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!
Journeys to Italy
One of the greatest films about film ever made, Federico Fellini’s 8½ marks the moment when the director’s always-personal approach fully embraced self-reflexivity, turning one man’s artistic crisis into a grand epic of the cinema.
Federico Fellini
Italy
language: Italian
subtitles: English
138 min
International cinema
At the terminus of the Japanese Bubble era, Rei and Ayumi, both sex workers, strike up a friendship and lose themselves in a world dedicated to the pursuit of pleasure, camaraderie and the joys of hanging out in the perpetually horny districts of Shinjuku and Shibuya.
Banmei Takahashi
Japan
language: Japanese
subtitles: English
115 min
International cinema
In Medellín, a group of disaffected teens steals a TV reporter’s camera to document their lives. Their understanding of reality and hope begins to erode as reports of mysterious lights falling from the sky coincide with temporal and spatial distortions.
STILLZ
Colombia, United States
language: Spanish
subtitles: English
84 min
In memory of Frederick Wiseman
A film about ordinary experience in a beautiful old New England port city. It is a portrait of daily life with particular emphasis on the work and the cultural life of the community. A shrewd and meticulous look at the various cells of the living organism that is Belfast, Maine.
Frederick Wiseman
United States
language: English
248 min
Homegrown cinema
In the late 1990s, eight-year-old Sasha and her Hungarian immigrant family relocate to a new home on Vancouver Island. Their fresh start is disrupted by Jeremy, the eldest son, whose antisocial tendencies are becoming increasingly troubling.
Sophy Romvari
Canada
language: English, Hungarian
subtitles: French
90 min
cELLEuloid
Wrestling with writer’s block for her first film, Bouchra, a queer Moroccan jackal living in NYC, starts having difficult yet overdue phone calls with her mother in Casablanca. Bouchra’s emotional reckoning with her mother and herself becomes her path to expression.
Orian Barki, Meriem Bennani
Italy, Morocco, United States
language: English, Arabic, French
subtitles: English
85 min
Homegrown cinema
Lucie, a PhD student plagued by insomnia, is trapped in a destructive affair with her thesis advisor while being pursued by a jealous ex. Seeking help from a reclusive shaman, she meets Béatrice, a young woman as carefree as she is determined to help her.
Renaud Després-Larose, Ana Tapia Rousiouk
Québec (Canada)
language: French
148 min
Homegrown cinema
Eighty years, five countries, and one legendary restaurant: Hemela is a spirited, deadpan portrait of Montreal’s most irreverent Iranian matriarch as she cooks, commands, and reflects on a life lived entirely on her own terms.
Pirouz Nemati
Québec (Canada), Iran
language: French, Farsi
subtitles: French
71 min
International cinema
Elliot’s fantasies quickly come true when he lands a job with renowned artist Erika Tracy. When she breaks down office boundaries and takes Elliot on as her sexual muse and subordinate, their sexually charged relationship makes him question his own desires.
Gregg Araki
United States
language: English
subtitles: French
90 min
Homegrown cinema
In a Sicilian village, residents await the return of loved ones who left half a century ago to build a better life in Montreal. While this long-awaited visit is bringing the semi-deserted village back to life, bittersweet feelings churn beneath the excitement.
Shelley Tepperman
Québec (Canada)
language: Italian, English
subtitles: French
75 min
Homegrown cinema
The caring yet bustling environment of a kindergarten serves as the anchor for this deep dive into early childhood. The film takes us into the bubble of various children from ages 1 to 5, at a stage where self-awareness slowly shifts from ‘I’ to ‘We’.
Jean-François Caissy
Québec (Canada)
language: French
subtitles: English
84 min
In memory of Andrés Livov
In Madame Loiseau’s class, newcomers to the country are starting the school year. Guided by a dedicated teacher, these adults gradually become acquainted with the culture of their new home.
Andrés Livov
Québec (Canada)
language: French
89 min
International cinema
Ed Saxberger, a forgotten New York poet, works in the post office. After an eager and flattering young admirer appears on his doorstep, Saxberger is beckoned into a coterie of twentysomething admirers who anoint him as a rediscovered genius.
Kent Jones
United States
language: English
96 min
International cinema
When Lord Murashige rises up against the tyrannical Oda, he finds himself besieged within the walls of his own castle. Isolated, he is confronted with a series of mysterious crimes that shatter the fragile order of his court, plunging the fortress into fear and suspicion.
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Japan
language: Japanese
subtitles: French
147 min
Journeys to Italy
In Sicily, Tancredi, nephew of the Prince of Salina, falls for Angelica, daughter of the mayor Calogero Sedara — one of those bourgeois said to be wealthier than the Prince himself. Prince Salina will consent to the marriage as a sign of “the changing times.”
Luchino Visconti
Italie
language: Italian
subtitles: French
185 min
Homegrown cinema
The filmmaker returns to Iran to talk with her brother, an illustrator. This encounter raises questions about their relationship to Western popular art. Together, they examine how art slips through the cracks of repression to light sparks in the hearts of young people.
Gilda Pourjabar
Canada, Iran
language: Farsi, English
subtitles: French
85 min
International cinema
After breaking the mysterious “One Wish Willow” to win his crush’s heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon discovers that some desires come at a dark, sinister price.
Curry Barker
United States
language: English
subtitles: French
108 min
International cinema
Two old friends reunite for a quietly revelatory overnight camping trip in this breakout feature from Kelly Reichardt, a microbudget study of character and masculinity that introduced many viewers to one of contemporary American cinema’s most independent artists.
Kelly Reichardt
États-Unis
language: English
76 min
In memory of Marjane Satrapi
Tehran, 1978. With the establishment of the Islamic Republic, Marjane, now required to wear the veil, begins to picture herself as a revolutionary. Internal repression grows harsher by the day. Her sharp tongue and rebellious stances become a problem.
Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi
France
language: French
subtitles: English
97 min
Ages 4 and up
Sosuke, a young boy who lives on a clifftop overlooking the sea, rescues a stranded goldfish named Ponyo. Ponyo is a curious, energetic young creature who yearns to be human, but her father, a sorcerer, schemes to return Ponyo to the sea.
Hayao Miyazaki
Japan
language: French or Japanese (EST)
101 min
Homegrown cinema
A fading slasher franchise is handed over to a young director for resurrection. But when she visits the original’s star, the two women fall into a blood-soaked world of desire, fear, and delirium.
Jane Schoenbrun
United States, Canada
language: English
subtitles: French
112 min
International cinema
Okuyama, after being disfigured in an accident, agrees to his psychiatrist’s radical experiment: a face transplant, created from the mold of a stranger. As Okuyama is thus further alienated from the world around him, he finds himself giving in to his darker temptations.
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Japan
language: Japanese
subtitles: English
124 min
Journeys to Italy
Francis Ford Coppola’s Academy Award-winning masterpiece is set in the 1940’s and opens at the lavish wedding of Connie, the daughter of the revered Godfather — Don Corleone, an event where business and pleasure naturally go hand in hand.
Francis Ford Coppola
United States
language: English
subtitles: French
175 min
International cinema
Joe and Angela’s marriage is on thin ice. When they invite their enigmatic upstairs neighbours for a dinner party, the night spirals into unexpected places. Have they reignited the spark or lit the match that burns it all down?
Olivia Wilde
United States
language: English
subtitles: French
117 min
Homegrown cinema
This documentary plunges into the musical ferment of the 1980s, an era when three young Quebec musicians from Drummondville — Alain Caron, Michel Cusson, and Paul Brochu — electrified the world stage with a bold, virtuosic style all their own.
Philippe Frenette-Roy
Québec (Canada)
language: French
96 min
