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A cinema on the move, on screens big and small. Cinéma Public presents an online program and, starting this Summer, screenings of films on the big screen in various locations. The team is also working on opening a new theatre to give Montreal moviegoers another great big-screen option, and developing new cultural outreach activities.

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Cinéma Public X LIVART

Nadia, Butterfly

Pascal Plante

Duration: 107 minutes

With director Pascal Plante attending

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Films to rent and watch in the comfort of your home!

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Eric Toledano, Olivier Nakache

HORS NORMES
Maxime Faure

AINSI SOIENT-ELLES
Christian Petzold

ONDINE
Anaïs Barbeau-Lavelette

LA DÉESSE DES MOUCHES À FEU
Emily Gan

CAVEBIRDS
Pietro Marcello

MARTIN EDEN
Jasmila Zbanic

QUO VADIS, AIDA?
Roy Andersson

POUR L’ÉTERNITÉ
Oscar Ruiz Navia

FAIT VIVIR
Mira Burt-Wintonick

WINTOPIA
Célia Rivière

LA CABANE AUX OISEAUX
Rose Glass

SAINT MAUD

Eric Toledano, Olivier Nakache

HORS NORMES

2019 / France / 115 min / French

The story of two men, educators of children and adolescents with autism.

For twenty years, Bruno and Malik have been living in a world apart, the world of autistic children and teenagers. Their respective associations train youngsters from difficult neighborhoods to care for these cases categorized as “extremely complex”. A special partnership for special personalities.

Official selection Cannes Film Festival 2019

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Maxime Faure

AINSI SOIENT-ELLES

2019 / France, Canada / 75 min / French with English subtitles
In collaboration with RIDM.

The Helper Nuns of Quebec, who believe in God but not in a Church dominated by men, are preparing for the disappearance of their group.

The first snow falls on Quebec. As the disappearance of their small religious community looms, the Helper Nuns begin sorting through their life — a lifetime of struggles. These valiant all-terrain militants, who believe in God but not in a Church dominated by men, have spent years and years campaigning for women’s rights, social justice and international solidarity. Basically, a precious heritage that Gisèle, Marie-Paule, Nicole, Suzanne and their fellow sisters are preparing to leave behind. Between apprehension about death, outbursts of laughter and meals washed down with wine, these dignified free women live the meaning of sisterhood to the full. Until the very end.

AVAILABLE JUNE 25

Christian Petzold

ONDINE

2020 / Germany, France / German with French subtitles / 90 min
In collaboration with the FNC

When Johannes abruptly breaks up with her in front of the Berlin City Museum, all Undine manages to say is, “If you leave me, I’ll have to kill you.” Still, it doesn’t take long for the architectural historian to fall in love with Christophe, a mysterious young diver, in an encounter tinged with magic realism. But like an angry nymph, Undine is still haunted by the heartbreak of her failed relationship. Working again with Paula Beer (best actress at Berlin 2020) and Franz Rogowski from Transit, Christian Petzold delivers a sensuous, romantic drama where reality and fantasy mingle to form an intriguing aquatic legend. (FNC)

Best female interpretation Paula Beer – Berlin Film Festival 2020

AVAILABLE JUNE 25

Anaïs Barbeau-Lavelette

LA DÉESSE DES MOUCHES À FEU

2020 / (Québec) Canada / 106 min / French with English subtitles

Quebec in the 90s – Catherine will learn about life the hard way.

Sex, drugs, love and death – for Cat it’s a year of first times and radical experimentation. With her parents in the midst of a nasty divorce, the 16-year-old seeks solace and liberation in ecstatic states. (Mubi)

Grand Jury Prize – Festival de cinéma de la ville de Québec
15 nominations – Gala Québec Cinéma

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Emily Gan

CAVEBIRDS

2019 / Canada / 81 min / English, Mandarin, Hokkien and French with English and French subtitles

A touching family about a daughter-father relationship…and edible bird nests.

In Cavebirds, the filmmaker tracks her father’s progress in building an edible-nest swiftlet birdhouse in his hometown – a small village in Malaysia he left more than half a lifetime ago. Together they explore the places they call home on opposite sides of the globe, while the birds fly unceasingly from scene to scene bridging the cultural and generational gaps between a daughter and her immigrant father.

Emerging Filmmaker Award – Hot Docs 2019

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Pietro Marcello

MARTIN EDEN

2019 / Italy, France, Germany / 129 min / Italian and French with French subtitles

The odyssey of a young man in the 1920s in Naples; adapted from Jack London’s novel.

Adapted from a 1909 novel by Jack London yet set in a provocatively unspecified moment in Italy’s history, Martin Eden is a passionate and enthralling narrative fresco in the tradition of the great Italian classics. Martin (played by the marvelously committed Luca Marinelli) is a self-taught proletarian with artistic aspirations who hopes that his dreams of becoming a writer will help him rise above his station and marry a wealthy young university student (Jessica Cressy). The dissatisfactions of working-class toil and bourgeois success lead to political awakening and destructive anxiety in this enveloping, superbly mounted bildungsroman. Winner of the Best Actor prize at the Venice Film Festival and the Platform Prize at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Venice Film Festival 2019 – Coppa Volpi Best Actor

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Jasmila Zbanic

QUO VADIS, AIDA?

2020 / Bosnia and Herzegovina / 111 min / English, Serbo-croatian, Bosnian, Dutch and Serbian with English subtitles

When the Serbian army takes over the town, a translator for the UN’s family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter.

Based on these true events, the film tells the story of Aida (Jasna Ðuričić), a middle-aged English teacher and translator taking shelter in a United Nations military base operated by Dutch peacekeepers, alongside her husband, two sons, and 30,000 other refugees. As the Serbian army encroaches on the town and fatal round-ups begin, a UN ultimatum is ignored by the invading forces relentlessly shelling the civilians. Aida frantically scrambles to save her family within the so-called safe zone, while protection from the UN peacekeepers crumbles at the arrival of Republika Srpska army commander Ratko Mladić (Boris Isaković) — who would later be convicted for war crimes.

Nominated for Best International Feature Film – Academy Awards 2021
Best Film – Film Independent Spirit Awards 2021

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Roy Andersson

POUR L’ÉTERNITÉ

2019 / Sweden, Germany, Norway / Swedish with French subtitles / 76 min

Vignettes of pensive reflexions of the human condition in all its banality, humour and beauty.

One of cinema’s most revered artists, Roy Andersson has created a peerless and influential body of work with Songs from the Second Floor; You, the Living; and A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence. Constructed as a series of eerie vignettes characteristic of these more recent films, Andersson’s latest, About Endlessness, is imbued with a singular, haunting atmosphere. His characters float ghostlike — afraid to engage with one another, or lost in grief, confusion, and metaphysical angst — through the detailed landscapes he and his teams construct to trompe l’oeil effect, with scenes often culminating in absurdist, awkward humour.

Best director – Venice Film Festival 2019

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Oscar Ruiz Navia

FAIT VIVIR

2019 / Colombie, Canada / Spanish with English and French subtitles / 76 min

Portrait of the GKO orchestra under the eyes of Manuk, a five-year-old.

“Dancing, singing and partying was once forbidden in a lost tropical town” This is how the show MAKONDO begins. Makondo was created by GKO Orchestra, an original company of musicians, dancers, actors and circus artistes based in Montreal and coming from many different places around the world.  FAIT VIVIR tells us the myth of this, out of the ordinary band, through the eyes of Manuk, a five-year-old boy. His imaginative and poetic perspective interlaces documentary material of the band touring through various villages and cities of Colombia, with the staging of the show. The fantasy of the narrator also allows us to know closely the daily life of the creators and the dream that feeds this adventurous project that propels movement and freedom.

Biarritz Latin American Film Festival 2019

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Mira Burt-Wintonick

WINTOPIA

2020 / Canada / English with French subtitles / 88 min

A daughter’s attempt at understanding her father after his tragic death.

Wintopia is an intimate father-daughter story and poignant search for the meaning of utopia. Following the quick and tragic death of Peter Wintonick, Canada’s “documentary ambassador to the world”, his daughter Mira Burt-Wintonick dives into her father’s obsession with untangling the contradiction that is utopia. The remains of his unfinished film and several hundred hours of raw footage shot over 15 years leads Mira to surprising places and connections with her father, compelling all of us to live life with purpose.

Official selection – Hot Docs 2020
Official selection – RIDM 2020

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Célia Rivière

LA CABANE AUX OISEAUX

2018 / France / French / 40 min / for ages 2 and up

Nine bird stories for your little ones!

How delicious to be told stories! How joyful to see the illustrations of a book come alive along the reading… Nine stories from children books gathered in 45 minutes of animated images about birds twirling around, chirruping or even cooing!

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Rose Glass

SAINT MAUD

2019 / United Kingdom / English with French subtitles / 85 min

Your savior is coming.

The debut film from writer-director Rose Glass, Saint Maud is a chilling and boldly original vision of faith, madness, and salvation in a fallen world. Maud, a newly devout hospice nurse, becomes obsessed with saving her dying patient’s soul — but sinister forces, and her own sinful past, threaten to put an end to her holy calling.

Nominated for 2 BAFTA 2021
Best Film – London Film Festival

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Our passionate team believes in the future of cinema. We are driven by a desire to create a new space where films, artists and audiences meet. Cinéma Public humanizes the moviegoing experience with appealing and stimulating events and a carefully curated film program.

Team

Roxanne Sayegh
Co-director

Aude Renaud-Lorrain
Co-director

Anne-Julie Lalande
Associate programmer, communications and ticketing coordinator

Béatrice Langlois-Bettez
Technical coordinator

Amélie Saffré
Philanthropic development

Teejay Bhalla
Manager – Livart

Board of Directors

Nadine Medawar, Luc Déry, Jean-Marc Krupa, Robert Yalden, Roxanne Sayegh and Tao Fei

Institutional Partners

Cinéma Public thanks its institutional partners: the Secrétariat à la région métropolitaine of the Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l’Habitation via the Fonds d’initiative et de rayonnement de la métropole, the Conseil des arts de Montréal, the SODEC, Telefilm Canada and the Department of Canadian Heritage.

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We would like to thank the Conseil des arts de Montréal for its support through the fiscal sponsorship program, which allows us to produce and promote our activities. The Conseil des arts de Montréal will issue tax receipts for donations of $100 or more.

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