National Canadian Film Day showcases director Trevor Solway with free screening of Siksikakowan: The Blackfoot Man

Siksika Nation director Trevor Solway's documentary Siksikakowan: The Blackfoot Man is screening Wednesday night at Landmark Cinemas 10 Shawnessy Wednesday night as part of National Canadian Film Day

Never mind elbows up, Canada. Wednesday’s the day to get popcorn out.

April 15 has been designated National Canadian Film Day, and that includes at home and in the theatre.

Hollywood Suite is screening a variety of Canadian cinema, including Shadow of God, a 2025 supernatural horror film shot in Calgary. There are also screenings of some of the best Canadian features shot from the 1960s to the 1990s, including The Winter Kept Us Warm (1965), The Hard Part Begins (1973), East End Hustle 1976) and director Atom Egoyan’s The Sweet Hereafter (1997).

Shadow of God, directed by Calgary’s Michael Peterson, tells the story of an unauthorized exorcism that an exorcist performs on his dad. It stars St. John’s Mark O’Brien, Heartland cast member Shaun Johnston and Toronto’s Jacquline Byers.

All of them will be screened Wednesday and throughout the month on demand, with some titles featuring introductions from The Beaverton’s Emma Hunter and Canadian comedian -- and Canada Reads host -- Ali Hassan.

Hollywood Suite is available through Canadian television service providers and Amazon Prime Video Channels.

Visit hollywoodsuite.ca for more information.

Siksikakowan: The Blackfoot Man free screening

In theatres, Siksika Nation director Trevor Solway’s latest film Siksikakowan: The Blackfoot Man will be screened at 7 p.m. at the Landmark Cinemas 10 Shawnessy on MacLeod Trail at 7 p.m.

Siksikakowan: The Blackfoot Man is described “as a film which intimately portrays Indigenous masculinity with sensitivity and power.”

Solway, who is also one of the creators behind the APTN horror anthology Tales from the Rez, won a Director’s Guild of Canada award for Siksikakowan: The Blackfoot Man.

Solway will be on hand Wednesday at the screening for a Q&A with the audience. Admission is free.

There are also special screenings in Edmonton of director Alireza Khatami’s The Things You Kill and director Sarah Polley’s Stories We Tell.

For more about National Canadian Film Day, go here.