Jan 31 - Feb 6: Oscar Shorts: Animated, Live Action & Documentary! Plus Adam Shoalts: Beyond The Trees!

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Starting this Friday, we begin our EXCLUSIVE run of the entire 2020 Oscar Shorts program. Live Action, Animated, and Documentary Shorts: the Original Princess will have them all, so if you want an edge on the Oscar pool (and if you enjoy truly excellent filmmaking), don't miss any of them! Click on the image above and take a moment to check out showtimes....

We've got a special event at the Original on Thursday; we're super-proud to present Adam Shoalts: Beyond the Trees - A Journey Alone Across Canada's Arctic! Join professional adventurer and explorer Adam Shoalts for a night of high adventure as he presents his new national best-selling book Beyond the Trees. Books will be for sale (thanks Words Worth!) and Adam will be signing.

The Canadian film (and Canada's submission to the Oscars this year) Antigone opens on Friday and continues all weekend! A film that the Toronto Star is calling "one of the best films from 2019"... If you love film, especially film made right here in Canada, do not miss it!

Terrance Malick's new film, A Hidden Life returns this weekend... a very special film from one of the best directors to ever pick up a camera. "An exquisitely emotional and thorough account of an individual resisting state fascism." - Little White Lies

Don't forget, Oscar nominated films continue at the Princess all this weekend and next week with Parasite, Jojo Rabbit, Bombshell & Ford v Ferrari! Tickets below, select a showtime that works for you!

NEW EVENT: February 19th with Pretty Strong... Feature-length doc follows 5 women climbers around the world as they explore new climbs and push the boundaries of the sport. Hit the image below to get tickets!

FILMS SHOWING Friday Jan 31 to Thursday Feb 6

Oscar Nominated Animated Short Films - 2020

Animated Shorts. For over a decade, Shorts HD and Magnolia Pictures present the Oscar-Nominated Short Films, opening on Jan. 31st.With all three categories offered – Animated, Live Action and Documentary

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Oscar Nominated Documentary Short Films - 2020 - PART 1

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Documentary Shorts - Part 1. For the 15th consecutive year, Shorts HD and Magnolia Pictures present the Oscar-Nominated Short Films, opening on Jan. 31st.With all three categories offered – Animated, Live Action and Documentary

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Oscar Nominated Documentary Short Films - 2020 - PART 2

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Documentary Shorts - Part 2. For the 15th consecutive year, Shorts HD and Magnolia Pictures present the Oscar-Nominated Short Films, opening on Jan. 31st.With all three categories offered – Animated, Live Action and Documentary

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Oscar Nominated Live Action Short Films - 2020

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Live Action Shorts. For the 15th consecutive year, Shorts HD and Magnolia Pictures present the Oscar-Nominated Short Films, opening on Jan. 31st.With all three categories offered – Animated, Live Action and Documentary

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Antigone

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"Sophie Deraspe’s supple and impassioned Antigone is a contemporary spin on the Greek tragedy that feels refreshingly liberated by the spirit of Sophocles’ material. The clever screenplay (the film is also written and crisply shot by Deraspe) injects these ancient archetypes directly into the bloodstream of the modern-day immigration debate.

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Adam Shoults: Beyond the Trees - A Journey Alone Across Canada's Arctic

Feb. 6, 7:00pm. Adam Shoults: Beyond the Trees - A Journey Alone Across Canada's Arctic

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Parasite

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"Imagine a high-wire act where the acrobat suddenly leaps to a higher wire, then to another that's higher still. It's the best way I can think of to describe the giddy thrill of watching Parasite, a masterpiece of serial surprises." - Wall Street Journal

Winner of 4 Oscars (Best Picture, Best Director, Best International Feature, Best Original Screenplay). "An exhilarating and furious indictment of class struggle, Parasite might be the masterpiece South Korea's Bong Joon-ho has been working toward his entire career.

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Jojo Rabbit

"Taika Waititi knocks it out of der park with the meaningful lunacy of his anti-hate satire, which is equal parts Mel Brooks, Wes Anderson and Waititi’s own whimsical brilliance." - Toronto Star." -

Winner of TIFF 2019 Audience Award. Oscar Winner: Taika Waititi for Best Adapted Screenplay "Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit (★★★★★) defies description. It is the story of a young wannabe Nazi named Jojo (Roman Griffin Davis) who dreams of serving the Führer and daydreams that Adolf Hitler (Waititi) is his best friend.

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Bombshell

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"Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, John Lithgow at the top of their game in a solid recap of sexual harassment at Fox News." - Chicago Sun-Times

Nominated for 3 Oscars!

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Ford v Ferrari

"Vroom! Damon and Bale bring engine-roaring life to this true tale of two racing legends hired by Henry Ford II to build a hot, fast car that can beat Ferrari at Le Mans and pit American crass against Italian class. Fasten your seat belts." - Rolling Stone

Nominated for 4 Oscars! Best Picture, Best Film + Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing.

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A Hidden Life

Winner of the Ecumenical Prize at Cannes 2019. "Cinema at its mightiest and holiest. A Hidden Life is a movie you enter, like a cathedral of the senses." - Variety

Winner of the Ecumenical Jury Prize at Cannes 2019. From visionary director Terrence Malick (The Tree of Life, Days of Heaven) comes the true story of one man’s quiet resistance in Nazi-occupied Austria. When news of Hitler’s annexation reaches the bucolic mountain village of St.

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63 Up

"If you're coming to the series cold, there's enough filmed background to get you up to speed. And if you've become hooked at some point over the years, 63 Up makes for essential viewing." - National Post

"Michael Apted's Up series, which returns every seven years to interview the same group of subjects and see how life is going, long ago established itself as a humanist treasure.

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My Neighbor Totoro

Studio Ghibli series

Here is a children's film made for the world we should live in, rather than the one we occupy. A film with no villains. No fight scenes. No evil adults. No fighting between the two kids. No scary monsters. No darkness before the dawn. A world that is benign. A world where if you meet a strange towering creature in the forest, you curl up on its tummy and have a nap.

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Fantastic Fungi

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"Schwartzberg’s film quickly proves to be one of the year’s most mind-blowing, soul-cleansing and yes, immensely entertaining triumphs.” RogerEbert.com

“‘We are the wisdom of a billion years,’ Brie Larson dreamily narrates over what is not a new Marvel epic but rather a documentary of epic proportions about what director Louie Schwartzberg hopes everyone comes to view as a genuinely earthly marvel: mushrooms.

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Oscars 2020 (92nd Academy Awards) Live Broadcast

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Join us for a casual, come-as-you-are (or dress-to-the-nines, your choice!) evening celebrating the 92nd Academy Awards®! Red carpet starts at 6:30pm.

Enjoy Hollywood's most glamourous night and win prizes! Which of your favorites will take home the Oscar? Find out at the Princess' Annual Oscar night! FREE!

Trivia, Predict-The-Winner Contest & Prizes
Red Carpet & Hollywood's Biggest Night On the Big Screen!
The Princess Twin is licensed so you can enjoy a beverage with your Oscars! All ages

Clemency

"State-sanctioned execution and the spiritual toll it exacts on those involved are explored in “Clemency,” which made history when Chukwu became the first black female director to win the Sundance Grand Jury Prize." - LA Times

MUST END FEB 18! "In this shattering second feature from writer-director Chinonye Chukwu (alaskaLand) Alfre Woodard plays Bernadine Williams, an emotionally restrained prison warden who is about to oversee her twelfth execution by lethal injection.

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Ferron - Live On Stage

March 7th! The one-and-only FERRON returns to the Princess for one night only. One of Canada's all-time greatest folk musicians. Not to be missed! (Waterloo show is sold out.)

ADDED SHOW! Get tickets now for Ferron in HAMILTON, Sunday, March 8th at the beautifully restored Playhouse Cinema. Matinee show, 3pm on International Women's Day! Opening act, Kate Reid!

Canadian folk singer/songwriter and poet, Ferron is one of the world’s most influential writers and performers of women’s music.

And the Birds Rained Down

"Is it possible to exist only for ourselves? And the Birds Rained Down, a film written and directed by Louise Archambault and based on the acclaimed novel by Jocelyne Saucier, forces us to answer that question. Quietly, beautifully and sometimes uncomfortably – much like the story itself.

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