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
Homegrown cinema
Fiercely independent 90-year-old Agatha Bock lives alone on her ancestral farm. Despite health challenges, she defiantly tends to her land, planting and harvesting her expansive field of watermelons, beans, flowers, herbs, and vegetables entirely by hand.
Amalie Atkins
Canada
language: English
86 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
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
Free entrance
The Armenian-Algerian artist Dr Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian takes us on a journey alongside her doubles, Myriam and Lucia, urging us to defy structures of power, reject planetary exploitation, and imagine diasporic, queer ecofeminist futures.
Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian
United Kingdom, United States
language: English
73 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
90 min
Montreal International Black Film Festival
Mélusine abandons her identity in the city of Trois-Rivières to seek a new one in Montreal where she hopes to learn English and where her best friend, Marie-Cobra, strives to birth an Odyssey.
Olivier Godin
Québec (Canada)
language: French
subtitles: English
109 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
International cinema
When 4-year-old Adam is placed in her care, Lucy is confronted with his mother Rebecca’s refusal to leave his side, despite a judge’s restriction against her. For the sake of Adam, Lucy will do everything in her power to help this mother in distress.
Laura Wandel
Belgique, France
language: French
78 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
Ages 5 and up
From the underground of a ruined castle to a camper van parked on the edge of the woods, this adventure will lead Lucie and her friends from unusual surprises to fabulous discoveries!
Antoine Lanciaux
France
language: French
77 min
Boîte à surprises
In Tarkovsky’s senses-ravishing odyssey through the halls of time and memory, the recollections of a dying poet flash before our eyes, all imbued with the mystic power of a trance. On September 25 only, Mirror will be preceded by Alexandre Larose’s III.
Andrei Tarkovsky
Soviet Union
language: Russian
subtitles: English
106 min
Homegrown cinema
Nitassinan is a feature-length documentary that bears witness to the Innu people and affirms our history-past, present, and future. This film is a message of love for our territory, which saw our birth and which still accompanies us today, even in our dreams.
Joséphine Bacon, Kim O’Bomsawin
Québec (Canada)
language: French, Innu
subtitles: French
78 min
New restoration
A re-interpretation of the myth of Ulysses, the symbol of a man eternally torn between nostalgia for his past and a desire for discovery, between fear and enchantment, which, for Piavoli’s hero, is above all an enchantment with nature.
Franco Piavoli
Italy
language: no dialogue
87 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
Homegrown cinema
Blending video art, documentary and music video, Martin Bureau’s film explores the abuses of Western society, at once ravaged by late-stage capitalism and unable to free itself from it.
Martin Bureau
Québec (Canada)
language: French
66 min
Free screening
A celebration of local filmmakers and the stories they’re telling, the showcase shines a spotlight on the breadth, originality, and talent within Quebec’s English-language screen industry.
Various filmmakers
Québec (Canada)
language: English
105 min
New restoration
The only surviving accomplice of a gas station robbery gone bad, Samba Traoré flees the scene of the crime with a suitcase full of cash for his native village. There he attempts to make a fresh start while hiding how he came by his new fortune from those around him.
Idrissa Ouedraogo
Burkina Faso, France, Switzerland
language: More, Dyula, French
subtitles: English
85 min
Ages 5 and up
Just a few days before Halloween, the clumsy Farmer trashes the Flock’s beloved pumpkin patch! When Shaun turns mad scientist to fix the problem, things rapidly spiral out of control…
Steve Cox, Matthew Walker
United Kingdom
language: French
80 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
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
Un renversement lifts the veil on the inner workings of women’s politics. Through intimate and unfiltered testimonies from emblematic Quebec political figures, the film reveals the obstacles, struggles, and power dynamics that mark their journeys.
Amélie Hardy
Québec (Canada)
language: French
77 min
Homegrown cinema
Part history, part mystery, Saigon Story reveals the elusive connection between two families and one iconic photo.
Kim Nguyen
Québec (Canada)
language: English, French, Vietnamese
subtitles: French
90 min
