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Kanopy Movies

Kanopy is a video streaming service for quality, thoughtful entertainment. Find over 20,000 movies, documentaries, foreign films, classic cinema, independent films and educational videos that inspire, enrich and entertain. Content in over 100 languages is included. Kanopy can be enjoyed on your TV, mobile phone, tablet or online. Each Burnaby resident with a library card receives 10 checkouts (play credits) per month. This cap resets on the 1st of the following month.

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  • Arab Blues

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    Selma, a psychoanalyst, deals with a cast of colourful new patients after returning home to Tunisia to open a practice.
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  • Boy

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    Acclaimed director Taika Waititi (Hunt for the Wilderpeople) presents a creative coming-of-age comedy set in 1984, following an eleven-year-old Michael Jackson fanatic nicknamed "Boy" (James Rolleston).
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  • Call Me By Your Name

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    It's the summer of 1983, and precocious 17-year-old Elio Perlman is spending the days with his family at their 17th-century villa in Lombardy, Italy.
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  • Cleo From 5 to 7

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    Agnes Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer (Corinne Marchand) set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy.
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  • The Conversation

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    Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, The Conversation tells the story of sound surveillance expert Harry Caul (Gene Hackman) who is hired to track a young couple, taping their conversation as they walk through San Francisco's crowded Union Square.
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  • Ex Libris

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    Frederick Wiseman's new film Ex Libris goes behind the scenes of one of the greatest knowledge institutions in the world and reveals it as a place of place of welcoming cultural exchange and learning.
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  • Frank

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    An offbeat comedy about a wannabe musician who finds himself out of his depth when he joins an avant-garde pop band led by the enigmatic Frank - a musical genius who hides himself inside a large, fake head.
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  • Lady Macbeth

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    Rural England, 1865. Katherine is stifled by her loveless marriage to a bitter man twice her age, whose family are cold and unforgiving.
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  • Maudie

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    Based on a true story, this drama follows the unlikely romance between Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis (Sally Hawkins) and reclusive fishmonger Everett Lewis (Ethan Hawke).
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  • Memento

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    Three-time Oscar nominee Christopher Nolan (Interstellar, Inception) directs this critically acclaimed mystery.
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  • Metropolis

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    Perhaps the most famous and influential of all silent films, Metropolis had for 75 years been seen only in shortened or truncated versions.
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  • Millennium Actress

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    A movie studio is being torn down. TV reporter Genya Tachibana has tracked down its most famous star to interview her about her life and career.
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  • Pan's Labyrinth

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    Following a bloody civil war, young Ofelia enters a world of unimaginable cruelty when she moves in with her new stepfather, a tyrannical military officer.
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  • Rafiki

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    Despite a political rivalry between their families, Kena and Ziki resist and remain close friends, supporting each other to pursue their dreams in a conservative society.
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