Dave Barber Cinematheque

Our June calendar is now here! Visit davebarbercinematheque.com for tickets and showtimes.

Comedian, star and co-founder of Kids in the Hall, Kevin McDonald presents Steven Soderbergh’s The Limey on June 18 for McDonald at The Movies! Generously sponsored by IATSE 856 Manitoba.

Comedian, star and co-founder of Kids in the Hall, Kevin McDonald presents Steven Soderbergh’s The Limey on June 18 for McDonald at The Movies! Generously sponsored by IATSE 856 Manitoba.

An urgent call to action, Nechako asks what survival looks like when it serves everyone, in a story 70 years in the making—a story of hope and resistance against all odds, amidst large-scale environmental destruction and despite the will of powerful institutions. Plays June 17.

Nechako is a crucial documentary from Lyana Patrick that follows two Indigenous Nations fighting for our collective future. Plays June 17. Presented in partnership with Urban Shaman Contemporary Aboriginal Art.

Join us June 12 for Dash Jam, a short documentary series featuring the late, great filmmaker and musician Jaimz Asmundson, interviewing an incredible, diverse selection of prominent local Winnipeg musicians. Presented and curated by Karen Asmundson.

Join us June 12 for Dash Jam, a short documentary series featuring the late, great filmmaker and musician Jaimz Asmundson, interviewing an incredible, diverse selection of prominent local Winnipeg musicians. Presented and curated by Karen Asmundson.

Join us June 11 for Cult-O-Rama, featuring Highway Hypnosis and Shock Video, two films by underground auteur Ken Camp. Featuring a prerecorded intro from Elizabeth Purchell, a Brooklyn-based queer film historian, programmer, filmmaker, and the founder of Muscle Distribution.

100 Sunset follows two young Tibetan women navigating friendship, disappearance, and a quiet economy of survival in Toronto’s Parkdale neighborhood. 100 Sunset opens June 10.

A young introverted thief meets an unexpected confidant while spying on, and occasionally stealing from, her Tibetan community in Toronto. 100 Sunset opens June 10.

Constructed from three MiniDV tapes shot in Gaza in 2001 and rediscovered years later, the film transforms recovered footage into a profound cinematic meditation on memory, loss, and the passage of time. With Hasan in Gaza opens June 10.

Constructed from three MiniDV tapes shot in Gaza in 2001 and rediscovered years later, the film transforms recovered footage into a profound cinematic meditation on memory, loss, and the passage of time. With Hasan in Gaza opens June 10.

Punctuated with montages of xeroxed images and shot on mini-DV, Super 8, and iPhone, Tycoon is a hybrid punk-noir debut from Charlotte Zhang, lit with civil disobedience and flashes of collective catharsis. Tycoon plays June 7.

Feral Domestic, a video trilogy by Dani + Sheilah ReStack, plays June 7.

"Come close, I want to tell you something... Narrative is a conspiracy theory." What We Do Is Secret plays June 6.

Medium specificity goes by the wayside in this presentation of 3D remakes, resurrections, and revisionism, where we conjure some of stereo-cinema’s most Frankensteinian impulses. Re: Vision plays June 6. Curated by Blake Williams.

Buckle up for a high-velocity ride toward the limits of perception itself. And oh, yeah, this is definitely a strobe warning. Whiplash Notebook plays June 6.

Avenues to understanding are forged through consumption, metabolization, and decay, across six films that examine bodies and individuals as porous systems of relation. The Living Container plays June 6.

We know a storm is coming; are you sure you have everything you need? Evacuating Empire plays June 5.

Through essayistic, documentary and experimental forms, six filmmakers and five films explore what it means to belong where you are, and how the forces that impart meaning might be resisted or embraced. What Holds Us Here plays June 5.

A lot can happen in 90 seconds. The 90 Second plays June 5.