Soulpepper Theatre invites you to join us for our monthly community movie nights! Expanding on our love of stories, each month will feature a new staff selection responding to a theme, whether it’s a season, a moment in culture, or a show on stage.
Free admission + discount beer and wine from our Stage Door Cafe. Limited capacity, registration required.
Seating and Venue Information
Community Movie Night takes place in our Cabaret Space, with a combination of wooden or cushioned chairs with backrests, sofa chairs and a couch. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis. A limited number of pillows and blankets are available guests, and they're welcome to bring their own. The Cabaret space is on the ground floor and accessible for mobility devices. Please get in touch if you have any accessibility concerns.
UPCOMING SCREENING: september 25
TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT
run time: 1h 35m
Language: french (english subtitles)
Doors: 6:30pm | Screening: 7pm
From Belgian writer/directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Two Days, One Night, stars Marion Cotillard as a factory worker who has one weekend to convince each of her colleagues to give up their bonuses so that she can keep her job. The film offers an intimate, emotional portrayal of the insidious impacts of neoliberal economics, and a powerful statement on the importance of community and solidarity in defiance of these alienating forces.
Spooky Season Movie Month
Every Friday in October
Doors: 6:30pm | Screening: 7pm
Join us every Friday night in October for a free horror movie screening! Sign up for one or all on the following dates:
October 4: The Shining
October 11: Funny Games
October 18: Ready or Not
October 25: Midsommar
past screenings
BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM
AUGUST 15
Jess Bhamra dreams of playing professional football, but her strict Indian parents have plans for her: a law degree and a marriage. Jules, a white female striker, spots Jess playing football and invites her to join the local women's team.
The universally beloved cult classic, Bend It Like Beckham, changed the discourse on Brown girls in sports, South Asian representation on the big screen, and queer desire.
In celebration of India’s Independence Day and the Paris Olympics, our Stage Door Cafe will be serving specials on mango lassi and samosa chaat.
july 23: something you said last night
Something You Said Last Night follows an unemployed trans girl in her mid-twenties, and her Italian-Canadian family on a weeklong summer vacation in a small conservative beach town. Tensions mount as the co-dependent family test each other’s limits and cross one another’s boundaries. Beautifully shot on 35mm film, Something You Said Last Night explores the dynamics of the family unit and the ways in which we fail to see members of our families for who they are.
The debut feature film from Toronto writer and director Luis De Filippis was named to TIFF's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2022.
June 16: Theater Camp
Theater Camp follows lifelong best friends and drama instructors at a rundown camp in upstate New York as they band together with staff, students and the founder’s tech-bro son to keep the camp afloat. The eccentric, charming mockumentary stars Ben Platt and Molly Gordon and features icons Patti Harrison and Ayo Edebiri.
This special pride edition of Community Movie Night will feature a post-show Q&A with writer, film industry professional and academic Lauren DiBenedetto on the topic of camp in queer cinema!
May 29: I Heart Huckabees
I Heart Huckabees follows a frustrated environmentalist who is being exploited by a backstabbing public relations manager at a big-box store and enlists the services of "existential detectives" to solve the meaning of a succession of strange coincidences.
An offbeat comedy that divided critics and earned the inclusion of links to deconstruction and dialectical monism in its “See Also” section on Wikipedia, the film captures the political despair of early aughts America, defined by imperialist foreign policy, resource extraction, suburban expansion and consumerism alongside the timeless existential dilemma of how to create meaning in a life where there is none inherently.
april 25: gaza mon amour
From directors and twin brothers Tarzan & Arab Nasser, Gaza Mon Amour follows fisherman and sixty-year-old bachelor Issa, who is secretly in love with Siham, a widowed tailor at the local market. After discovering an ancient statue of Apollo in his fishing net, a series of absurd events unfold, pushing Issa out of his shell.
march 20: triangle of sadness
A vapid celebrity model couple are invited on a luxury cruise for the uber-rich, including a Russian oligarch, British arms dealers and an alcoholic Marx-quoting captain. What first appeared instagrammable ends catastrophically, leaving the survivors stranded on a desert island and fighting for survival.
From director Ruben Östlund, the Palme d’Or winning Triangle of Sadness is a misanthropic satire taking on excess, power and class hierarchies.
FEBRUARY 21: SORRY TO BOTHER YOU
The directorial debut of rapper and activist Boots Riley, Sorry to Bother You takes place in an alternate reality of present-day Oakland, California, where telemarketer Cassius Green finds himself in a macabre universe after he discovers a magical key that leads to material glory. The dark comedy explores themes of race, labor, capitalism, and power.
january 30TH: snowpiercer
Before Parasite, there was Snowpiercer. Academy award winning writer and director Bong Joon-ho's English language debut is a post-apocalyptic science fiction set in an ice age following a failed attempt at climate engineering to stop global warming. Aboard a massive train that circles the Earth with the last survivors, a new, severe class system emerges.
A critically acclaimed, instant dystopian classic, Snowpiercer takes on themes of inequality, corporate power, class struggle and revolution in a surreal, snowy, not so distant future.
For questions and to get notifications on upcoming events please email Jacqui Arntfield, Community Activator: jacqui.arntfield@soulpepper.ca