The atrium of the Bell Lightbox.

Hooking young viewers accustomed to watching movies on computers and television is critical for a film culture that insists on the difference between cinema and screens. For Noah Cowan, the artistic director of the Lightbox back in Toronto, the big-screen experience remains crucial. Movies might be produced to be seen on smaller and smaller devices, but, he said, “size and groups of people should form the basis of our advocacy” (quality, too, he later added).