In theatre
Casa d’Italia – 505 Jean-Talon E
Landmark of the Little Italy neighbourhood, the Casa d’Italia is our anchor point to offer you more screenings, events and meetings. With Jean-Talon station right across the street, there’s no excuse to miss a good movie on the big screen!
Ode to Joy
A warm summer evening in Paris: Félix meets Alma by chance. But she is about to go on a family vacation and their time together is cut short. On an impulse, Félix decides to surprise her where she is holidaying and enrols a friend in the adventure.
Guillaume Brac
France
language: French
95 min
International cinema
A riveting essay film that illuminates the political machinations behind the 1961 murder of Congo’s leader. A moment when African politics and American jazz collided.
Johan Grimonprez
Belgium, France, Netherlands
language: English, French, Dutch, Russian
subtitles: French
150 min
Homegrown cinema
An unfinished film is passed along from one friend to another. The dialog between them is a journey crossed by the swarming of the Great Eastern Brood X of periodical cicadas that prophetically emerge every 17 years in the United States.
Matthew Wolkow, Jean-Jacques Martinod
Québec (Canada), United States, Ecuador
language: French, English, Spanish
subtitles: French
76 min
International cinema
In the summer of 1960, Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin set out to chronicle the everyday lives of Parisians using a mixture of intimate interviews, debates and observations.
Edgar Morin, Jean Rouch
France
language: French
subtitles: English
86 min
Ode to Joy
Switzerland shall from now on have only one national language: French. Many German and Italian-speaking Swiss are in a state of crisis. Including Walter, who works for the federal police and has to ensure that the transition to monolingualism is carried out properly.
Peter Luisi
Switzerland
language: Swiss-German
subtitles: French
88 min
Ages 4 and up
Elli, a little homeless ghost, must team up with a crew of outsiders in a mad quest to save not only all the monsters, but also her only chance of finally having a family of her own.
Jesper Møller, Piet de Rycker
Québec (Canada), Germany
language: French
87 min
Ages 8 and up
Cat is a solitary animal, but as its home is devastated by a great flood, he finds refuge on a boat populated by various species, and will have to team up with them despite their differences. They navigate the challenges and dangers of adapting to this new world.
Gints Zilbalodis
Latvia, France, Belgium
language: no dialogue
84 min
International cinema
Rangoon, Burma, 1918. Edward runs away from his fiancée Molly the day she arrives to get married. During his travels, however, panic gives way to melancholy. Determined to get married and amused by Edward’s move, Molly follows his trail on this Asian grand tour.
Miguel Gomes
Portugal, Italy, France
language: Portuguese, Chinese, Thai, French, Burmese, Vietnamese, Filipino, Japanese
subtitles: English
129 min
Audience choice
The story of the emotional bond between a death-obsessed young man from a wealthy family and a devil-may-care, bohemian octogenarian. Equal parts gallows humor and romantic innocence, Harold and Maude dissolves the line between darkness and light.
Hal Ashby
United States
language: English
subtitles: French
91 min
Ages 6 ans up
Little Frida is the sunlight of her small Mexican village. When a polio diagnosis casts a cloud over her spirit, she is forced into the solitude of her bedroom. But it’s there that she finds solace in her imagination, a world brimming with color, flowers, and possibilities.
André Kadi, Karine Vézina
Québec (Canada), France
language: French
82 min
Ode to Joy
In postwar Rome, a working-class woman dreams of a better future for herself and her daughter while facing abuse at the hands of her domineering husband.
Paola Cortellesi
Italy
language: Italian
subtitles: French
118 min
Audience choice
A Hong Kong movie star arrives in Paris to play the lead in a remake of a classic silent crime serial. What she finds is a behind-the-scenes tangle of barely controlled chaos as egos clash, romantic attractions simmer, and an obsessive director drives himself to the brink.
Olivier Assayas
France
language: French
subtitles: English
99 min
International cinema
Brazil, 1971, under the military dictatorship. Eunice Paiva, a mother of five children, is forced to reinvent herself after her family suffers a violent and arbitrary act by the government. The true story that helped reconstruct an important part of Brazil’s hidden history.
Walter Salles
Brazil, France
language: Portuguese
subtitles: French
136 min
Homegrown cinema
In this second installment of a trilogy exploring the emblematic figure of Simón Bolívar, Pablo Álvarez-Mesa takes a sophisticated, artistic look at the páramo and its history.
Pablo Álvarez-Mesa
Colombia, Québec (Canada)
language: Spanish, Castilian
subtitles: English
77 min
Homegrown cinema
A look at the intimate world of young non-binary trans photographer Laurence Philomène as they put together their first book, Puberty. Beyond the story of individual transformation, the film chronicles a society that is likewise transitioning, evolving as it grows.
Catherine Legault
Québec (Canada)
language: French, English
subtitles: French
103 min
Homegrown cinema
Across various timelines and locations, four characters weave a web of stories that explore human resilience in the face of environmental upheaval. This fable about the climate crisis transcends artistic boundaries to spark a dialogue between our past, present and future.
François Delisle
Québec (Canada)
language: French, English, Russian
subtitles: French
94 min
International cinema
Drawing on the Arab heritage of oral tradition and mosaic pattern, Leila and the Wolves combines fictional drama, archival footage, and fantasy sequences to explore the collective memory of Arab women and their hidden role in history both in Palestine and in Lebanon.
Heiny Srour
Lebanon, United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Sweden
language: Arabic, English
subtitles: English
95 min
Homegrown cinema
Jenny Cartwright casts a critical eye on a political system that doesn’t offer everyone the same opportunities. For most, the race is over before it even begins. But, thanks to the way the electoral system is set up, the big losers are the rest of us.
Jenny Cartwright
Québec (Canada)
language: French
98 min
Homegrown cinema
Libres de choisir plunges deep into the reality of front-line workers protecting the right to abortion. The documentary follows the work of doctors and nurses in clinics, as well as an expert who observes the rise of the anti-abortion movement by going out into the field.
Julie Boisvert, Élise Ekker-Lambert
Québec (Canada)
language: French
71 min
International cinema
Jérémie returns to his hometown for the funeral of his former boss. He decides to stay for a few days with the man’s widow. A mysterious disappearance, a threatening neighbor and a priest with strange intentions make Jérémie’s short stay take an unexpected turn…
Alain Guiraudie
France, Spain, Portugal
language: French
102 min
FIFEQ | Free entrance
Nani India follows a French man married to an Indian woman as he documents his travels to his mother-in-law’s home in India. He explores the religious rites and traditions of his in-laws, the lives of the people they meet, their occupations, and their family stories.
Benoît Raoulx
France, India
language: Hindi
subtitles: French
97 min
FIFEQ | Free entrance
This double bill, presented for free as part of the FIFEQ, will be followed by a discussion with filmmaker Sophie Valcourt.
Sophie Valcourt, Emir Cakaroz
language: French, English, Turkish
subtitles: English
86 min
International cinema
Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist, has been fighting his community’s mass expulsion by the Israeli occupation since childhood. His complex bond with Yuval, an Israeli journalist who joins his struggle, is haunted by the extreme inequality between them.
Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal
Palestine, Norway
language: Arabic, Hebrew, English
subtitles: English or French
95 min
Homegrown cinema
Prone to depression and social anxiety, Paul has found refuge in the servitude of women who take him in to do housework. By exposing his gently eccentric routines on social media, he fights loneliness and takes it one day at a time.
Denis Côté
Québec (Canada)
language: French, English
subtitles: French
88 min
Enter the Videodrome
It’s 2007 in Pfresno, Texas. Raphael is in county jail following an arrest for graffiti. He’s a good kid. It’s just graffiti. So you can’t blame Raphael for the events that unfold after his arrest — the sting operation, the FBI… None of it is Raphael’s fault, but it is his problem.
Carl Fry, Maxwell Nalevansky
United States
language: English
100 min
FIFEQ | Free entrance
Through these short films made mainly by Palestinian filmmakers, FIFEQ invites you to question your position as spectator through the prism of politics, images and filmic ethnography.
Various filmmakers
language: Arabic, English
subtitles: English
100 min
FIFEQ | Free entrance
FIFEQ invites you to question the ongoing colonial force at work in Canada and Quebec — and more specifically, its impact on the lives and bodies of Indigenous women and girls.
Various filmmakers
language: Atikamekw, English, French
subtitles: English or French
47 min
Reflecting on programming
Workshop with Benjamin R. Taylor and Noa Blanche from la lumière collective, an organization that defines itself as a collective of artists and curators, a micro-cinema and a space for practice and residencies.
Audience choice
Living nonchalantly in Los Angeles, Jeff “The Dude” Lebowski doesn’t want any drama in his life… Heck, he can’t even be bothered with a job. But, he must embark on a quest with his bowling buddies after his rug is destroyed in a twisted case of mistaken identity.
Joel Coen
United States, United Kingdom
language: English
subtitles: French
117 min
Homegrown cinema
It’s the summer of 1994 and Emily’s dream of becoming an actor is about to come true, when she joins an avant-garde theatre production. As the lines between artistic and personal relationships blur, Emily becomes trapped in the complex power dynamics within the group.
Sarah Galea-Davis
Canada
language: English
subtitles: French
101 min
Audience choice
A kid, home sick from school, grudgingly allows his grandfather to read him a dusty storybook—which is how we meet the innocent Buttercup, about to marry the nefarious Prince Humperdinck, though her heart belongs to the handsome Westley. A fairy-tale classic.
Rob Reiner
United States
language: English
subtitles: French
98 min
International cinema
Totone suddenly finds himself responsible for his 7-year-old sister, and must find a way to earn a living. With his friends, he sets out to make the best Comté cheese, one that will win him the gold medal at the agricultural competition and 30,000 euros.
Louise Courvoisier
France
language: French
90 min
Ode to Joy
Growing up in a psychiatric clinic, Paul’s childhood is populated by psychiatric patients who become his extended family.
Sonja Heiss
Germany, Belgium
language: German
subtitles: French
116 min
