Des personnes assises au sol dans un local lugubre, dans une scène du film L'angoisse du héron.

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Demi Moore et Margaret Qualley dans une scène du film The Substance.

The Substance

You’ve got to try this new product: The Substance. It generates another you. Younger, more beautiful, more perfect. And there’s only one rule: You share time. One week for you. One week for the new you. If you respect the balance… what could possibly go wrong?

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Des parents saluent les enfants à bord d'un autobus dans une scène du film The Sweet Hereafter.

The Sweet Hereafter

A small mountain community is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a dozen of its children dead. A lawyer arrives to help the victims’ families prepare a class-action suit, and one survivor of the accident has to reckon with the loss of innocence.

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Sugarcane

In 2021, unmarked graves were discovered on the grounds of a Catholic-run residential school in Canada. After years of silence, the forced separation, assimilation and abuse suffered by many Native children in these segregated residential schools came to light.

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Demi Moore au téléphone dans une scène du film The Substance.

In theatre


Great films in theatre, seven days a week

Come and see the body horror film that terrorised the Cannes Film Festival, a tribute to the sublime Gena Rowlands, a hidden treasure from director Claire Denis, and much, much more.

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Portrait de Pierre Falardeau

Starting September 25


Falardeau: Freedom First

He made Quebec independence his life’s struggle and inflammatory statements his trademark. This autumn, we mark the fifteenth anniversary of Pierre Falardeau’s death with a programme of seven films.

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Des spectateurs participent à une discussion suite à une projection de film, dans le cadre du projet Ensemble au cinéma du Cinéma Public.

Ensemble au cinéma


Over 4,000 participants!

Through the “Ensemble au cinéma” cultural mediation project, we are pursuing an objective that is close to our hearts: to make the cinema a place where people can live together, where the experience of films is lived, shared and developed through exchange and discussion.

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