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Wednesday, March 26th, 2025 | Sponsored by Robertson Financial

Mathyas trades his life as an advertising executive in Montreal for a shepherd’s life in Provence. However, the harsh reality of pastoral life forces him to question his romantic vision of the profession. His encounter with Élise, a civil servant who has left her job, gives a new direction to the young man’s quest. Together, they embark on a transhumance with a flock of sheep in their care. Facing the challenges of the mountains, they begin to shape a new life for themselves.

Wednesday, March 12th, 2025 | Sponsored by the Rotary Club of Bracebridge

Andy Goodrich’s (Michael Keaton) life is upended when his wife and mother of their nine-year-old twins enters a 90-day rehab program, leaving him on his own with their young kids. Thrust into the world of modern parenthood, Goodrich leans on his daughter from his first marriage, Grace (Mila Kunis), as he ultimately evolves into the father Grace always wanted.

Wednesday, February 26th, 2025 | Sponsored by Muskoka Naturopathic Family Practice

The world seems to be coming to an end, teeming with the vestiges of a human presence. Cat is a solitary animal, but as its home is devastated by a great flood, he finds refuge on a boat populated by various species, and will have to team up with them despite their differences. In the lonesome boat sailing through mystical overflowed landscapes, they navigate the challenges and dangers of adapting to this new world.

2025 Winner Golden Globe
Best Motion Picture, Animated

2025 Oscar Nominee for
Best International Feature Film (Latvia)
Best Animated Feature Film

Wednesday, February 12th, 2025 | Sponsored by Claudette Wheeler

A father-daughter road trip set in 1990s Poland, TREASURE follows Ruth (Lena Dunham), an American music journalist, and her father, Edek (Stephen Fry), a charmingly stubborn Holocaust survivor, on a journey to his homeland. While Ruth is eager to make sense of her family’s past, Edek embarks on the trip with his own agenda. This emotional, funny culture clash of two New Yorkers exploring post-socialist Poland is a powerful example of how reconnecting with family and the past can be an unexpected treasure.

Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025 | Sponsored by Muskoka Audiology

Small Things Like These takes place over Christmas in 1985, when devoted father and coal merchant Bill Furlong (Cillian Murphy) discovers startling secrets kept by the convent in his town, along with some shocking truths of his own. The film reveals truths about Ireland’s Magdalene laundries — horrific asylums run by Roman Catholic institutions from the 1820s until 1996, ostensibly to reform “fallen young women.” Adapted from the Booker Prize nominated novel by Claire Keegan.

Wednesday, January 8th, 2025 | Sponsored by Dr. Stuart Robson

Inspired by a real-life experience of director Josh Margolin’s own grandmother, THELMA shines the spotlight on a 93 year old as an unlikely action hero. In the first leading film role of her 70-year career, June Squibb portrays the strong-willed Thelma who gets duped by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson. With help from a friend and his motorized scooter, she soon embarks on a treacherous journey across Los Angeles to reclaim what was taken from her.

2025 Nominee Critics Choice Award for Best Comedy Movie

Wednesday, December 11th, 2024 | Sponsored by Connor Ryan, RBC Wealth Management

After her husband’s untimely death, Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot flouts convention by assuming the reins of the fledgling wine business they had nurtured together. Steering the company through dizzying political and financial reversals, she defies her critics and revolutionizes the champagne industry to become one of the world’s first great businesswomen.

Official Selection, 2023 Toronto International Film Festival

Wednesday, November 27th, 2024 | Sponsored by Carol Howorucha, RBC Wealth Management

After living life on the edge in London, Rona attempts to come to terms with her troubled past. She returns to the wild beauty of Scotland’s Orkney Islands – where she grew up – hoping to heal. Adapted from the bestselling memoir by Amy Liptrot.

“Saoirse Ronan is mesmerising in sobering addiction drama” ~ The Guardian

“A brutally honest drama about addiction and recovery, strength and survival, mental health and the ability of the sea, the land and of people to restore life…” ~ Apple TV

Wednesday, November 13th, 2024 | Sponsored by Muskoka Natural Food Market

Deroy-Olson) by scraping by on the Seneca-Cayuga Reservation in Oklahoma. Every spare minute goes into finding her missing sister while also helping Roki prepare for an upcoming powwow. At the risk of losing custody to Jax’s father Frank (Shea Whigham), the pair hit the road and scour the backcountry to track down Roki’s mother in time for the powwow. What begins as a search gradually turns into a far deeper investigation into the complexities and contradictions of Indigenous women moving through a colonized world, and at the mercy of a failed justice system.

Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024 | Sponsored by Muskoka Lawn Bowling Club

When melancholic construction worker Dan (Keith Kupferer) finds himself drifting from his wife and daughter, he discovers community and purpose in a local theater’s production of Romeo and Juliet. As the drama onstage starts to mirror his own life, he and his family are forced to confront a personal loss.