Local Arts and Culture

An important documentary about sexual abuse is coming to Metro Cinema next week. The Pooni sisters allowed their friend, Baljit Sangra, to film the documentary Because We Are Girls to tell the world their story and give others the confidence to tell theirs, too.

You have to watch After the Wedding to really appreciate it. The underplayed 2019 film finally makes it to Reel Mondays on Feb. 24.

Art Gallery of St. Albert Nintawin features works by emerging artist Niamh Dooley. Until Saturday, March 28. Love Thy Neighbour features works by Elsa Robinson and John Kayinamura in celebration of Black History Month. Until Saturday, Feb.

Jo Roy's Sprite commercial with a message is but one of the many creative commercials being played during various screenings of the Cannes Lions 2019 reel, the first of which will be on Thursday as a fundraiser for the Ad Club of Edmonton's National Advertising Benevolent Society.

A Flat Earther meetup lands in the city on Sunday. This loose affiliation of skeptics and 'truthseekers' will gather for a robust discussion at Connor's Irish Pub.

A family reunion goes awry and then the awry goes awry in the eccentric and quirky Come to Daddy, playing a limited engagement at the Metro Cinema starting Thursday.

The world is divided into the rich and the poor, the haves and the have-nots, the upper class and the lower class. If you haven't seen the multiple Oscar-winning film Parasite, what's stopping you?