Nickel 2026 HoroscopeS
BEHOLD! The Nickel 2026 horoscope. Twelve films from the 26th Nickel, twelve glimpses at the month ahead.
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Aries
In Striking Out the Boys, Jaida Lee walks onto a baseball diamond where everyone expects her not to be. She doesn't fight against their expectations, she just plays. Aries, the coming weeks may put you in rooms where your presence is the subject of some quiet or not-so-quiet debate. Don't feel like you have to convince anyone that you belong, just keep showing up, doing the thing that brought you there. The most radical act this season won't be the words you say, they will be the swings you take.
Striking Out the Boys — closing night, Sunday June 28 at 7pm.
Taurus
In Hangashore, an artist travels to a remote island because something there is calling her. A missing father, an unfinished image. The place becomes the answer. Dear Taurus, this month you may notice this month that the thing your spirit is asking for isn't an idea, it's a place. Some of the most important pilgrimages are short and made for reasons you won't be able to explain to anyone ... until you arrive.
Hangashore — opening night, Monday June 22 at 7pm.
Gemini
In Sawdust, two friends take a wrong turn and end up in an empty industrial lot, where they argue their way to honesty, and the unintended detour becomes a pivotal part of their journey. Dear Gemini, you may find yourself this month in conversations that veer off the route you planned. Don't apologize or panic but try to notice what becomes possible once that original path is lost. The real gift might be the chance to finally say the thing you never could.
Sawdust — Love, Almost, Thursday June 25 at 7pm.
Cancer
In Candles, a woman returns to the restaurant she once ran with her late husband and sets a candlelit table for two — one for herself and one for him. She is not running from her loss, she is hosting it. These coming weeks a presence you have let go may return to you, Cancer — be that a person or a past version of yourself. Be steadfast, but know that sometimes before you can truly say goodbye to something you sometimes have to give it a seat at the table.
Candles — A Little Tenderness, Wednesday June 24 at 7pm.
Leo
In Uiksaringitara (Wrong Husband), a young woman named Kaujak holds onto the love she was promised, even as family politics and an evil shaman conspire to separate her from it. She is trapped, but she remembers, and she waits. You may feel pulled this month, Leo, to make a public case for a thing nobody outside you can see. Some loves prove themselves by outlasting whomever is trying to talk you out of them.
Wrong Husband (Uiksaringitara) — Tuesday June 23 at 7pm.
Virgo
In the short doc Partridge Cleaning, Innu knowledge holder Rosemarie Pokue shows what her mother taught her — how to pluck a partridge, how to cut it, and how to cook it. Each gesture is exact. Each gesture is care. Dear Virgo, the gift this season is your patience reviewing details that other people skim past. Don't apologize for taking your time. Small careful acts are how impressive and beautiful things come to be.
Partridge Cleaning — Labrador in Focus, Sunday June 28 at 2:30pm at The Rooms.
Libra
In The Muse, a photographer and her 74-year-old subject take a road trip across Newfoundland, making portraits as they go. The pictures are the result, but the friendship is the work. You may notice this month, Libra, that the people you do your best thinking around aren't necessarily the people you expected. A new collaborator — older, younger, whatever — may be near. What if the relationship that changes your work the most this year is one you'd never have predicted?
The Muse — Hope After All, Saturday June 27 at 7pm.
Scorpio
In An Interview with the Devil, a rights advocate descends into a shuttered prison and listens, longer than is probably wise, to the man inside. What she hears starts to change him. Be careful, Scorpio. You are good at listening, but the coming weeks may pull you into a conversation that wants more of you than you planned to give. Pay attention to where you are when the talk is over. Some forms of empathy require, occasionally, a closed door.
An Interview with the Devil — Things Get Weird, Friday June 26 at 10pm.
Sagittarius
In Pique-nique, two welders on their lunch break see something impossible in the sky. Faced with the sublime, they lower their masks. Most days, the wonder is right above you, Sagittarius. The invitation this month is not to travel somewhere new, it's to look where you already are. If you have a visor to protect you, be sure to look up.
Pique-nique — Hope After All, Saturday June 27 at 7pm.
Capricorn
In The Lines She Carries, an Inuk artist prepares to receive her traditional tuniit — marking on her skin what her ancestors were forbidden to wear. She is not adding decoration, she is restoring a deep cultural connection. You have inheritances of your own, Capricorn — not all of them visible, not all of them yet claimed. The coming weeks may invite you to acknowledge something that has been yours all along: a craft, a name, a way of working that came from someone who came before you. What would it look like to share this openly?
The Lines She Carries — People's History, Saturday June 27 at 2:30pm.
Aquarius
In (for once I dreamed of you), the filmmaker treats film itself as a living thing — letting images breathe, fade, develop their own slow logic. The work is in the looking. You spend a lot of energy, Aquarius, seeing things other people glance past — the shimmer at the edge of an ordinary day, the second meaning under what someone just said. The coming weeks may reward that perceptiveness in unexpected ways. Trust what you notice. The thing you almost can't articulate is often the thing most worth saying.
(for once I dreamed of you) — The Darkest Timeline, Thursday June 25 at 10pm.
Pisces
In The Dress, a garment becomes a vessel for memory and almost-romance — the joy that lives in the unfulfilled, or the people we passed but didn't reach. You know this terrain, Pisces. The coming weeks may bring back something or someone that never quite happened. You don't have to call it a loss. Some encounters are complete exactly as they are: brief, luminous, hung in a closet of memory. What if the almost is its own sort of arrival?
