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!
New restoration
An enterprising producer believes he has hit upon a winning concept: a program of original animated shorts set to classical music. He rallies an orchestra of geriatric women, a bullish conductor, and an animator that he keeps locked in the dungeon. What could go wrong?
Bruno Bozzetto
Italy
language: Italian
subtitles: English
85 min
Ages 8 and up
In 2075, a 10-year-old girl named Iris sees a mysterious boy dressed in a rainbow suit fall from the sky. His name is Arco. He comes from a distant, idyllic future where time travel is possible. Iris takes him in and does everything she can to help him return home.
Ugo Bienvenu
France
language: French
82 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
Homegrown cinema
Bulles gives a voice to autistic teenagers who invite us into their imaginary worlds. Through their creations, the film offers an uplifting perspective on difference and reveals rich, multifaceted worlds far removed from the clichés associated with the diagnosis.
Mélissa Lefebvre, Paul Tom
Québec (Canada)
language: French
72 min
International cinema
From 1948 to the present day, three generations of a Palestinian family carry the hopes and wounds of a people. A fresco where history and intimacy meet.
Cherien Dabis
Jordan, Palestine
language: Arabic
subtitles: French
149 min
Double bill
When we gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into us… Two films by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, master of psychological horror, that explore the cyclical nature of evil and violence.
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Japan
language: Japanese
subtitles: English
130 min
Homegrown cinema
A documentary essay exploring the bonds between humans, animals, and the forest, revealing a complex world where protection and exploitation collide. Blending realism, political engagement, and a dreamlike approach, the film calls for a rethinking of our connection to the living world.
Pascale Ferland
Quebec (Canada)
language: French, Anishinaabemowin, Innu-aimum
subtitles: French
123 min
International cinema
Lisa, a sports photographer, vanishes off into the the Georgian countryside, traces of her passing embedded in the landscape like clues. Her father, Irakli, picks up her scent in the ochre foliage and communal soccer fields she documented for her last assignment.
Alexandre Koberidze
Germany, Georgia
language: Georgian
subtitles: English
186 min
FIFEQ’s 22nd Edition
Expedition Content is an augmented sound work composed from the archive’s 37 hours of tape which document the strange encounter between the Harvard Peabody Expedition and the Hubula people in Netherlands New Guinea (current day West Papua).
Ernst Karel, Veronika Kusumaryati
United States
language: English, Hubula (Dani)
subtitles: English
78 min
Homegrown cinema
François and Julie, who have been together for 16 years and are parents to two children, are no longer able to connect sexually. They decide to open up their relationship in order to have some “wild” experiences that will help them learn more about themselves.
Eric K. Boulianne
Quebec (Canada)
language: French
subtitles: English
103 min
First Works, New Perspectives
At the Sant’Ignazio Institute, an orphanage and conservatory for young girls, everyone is bustling about in preparation for the imminent visit of the new Pope and the grand concert that will be given in his honor. Teresa makes a discovery that will change the life of the conservatory.
Margherita Vicario
Italy
language: Italian
subtitles: French
100 min
cELLEuloid
Intrigued by a theatre artist’s creative process, a director makes 16 different versions of the same film—one in which art and life are continually intertwined.
Sophie Bédard Marcotte
Québec (Canada)
language: French
subtitles: English
85 min
Homegrown cinema
As if from atop the majestic Rocher Percé, this film takes an innovative look at the nature, culture and history of the Gaspésie region. “Two parts geology and one part magic,” the story centres on this rock’s influence over fishermen, geologists, poets and botanists alike.
Carlos Ferrand
Québec (Canada)
language: French
103 min
Homegrown cinema
Aisha Azzam and her husband started their family grain mill in the Baqa’a refugee camp in Jordan nearly 40 years ago. Through food, Aisha tells the story of the displacement of the Palestinians and rebuilding family and community in a refugee camp.
Elizabeth Vibert, Chen Wang
Canada
language: Arabic
subtitles: French
62 min
FIFEQ’s 22nd Edition
Born out of a nearly thirty-year friendship between the director and Derrick Johnson, this film chronicles the journey of a man attempting to leave a country where he no longer feels at home, confronted by the racism and social violence of the system.
Marie-Pierre Brêtas
United States, Cuba
language: English
subtitles: French
117 min
Homegrown cinema
In Lac-Saint-Jean, summer brings with it blueberry season. As the fields turn blue, pickers of all kinds rush to gather these precious little fruits before the first frost of fall.
Andrés Livov
Quebec (Canada)
language: French
subtitles: French
79 min
FIFEQ’s 22nd Edition
Three short and medium-length films screened as part of the FIFEQ’s 22nd edition.
Various filmmakers
subtitles: English
72 min
Ages 5 and up
During a stay at their grandfather’s house, Suzanne (8 years old) improvises as a storyteller to fill the house with imaginary and wonderful stories.
Jean-Claude Rozec, Patrik Pass, Léon Vidmar, David Sukup
Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, France
language: français
70 min
International cinema
Tereza receives an official government order to relocate to a senior housing colony. She refuses to accept this fate. Instead, she embarks on a transformative journey through the Amazon.
Gabriel Mascaro
Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Netherlands
language: Portuguese
subtitles: French
86 min
Enter the Videodrome
When the worst person at the party is you! Six weeks after getting into a drunk driving accident that leaves her jaw wired shut, Rayna tries to have a fun night out with her friends. The film will be preceded by Kyle Garrett Greenberg and Anna Maguire’s French Lessons.
Sabrina Greco
United States
language: English
77 min
International cinema
New York, 1952. Marty Mauser, a shoe salesman working for his uncle, dreams of becoming world table tennis champion, a sport in which he excels. With a dream no one respects, the young man goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness.
Josh Safdie
United States
language: English
149 min
Homegrown cinema
Feng Xia has always been a model wife, wholly devoted to her husband and two children. But when she meets Camille, a free-spirited young woman, a long-suppressed desire resurfaces.
Xiaodan He
Quebec (Canada)
language: French, Mandarin Chinese
subtitles: French and English
117 min
International cinema
A teacher in a small Russian town spent two years filming the implementation of the military and nationalist curriculum imposed in schools following the invasion of Ukraine.
David Borenstein, Pavel Talankin
Denmark, Czechia, Germany
language: Russian
subtitles: English
90 min
Homegrown cinema
After years apart, a woman living alone in the forest is troubled by the sudden return of her estranged son. Against her will, she must accompany him on his final journey.
Yan Giroux
Québec (Canada)
language: French
subtitles: English
80 min
International cinema
Lucrecia Martel takes a sweeping approach to this tragic true story, triangulating the murder trial of three men, the lives of activist Chocobar and his fellow Chuchagasta people, and the centuries-old, colonialist legacy of land and property theft across Latin America.
Lucrecia Martel
Argentina, USA, Mexico, France, Netherlands, Denmark
language: Spanish
subtitles: English
122 min
Petits cinéphiles
Olivia’s life falls apart when she, her mother, and her little brother are evicted from their home.
Irene Iborra
Spain, France, Belgium, Chili
language: French
71 min
International cinema
In 1936, as the British Empire tightens its grip on Palestine, Yusuf divides his time between his village and his work in Jerusalem. Against a backdrop of anti-colonial revolt and the arrival of Jewish refugees, he finds himself at the heart of a decisive historical moment.
Annemarie Jacir
Palestine, France, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom
language: Arabic, English
subtitles: French
119 min
FIFEQ’s 22nd Edition
What happens when the camera turns inward? This screening explores that question through two works that make the ethnographic gesture an intimate and political act.
Lisa Steele, Louis Dionne
language: English, French
subtitles: English
45 min
International cinema
Maria Angeles, a 79 year-old Spanish woman, lives alone in Tangier, Morcco, and enjoys her daily routine. However, her life is turned upside down when her daughter arrives from Madrid to sell the apartment in which she has always lived.
Maryam Touzani
Morocco, France, Spain, Germany, Belgium
language: Spanish
subtitles: French
117 min
International cinema
A father and his son arrive at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco, their missing daughter and sister. Surrounded by electronic music and a raw, unfamiliar sense of freedom, they follow a group of ravers heading to one last party in the desert.
Óliver Laxe
Spain, France
language: English, Spanish, French, Arabic
subtitles: French
115 min
Homegrown cinema
André-Line Beauparlant turns her camera towards the life and work of her lover, filmmaker Robert Morin. Through a collage of film excerpts, archival footage, discussions, and photographs, she reveals the ins and outs and the highs and lows of their collaboration.
André-Line Beauparlant
Québec (Canada)
language: French
subtitles: English
96 min
FIFEQ’s 22nd Edition
In the Zapata marshes of Cuba, Landi catches crocodiles with his bare hands to feed his family. Meanwhile, Mercedes watches over their son, awaiting her husband’s return.
David Bim
Cuba
language: Spanish
subtitles: French
84 min
International cinema
Óscar Restrepo, a poet longing for recognition, leads a lonely existence marked by disillusionment. But his encounter with Yurlady, a teenager from a working-class background with a real talent for writing, will turn his life upside down.
Simón Mesa Soto
Colombia, Germany, Sweden
language: Spanish
subtitles: French
120 min
Homegrown cinema
A documentary exploring the little-known history of the Jeunesse Ouvrière Catholique (JOC).
Annie Deniel
Quebec (Canada)
language: French
70 min
International cinema
Three MiniDV tapes filmed in Gaza in 2001 have recently been rediscovered. What began as a search for a former cellmate in 1989 turned into an unexpected road trip from the north to the south of Gaza in the company of Hasan, a local guide whose fate remains unknown.
Kamal Aljafari
France, Palestine, Germany
language: Levantine Arabic
subtitles: English
106 min
