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
Homegrown cinema
Amadou & Mariam, the blind musical duo from Mali, embark on an extraordinary journey to record a new album, reconnect with their roots, and redefine their iconic music.
Ryan Marley
Canada
language: English, French, Bambara
subtitles: French
88 min
New restoration
In Mexico City, the lives of three strangers — a young man mixed up in the gritty underworld of dogfighting, a glamorous woman who seems to have it all, and a mysterious assassin who is desperate to reconnect with his estranged daughter — collide in a tragic twist of fate.
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Mexico
language: Spanish
subtitles: French
154 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
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 Hope and Indignation
In the Vosges forests, Vincent learned everything from his father Michel, a naturalist who spent his life observing wildlife in the woods. Now it is time for them to pass on this knowledge to Vincent’s son. Three perspectives, three generations, one shared fascination with wildlife.
Vincent Munier
France
language: French
93 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
Homegrown cinema
The Barbarian believes he has only a few erections left before death. Cursed to a life in a thrift shop and haunted by family tragedy, he sets his sights on Marie, an alcoholic special-ed teacher. If he must go, he figures, he might as well go out in good company.
Olivier Godin
Québec (Canada)
language: French, Japanese, Arabic
subtitles: French
75 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
International cinema
Marina, 18, orphaned at a young age, must travel to Spain’s Atlantic coast to obtain a signature for a scholarship application from the paternal grandparents she has never met. She navigates a sea of new relatives, uncertain whether she will be embraced or met with resistance.
Carla Simón
Spain
language: Spanish
subtitles: French
115 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
Installation and film screening
A glimpse into the mysterious world of the internet decentralization movement. Before the screening, audiences are invited to join a secret server hidden inside the cinema.
Dylan Reibling
Canada
language: English, Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan, German, and Mandarin
subtitles: English
87 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
