9:30 pm

A traditional shepherd is forced to innovate in a neoliberal world that conflicts with his idealistic views. Will his struggle pay off, or is he forced to go with the flock?

6:45 pm

For 35 years, Akio Sakurai recreated vintage Led Zeppelin concerts note-for-note in small Tokyo clubs, until the “real” Jimmy Page stopped by one night, and Akio’s life changed forever.

9:15 pm

With live music events grounded for much of this year, rejoice at this enthralling, 2019 concert that paired New Orleans artists on a Spotify playlist with the fans who were listening to it, live at the Preservation Hall.

4:30 pm

In 2019, a dance workshop for children with cerebral palsy takes place for the first time, at the Staatsballett Berlin in Germany.

2:15 pm

A rare spine disease nearly derailed the budding career of musician and dancer Grace Fisher, until she triumphantly transformed her grief into a sublime harmonic beauty.

12:00 pm

• This Ink Runs Deep | 16

• Haven | 18

• What Are You? | 20

• Invasion | 18

• Ballet After Dark | 19
  

9: 15 pm

When an elderly Beijing couple receives notice that their only son has committed suicide and been buried on Canadian soil, they travel to Vancouver to investigate the mysterious circumstances of his death.

6:45 pm

This film is the story of Canada's first terrorist, Eddy Haymour, whose search for justice led him to take hostages, threaten letter bombs, and plan attacks on the government!

9:15 pm

• The Pride of Katanga | 14

• The Winding Farmland | 25

• Oh, Rats | 14

• Iikaakiimaat | 9

• Adele | 35

6:45 pm

Award-winning filmmaker Suzanne Crocker sets out to feed her family 100% local to her community of Dawson City, Yukon, for one full year.

6: 45 pm

Four Indigenous environmental leaders embark on a trans-continental adventure to unite the peoples of North and South America and deepen the meaning of “Climate Justice”.

4:30 pm

in 1970s New York, photographer Martha Cooper captured some of the first images of subway graffiti. Decades later, she’s become an unexpected icon of the street art world.

2:15 pm

Motherload is a crowdsourced documentary in which the cargo bicycle becomes a vehicle for exploring parenthood in this digital age of climate change.

12:00 pm

The rise, fall, and rise again of a Cambodian refugee who escaped genocide and overcame poverty to build a life for himself and hundreds of other immigrant families by building an unlikely empire of donut shops.

9:30 pm

The oral history of a team of geeks and misfits in the back of a Chicago factory creating the biggest video games (Mortal Kombat, NBA JAM, and others) of all time.

6:45 pm

Recent years have seen the Calgary Police Service shoot and kill more people than officers in any other Canadian city. This film reveals the consequences of unchecked police brutality.

4:30 pm

For generations, women have been shamed, ostracized, and silenced, merely because they menstruate. This age-old discrimination is a central issue in the struggle for gender equality.

2:15 pm

This enormously powerful film interweaves stories from four different frontlines of suicide prevention across the United States, highlighting some of the communities most affected by the epidemic.

12:00 pm

This emotionally gripping documentary chronicles a wife’s determination to care for her Alzheimer’s-stricken husband in their home.

9:15 pm

St. Albert native Sean Shaul’s 2009 debut film comes home for an encore screening, as we raise one final toast to the legendary SNFU frontman.

6:45 pm

The story of teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg is told through compelling, never-before-seen footage in this intimate documentary from Swedish director Nathan Grossman.

9:30 pm

SOLD OUT! Mable Tooke’s cancer battle began at the age of 4, but her battle brought about the need to create an alter-ego, determined to fight her biggest supervillain: Leukemia.

6:45 pm

SOLD OUT! Mable Tooke’s cancer battle began at the age of 4, but her battle brought about the need to create an alter-ego, determined to fight her biggest super-villain: Leukemia.

7:00 pm

Having previously stepped into the shower for his exhaustive study of Psycho's most famous scene with 78/52 (2017), and boarded the Nostromo for the far reaches of space in Memory: The Origins of Alien (2019), acclaimed documentarian Alexandre O. Philippe returns to NorthwestFest with this special Pre-Halloween screening!