.memorialarts.ca/events?category=Film


Reviews


 "A heartwarming tale of triumph over adversity” NATIONAL POST / Chris Knight


“Wonderfully made, beautifully acted, and completely engaging film”  THE INDEPENDENT CRITIC/ Richard Propes


“When all of the serious dramas and urgent documentaries have faded from your mind, odds are Peace By Chocolate is going to be the film that you not only remember but revisit.”

UNSEEN FILMS // Steve Kopian


“…it’s like Frank Capra came back from the dead to make a movie in Canada.”

LETTERBOXD // Michael O’Keefe


“...Jonathan Keijser and Abdul Malik’s screenplay about a refugee looking to accomplish his dreams is told as a drama-comedy hybrid. This dual-tone takes a potentially heartbreaking yet inspiring story and gives it a different layer by adding humor, making it more watchable to the common viewer.”

FILM THREAT // Chris Salce


“...Peace by Chocolate transcends the expected, sneaking up on you, guiding you toward emotional devastation and reconciliation.”  ELEMENTS OF MADNESS // Douglas Davidson


“Ammar is magnificent in his performance as Tareq Hadhad. We laugh with joy as he succeeds, and we feel the punches when he faces setbacks". CULTURED VULTURES // Grady Bolding


“The psychological struggle between father and son to find common ground and navigate the complexities of family duty, assimilating to a new country, and heartbreak and survival has the viewer white-knuckling at the edge of their seat, as they witness these obstacles nearly tear the family apart.”

 THE KNOCKTURNAL // Charlotte Kohlberg 


Awards


Atlantic Film Festival: Winner: Jury Prize-Best Editor
Canada China International Film Festival Winner: Festival AwardBest Actor: Ayham Abou Ammar

Cordillera International Film Festival Winner: Jury Award: Best Director-Jonathan Keijser

Heartland International Film Festival Winner: Audience Choice Award

Italian Contemporary Film Festival Winner:Jury Award

Loudoun Arts Film Festival Winner: Spotlight Feature Award

Naples International Film Festival Winner: Audience Award

Scottsdale International Film Festival Winner: Best Actor-Hafem Ali

Sedona International Film Festival Winner: Director's Choice Award

Woods Hole Film Festival Winner: Audience Award


 Peace by Chocolate - Rotten Tomatoes 

 About | Peace by Chocolate Film 


The Territory

Already Screened Monday January 9, 7:15 pm

Paid Attendance 189

$1000 will donated to the Hamilton Out of the Cold from the January 9/10 screenings.

THE TERRITORY provides an immersive on-the-ground look at the tireless fight of the Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau people against the encroaching deforestation brought by farmers and illegal settlers in the Brazilian Amazon. With awe-inspiring cinematography showcasing the titular landscape and richly textured sound design, the film takes audiences deep into the Uru-eu-wau-wau community and provides unprecedented access to the farmers and settlers illegally burning and clearing the protected Indigenous land. Partially shot by the Uru-eu-wau-wau people, the film relies on vérité footage captured over three years as the community risks their lives to set up their own news media team in the hopes of exposing the truth.


All Proceeds to Hamilton Out of the Cold.

Thanks to our Season Sponsor: Rastin's Wilson Street PharmaChoice Pharmacy

Time: 88 min


BUY TICKETS HERE: https://www.memorialarts.ca/events?category=Film


Reviews


"Watching this gripping documentary shot in the Brazilian Amazon, you wonder if our electoral system could learn a thing or two from the Indigenous Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau people." Leslie Felperin/The Guardian


"This is vital, searing documentary filmmaking from producer Darren Aronofsky in which the intimate nuts and bolts of rainforest depletion are zeroed in on." Hillary White/Ireland International


"A gripping portrait of an endangered community for whom nature is both their precious environment and the facet of humanity that can all too easily be turned malicious." Robert Abele/Los Angela Times


 “The Territory” is more than meets the eye, revealing its most profound observations in stages across its running time." Clare Scaffer/New York Times


"A stunningly intimate look at the stakes surrounding this conflict, shot over three years with remarkable clarity and beauty by Pritz and Tangãi Uru-eu-wau-wau, a member of the tribe." Amil Niazi/Globe and Mail


"When settler Sergio says, “They don’t create anything, they just live there” as a justification for illegally encroaching on their land, the moral hollowness of capitalism lands like a sick thud." Sherri Flanders/Chicago Reader


" Both sumptuous and enraging, [The Territory] reminds viewers how film can be for remembering and preserving as much for rebellion and art." Robert Daniels/RogerEbert.com


Awards


Cinema Eye Honours Award: Winner - Cinema Eye Award

CPH:DOX - Winner - F:ACT Award- Special Mention

Docs Barcelona; Winner - International Amnesty Catalunya Award

FIC MEC - Best Documentary Feature

International Wildlife Film Festival: Winner - Best of Sustainable Planet Category

Jackson Wild Media Awards: Winner - Best Conservation Film and Best of Festival

Provincetown Internatioinal Film Festival - John Schlesinger Award

Seattle Film festival: Winner - Best Documentary

Sheffield Film Festival: Winner - Best Documentary

Sundance International Film Festival: Audience Award World Cinema Documentary and Documentary Craft

Telluride Mountain Film Festival: Winner - Moving Mountain Award

The Hague Movies That Matter: Winner - Activist Documentary Award


 The Territory - Rotten Tomatoes 

 The Territory | National Geographic Documentary Films 

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