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ByTowne Cinema Ottawa’s home of international and independent movies since 1988 Pretty much everything you need to know can be found here: http://www.bytowne.ca/
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08/30/2026

❤️‍🩹 A hopeful story of love, challenge, and self-discovery.

🍿 Gillian Anderson & Jason Isaacs star in "The Salt Path", opening at the ByTowne Cinema THIS FRIDAY!

Screening September 4 - 10

🎟️ Get tickets now: https://www.bytowne.ca/movies/the-salt-path/

🎞️ Luchino Visconti’s “White Nights” (Le Notti Bianche) is an exquisite adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s legendary nove...
08/29/2026

🎞️ Luchino Visconti’s “White Nights” (Le Notti Bianche) is an exquisite adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s legendary novella of the same name, transforming this romantic, shattering tale of two restless souls into a ravishing black-and-white dream.

Marcello Mastroianni, as a lonely city transplant, and Maria Schell, as a sheltered girl haunted by a lover’s promise, meet by chance on a canal bridge and begin a tentative romance that quickly entangles them in a web of longing and self-delusion. See how it all unfolds on the big screen, with a new restoration!

🍿 "Le Notti Bianche" screens September 18 & 19

🎟️ Get tickets now: https://www.bytowne.ca/movies/restoration-le-notti-bianche/

👑 Join us and Drunken Cinema as we journey towards a far, far away land with our fave ogre family with the iconic "Shrek...
08/28/2026

👑 Join us and Drunken Cinema as we journey towards a far, far away land with our fave ogre family with the iconic "Shrek 2" !

Happily ever after never seemed so far far away when a trip to meet the in-laws turns into a hilariously twisted adventure for Shrek (Mike Myers) and Fiona (Cameron Diaz). With the help of his faithful Donkey (Eddie Murphy), Shrek takes on a potion-brewing Fairy Godmother, the pompous Prince Charming (Rupert Everett), and the ogre-killer, Puss In Boots (Antonio Banderas) who’s a pussycat at heart.

🍻 What is Drunken Cinema? It’s a monthly interactive movie game series that brings a twist to the movie-going experience. Customized game card and glow-stick included in the price of admission!

🍿 "Shrek 2" screens Friday, September 11 at 9:30pm

🎟 Get advanced tickets now: https://www.bytowne.ca/movies/drunken-cinema-shrek-2/

08/28/2026

🚀 One dream. One jump. One man crazy enough to go for it.

Based on the unbelievable true story of legendary Canadian daredevil Ken Carter and starring Jay Baruchel, Ben Foster and Ed Helms, "The Stunt Driver" opens at the ByTowne Cinema September 28!

🎟️ Get advanced tickets now: https://www.bytowne.ca/movies/the-stunt-driver/

🌅 We are soaking up the last weeks of summer with a very fitting film line-up, full of beach towns, nature hikes and...s...
08/28/2026

🌅 We are soaking up the last weeks of summer with a very fitting film line-up, full of beach towns, nature hikes and...shark attacks! Catch these flicks playing at the ByTowne Cinema this week:

🍿 "Tony" - Screening until September 10
🍿 "Compostelle" - August 28 - September 3
🍿 "The Salt Path" - September 4 - 10
🍿 🎞️ "Jaws" on 35mm - September 4 & 6

🎟️ Get tickets to all these films now: https://www.bytowne.ca/whats-on/now-showing/

🎞️ For this month's Staff Pick, we are hitting the road with Oliver Stone’s gripping and satirical look at violence, mur...
08/27/2026

🎞️ For this month's Staff Pick, we are hitting the road with Oliver Stone’s gripping and satirical look at violence, murder and the American media, "Natural Born Killers!"

Oscar-nominees Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis and Robert Downey, Jr., Academy Award-winner Tommy Lee Jones lead an all-star cast with the story by Oscar-winner Quentin Tarantino, as told through the eyes of two of the most terrifying, relentless, cold-blooded (and popular) mass murderers imaginable.

Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis are two young, attractive serial killers who become tabloid-TV darlings, thanks to a sensationalistic press led by Robert Downey Jr. The press reports the pair as they go on a 52 people killing spree.

🍿 "Natural Born Killers" screens Saturday, September 12 at 9pm

🎟 Get tickets now: https://www.bytowne.ca/movies/staff-picks-natural-born-killers/

📽 Acted with astonishing nuance and shot in stark contrast and soft light by the great Sven Nykvist, Ingmar Bergman's "P...
08/26/2026

📽 Acted with astonishing nuance and shot in stark contrast and soft light by the great Sven Nykvist, Ingmar Bergman's "Persona" is a penetrating, dreamlike work of profound psychological depth.

Liv Ullmann plays a stage actor who has inexplicably gone mute; an equally mesmerizing Bibi Andersson is the garrulous young nurse caring for her in a remote island cottage. While isolated together there, the women perform a mysterious spiritual and emotional transference that would prove to be one of cinema’s most influential creations.

🍿 Part of our Spectacle series, "Persona" screens September 13 & 16

🎟 Get tickets now on our website: https://www.bytowne.ca/movies/spectacle-persona/

08/25/2026

🍿 From Oscar-nominated and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Poh Si Teng (“St. Louis Superman”), "American Doctor" screens September 11, 14 & 15 at the ByTowne Cinema

"American Doctor" is a vérité non-fiction film following three prominent physicians–Palestinian, Jewish and Zoroastrian—friends who couldn’t be more different but are bound by their shared oath to save lives. After volunteering in besieged hospitals in Gaza, they return home determined to fight for the patients and colleagues they left behind, taking their battle from the front lines of war to the halls of Congress.

🎟️ Get tickets here: https://www.bytowne.ca/movies/american-doctor/

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