Founded by award-winning documentary filmmaker Ron Mann (Grass, Comic Book Confidential, Carmine Street Guitars) Films We Like is a boutique distributor of documentary, independent, and international films in…
Newest Releases
Stories
Films We Like presents Ryusuke Hamaguchi's EVIL DOES NOT EXIST
IN THEATRES ACROSS CANADA FRIDAY, MAY 10, 2024
Films We Like Presents NEVER LOOK AWAY
Films We Like has acquired Canadian distribution rights to Never Look Away, the directorial debut of actress Lucy Lawless (Xena: Warrior Princess). Lawless’s unflinching documentary delves into the life and work of swashbuckling CNN combat camerawoman, Margaret Moth, and the personal challenges she faced.
Films We Like presents OCCUPIED CITY by Steve McQueen
Films We Like has acquired the Canadian distribution rights to Occupied City, a moving meditation on wartime Amsterdam produced and directed by filmmaker Steve McQueen (12 Years A Slave, Shame) and based on the book Atlas of an Occupied City, Amsterdam 1940 - 1945 by Bianca Stigter.
Films We Like presents RETURN TO REASON
Films We Like has acquired the distribution rights to Return to Reason, an anthology of four recently restored silent films by surrealist artist Man Ray with a new original music score by SQÜRL (Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan). Return to Reason premiered at the 2023 Cannes and New York Film Festivals.
Lists
Newest Releases 19 films
What's new and coming soon at Films We Like.
See more of our titles on our website.
FWL at #TIFF2023 4 films
The 48th annual Toronto International Film Festival is taking place September 7–17, 2023, and Films We Like is proud to…
Liked lists
20 Favourites From FilmsWeLike
Don Marks 20 films
2023 Toronto International Film Festival
TIFF 254 films
Recent reviews
Ryusuke Hamaguchis' EVIL DOES NOT EXIST is "an instant-masterpiece worthy of intense debate." (The Globe and Mail)
Now playing in Toronto, Vancouver, Saskatoon, Waterloo + Winnipeg, with more cinemas to follow. See all dates and showtimes here. 🇨🇦
"A monumental symphony of Amsterdam history." (The Globe and Mail) OCCUPIED CITY is Steve McQueen's encyclopedic study of Amsterdam's history during the Nazi occupation through the beginnings of the COVID-19 lockdown.
Now playing in Toronto and Halifax, and coming soon to Montréal, Vancouver and Ottawa. Get Canadian showtimes & tickets here.
"A maddeningly radical…brilliant two-hour-and-43-minute Godard–meets–Harmony Korine Romanian masterpiece." (John Waters)
DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE END OF THE WORLD is now playing in Vancouver, Montréal, Québec City and Winnipeg. Toronto, Edmonton, St Catharines, Kingston and Ottawa to follow.
"A glorious final performance." (Variety) The maestro's final, definitive swan song is captured in this celebration of life. Opens in Toronto, Vancouver and Montréal on Mar 29, followed by more dates in Ottawa and Winnipeg. Get Canadian showtimes & tickets here.
Liked reviews
“I can’t go on like this.” “That’s what you think.” Radu Jude might just be contemporary cinema’s purest conveyor of how profoundly, breathtakingly soul-crushing and stupid it can feel to be alive and awake in the world right now. A long day in the life of a gig-worker as a cacophonous road trip back and forth through Bucharest going nowhere; the neoliberal nightmare rendered as a bleak pilgrimage through all the ways late-modern life has been reduced to a string…
Hesse and I just interviewed the writer/director of this incredible movie, Radu Jude, for MM, so PLEASE watch this before our interview drops...
At a time when most big American directors are fleeing into depictions of the past, here is a film that claustrophobically and hilariously foregrounds the abject shittiness and obscenity of being alive in the present day. This is like the Romanian Ulysses, a work that fixes you in the horror, vulgarity and ultimately heroism of getting through ONE DAY of being alive. Cannot recommend highly enough.
Such a thematically rich, politically profound, exquisitely beautiful, controlled, navigation between modernity and tradition, which considers what is lost when you think you’ve gained.
THE MONK AND THE GUN presents a traditional way of life undergoing drastic change with rich thematic texture. Loved the vibrant, gorgeous images of Bhutan & the modest but candidly funny dialogue. A pleasantly surprising & confident evolution from Lunana: A Yak In The Classroom.
What's new and coming soon at Films We Like.
See more of our titles on our website.