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07/19/2024

Happy birthday to Atom Egoyan, one of Toronto - and Canada's - greatest treasures. ❤️

07/19/2024

Catherine Breillat’s "entrancing and appalling" LAST SUMMER is Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.

Now playing in select theatres in Canada. See showtimes: linktr.ee/filmswelike

07/19/2024

The lives of a retired schoolteacher, her unpredictable young neighbour and an activist lawyer collide in CROSSING.

In theatres July 26 via Films We Like and streaming August 30.

A MUBI Canada Release.

07/16/2024

Apichatpong Weerasethakul turns 54 today.

07/15/2024

“A startling portrait of irrepressible forces & unwise choices.” (The Daily Beast)

Catherine Breillat’s LAST SUMMER is now playing in 🇨🇦. Catch this smouldering summer fling on the big screen: linktr.ee/filmswelike

07/13/2024

"I have never censored myself. I violate myself to be able to film certain things."

Extreme, tantalizing, raw, and endlessly sharp. French auteur Catherine Breillat turns 76 today.

07/12/2024

Catherine Breillat’s LAST SUMMER is “fiercely antagonistic…both a long-delayed return to work and an artistic self-renewal” ().

Now playing in theatres in Canada. Starts tomorrow in Vancouver, Kingston, Saskatoon, Ottawa, Montréal, Trois-Rivières, and Sainte-foy.

07/11/2024

Shelley Duvall in Robert Altman's 3 WOMEN. 💛

07/11/2024

Films We Like is thrilled to announce the Canadian acquisition of Reinas (Queens) by Swiss-Peruvian director Klaudia Reynicke-Candeloro. Reinas premiered at the 2024 Sundance International Festival and Berlin International Film Festival, where it took home the Grand Prix for best film in Generation KPlus.

07/11/2024

Playful, smart, and politically bold.

Happy birthday to Jafar Panahi, who turns 64 this year.

07/10/2024

Films We Like presents SUGARCANE by Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie, coming this summer to Canada.

The only way forward is to confront the truth. From National Geographic Documentary Films, the Sundance award-winning follows a groundbreaking investigation at an Indian residential school in Canada. Hailed as “Powerful” (The Hollywood Reporter) and “Stunning” (Indiewire) is in select theaters August 9.

07/08/2024

"Perfectly foreboding." - What She Said

LAST SUMMER, Catherine Breillat’s excellent psychological study cm sombre thriller, zeroes in on the female predator. Now playing in theatres around Canada. 🇨🇦

Get tickets: https://linktr.ee/filmswelike

07/05/2024

LAST SUMMER, from renowned iconoclast Catherine Breillat, director of FAT GIRL, THE LAST MISTRESS, ROMANCE, is now playing in theatres around Canada.

Get your showtimes for this Critic’s Pick here: https://linktr.ee/filmswelike

07/04/2024

Films We Like is pleased to announce the acquisition of Dance First, directed by celebrated British film director James Marsh, who won the 2008 Academy Award for the feature documentary Man on a Wire.

07/03/2024

Named one of the best films of the year by John Waters, Catherine Breillat's newest LAST SUMMER opens this Friday in theatres all around Canada. https://bit.ly/4c2yDP6

07/03/2024

A moving portrait of social documentary photographer and trailblazer Tish Murtha, who dedicated her life to documenting the lives of working-class communities in North East England.

TISH is now streaming on Apple TV. https://apple.co/4ePqChW

06/28/2024

"Tight, open and leisurely, and cloaked in dread all at once." - Slant Magazine

Catherine Breillat brings her 'icy, unwaveringly sober sensibilities' to the erotically charged LAST SUMMER. Opens next Friday in Toronto, Winnipeg, Ottawa, St Catharines, Edmonton, and Victoria.

06/27/2024

Films We Like, in partnership with Janus Films and Sideshow Pictures, has acquired Canadian distribution rights to 2024 Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix winner All We Imagine as Light by Payal Kapadia.

06/26/2024

"Playful and sensual." - RogerEbert.com

LAST SUMMER, Catherine Breillat's first feature in a decade, opens in Canada on July 5.

06/25/2024

The past collides with the precarious present as filmmaker Steve McQueen examines the N**i occupation of Amsterdam, connecting the city's ordeal with its modern journey through protests and a global pandemic.

OCCUPIED CITY is now streaming on Apple TV.

06/23/2024

Happy birthday to Pawo Choyning Dorji, the boundary-breaking storyteller of Bhutan's first Oscar nomination, and director of the clever THE MONK AND THE GUN.

Take a look at the behind the scenes of the making of THE MONK AND THE GUN below. https://bit.ly/3XGpGq5

Pawo Choyning Dorji, writer and director of 'The Monk And The Gun' opens up about his inspiration for the movie, the one moment that proved to be particularl...

06/21/2024

Films We Like, in partnership with Janus Films and Sideshow Pictures, has acquired Canadian distribution rights to Alain Guiraudie’s thriller Misericordia (Miséricorde), which had its world premiere at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.

06/19/2024

It's a family affair.

See the official poster for LAST SUMMER, the first film in a decade from Catherine Breillat (FAT GIRL, THE LAST MISTRESS).

Opens July 5 in Canada.

06/13/2024

Films We Like, in partnership with Janus Films and Sideshow Pictures, has acquired Canadian distribution rights to Gints Zilbadolis’ animated adventure film FLOW, which premiered in Un Certain Regard at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.

06/07/2024

Films We Like is pleased to announce the acquisition of Emmy nominated Joanna Rudnick's Story & Pictures by, the first feature documentary to take audiences behind the scenes to meet the authors and artists who create children’s picture books.

06/04/2024

New trailer for Catherine Breillat's newest, fearless erotic drama LAST SUMMER. In Canadian theatres July 5th.

06/03/2024

Our artwork for CROSSING, a heartfelt vision of forgiveness from acclaimed director Levan Akin.

In theatres July via Films We Like and on MUBI August 30. A MUBI Release.

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Catherine Breillat’s "entrancing and appalling" LAST SUMMER is Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. Now playing in select theatres in Canada. See showtimes: linktr.ee/filmswelike

Apichatpong Weerasethakul turns 54 today.

Films We Like presents SUGARCANE by Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie, coming this summer to Canada. The only way forward is to confront the truth. From National Geographic Documentary Films, the Sundance award-winning #SugarcaneFilm follows a groundbreaking investigation at an Indian residential school in Canada. Hailed as “Powerful” (The Hollywood Reporter) and “Stunning” (Indiewire) #SugarcaneFilm is in select theaters August 9.

LAST SUMMER, from renowned iconoclast Catherine Breillat, director of FAT GIRL, THE LAST MISTRESS, ROMANCE, is now playing in theatres around Canada. Get your showtimes for this @nytimes Critic’s Pick here: https://linktr.ee/filmswelike

Named one of the best films of the year by John Waters, Catherine Breillat's newest LAST SUMMER opens this Friday in theatres all around Canada. https://bit.ly/4c2yDP6

New trailer for Catherine Breillat's newest, fearless erotic drama LAST SUMMER. In Canadian theatres July 5th.

An ending that leaves you “stunned and shaken.” (The Daily Beast) From the director of DRIVE MY CAR, Ryusuke Hamaguchi's EVIL DOES NOT EXIST is playing in theatres all around Canada.

Nature and human nature mingle in the beguiling Drive My Car director Ryusuke Hamaguchi's EVIL DOES NOT EXIST - where "anything can happen." (@AP) Now playing in theatres. 🇨🇦

Take a look at this new exclusive clip from RETURN TO REASON: Four Films by Man Ray, with a new score by @SQÜRL. Opens @Dave Barber Cinematheque this Friday. 🇨🇦 https://davebarbercinematheque.com/event/return-to-reason/2024-05-24/1/

Watch an exclusive clip from Evil Does Not Exist, the new film from Drive My Car director Ryusuke Hamaguchi. Now playing in Canadian theatres. 🇨🇦

Academy Award winning DRIVE MY CAR's director Ryusuke Hamaguchi is a filmmaker "that wants the audience’s constant engagement; always finding a way to the heart through the brain" (The GATE) Now playing in Canadian theatres. 🇨🇦

"A masterwork." - Esther Zuckerman, Bloomberg EVIL DOES NOT EXIST, from Ryusuke Hamaguchi, director of the Oscar-winning DRIVE MY CAR, opens this Friday in Toronto, Vancouver, Saskatoon, Waterloo and Winnipeg. 🇨🇦

Radu Jude's "rude TikTok-flavoured satire of social media and the gig economy flips the bird to the contemporary gods of technology and the marketplace." DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE END OF THE WORLD plays at TIFF tomorrow for one night only.

RETURN TO REASON celebrates the 100th anniversary of Man Ray’s cinematic Œuvre, restored for the first time in 4K, scored by SQÜRL. Opens in Canadian cinemas May 24.

"An epic, wild ride whose presumed destination is hell itself." (The Globe and Mail) DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE WORLD is now playing in Vancouver, Winnipeg, Montreal and Quebec City. Opens in Kingston and Toronto this Friday.

The past collides with our precarious present in Steve McQueen’s bravura documentary 𝗢𝗰𝗰𝘂𝗽𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝘆, informed by the book Atlas of an Occupied City (Amsterdam 1940-1945) written by Bianca Stigter. Opens April 26. 🇨🇦

Enigmatic, meditative. EVIL DOES NOT EXIST by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, director of the Academy-Award winning DRIVE MY CAR, opens in Canada 5/10.

RYUICHI SAKAMOTO | OPUS is "a gift from a master" (The New York Times). Opens this Friday in Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal.

Showcasing archive footage of the breathtaking haute couture and high-fashion runways of the 2000s, Kevin Macdonald's nuanced look at Galliano confronts the toxic work culture behind-the-scenes of the fashion industry. In theatres now via Films We Like. A MUBI (MUBI Canada) Release.

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About Films We Like

Films We Like is a Canadian distribution company, co-founded in 2003 by music promoter Gary Topp and filmmaker Ron Mann who set to release, The Academy Nominated film “The Weather Underground” by Sam Green and Bill Siegal which at the time had no distribution in Canada.

17 years and over and over 400 films later, Films We Like has established itself as a boutique distributor of alternative entertainment.