Films on the big screen
The Casa d’Italia, landmark of the Little Italy neighbourhood located at 505 Jean-Talon East (via Berri), 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!
Homegrown cinema
What remains of the 2012 Quebec student protests? Little has changed in the decade that ensued. Rodrigue Jean and Arnaud Valade exhume images of the battles, recorded live and relayed through the mass media, that flared up as anger and indignation went head-to-head with the rhetoric of power.
Rodrigue Jean, Arnaud Valade
Québec (Canada)
language: French
subtitles: English
77 min
Syria Sees You
Fares Helou is one of the most famous actors in Syria. Persecuted for his political opinions, he leaves the country. But as soon as he’s settled in Paris, the pain of exile starts.
Rami Farah
France, Denmark, Syria, Jordan, Norway, Qatar
language: Arabic
subtitles: English
95 min
Homegrown cinema
In an old mining town in northwestern British Columbia. Every day, the remaining residents reclaim the metal tailings, a by-product of the copper smelting process. Embracing the ephemeral nature of the town, ANYOX exposes considerable environmental degradation through tableaux vivants of grave beauty.
Ryan Ermacora, Jessica Johnson
Canada
language: English, Croatian
subtitles: French and English
97 min
Homegrown cinema
At a critical moment in the history of the written word, as humanity’s archives migrate to the cloud, one filmmaker goes on a journey around the globe to better understand how she can preserve her own Romanian and Armenian heritage, as well as our collective memory.
Oana Suteu Khintirian
Québec (Canada)
language: French, English, Italian
subtitles: French
130 min
Syria Sees You
Nine young refugee women are brought together in a staging of Euripides’ tragedy. They discover that though they had left Syria to escape pain and possible death, they actually carried these wherever they went. This special screening will be preceded by three short films.
Reem Al-Ghazzi
Syria, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia
language: Arabic
subtitles: English
72 min
Lebanese film festival in Canada
Henri Najm is a Lebanese man living alone in Chicago, Illinois, searching for love. After receiving a work transfer to Atlanta, he accidentally meets an out of town, aspiring actress, Julia, who changes his perspective on life and how he lives it.
Em Johnson
Lebanon
language: English
75 min
Homegrown cinema
Trailing three unfinished short films like a ball and chain, David Ricard wishes to make sense of these “failures” and free himself from them. Both an introspective journey and an investigation, he embarks on a seemingly unequal battle against himself.
David B. Ricard
Québec (Canada)
language: French
90 min
International cinema
An incredible odyssey inside the human body. A film-experience bordering on the unspeakable, interspersed with multiple comments from doctors in the exercise of their function.
Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel
France, Switzerland, United States
language: French
subtitles: English
118 min
Ages 5 and up
Our heroes return to Ernest’s country to have his broken violin repaired, only to discover that music is banned throughout the country…
Julien Chheng, Jean-Christophe Roger
France, Luxemburg
language: French
80 min
International cinema
Intrepid French scientists Katia and Maurice Krafft loved each other as much as they loved volcanoes. Composed of spectacular images captured by the couple, Fire of Love is an adventure film about time, the unknown, and the meaning of human existence.
Sara Dosa
United States, Canada
language: French, English
subtitles: French or English
98 min
Syria Sees You
A resident of a flooded city shares the sorrow of loss and relives the feeling of fear and powerlessness; Gevar learns to cultivate a plot of land in a new country.
Double bill
89 min
CELLEuloid
Az works for an oyster farmer in Sète. He knows oysters by heart. In one of them, Az decides to hide a ring, to ask his girlfriend Jess to marry him. She doesn’t say yes. Fortunately, his band of friends is ready to do anything to help him keep his head above water.
Emma Benestan
France
language: French
100 min
Homegrown Cinema
An immersion into the rich ecosystem of Sable Island guided by naturalist Zoe Lucas, who has lived on this isolated piece of land in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean for over 40 years.
Jacquelyn Mills
Canada
language: English
subtitles: French
103 min
Youth program
Life in Ughettera, northern Italy, having become very difficult, the Ughetto family dream of starting over abroad. According to legend, Luigi Ughetto crossed the Alps and began a new life in France, changing forever the destiny of his beloved family.
Alain Ughetto
France, Italy, Switzerland
language: French, Italian
subtitles: English
70 min
Homegrown cinema
This documentary film immerses us in the personal experience of the filmmaker and his sister, who want to ensure that their mother ends her days with dignity in the CHSLD system. In the maze of this incredible ordeal, Desjardins casts a very tender eye on his mother.
Denys Desjardins
Québec (Canada)
language: French
subtitles: English
75 min
Julie Delporte
A young girl leaves her town after a difficult love affair and takes refuge in a room in another town. Later, she leaves this room, stops a truck on the side of the highway and spends most of the night with the truck driver, a man who could have been a friend.
Chantal Akerman
Belgium, France
language: French
86 min
Ages 6 and up
While his friends have all become white, Katak is still small and grey. To prove that he has grown up and to fulfill his grandmother’s last wish, Katak undertakes a perilous journey to the Great North.
Christine Dallaire-Dupont, Nicola Lemay
Québec (Canada)
language: French
82 min
Homegrown cinema
Having fled repression in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a family awaits the hearing that will determine whether they will be accepted as refugees in Canada. They try to rebuild their lives, in the sweetness of a daily life weakened by the threat of having to leave.
Émilie B. Guérette, Peggy Nkunga Ndona
Québec (Canada)
language: French, Lingala
subtitles: English
93 min
Homegrown cinema
The Colour of Ink uncovers the medium’s mystery and power through the eyes of Jason Logan, a visionary Toronto inkmaker. Working with ingredients foraged in the wild—weeds, berries, bark, flowers, rocks, rust—he makes ink from just about anything.
Brian D. Johnson
Canada
language: English, Spanish, Japanese
90 min
Homegrown cinema
Montreal was born from a dream, the dream of people who believed in the possibility of creating a better world in New France. Who were these people? The answers can be found in a 17th century manuscript that is believed to be the hidden memoirs of Jeanne Mance.
Annabel Loyola
Québec (Canada)
language: French
74 min
Pasolini : Trilogy of Life
A handful of Giovanni Boccaccio’s fourteenth-century moral tales into this picturesque melee. One of Pasolini’s most popular films, The Decameron, transposed from Boccaccio’s Florence to Naples, is a scathing critique of the pietisms surrounding religion and sex.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Italia, France, Germany
language: Italian, German
subtitles: French
110 min
Trilogy of Life
From the story of a nobleman struck blind after marrying a much younger and promiscuous bride to a climactic trip to a hell populated by friars and demons, this is an endlessly imaginative work of merry blasphemy.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Italy, France
language: English, Italian, Latin, Scottish Gaelic
subtitles: French
111 min
Trilogy of Life
In a market, the young Nourredine is attracted by the young slave Zoumourrhoud. Against the young man’s expectations, the beautiful girl offers herself to him and introduces him to the pleasures of the flesh. But a man captures Zoumourrhoud to make her his slave.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Italia, France
language: Italian, Arabic
subtitles: French
130 min
Homegrown cinema
Benjamin tells his ex-girlfriend, Angie, that he has joined a cell of left-wing terrorists to avenge her from her former boss, the owner of a right-wing radio station. Angie wonders if he’s just making it all up to win her back.
Alexandre Leblanc
Québec (Canada)
language: French
83 min
Lebanese film festival in Canada
We are pleased to join forces with the Lebanese Film Festival in Canada to bring you this wonderful selection of short films, curated by the festival team.
Multiple
Lebanon
language: Arabic, French, English
subtitles: English
94 min
CELLEuloid
Although Mary has little money, she always finds a way to spend her nights partying. After being arrested at an illegal party, she asks an aunt to bail her out. Aunt Judy finds her a job in her library so she can pay her back.
Daisy von Scherler Mayer
United States
language: English
94 min
Champ libre: Pablo Alvarez Mesa
As part of the Champ libre series, we invited Pablo Alvarez Mesa to create a program around his film Infinite Distances. He selected works by Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko, Melanie Shatzky and Brian M. Cassidy.
Program of three films
Canada
language: English
62 min
International cinema
A lost cat, a giant frog and a tsunami help an unambitious salesman, his frustrated wife and a schizophrenic accountant save Tokyo from an earthquake and restore meaning to their lives.
Pierre Földes
France, Luxembourg, Canada
language: French
100 min
