Schedule
Moomin et la folle aventure de l'été
With the valley flooded, Moomin and their family have to escape their home. Taking refuge in a floating theater, they meet Emma, the quirky owner of the place.
Soleils Atikamekw
Manawan, 1977. A vehicle falls into a river near a Native community. Two Quebecers escape, but five Atikamekws lose their lives. While the police conclude that it was an accident, the victims’ families are left with unanswered questions.
Les jours parfaits
Hirayama’s daily routine is like a ritual. Every morning, after breakfast, he wanders around Tokyo, taking care of the public toilets. This daily quietude is disrupted by the arrival of his niece Niko, a presence that will reveal past wounds.
Last chance
La garde blanche
In Mexico, under the ashes and dust, the landscape fades away. Behind barbed-wire borders, forests, rivers and mountains fall into the hands of private companies. Here, the new masters and their mercenaries impose silence and terror.
SOLD OUT
2001: A Space Odyssey
A tribe of ape-like beings are visited by a large black monolith. Thousands of years later, on the moon, a scientist discovers a similar object emitting a signal aimed at Jupiter.
Mort à Venise
A fastidious composer reeling from a disastrous concert travels to Venice to recover. There, he is struck by a vision of pure beauty in the form of a young boy named Tadzio, his infatuation developing into an obsession even as rumors of a plague spread through the city.
Le garçon et le héron
During the Second World War, young Mahito suffers a family tragedy and must move to the countryside. Isolated, Mahito begins to explore the mysterious landscapes around him, and meets a mysterious grey heron who guides him on a breathtaking adventure.
Last chance
Festin boréal
A wounded moose escapes its hunters, later dying deep in the forest and becoming… a communal feast. As the seasons go by, mammals, birds and insects invite themselves to the banquet – multiplying ensuing games, rituals and conflicts.
Last chance
N’attendez pas trop de la fin du monde
Working for a faceless multinational, Angela seeks out the star of a future prevention video on workplace safety, and in the process, trolls toxic masculinity on TikTok.
Bye Bye Tiberias
Years after leaving her Palestinian village to pursue an acting career in France, Hiam Abbass returns home with her daughter, in this intimate documentary about four generations of women and their shared legacy of separation.
La Chimera
“The Englishman”, a mystical archaeologist fresh out of prison, reunites with his band of grave robbers in search of a legendary doorway to the afterlife. One thing leads to another, and he becomes embroiled in an international network of stolen Etruscan artifacts.
Soleils Atikamekw
Manawan, 1977. A vehicle falls into a river near a Native community. Two Quebecers escape, but five Atikamekws lose their lives. While the police conclude that it was an accident, the victims’ families are left with unanswered questions.
With Mathilde Capone in attendance
Éviction
The distraught residents of Montreal’s queer community of Parthenais search for a new place to call home in the midst of a housing crisis and land speculation. Éviction is the story of this turning page.
Les jours parfaits
Hirayama’s daily routine is like a ritual. Every morning, after breakfast, he wanders around Tokyo, taking care of the public toilets. This daily quietude is disrupted by the arrival of his niece Niko, a presence that will reveal past wounds.
Last chance
Les herbes sèches
A young teacher hopes to be transferred to Istanbul after four years of mandatory service in a remote village, but is accused of inappropriate contact by two students. After losing hope, a colleague offers him new perspectives on life.
2001: A Space Odyssey
A tribe of ape-like beings are visited by a large black monolith. Thousands of years later, on the moon, a scientist discovers a similar object emitting a signal aimed at Jupiter.
The Watermelon Woman
Cheryl investigates an obscure 1930s black performer known as Watermelon Woman. The latter’s story turns out to have surprising resonances with her own life.
Moomin et la folle aventure de l'été
With the valley flooded, Moomin and their family have to escape their home. Taking refuge in a floating theater, they meet Emma, the quirky owner of the place.
Linda veut du poulet !
No, it wasn’t Linda who took her mother Paulette’s ring! And now Paulette, who can’t cook, would do anything to make it up to her, even a chicken with peppers.
Éviction
The distraught residents of Montreal’s queer community of Parthenais search for a new place to call home in the midst of a housing crisis and land speculation. Éviction is the story of this turning page.
Les jours parfaits
Hirayama’s daily routine is like a ritual. Every morning, after breakfast, he wanders around Tokyo, taking care of the public toilets. This daily quietude is disrupted by the arrival of his niece Niko, a presence that will reveal past wounds.
La bête
In a future dominated by artificial intelligence, a young woman must cleanse her DNA of emotions linked to her encounters with incarnations of the same man, in 1910, 2014 and 2044. A journey through time, from the Belle Epoque to the (not so) distant future.
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Return to Reason
Modern art icon Man Ray directed four short films. Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan composed a soundtrack to these films as if they were forming one unique piece. An undefinable object, a piece of visual music that resonates through its modernity and poetry.
À l’ouest de Pluton
Pierre-Olivier, Émilie, Steve and Nicolas, all aged 14 to 16, live in a Quebec City suburb and have the concerns you’d expect, from falling in love to finding friendship. One wild night, the group experiences something that changes how they see the world.
Caffè Italia, Montréal
Avoiding the pitfalls of nostalgia, Paul Tana paints an endearing and nuanced portrait of the Italians of Montreal that mixes archival footage, fiction, personal testimonies and excerpts of a stage play.
